Court: Russia violated oilman's rights
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/29/2007 9:53 AM Yahoo! News Court: Russia violated oilman's rights Thu Oct 25, 1:32 PM ET Russia violated the rights of a former top manager at Yukos, the country's largest oil company before it was declared bankrupt, by arresting him in 2003, Europe's human rights court ruled Thursday. Platon Lebedev, a business partner of former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, was sentenced in 2005 to nine years in jail on charges of fraud and tax evasion in a politically charged case that rights activists said underlined a lack of justice in Russia. The sentence was later reduced to eight years. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man, and Lebedev were arrested amid a wide-ranging investigation that eventually put Yukos into state hands. The European Court of Human Rights ruled Lebedev's rights to liberty and security were violated during the arrest and subsequent pretrial detention and ordered Moscow to pay him $4,269 in damages and ... >> full...
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Protest rally in Chechen capital against transfer of Chechen inmates to Russian jails
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/29/2007 2:48 PM Protest rally in Chechen capital against transfer of Chechen inmates to Russian jails Publication time: 29 October 2007, 19:04 Relatives of men who are inmates of Chechen and Russian jails staged a rally in capital Jokhar this morning against the transfer of Chechen inmates to prisons in the Russian regions. The protest, which took place in front of the local government building, was attended by about 80 women. The protesters held placards demanding the return of brothers, sons and husbands who have already been transferred to Russian prisons, and according to the protesters, abused by the camp supervisors and other prisoners. "My son is in a penal colony in Arkhangelsk oblast. There he was severely beaten simply because he prays regularly and is a Chechen," says Sovdat, mother of one of the imprisoned men. "I'm an old woman now, and I only have one son. If ... >> full...
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Temporary address for "Human Rights in Russia” internet portal is hro1.org
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 4:56 AM
30.10.2007 10:48 MSK
Temporary address for "Human Rights in Russia” internet portal is hro1.org
RUSSIA, Moscow. Colleagues of the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org), which was attacked by criminals and temporarily disabled, have created a special temporary site. Its web address is http://hro1.org. The editorial staff of the Internet portal has requested that we extend this information.
On October 22, the Internet portal of the "Human Rights in Russia" reported its work had been disrupted.
Translated by OM Kenney
PRIMA-News Agency [2007-10-29-Rus-30]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/10/30/39386.html
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Parents of children lost in "Nord-Ost" accuse Russian authorities
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 1:10 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 26/10/2007 Parents of children lost in "Nord-Ost" accuse Russian authorities After the mourning ceremony held in memory of the victims of the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in Moscow, about five hundred persons took part in a peaceful meeting. The parents of "Nord-Ost" and Beslan victims placed responsibility for death of children on Russian authorities. Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee, when speaking at the House of Culture in Melnikova Street, where the delegation of the Committee specially arrived for taking part in the today's mourning events, has expressed her confidence that sooner or later the people who are responsible for execution of schoolchildren in Beslan, and those who fed gas into the hall full of people, will be made responsible for their actions. The leader of the "Voice of Beslan" thinks that acts of terrorism are possible ... >> full...
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The Dubrovka theatre siege: 5 years on
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/25/2007 2:03 PM October 23rd 2007 · Prague Watchdog / Oleg Lukin The Dubrovka theatre siege: 5 years on By Oleg Lukin, special to Prague Watchdog On June 1 2007 the Moscow Prosecutor's Office suspended the official inquiry into the terrorist attack on the Dubrovka theatre complex, during which Chechen guerrillas took hostage more than 900 spectators of the show “Nord-Ost”. According to the materials of the inquiry, five of the hostages were killed directly by the terrorists, while at least 125 more died in the course of special operations to secure their release. Russian justice has fulfilled the task that was entrusted to it by the authorities: there has been no trial of those responsible for the deaths of those people. The terrorists were declared “destroyed” (with the exception of two, whose whereabouts “have not been established"). As for the question of medical assistance to ... >> full...
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