Russian Skinheads Arrested After Attack on Tunisian Student
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posted by zaina19 on December, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/23/2005 3:59 AM
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Russian Skinheads Arrested After Attack on Tunisian Student
Created: 20.12.2005 11:06 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 11:06 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1135065988)); </SCRIPT>
MosNews
Skinheads in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod have beaten and robbed a student from Tunisia, RIA Novosti reported.
The foreigner, a student at the State Medical Institute, was attacked by two 17-year-old skinhead youths. The policemen who arrested them also said they were shouting Nazi slogans.
That lets a prosecutor’s office to qualify their criminal actions as public calls for extremism and group sparking of ethnical hatred using violence.
Attacks on foreigners, mostly dark-skinned, have become a common occurence in Russia’s regions. The most notorious case this year took place in Voronezh where about 15 youths beat an 18-year-old Peruvian student to death. Two of his friends survived, but were badly injured.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/12/20/tunisiannovgorod.shtml
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Russia Refuses to Extend Registration for Czech Humanitarian Group in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/23/2005 5:49 AM Image by MosNews Image by MosNews Russia Refuses to Extend Registration for Czech Humanitarian Group in Chechnya Created: 21.12.2005 10:11 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 10:11 MSK > document.write(get_ago(1135149101)); </SCRIPT> MosNews Russia will not extend registration for Czech humanitarian organization People in Need, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said during talks with his counterpart Cyril Svoboda, Czech Radio 1 reported. The Russian side explained the move by saying that soldiers found a rather large quantity of arms and a wanted criminal in the People in Need’s Grozny office last year. Lavrov, however, said he did not want to accuse the Czech humanitarian agency. He pointed out that it was possible that the organization chose untrustworthy collaborators for its activity. People in Need will not obtain its new registration until the investigation is completed. The Czech humanitarian organization is not the only organization facing registration problems in Russia as an amendment to the ... >> full...
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EU To Continue Work In Russia Despite NGO Law
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/23/2005 6:22 AM EU To Continue Work In Russia Despite NGO Law By Ahto Lobjakas EU -- Flag (RFE/RL) Brussels, 23 December 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The European Commission has welcomed some changes to a controversial Russian bill regulating the work of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). But the EU's executive says the bill, passed today by the Russian Duma, still should “not have been brought forward at all." The bill has been criticized by the West as placing unacceptable restrictions on the work on domestic and foreign NGOs, seen as one of the few sectors still outside direct government control. The bill means civil groups will be subject to much stricter controls, including greater scrutiny of their funding. Emma Udwin, a commission spokeswoman, welcomed amendments that softened the original version of the bill. But she told RFE/RL on 23 December in Brussels that the draft law is still problematic. “There have been some amendments made to ... >> full...
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Zara Murtazalieva “to be transferred to new prison”
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/23/2005 8:32 AM 22.12.2005 14:30 MSK Zara Murtazalieva “to be transferred to new prison” RUSSIA, Moscow. The committee Civil Assistance has received information that Zara Murtazalieva, at present in prison after having been falsely convicted of terrorism, is awaiting transfer from Potma prison colony. Held since April of this year, she is to be moved to a new location. The committee wrote in a press release on 21 December that Zara was due in January 2006 for a three-day visit by relatives. This is allowed every three months for prisoners in such prison colonies. She was last visited by her mother Toit in October this year. She said her daughter receives all letters sent to her, and writes replies. But these never reach their intended readers. Toit has received no letter from her daughter since October. According to Toit, her daughter is under special control – in all probability the ... >> full...
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Chechen public demands to quash war criminals' 'not-guilty' verdicts
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 12/23/2005 8:35 AM 22.12.2005 20:45 MSK Chechen public demands to quash war criminals' 'not-guilty' verdicts CHECHNYA, Grozny. (Chechen Committee for National Salvation regional public movement). Hundreds of people, mainly the loved ones of the Chechens killed by Russian military (cases of Ulman, Arakcheyev-Khudyakov and other) gathered for a rally in the centre of Grozny on 19 December, between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The protestors' main demand was to prevent acquittals of the Russian military who, in effect, committed war crimes in Chechnya citing acting on orders from their superiors. The rally was attended by press and television journalists, members of human rights organisations, including Optimum, Vybor Molodyozhi (Youth's Choice), Dialog, Chechen Women's Union, Chechen Human Rights Centre formed on 10 December 2005, as well as Khizir Mezhidov, Ombudsman's representative in the Chechen Republic, and Ibraghim Zoubairayev of Chechen President's Office for Constitutional Rights of the Russian Citizens ... >> full...
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