Human Rights Group: Prisoners are Tortured and Killed in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on May, 2006 as Human Rights
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Human Rights Group: Prisoners are Tortured and Killed in Chechnya
By VOA News
16 May 2006
A leading human rights group is calling on European investigators to look into allegations of torture in secret prisons in Chechnya.
The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights released a report Monday in which it says it has proof that Russian and Chechen security forces are operating such prisons.
It says Chechens are kidnapped and then tortured and sometimes killed in the jails. The report says the prisons violate Russian law and European human rights treaties.
Russia has not yet responded to Monday's report, but has denied allegations of torture in Chechen prisons in the past.
Russia has been battling Chechen separatists for much of the last decade.
Some information for this report was provided by AP.
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-05-16-voa3.cfm
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Helsinki Group Suspects Secret Prisons In Chechnya
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/16/2006 3:28 AM
Helsinki Group Suspects Secret Prisons In Chechnya
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Chechen security forces (file photo)
(RFE/RL)
PRAGUE, May 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A Vienna-based rights group is urging Europe's main human rights body to investigate the existence of secret prisons in Chechnya.
In a new 37-page report titled "Unofficial Places of Detention in the Chechen Republic," the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights documents the existence of what it says are secret prisons in Russia's breakaway southern republic.
It alleges that the illegal prisons are operated by Chechen officials and Russian security forces and are used to obtain information and confessions through beatings and torture, and for extrajudicial executions.
The group says it has sent its report to Dick Marty, who is heading a probe into alleged secret CIA detention centers in member states of the Council of Europe.
http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/05/65823f2a-de24-4110-8e95-50a2f161b427.html
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Chechnya – Ramzan Kadyrov at a rock concert, ‘Phoenix. Revival of life’, in Gudermes, 8 November 2005, file photo (TASS)
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/16/2006 3:31 AM Council of Europe Mission In Chechnya Obstructed Chechnya – Ramzan Kadyrov at a rock concert, ‘Phoenix. Revival of life’, in Gudermes, 8 November 2005, file photo (TASS) Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov (file photo) (TASS) May 2, 2006 -- Representatives of the Council of Europe's anti-torture watchdog have been prevented from entering a site of alleged prisoner abuse in Chechnya. Mauro Palma, the head of the delegation sent by the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), said on May 1 that they were turned away from the village of Tsentoroi, the ancestral home of Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov. Rights activists claim that Tsentoroi is one of a number of villages that host secret jails in which prisoners and kidnap victims are tortured. A security force Ramzan Kadyrov led when his late father, Akhmat Kadyrov, was president of the republic has been accused of abducting and torturing hundreds ... >> full...
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Armed incident in a Tyumen mosque
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Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/12/2006 1:56 PM 12.5.2006 13:48 MSK Armed incident in a Tyumen mosque RUSSIA, Tyumen. Masked gunmen armed with sub-machine guns and pistols burst into a Tyumen mosque at about 6:30 AM on May 7 during morning prayers, and demanded that the few worshipers present show their identity documents, according to the civil rights organization Memorial and the committee Civic Assistance. None of the "visitors" – who claimed to be agents of the Federal Security Service (FSS) – showed any kind of documentation, or explained their presence. They threatened physical violence and demanded that the congregation - about eight or nine people, mostly migrant workers from Tadzhikistan – board a bus parked nearby, which took them to No 2 town police station. There, those seized were made to stand ... >> full...
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Russia’s Liberal Party Activist Attacked in St. Petersburg
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Russia’s Liberal Party Activist Attacked in St. Petersburg
27.04.2006
MosNews
Unknown gunmen open fire at an executive of the local branch of Russia’s liberal-minded Yabloko party on Thursday, Gazeta.Ru news website reported.
Andrei Borisov, a deputy in a local town council in St. Petersburg and member of the local branch of the Yabloko party, was attacked on Thursday morning in the yard of the house where he lived, a Yabloko spokesperson reported.
The deputy was hospitalized with two gunshot wounds to his head.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/04/27/murderattempt.shtml
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