Rights Activists Report New Detentions Over Moscow Street Protests
|
posted by zaina19 on April, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/23/2007 2:16 AM Moscow policemen detain a young radical protester on Sunday, photo from Lenta.ru web-site Moscow policemen detain a young radical protester on Sunday, photo from Lenta.ru web-site Rights Activists Report New Detentions Over Moscow Street Protests 23.04.2007 MosNews Moscow police on Sunday arrested five civil rights activists taking part in a public stroll in the same areas where a week earlier police had attacked and arrested demonstrators, the DPA news agency reported. Around two dozen persons followed a call by civil rights groups simply to take a stroll in central Moscow in the areas where a week earlier special OMON police forces, using batons, charged and beat up marchers in a protest demonstration against President Vladimir Putin. Lyudmila Alexeyeva, chairwoman of the Moscow branch of the Helsinki Group human rights organisation, criticized the arrests on Sunday as the “crudest violation of human rights. ” She noted that the participants on Sunday were ... >> full...
comments (0)
Human rights solidarity meeting planned in Moscow
|
posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2007 2:09 AM
24.4.2007 10:49 MSK
Human rights solidarity meeting planned in Moscow
RUSSIA, Moscow. On April 12, in Moscow, the Helsinki Group and the movement "For Human Rights" applied to Moscow City Hall to conduct a human rights meeting "Solidarity in the Fight for Constitutional Rights and Freedom" on April 26 from 6:00pm 8:00pm in Novopushkinsky Square ", reported "For Human Rights" on April 17.
The organizers of the action intend to express protest against the violation of civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights and freedoms, to focus the attention of society on the need for solidarity actions, and to express protest against limitations on democracy.
Since the meeting will be of a non-party nature, human rights activists request participants in the action not to bring party paraphernalia.
Translated by OM Kenney
PRIMA-News Agency [2007-04-17-Rus-24]
http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2007/4/24/38067.html
comments (0)
Some Russian officials should be forbidden entrance into the EU and the USA
|
posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2007 2:13 AM 24.4.2007 10:51 MSK Some Russian officials should be forbidden entrance into the EU and the USA RUSSIA, Moscow. Russian human rights activists proposed that Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia, Army General Rashid Nurgaliyev, Commander of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, Army General Nikolai Rogozhkin, Mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, Governor of Saint Petersburg, Valentin Matviyenko, and Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, Vadim Bulavinov, be forbidden entry into the EU and the US. Their initiative is based on limitations to the fundamental rights of citizens to conduct processions and meetings and violence against participants in protest actions. These officials bear responsibility for attacks on participants in the "Marches of Dissenters", according to human rights activists. A statement, published on April 19 by the movement " For Human Rights", said specifically: "Your countries made a decision to prohibit entrance to representatives of the ... >> full...
comments (0)
World reaction to crackdown on "Dissenters' March"
|
posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/24/2007 2:16 AM 24.4.2007 10:52 MSK World reaction to crackdown on "Dissenters' March" USA, Washington. The actions of Russian authorities against participants in peaceful protest actions in Moscow and St. Petersburg were "severe" and did not correspond to the democratic values proclaimed by the government of Russia, stated US President George Bush's administration on April 16. White House Deputy Press-Secretary Dana Perino reported that the administration is deeply perturbed by the severe crackdown on demonstrations and by the "systematic application of excessive force by authorities". On April 14 in Moscow, Russian law-enforcement agencies detained several hundred political opponents of Vladimir Putin, who were attempting to conduct a march of protest. On April 15, participants in a demonstration in St. Petersburg were beaten and pursued by Special Forces. Perino stated that the detention of journalists during the event "was intolerable and unacceptable". State Department representative Sean McCormack indicated that the ... >> full...
comments (0)
Russia: Police Break Up Peaceful Demonstration
|
posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/22/2007 4:35 AM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Russia: Police Break Up Peaceful Demonstration Hundreds of Protesters Detained (Moscow, April 15, 2007) – Riot police and special forces used excessive force to break up a peaceful demonstration in Moscow on April 14, beating numerous demonstrators and detaining hundreds, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on Moscow authorities to investigate the use of force by police and to protect peaceful demonstrators. “This police violence is only the latest example of growing government hostility toward peaceful dissent in Russia,” said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. “It has to be viewed in the context of intensifying harassment of the political opposition, human rights defenders, and independent media in Russia.” Organizers of the demonstration, the “Dissenters’ March,” had applied for authorization to gather at noon on Pushkin Square in central Moscow and march to Turgenev Square. ... >> full...
comments (0)
|
