Authorities of Grozny ban the meeting of relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/18/2007 9:40 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 17/10/2007 Authorities of Grozny ban the meeting of relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan The authorities of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, have failed to sanction a meeting that was to be held by the relatives of the persons kidnapped in Chechnya and Dagestan. Several residents who came to the place of the meeting told journalists about the aim of the action, the Radio Liberty reports. According to the participants of the action, the prosecutor's office and the courts sentence to long terms of imprisonment those who have pled guilty under pressure, the information of the "Gazeta.ru" runs. The "Caucasian Knot" has already informed that Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, in his appeal to Russian leadership offered to create an interdepartmental commission for searching of kidnapped and missing citizens, since the problem is still actual for the Republic. Also, on October ... >> full...
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Trepashkin's defenders accuse law enforcement bodies of breaching his rights
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/21/2007 3:15 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 18/10/2007 Trepashkin's defenders accuse law enforcement bodies of breaching his rights The advocate and public defenders of the former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving his term at a general custody colony for disclosure of state secrets, have told in detail about how law enforcement bodies are breaching his rights. "We see that from the very beginning the case was accompanied by gross violations of the law - at every stage we watched his rights of the prisoner encroached on," Lev Ponomaryov, executive director of the all-Russian movement "For Human Rights," who is also Trepashkin's public defender, has told today at the press conference. Vladimir Shaklein, another public defender, has noted that Trepashkin had been kept in a solitary cell from March 9 to September 26, 2007, on the grounds not stipulated by the law. Now, according to the defender, Mr Trepashkin ... >> full...
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Estemirova: I'll spend the award money to protect victims of fabricated cases in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/15/2007 4:36 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 12/10/2007 Estemirova: I'll spend the award money to protect victims of fabricated cases in Chechnya Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Chechnya, the laureate of the first annual world award named after Anna Politkovskaya, is going to spend the award money on legal assistance to victims of tortures and faked criminal cases in Chechnya. The well-known human rights activist and journalist has told about it in her interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent after her return from London where she received the award on October 5. According to Ms Estemirova, the awarding procedure took place in an informal and warm atmosphere in the premises of the "RAW in War" organization in the British capital. The laureate from Grozny was awarded with a figurine shaped as a dove, flying up from a tree fragment, created by a famous Bulgarian ... >> full...
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International forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya disrupted in Nizhni Novgorod
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/8/2007 1:28 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 5/10/2007 International forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya disrupted in Nizhni Novgorod The international forum in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta," which was to start today, has been disrupted. Survivors of terrorist attacks in Moscow and Beslan and representatives of international human rights organizations - "International Organization for Fighting Torture" (Switzerland), Amnesty International (Great Britain), "League for Human Rights" (Spain), as well as American Human Rights First and the "National Foundation in Support of Democracy" were planning to participate in the conference. Holding of the forum was disrupted because the Nizhniy Novgorod Branch of the VTB-24 Bank refused to work with the organizers of the action from the "Nizhniy Novgorod Foundation in Support of Tolerance" (NNFST). Georgiy Grechin, Manager of the VTB-24 Branch in Nizhni Novgorod, has stated that the actions of the Bank were caused by instructive documents, ... >> full...
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Constitutional Court assesses Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Code concerning forced psychiatric examinations
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/10/2007 5:43 PM
7.10.2007 16:05 MSK
Constitutional Court assesses Criminal Procedure Code and Criminal Code concerning forced psychiatric examinations
RUSSIA, Moscow. On October 4, the Constitutional Court of Russia conducted a hearing on the constitutionality of the Criminal Procedure Code (UPK) and Criminal Code (UK) of Russia concerning forced medical measures.
Those who brought the case believe the disputed articles violate their constitutional rights and freedoms, as they allow for the "arbitrary application of forced measures of a medical nature", i.e., forced psychiatric examination.
V. Matveyev, O. Lobashova and S. Ablamskiy, in their complaints, dispute Article 402, Part 1 of Article 437, Article 444, Part 1 of Article 445, Chapter 51 of the UPK of Russia and Chapter 15 of the UK of Russia.
Translated by OM Kenney
PRIMA-NEWS AGENCY [2007-10-04-Rus-09]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/10/7/39192.html
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