HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS KEEP ORGANIZING ALONG POLITICAL THEMES
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posted by zaina19 on August, 2005 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 7/31/2005 9:30 AM HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS KEEP ORGANIZING ALONG POLITICAL THEMES 31.07.2005 - 00:35:57 For Human Rights head Lev Ponomarev stated that Battered Russia has evidence that ´´peaceful citizens are regularly beaten, maimed, and raped in various cities across Russia by officials in law-enforcement agencies, first of all the Interior Ministry´´ and that prosecutors conceal these crimes... A new public movement devoted to protecting citizens from police abuse and another calling for the cancellation of compulsory military service have just been established. The League In Favor of Abolishing the Draft held its founding congress in Moscow on 28 July. One of the group´s organizers, Aleksandr Podrabinek, stated that opinion polls show that around 70 percent of the population favors canceling the draft. The other group, Battered Russia, has been established to help victims of police brutality. For Human Rights head Lev Ponomarev stated that Battered Russia has evidence that ´´peaceful citizens are ... >> full...
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/1/2005 2:47 AM 20.7.2005 17:55 MSK Torture in Russia A majority of Russians fear the arbitrariness of the country’s law enforcement bodies: those organs of the state which should be engaged in the fight against crime. On the occasions members of the militia do appear before a court on charges of torture, then a conviction is, as a rule, followed by a conditional sentence. According to a survey carried out in June by the Yuri Levada analytical centre on behalf of an organisation Public Verdict, 71.9% of those polled said they distrusted the militia and the courts. The figure is on the increase… The way the organs of law enforcement work is especially conducive to the use of torture. The main guideline for the militia is the percentage of cases “successfully” closed. The militia often catch people who were unconnected with the crime under investigation, as it can be ... >> full...
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Counter-terrorists beat police
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/6/2005 1:35 AM
3/8/2005
Counter-terrorists beat police
Fifteen officers of the Counter-Terrorist Centre beat three officers of the republican Internal Affairs Ministry in the capital of Chechnya on 2 August. Another policeman sustained a gunshot wound.
"A quarrel occurred yesterday between a group of traffic police officers on duty and officers of the Counter-Terrorist Centre in Grozny's Staropromyslovskii district. The CTC officers wounded one policeman by shooting a submachine gun at him and cruelly beat his colleagues. Besides, they took away the duty weapons of the police officers: two handguns and four submachine guns," a source with the Internal Affairs Ministry told Caucasian Knot. He added the police officers had been admitted to hospital.
http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/newstext/engnews/id/838284.html
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Slovakia has sent three Chechen families in Russian concentration camp
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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: 8/9/2005 1:08 AM August, 9, 2005 Slovakia has sent three Chechen families in Russian concentration camp In Vienna it became known, that, at least, three Chechen families to whom the political asylum in Slovakia was rejected last year, after the subsequent exile from the country, were recently arrested and thrown in the Russian concentration camp of death. Thus in the concentration camp were caught all members of families, including infants. Children were separated from parents and placed in a separate children's concentration camp of death. The heads of these three families earlier already were exposed to tortures in Russian concentration camps and consequently they together with the families escaped to Slovakia . Now, due to Slovaks, Russian executioners will torture their children as well. The "fault" of Chechens in ... >> full...
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The European court has begun examining the complaint made by inmates of the Lgov prison
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 8/16/2005 9:25 AM 25.7.2005 14:13 MSK The European court has begun examining the complaint made by inmates of the Lgov prison RUSSIA, Moscow. The European court has begun to examine in emergency session the complaints of inmates from the Lgov prison. The All-Russian Social Movement for Human Rights reported on 22 July that Russia has until the 1 August to respond to the enquiry from Strasbourg,. According to an announcement made by lawyer, Elena Liptser, (from the Centre for Joint International Defence), on 21 July information came from the European Court for Human Rights that the complaints which had been submitted to it on 8 July from the Lgov prisoners had been taken into consideration. In order to proceed further with the above-mentioned matter the European Court sent a request to the Russian government to urgently answer (no later than 1 August) a series of questions relating to ... >> full...
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