Father of serviceman from Dagestan shot dead in Moscow strives to punish the culprits
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posted by zaina19 on February, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2007 1:54 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 7/2/2007 Father of serviceman from Dagestan shot dead in Moscow strives to punish the culprits Father of Jabrail Ibragimov, a soldier from Dagestan who perished in one of the military unit of the Taman Division, has left for Moscow aiming to clarify all the circumstances of his son's death and demand punishment of those guilty according to the law. According to Khuri Pirsaidova, chair of the Dagestan Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, in 2006, eight servicemen from Dagestan died in the military regiments of the country. "Jabrail Ibragimov was killed not anywhere in Kamchatka, but in the elite troops of the Moscow Military Command, close to the Ministry of Defence of Russia. My indignation has no limits," Ms. Pirsaidova has declared. Mr. Ibragimov (born in 1983) was drafted to regular service on December 23, 2006, and on December 28, 2006, he was shot dead ... >> full...
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State Duma has forbidden state servants to participate in foreign NCOs
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/10/2007 2:00 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 7/2/2007 State Duma has forbidden state servants to participate in foreign NCOs At its today's session, the State Duma has passed a law, in its third final reading, forbidding the state servants to be members of foreign non-commercial organizations (NCOs). The law introduces a ban for the chairman and deputy chairman of the Accounting Chamber, the auditors of the Accounting Chamber, employees of the customs bodies, chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation to be engaged in educational, scientific and other activities financed from the funds of foreign states, foreign and international organizations, foreign citizens and stateless persons. The above activities are also forbidden to militiamen, public prosecutor's workers, secretary of the Security Council, judges, persons of the commanding stuff and employees Federal State Messenger Services, and also to the senators of the Council of Federation and deputies of the State ... >> full...
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Russian Journalist Asks Ukraine to Grant Him Political Asylum
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/7/2007 3:32 AM
Russian Journalist Asks Ukraine to Grant Him Political Asylum
06.02.07
Russian
Russian journalist Aleksandr Kosvintsev of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta has asked for political asylum in Ukraine, Russian news agency Interfax reported on Tuesday quoting the press service of the legislature of the Ukrainian Lviv Region.
The press service referred to the journalist, who is staying in Lviv at present. Kosvintsev has applied to the regional department of the Ukrainian migration service in Lviv.
The Russian journalist told the press service he was forced to leave Russia due to persecution by Russia’s law enforcement bodies.
Novaya Gazeta daily, partially owned by former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, is strongly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policies, especially of the anti-terror campaign in Chechnya. Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya worked in this newspaper until her assassination on October 7, 2006.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/06/asylum.shtml
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Police Dissolve Tea Party of Russian and German HR Campaigners
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 2/7/2007 3:36 AM Photo — MosNews archive Photo — MosNews archive Police Dissolve Tea Party of Russian and German HR Campaigners 06.02.07 MosNews Russian police have imposed fines on a group of Russian Human Rights activists for organizing a tea party with German colleagues who were monitoring the situation of ethnic minorities in South Russian region of Kuban. Russian Novye Izvestiya daily reported that the Human Rights Committee of the South Russian city of Novorossiysk was holding a meeting with Human Rights activists and students from Germany on January 23, 2006. The meeting was held in a fine arts school where the German guests visited an exhibition of children’s works calling for tolerance. When the visitors started to drink tea, a group of policemen accompanied with an interpreter and a cameraman of the local TV channel broke into the school and checked the documents of everyone present. Upon completing this (the German ... >> full...
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I was poisoned by Russians, human rights judge says
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 1/31/2007 12:04 PM I was poisoned by Russians, human rights judge says · Legal chief fell violently ill after trip to Moscow · Kremlin dismisses claims but had attacked court Luke Harding in Moscow Wednesday January 31, 2007 The former president of the European Court of Human Rights, Luzius Wildhaber Mr Wildhaber says he fell violently ill after a three-day trip to Moscow. Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP Guardian Unlimited The former president of the European Court of Human Rights today claimed he was poisoned during a visit to Russia in late October - three days before the former KGB officer Alexander Litvinenko was fatally poisoned in London. Luzius Wildhaber, who retired last month as Europe's most senior judge, told a Swiss newspaper that he had fallen violently ill after a three-day trip to Moscow. The judge has been the subject of persistent criticism from Russia for upholding a series of complaints by Chechen human rights ... >> full...
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