Anna Politkovskaya remembered
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posted by zaina19 on November, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/5/2007 1:47 AM Amnesty International Anna Politkovskaya remembered People from around the world, including members and supporters of Amnesty International, are commemorating Russian journalist and human rights defender Anna Politkovskaya. One year ago, on 7 October, she was murdered outside her flat in Moscow. This was almost certainly because of her work as a journalist, in which she exposed human rights violations throughout Russia. Amnesty International believes that the handling of the criminal investigation into her death to date shows that there is little political will to bring those who ordered the killing to justice. After she began writing about the armed conflict in Chechnya and the North Caucasus in 1999, she was detained and threatened with serious reprisals, including death threats, on several occasions. She interviewed Russians, Chechens and members of other ethnic groups who reported being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, or to whom justice had otherwise reportedly ... >> full...
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Rights Groups Urge Fuller Investigation of Politkovskaya's Murder
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/3/2007 1:15 AM Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Amanda Abrams Rights Groups Urge Fuller Investigation of Politkovskaya's Murder Washington, D.C. October 4, 2007 Freedom House and seven other human rights organizations sent letters today to Yuri Chaika, Russia’s Prosecutor General, and Aleksandr Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigative Committee, calling on them to more fully investigate journalist Anna Politkovskaya’s murder and bring perpetrators to justice. Ms. Politkovskaya was murdered a year ago, but the investigation is unfinished and no killer has been found. Public allegations asserting suspected parties’ guilt without corroborating evidence from the prosecutor’s office have served to confuse and retard an already slow process. “One year after Politkovskaya’s death, we believe that there needs to be renewed focus and attention not only to find those who enacted the killing but also to bring those who ordered the killing to justice,” wrote the groups in the letter. “We ... >> full...
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Supreme Court denies registration to Party of Peace and Unity
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/3/2007 1:57 AM Supreme Court denies registration to Party of Peace and Unity 02.11.2007, 20.30 MOSCOW, November 2 (Itar-Tass) -- The Supreme Court has upheld the Russian Central Elections Commission’s refusal to register the Party of Peace and Unity for the State Duma elections. The court confirmed that the number of invalid signatures submitted by the party exceeded the permissible 5% and the denial of registration was legal. In addition, the Supreme Court turned down the appeal of the People’s Union party, which was also barred from the parliament elections. The Supreme Court will hear a similar complaint by the Greens on November 6. The Party of Peace and Unity lacked only 100 valid signature lists for getting registered. The number of invalid signatures stood at 5.16% or was 0.16% higher than the permissible 5%. Parties seeking registration needed to collect 200,000 signature lists or make an election deposit of 60 ... >> full...
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Russian-Chechen Friendship Society got registered in Finland
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/2/2007 12:14 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 31/10/2007 Russian-Chechen Friendship Society got registered in Finland On October 30, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RChFS) was officially registered in Finland. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has been informed today about it by Ms Heidi Hautala, a deputy of Finnish parliament and chairperson of the Finnish-Russian Civil Forum, who is on visit to Moscow in the delegation of the "green" faction of the European Parliament. According to Ms Hautala, Stanislav Dmitrievskiy, Russian human rights activist from Nizhni Novgorod, was elected the Chairman of the Society, and his deputy is the Finnish human rights activist Eva Martinson. The press secretary of the RChFS is Oksana Chelysheva, executive director of the Nizhni Novgorod Foundation in Support of Tolerance. We remind you that last October the Nizhni Novgorod Regional Court ruled to liquidate the inter-regional public organization "Russian-Chechen Friendship Society", headed by Stanislav Dmitrievskiy. Oksana Chelysheva has explained ... >> full...
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Meeting at Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded release of political prisoners
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 11/2/2007 12:17 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 31/10/2007 Meeting at Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded release of political prisoners On October 30, about two hundred Moscow residents who rallied near the Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded that the Kremlin immediate release political prisoners and paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the repressions during the totalitarian Soviet regime. Human rights activists and leaders of the democratic opposition read out the names of dozens of persons kept in prisons, colonies and even mental hospitals of Russia whom they consider to be political prisoners. The meeting held last night as 6-7 p.m. in the Lubyanka Square was dated to the Day of Political Prisoner that was proclaimed on October 30 by Soviet political prisoners back in 1974 and now is the state Memory Day of Victims of Political Repressions. "Our state uses political repressions and has political prisoners - Khodorkovskiy, ... >> full...
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