AMNESTY: RUSSIA MUST END IMPUNITY FOR MURDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS
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posted by eagle on August, 2009 as Human Rights
RUSSIA MUST END IMPUNITY FOR MURDER OF HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTSZarema Sadulayeva, human rights activist, murdered in Chechnya, August 2009 © Amnesty International 12 August 2009 The bodies of human rights activist Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband, Alik (Umar) Dzhabrailov, were found in the boot of a car early Tuesday morning in the Chechen capital Grozny. They had both been shot.
Zarema Sadulayeva was the head of the Russian charity, Let's Save the Children, which helps children affected by the violence in Chechnya and works closely with the UN Children's Fund, UNICEF.
Amnesty International said that this latest murder of a human rights activist in Chechnya demonstrated the complete disregard of the rule of law that prevails in Chechnya today. The organization has strongly condemned the killings.
"Coming only four weeks after the murder of leading Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, the latest killings are a strong reminder of the climate of impunity in Chechnya," said ...
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HRW: Russia: Protect Rights Workers In Chechnya
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In Wake of Murders, Other Human Rights Defenders Threatened
August 15, 2009 (Moscow) - Russian authorities need to take immediate steps to guarantee the safety of human rights defenders and civic activists in Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said today. Russia should also promptly investigate the harassment and threats in recent days by local security services against staff members of the Memorial Human Rights Center in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, Human Rights Watch said. "After three brutal murders of activists, the escalating violence and now more threats, this is an absolutely urgent matter for the Russian authorities," said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch. "Security clearly should not be left to the local authorities." Akhmed Gisayev, a Memorial employee who had been working with Natalia Estemirova to investigate a sensitive human rights case in the days before her murder on July 15, 2009, has experienced ...
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Independent: Purges Strike Fear In New Chechnya
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Purges strike fear in new ChechnyaWhen the police killed Svetlana Bazhayeva's nephew, her life was torn apart – and in a lawless state, she joined the growing ranks of the bereaved. Shaun Walker reports from Grozny Monday, 17 August 2009 
Disgraced teacher Svetlana Bazhayeva A decade ago central Grozny looked like post-war Stalingrad; now it looks like somewhere in Belgium. Here, in the middle of the troubled North Caucasus region, is a city lined with new, brightly coloured buildings, and freshly-paved, tree-lined walkways. At pedestrian crossings, a digital timer ticks down the seconds until it's safe to cross; locals sip espressos in cafes with names like Da Rizzi and Rafaello, while Jennifer Lopez gyrates on MTV in the background. But this sense of prosperous provincial idyll is a facade. It's in one of these pleasant cafes that I meet two women with a horrifying story to tell, just one of many that I hear ...
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Prague Watchdog: Let's Kill A Generation
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Let's kill a generationTanya Lokshina, Human Rights Watch, Watch, special to Prague Watchdog Moscow 
Before travelling to the small Chechen village of Koshkeldy for the funeral of Natalya Estemirova, her friends, colleagues, and people who simply knew and loved her gathered by the monument to deceased journalists near the Grozny office of Memorial. Women in mourning kerchiefs threw themselves on one another sobbing. Men stood around in small groups, talking in low voices. Someone held up a poster. Written on a sheet of blotting paper were the words: “Who will be next?” People already crushed by Natasha’s murder knew that she would not be last. And yet it had seemed self-evident that after her death there would be a pause, a breathing-space. At least for the next few months, no one would be touched... that would be impossible in the wake of the scandal that ... |
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Yahoo News: Medvedev, Merkel Talk Economy, Human Rights
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Medvedev, Merkel talk economy, human rights
By Denis Dyomkin14, August, 2009
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - Germany and Russia should work closer together to beat the downturn, Russia's president told his German counterpart on Friday at the start of talks which will focus on the economy but also touch on human rights. President Dmitry Medvedev welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to his official vacation residence at the Black Sea resort of Sochi for their third meeting this year, in a gesture that showed close ties between Berlin and Moscow. "We shall think how by strengthening our bilateral economic strategic ties we could help our economies and people overcome the consequences of this heavy crisis and come out of it even stronger," Medvedev told Merkel. A senior Russian official told reporters ahead of the talks that the leaders would discuss a bid by Canadian carmaker Magna and Russia's Sberbank to buy a stake in Opel, the European ... >> full...
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