EU: Use Russia Summit to Urge Reform
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posted by zaina19 on October, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 2:03 PM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH EU: Use Russia Summit to Urge Reform EU Has a Responsibility to Address Russia’s Deteriorating Human Rights Record (Brussels, October 25, 2007) - The European Union should use its October 26 summit with Russia to robustly challenge the Kremlin on its worsening rights record, Human Rights Watch said today. Failure to tackle deteriorating human rights and the rule of law in Russia will have negative repercussions for the European Union in dealing with Russia in the future. In a memorandum made public today, Human Rights Watch highlighted three key areas in which EU leadership is urgently needed - the deteriorating environment for civil society, continued impunity for serious abuses in Chechnya, and Russia's implementation of the rising number of European Court of Human Rights judgments finding Russia responsible for these abuses. At the last EU-Russia summit, held in the Russian city of Samara ... >> full...
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Russia: 'My Only Thought Was To Escape The Torture'
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/31/2007 5:59 AM Wednesday, October 24, 2007 Russia: 'My Only Thought Was To Escape The Torture' By Claire Bigg Russia -- Aleksei Mikheyev, a victim of police torture, won compensation at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg -- 24Oct2007 Aleksei Mikheyev was left paralyzed by police torture and his attempted escape (Courtesy Photo) October 24, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- It took nine days of police torture for Aleksei Mikheyev to confess to a crime he never committed. No longer able to stand the blows and electric shocks, he admitted to raping and killing a 17-year-old woman to whom he had given a lift in his Russian hometown of Nizhny Novgorod. Mikheyev later retracted his confession at the prosecutor's office. So he was taken back to the police station for another round of torture. There, he managed to break free from his captors and threw himself out of the window. "The perpetrators were convicted, ... >> full...
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The action "Return of the Names" starts at the Solovki Boulder
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 1:30 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 29/10/2007 The action "Return of the Names" starts at the Solovki Boulder The action "Return of the Names" in memory of the victims of political repressions has started in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow. The action was opened at 10 a.m. with an introductory word of the representative of the International Historical-Enlightenment and Human Rights Society "Memorial", which was the organizer, as Elena Zhemkova, Director of the Society, has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., replacing each other, we shall read the names of the executed victims. Only the name and surname, age, profession and the date of execution," the "Memorial" informs. "On October 29, in the days of the 70th anniversary of the Great Terror, on the eve ... >> full...
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Putin Places Popularity Over People
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 1:46 PM The St. Petersburg Times Issue #1319 (85) Tuesday, October 30, 2007 Opinion Putin Places Popularity Over People By Boris Nemtsov For The St. Petersburg Times On Tuesday, Russians began gathering around the Dubrovka theater to mourn the fifth anniversary of the hostage tragedy that shook the world. On Friday, the day the theater was stormed by special forces, about 1,000 people gathered outside the theater complex, and 129 balloons were released for every hostage who died in the rescue operation. I will remember this tragedy all of my life. I arrived at the theater on Oct. 24, after 42 armed Chechen militants took 800 people hostage. The first thought I had was to reach some kind of agreement with the terrorists to free the children, women and elderly hostages. I was prepared to give the hostage takers any possible personal guarantee. Several hours before the theater ... >> full...
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Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" opens a temporary website
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 10/30/2007 1:23 PM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 29/10/2007 Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" opens a temporary website The employees of the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org), which was attacked by malefactors and disabled for the time being, have launched a special temporary site for information support. Its address is http://hro1.org. We remind you that earlier Andrei Blinushov, editor-in-chief of the portal "Human Rights in Russia", which is exposed to hackers' attacks since October 21, had declared that DDos-attacks were made on oppositional resources only. The "Caucasian Knot" has already reported that since October 21, 2007, the portal "Human Rights in Russia", the largest Russian-speaking Internet resource about human rights and freedoms in the Russian Federation, was exposed to continuous massive computer attack. In particular, this portal is placing the information about the war in Chechnya, as well as about the situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus. Let ... >> full...
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