Rejection Of Russian Extraditions Cools Bilateral Relations
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posted by zaina19 on April, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 3/31/2005 3:59 PM 31.03.2005 Rejection Of Russian Extraditions Cools Bilateral Relations A U.K. court’s recent decision to deny two Russian extradition requests over alleged wrongdoing at oil giant Yukos has strained relations between London and Moscow. The verdict on 25 March was particularly harsh in its characterization of Russian authorities’ legal efforts aimed at former Yukos executives as politically motivated. The decision has fueled criticism in the British media of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his administration, which has seen extradition defeats before at the hands of British authorities. The British media are rife with reports that President Putin is increasingly angry with the United Kingdom over extraditions. Moscow has already accused British officials of sheltering Chechen «terrorists» and fugitive white-collar criminals in the past. The London court that acted on 25 March is the same one that previously rejected extradition requests for Chechen rebel envoy Akhmed Zakaev and ... >> full...
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Half of Russia’s inhabitants fear police
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/1/2005 1:53 PM 22.3.2005 13:51 MSK Half of Russia’s inhabitants fear police RUSSIA, Moscow. March 17th. According to a survey taken by the Public Opinion Fund, 41% of our fellow citizens fear violence from law-enforcement agencies. Young Russians fear the police more than the elderly do (46% to 31%). More than half of the inhabitants of Moscow (56%) fear the police, and those in metropolitan areas with populations of more than 1 million fear them at a rate of 51%. Events in Blagoveshensk have increased fear of the police. Mass violence is considered to be common police practice by 59% of respondents. 56% of respondents assume that "special operations", similar to those in Blagoveshensk could occur where they live. Only 1% of those interrogated justified the actions of the police in Blagoveshenk, while the overwhelming majority viewed the situation as "cruelty and lawlessness" on the part of those ... >> full...
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Rights activists seek further "Katyn case" probe
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/5/2005 2:20 PM
Apr 5 2005 7:50PM
Rights activists seek further "Katyn case" probe
MOSCOW. April 5 (Interfax) - Russian human rights activists have called for continuing the inquiry into the so-called "Katyn case," which was opened to investigate the murder of Polish officers and civilians in the Soviet Union in 1940.
"We think that ending the investigation is unacceptable," the Memorial human rights center said in a statement circulated on Tuesday.
"The crime must be qualified from a legal standpoint, the victims of the crime must be identified, while the names of all the culprits and perpetrators must be disclosed. All the investigation materials must be made available for the global public, primarily Polish and Russian [citizens], once the probe is completed," the statement reads.
http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11265842
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/8/2005 7:05 AM 11/3/2005 Shifting responsibility Some Russian media have resumed discussing the topic of Meskhetian Turks staying in the Krasnodar territory, still planning to return to their homeland, Georgia, from where they were deported to Central Asia in 1944, a statement says published on the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to Gazeta.Ru. "As is known, when joining the Council of Europe in 1999, Georgia undertook an international legal obligation to receive them. However, the Georgian authorities in Tbilisi do not even try to appear to seriously intend to solve the problem. Meanwhile, the way the Council of Europe reminds Georgia about it looks like friendly reproaches, rather than efforts to urge Georgia to meet its obligations, not to mention sanctions the COE provides for such cases. Useless discussions about the need to pass a framework law on repatriation that would codify the principles ... >> full...
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Loubna Freih and Joanna Weschler International Herald Tribune
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Back Annan's call for a new human rights body Loubna Freih and Joanna Weschler International Herald Tribune Saturday, April 9, 2005 UN reform II GENEVA On Thursday, the secretary general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, did what was once unthinkable: He told the UN Commission on Human Rights that the best way to improve the organization was simply to throw it away and start from scratch. Annan's bombshell, delivered to a packed room here, could have a transformative impact on human rights worldwide. The commission has indeed suffered, as Annan understatedly put it, a "credibility deficit" over the last few years, as the world's most abusive governments flocked to Geneva each year for six weeks only to give each other passes for their egregious records of human rights violations. This year some observers felt that the organization had a choice of proving its critics wrong by taking on the worst violators, or collapsing under the ... >> full...
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