NGOs Buried by Mountain Of Paper
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posted by zaina19 on August, 2007 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/24/2007 9:24 AM Friday, August 24, 2007 NGOs Buried by Mountain Of Paper By Nikolaus von Twickel Staff Writer In a blizzard of bureaucratic absurdity, the new registration law for nongovernmental organizations has created administrative hurdles threatening to put many out of business and deterring others from setting up shop at all. When the bill passed last year, NGO representatives suggested that it was an instance of bureaucracy being deliberately beefed up to fight organizations the government dislikes. Now, they say that up to three-quarters of over 200,000 officially registered noncommercial organizations could face closure. "It's just tremendous bureaucracy," said Jens Siegert, head of the Heinrich BЪll Foundation's Moscow office. He said his organization, affiliated with the German Green Party, had to hire one extra staff member solely to cope with the workload. Part of that workload came from a stipulation in the law that every single organization had to submit new ... >> full...
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Advocates of the anarchists accused of blowing up the "Neva Express" train go to Malaya Vishera
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/25/2007 11:36 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 24/8/2007 Advocates of the anarchists accused of blowing up the "Neva Express" train go to Malaya Vishera The lawyers hired by activists of various anarchists' groups of St-Petersburg to defend Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, have left today morning for Malaya Vishera. According to well- confirmed data, the young men suspected of blowing up the "Neva Express" train have been kept for several days already in local SIZO (pre-trial detention facility). Until August 22, the exact whereabouts of the arrested participants of the anarchical movement were a secret even to closest relatives. "If today the advocates meet the detainees, then we'll be able to hope that in future no illegal methods of investigation will be applied to our comrades," Alexander Maishev, an activist of St-Petersburg League of Anarchists, gave his comments to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. Today, the Human Rights Society "Memorial" has ... >> full...
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Russia: Opposition Activist Awaits Release From Psychiatric Hospital
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/16/2007 10:28 AM Thursday, August 16, 2007 Russia: Opposition Activist Awaits Release From Psychiatric Hospital By Chloe Arnold Russia -- Larisa Arap, journalist and activist for the United Civil Front, undated An undated photo of opposition activist Larisa Arap (left) and a photo taken by her daughter at the psychiatric hospital where she is being held against her will (Courtesy Photo) MOSCOW, August 16, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Russia's human-rights ombudsman is calling for the release of an opposition activist who has spent more than a month locked in a psychiatric hospital. Vladimir Lukin recommends that Larisa Arap be discharged from the Murmansk Regional Psychiatric Hospital, where she has been held since July 5. Lukin wants an independent assessment of Arap after human-rights groups, the United Civic Front, and members of her family all charged that she has been forcibly detained in retaliation for criticizing local health officials. Arap herself believes she was forcibly ... >> full...
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"Dagestan Mothers" intend to continue their protest actions
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/15/2007 6:58 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 13/8/2007 "Dagestan Mothers" intend to continue their protest actions Today, representatives of the "Dagestan Mothers" public organization have addressed their applications to the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan against the employees of law enforcement bodies, who were involved, in their opinion, in kidnapping and torturing the young men, who disappeared this April; the applicants have also stated that they will continue their hunger strike until they receive any information about the missing persons. The "Echo Moskvy" Radio informs that Svetlana Isaeva, leader of the "Dagestan Mothers" movement, said in one of TV broadcasts that one of the officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) "said, in the presence of several parents, that the kidnapped guys had been kept in the building of the Organized Crime Combating Unit (UBOP), he described them and indicated all their specific features." Gulnara Rustamova, one of the ... >> full...
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Father of the illegal boy who suffered in France escaped from Chechnya in order not to become a militant
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/15/2007 7:13 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 14/8/2007 Father of the illegal boy who suffered in France escaped from Chechnya in order not to become a militant Father of Ivan Dembskiy, 12, illegal immigrant to France, who fell down last week from a balcony in the French city of Amiens, had run away from Chechnya because of his unwilling to become a militant, the "Izvestia" has informed today. Ivan was born in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in 1995, the full swing of the first Chechen war. His father, Andrei Dembskiy, 33, is a Ukrainian by nationality, and his mother, Natalia Abueva, 29, is a Chechen. It is known that her father is a dedicated separatist. It was the reason of the Dembskiy family's runaway to France: Natalia's father demanded her husband to take a machinegun and leave for the mountains to fight against federal troops. Ivan's parents applied for ... >> full...
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