New trial of policeman accused of torture
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posted by zaina19 on August, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2005 2:37 AM 29.7.2005 12:44 MSK New trial of policeman accused of torture RUSSIA, Kazan. On July 28th, in the Novy-Savinovsky Court of Kazan, a new trial began in the case of former criminal investigator Vladimir lyamzin. He is charged with exceeding official authority in the application of violence, according to the Human Rights Center of Kazan. Two months ago, a court sentenced the former policeman to a conditional sentence of five years in prison and deprived him of the right to work in law enforcement agencies for three years. The procuratorship of Novy-Savinovsky believed this punishment was too mild and appealed to the Judicial Board of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan, which abolished the sentence as being too mild and called for a new trial. In the course of the previous trial, a torture victim described that on May 13, 2004, he and his two friends were delayed ... >> full...
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Committee formed against torture, “cleansings”, and “filtration”
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
Prev Discussion Next Discussion Send Replies to My Inbox Reply Recommend Message 1 of 1 in Discussion From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2005 2:40 AM 29.7.2005 12:24 MSK Committee formed against torture, “cleansings”, and “filtration” RUSSIA, Moscow. A press conference entitled "Beaten Cities Take a Stand ", took place at the Independent Press Center (Tverskaya Boulevard, 20) on July 28th. According to the All-Russian Public Movement for Human Rights, an announcement was made concerning the creation of the organizing committee, "Beaten Russia", to fight torture, “cleansings”, and “filtration”. Human rights activists from Blagoveshchenk (Bashkirya), Kabardino-Balkarii, Kalmykii, Krasnodar, the Kurskaya district, Moscow, Nefteyugansk (Khanty-Mansiyskiy AO), the Tver Region (Bezhetsk and Rozhdestvenno), Sverdlovsk, Stavropol, Tambov, and Tula Regions participated in the conference. Human rights activists and representatives of areas where police “cleansings”, “filtration” and other forms of collective punishments were perpetrated, responded to the call of victims in Blagoveshchenk to create a united ... >> full...
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Red Cross stages one-day strike in Grozny over abduction
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/2/2005 5:01 AM Aug 2 2005 12:16PM Red Cross stages one-day strike in Grozny over abduction MOSCOW. Aug 2 (Interfax) - The Grozny office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suspended its activities for a day on Tuesday and called on Chechnya's authorities to step up the investigation into the abduction of Red Cross official Usman Saidaliyev. "The ICRC office in Grozny has suspended its work for one day to draw attention to the fate of Usman Saidaliyev, an ICRC employee in the Chechen republic, who was abducted two years ago," Red Cross Moscow office spokesman Anastasia Isyuk told Interfax. "The ICRC has repeatedly raised this issue in its contacts with the authorities and asked them to find out what happened to Usman. But no answer has been received yet," Isyuk said. Saidaliyev was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from his house in the village of Novy Engenoi ... >> full...
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Leading members of the new alliance include Lev Ponomarev´s For Human Rights movement...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/3/2005 3:46 AM ACTIVISTS LAUNCH REFERENDUM DRIVE TO END DRAFT 03.08.2005 - 00:43:56 Leading members of the new alliance include Lev Ponomarev´s For Human Rights movement... The Soldiers´ Mothers´ Party and several marginal political organizations have formed a League for Abolishing the Draft with the goal of calling a nationwide referendum to end conscription. Leading members of the new alliance include Lev Ponomarev´s For Human Rights movement, Valeriya Novodvorskaya´s Democratic Union party, and the Russian Radicals organization, best known for advocating legalization of some drugs and bringing United Nations peacekeepers into Chechnya. The law on referendums states that a plebiscite cannot be initiated during the final year of a State Duma term, which means that the new league has until December 2006 to collect 2 million signatures and form initiative groups with at least 100 members in at least 45 regions of the Russian Federation. The alliance is currently setting up its ... >> full...
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Moscow ‘pursuing’ Muslims: HR body
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
August 3, 2005 Wednesday Jumadi-us-Sani 26, 1426 language=JavaScript> </SCRIPT> <NOSCRIPT> Click to learn more... Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window) </NOSCRIPT> Moscow ‘pursuing’ Muslims: HR body MOSCOW, Aug 2: A human rights group accused Russia’s authorities on Tuesday of using their campaign against terrorism as a pretext for an illegal and politicized pursuit of Muslims. “This campaign has either been initiated from the top, or it is a campaign that people have understood they are supposed to carry out,” Svetlana Ganushkina, a campaigner with the human rights organisation Memorial, said at a news conference. Memorial, which was established in the last years of the Soviet Union to uncover the mass abuses that took place under Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, said it had compiled numerous dossiers on Muslims who had been unfairly treated. “We are currently involved in 23 judicial inquiries concerning 81 people, all of them Muslims officially pursued for extremist or terrorist ... >> full...
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