9.10.2007 20:49 MSK Committee for the Defense of Mikhail Trepashkin appeals to Vladimir Lukin
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/10/2007 5:52 PM 9.10.2007 20:49 MSK Committee for the Defense of Mikhail Trepashkin appeals to Vladimir Lukin Mikhail Trepashkin Mikhail Trepashkin RUSSIA, Moscow. The Public Committee for the Defense of Mikhail Trepashkin appealed, in an October 6 statement, to authorized Human Rights Ombudsman of Russia, Vladimir Lukin, to be present on October 10 in Ekaterinburg for the examination of a writ of appeal to the court's decision to increase Trepashkin's sentence. The appeal read: "Respected Vladimir Petrovich! We, members of Public Committee for the Defense of Attorney Mikhail Trepashkin, appeal to you for help to restore the rights of political prisoner Mikhail Trepashkin. We remind you that Mikhail Ivanovich Trepashkin is being deprived of necessary medical aid, and that in serving his sentence at St. 73-1 YUK he is 2200 km from home, which is also a violation of the rights of his young children. For 7 months, Mikhail Ivanovich has ... >> full...
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Security tight as slain Kremlin critic remembered
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/7/2007 7:03 AM enlarge Click for larger imageEnlarge image Security tight as slain Kremlin critic remembered 07/10/2007 13:01 By Conor Sweeney MOSCOW (Reuters) - Police clamped tight security on Moscow on Sunday for protests remembering murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ahead of a Kremlin birthday party for President Vladimir Putin, whose policies she criticised. Up to 2,000 people, many holding carnations and pictures of the reporter, attended a sombre rally in Pushkin Square under rainy, cold skies to mark the anniversary of her death. "We should fight for freedom," the editor of Politkovskaya’s newspaper Dmitry Muratov told the crowd, which also included members of the "Other Russia" dissident group. "We should keep Anna in our hearts and we should not follow the instructions of Putin". Hundreds of extra police, some on horseback, patrolled nearby while vanloads of additional officers waited in side streets but no trouble was reported. Local media said 2,500 extra police ... >> full...
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Foreign rights activists detained by police
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/7/2007 7:08 AM
Foreign rights activists detained by police
Updated: 10/07/07 6:40 AM
MOSCOW (AP) — Police on Saturday detained several foreign rights activists trying to attend a conference commemorating Anna Politkovskaya, the Russian investigative reporter and Kremlin critic who was murdered one year ago, activists said.
The detentions occurred on the eve of the anniversary of Politkovskaya’s execution-style slaying in her Moscow apartment building entryway. Other rights activists, journalists and some of Russia’s beleaguered opposition planned commemoration ceremonies today in Moscow.
Politkovskaya won international acclaim for her reporting of atrocities against civilians in war-scarred Chechnya, and her killing cast a harsh light on the safety of journalists and government critics under President Vladimir V. Putin.
The five detained activists — including citizens of Spain, Britain and Germany — were among dozens who traveled to the city of Nizhny Novgorod for the conference.
http://www.buffalonews.com/nationalworld/international/story/178767.html#
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Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/7/2007 7:24 AM
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Remembering Anna Politkovskaya
One year after she was killed outside her home in Moscow, an RFE/RL slide show looks at the life of Anna Politkovskaya, the journalist known for her fierce criticism of President Vladimir Putin and her chronicling of the horrors of the Chechen war. ... more
http://rfe.rferl.org/photogallery/330.html
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Museum says Caucasian chieftain’s skull not going home
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/2/2005 12:25 PM Museum says Caucasian chieftain’s skull not going home Фото: www.istrodina.com Most peoples have had, at certain stages in their development, a penchant for collecting the heads of their enemies. The ancient Celts did it, the Scythians did it, even in Medieval Europe it was quite widespread, while Samurai warriors presented severed heads to their lords as proof of their valour. It appears that in Russia, though, old habits die hard. Recently a Moscow court rejected a rather unusual claim from a Dagestani resident. The man wanted the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, also known as the Kunstkamera, to return the skull of his ancestor – famous Caucasian warlord Haji-Murat Gajiyev who fought the Russians together with the legendary Imam Shamil in the mid-19th century, and perished way back in 1852. Russian soldiers presented Haji-Murat’s head to the Tsar’s governor in the region and ... >> full...
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