Humanitarian workers in North Caucasus fear punitive measures
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/13/2005 2:16 AM April 13th 2005 · Prague Watchdog / Timur Aliyev · PRINTER FRIENDLY FORMAT · E-MAIL THIS · ALSO AVAILABLE IN: RUSSIAN Humanitarian workers in North Caucasus fear punitive measures By Timur Aliyev NAZRAN, Ingushetia – Workers of humanitarian missions in Chechnya and Ingushetia fear punitive measures against themselves and their organizations. They have spoken of this in private conversations with Prague Watchdog’s correspondent. The grounds for their increased apprehension are the recent events at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo-2 Airport, where two workers of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) were refused entry to Russia by customs control. On the evening of April 8 an IRC worker who is a citizen of Azerbaijan was refused entry, while on April 9 Antoine Duplouy, head of the IRC Mission in the Northern Caucasus, was unable to get through. One of PW’s contacts supposes that the punitive measures taken against IRC ... >> full...
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DNA TEST CONFIRMS SAKHALIN WAR HOLDOUT
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/13/2005 4:21 AM DNA TEST CONFIRMS SAKHALIN WAR HOLDOUT Woman's long-lost brother confirmed in Russia April 13, 2005 A DNA test has confirmed that a Japanese man who had stayed on on Sakhalin after the Soviet Union took control of the island at the end of World War II is the elder brother of a Hokkaido woman, the health ministry said Tuesday. Yoshiteru Nakagawa, 78, who lives in the Republic of Kalmykiya in southern Russia, was confirmed as the brother of Toyoko Chiba, 74, a resident in Bibai, Hokkaido, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said. Nakagawa became the first Japanese who stayed on in Russia after the war to have his identity confirmed via DNA tests. Earlier, DNA tests confirmed the identities of two war-displaced Japanese in China. After undergoing medical checks, Nakagawa will return to Japan, possibly in June, for a short stay, ministry officials said. Born in Yamagata Prefecture ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/14/2005 3:31 AM
13/4/2005
IDPs number 210,000
The highest outflow of refugees occurred in 2001, says Mompash Machuyev, chairman of the Internally Displaced Persons Committee at the government of Chechnya. Their number was then 369,000. Every third Chechnya resident had to leave his home, including 198,000 who moved inside Chechnya, 149,000 going to Ingushetia and 22,000 to other Russian regions. The number of IDPs who have come back to Chechnya over all these years is 235,000. All tent camps in Chechnya and Ingushetia have been dismantled.
The current number of those with an IDP status is 210,000, including 186,000 in Chechnya and 24,000 in Ingushetia, Grozny-inform says. An estimated 198,000 internally displaced persons are in Chechnya currently.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/790800.html
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Chechen Minister Addresses UN Human Rights Body
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/14/2005 1:13 PM Chechen Minister Addresses UN Human Rights Body The General Representative Abroad of the Chechen Government took the floor in Geneva denouncing human rights abuses in Chechnya. Umar Khanbiev was born in 1955 in Kyrgyzstan where his parents lived in exile. In 1960 the Khanbiev family returned to Chechnya. In 1979 Mr. Khanbiev specialised in medical surgery. During the first war in 1995, he was appointed Minister of Health of the government of the independence movement. From October 1999 until January 2000, during the four months of the siege of Grozny, he conducted 5003 operations. Mr. Khanbiev first performed the operations, mainly amputations, in his hospital (Grozny 2nd Maternity); during the ongoing of the siege he continued his work in cellars or makeshift shelters. He witnessed first hand the use and effect of prohibited weapons as stated in the Geneva Convention. On 2 February 2000, Russian ... >> full...
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Imprisoned NBP activists stage hunger strike
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/19/2005 2:51 AM
Apr 18 2005 9:27PM
Imprisoned NBP activists stage hunger strike
MOSCOW. April 18 (Interfax) - Seven activists from the Russian National Bolshevik Party, sentenced for taking over the Russian Health Ministry building last summer, have begun a hunger strike.
"The NBP activists demand that constitutional rights and human rights in Russia be observed. In addition, they demand that they be proclaimed political prisoners and that a real amnesty be announced in Russia, noting that the amnesty that is planned will only affect very few convicts," Dmitry Agranovsky, a lawyer for one of the activists, told Interfax on Monday.
"The hunger strike is not in any way related to the conditions the activists are being held in, in the Butyrskaya prison," Agranovsky said.
He said that the activists' defense is planning to send a appeal to the Moscow City Court's Presidium and the European Court on Human Rights.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11271603
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