"Let the police rest!" demonstration in Moscow
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 4:08 PM
25.4.2007 19:59 MSK
"Let the police rest!" demonstration in Moscow
RUSSIA, Moscow. On April 23 in Moscow, at the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, in Kalyzhsky Square, the Moscow department of the Union of Right Forces (SPS) conducted a demonstration called "Let the police to rest!" with slogans such as: "Don't keep the police from catching villains and cheats!", "Don't keep the police from their work!", "When the Duma is not a place for discussions, bludgeons are the best argument!".
Participants in the picketing, about 20 people, held large posters, on which Vladimir Putin, Yuri Luzhkov, Sergey Mironov and Boris Gryzlov were depicted with bludgeons in their hands, reported the press-service of the Moscow department of the SPS.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA -News Agency [2007-04-23-Rus-18]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/4/25/38090.html
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Human Rights Activists Express Mixed Feelings About Yeltsin
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/27/2007 4:19 PM 28.4.2007 01:41 MSK Riot in Krasnodar SIZO RUSSIA, Krasnodar. In the Krasnodar pre-trial investigation unit (SIZO) No. 1, officers have attacked prisoners, reported the movement "For Human Rights " according to an unnamed Krasnodar journalist. On April 25 he reported: "According to unofficial reports, 10 were heavily injured and two were killed. Information about the attack was gained mostly from prisoners who were able to contact their loved ones and ask for help ". "Mothers, sister, fathers - all were gathered at the entrance to SIZO No. 1. But when the gathering demanded an explanation from representatives of the SIZO administration, a bus drove up. People in masks and camouflage ran out. They started to attack the crowd, and some crowd members were severely beaten. The citizens called the procuratorship, but officials did not want to deal with the problem. The mother of a prisoner ... >> full...
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NGO Temporarily Closes Doors After Office Raid
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 12:49 AM Monday, April 23, 2007 NGO Temporarily Closes Doors After Office Raid The Moscow Times A U.S.-based nongovernmental organization will halt operations after a police raid on its Moscow office last week. The Educated Media Foundation -- the legal successor of Internews, which trains journalists and works with many media outlets -- will temporarily halt its activities after Interior Ministry officers confiscated documents and computers from its office, Manana Aslamazian, executive director of the organization, said Friday. "We will continue with the seminars we had planned for April, but we will be doing nothing as of May," Aslamazian said. About 20 officers from the Interior Ministry's economic crimes department locked themselves in the organization's office in the Central House of Journalists for nearly 11 hours Wednesday during the raid, Aslamazian said. Aslamazian said police were linking the search to her detention at Sheremetyevo Airport in January for failing to declare ... >> full...
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Ponomaryov Detained by Authorities
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 12:52 AM http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2007/04/23/013.html Monday, April 23, 2007 Ponomaryov Detained by Authorities The Associated Press Human rights activist and Kremlin critic Lev Ponomaryov said he and four others had been detained Sunday near a central Moscow street where police beat demonstrators during an opposition protest last week. "They shoved us into a bus quite rudely," Ponomaryov said by mobile phone from a police precinct. Later on Sunday, Ponomaryov said he and the others had been released after three hours, adding that he had been accused of taking part in an illegal gathering and faced a court hearing. He said at least 30 people had gathered near the site of the Dissenters' March, held April 14. It was intended to be a quiet display of defiance and a rebuke to the authorities for crackdowns on the Moscow rally and one the following day in St. Petersburg. On Saturday, opposition leader Garry Kasparov ... >> full...
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 1:58 AM Friday, April 20, 2007 March Victims Speak Out By Galina Stolyarova Staff Writer Valery Zhelanov fought back tears as he watched amateur footage of OMON riot police kicking a young man as they dragged him to a police car. The victim is Zhelanov’s son Artyom, a political science student, who went to watch the Dissenters’ March on Sunday because of his academic interest in democratic protest. But, says Zhelanov, Artyom was suddenly grabbed and assaulted by officers. Held overnight, he appeared in court on Monday, and was ordered to pay a fine for “shouting obscenities” and then released. Artyom Zhelanov was among 120 people who are reported to have been detained by police during the protest demonstration organized by The Other Russia coalition last Sunday. Police violence against the protesters and bystanders during last weekend’s opposition rallies made international headlines and drew criticism from foreign governments. Russia’s ombudsman Vladimir Lukin ... >> full...
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