The Other Russia: ‘Strategy 31′ To Continue Despite Ban, Construction
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posted by eagle on August, 2010 as Human Rights
August 17th, 2010 • Related • Filed Under
In an unexpected development in the Russian opposition’s Strategy 31 campaign in defense of free assembly, the Moscow city government has announced that all rallies will be banned on the campaign’s traditional meeting place – Triumfalnaya Square – beginning on August 22, 2010, as a result of construction. As RIA Novosti reports, the city plans to build a multi-level parking garage underneath Triumfalnaya Square as part of two city construction projects, at least one of which had already been agreed upon in 2002. The Grani.ru news portal cites experts as saying that such a garage would be inexpedient, as it could bring about an increase in the number of cars on Moscow’s already jam-packed central roadways. Scientific Director Mikhail Blinkin of the Scientific Research Institute (NII) for Transportation and Road Maintenance argues that supporting the lack of parking infrastructure in the city’s ...
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Jamestown Foundation: North Caucasus Human Rights Activists Introduce Counter-Measures To Thwart Illegal Detentions
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North Caucasus Human Rights Activists Introduce Counter-Measures to Thwart Illegal DetentionsPublication: North Caucasus Analysis August 13, 2010 06:31 On July 29, six people from the village of Komsomolskoe in northern Dagestan’s Kizilyurt were abducted by unidentified assailants. On August 1, one of those abducted, Kaitmaz Magomedov, was released, apparently by law enforcement agencies without explanation (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, August 1). As of August 3, the whereabouts of the other five abducted persons were still unknown. At least 22 people were abducted in Dagestan alone in 2009, and most of them were either found dead later or disappeared altogether. The Russian security services’ practice of circumventing the law by abducting suspected insurgents has continued into 2010. According to the Memorial human rights center, the police most frequently target young people who they suspect of being followers of fundamentalist Islam. Law enforcement officials reportedly revert to these practices in the hope of extracting information about the ... >> full...
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Jamestown Foundation: North Caucasus Human Rights Activists Introduce Counter-Measures To Thwart Illegal Detentions
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
North Caucasus Human Rights Activists Introduce Counter-Measures to Thwart Illegal DetentionsPublication: Eurasia Daily Monitor August 4, 2010 04:28 PM
On July 29, six people from the village of Komsomolskoe in northern Dagestan’s Kizilyurt were abducted by unidentified assailants. On August 1, one of those abducted, Kaitmaz Magomedov, was released, apparently by law enforcement agencies without explanation (www.kavkaz-uzel.ru, August 1). As of August 3, the whereabouts of the other five abducted persons were still unknown.
At least 22 people were abducted in Dagestan alone in 2009, and most of them were either found dead later or disappeared altogether. The Russian security services’ practice of circumventing the law by abducting suspected insurgents has continued into 2010. According to the Memorial human rights center, the police most frequently target young people who they suspect of being followers of fundamentalist Islam. Law enforcement officials reportedly revert to these practices in the hope of extracting information about ... >> full...
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Window On Eurasia: Russia’s Human Rights Leaders To Unite, Work With Opposition To Push For Dialogue With Regime
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posted by eagle on as Human Rights
Paul Goble
Staunton, August 7 – Nine of Russia’s leading human rights activists have formed the Human Rights Council of Russia to improve coordination among their groups and to cooperate with opposition political parties in response to what they describe as "the decisive offensive of the powers that be against the rights of man and citizen.”
The eight -- Lyudmila Alekseyeva, Valery Borshchev, Yuri Vdovin, Svetlana Gannushkina, Boris Zolotukhin, Sergey Kovalev, Lev Ponomaryev, Liliya Shibanova, and Yuri Shmidt – said last night that the human rights movement "must consolidate, enter into dialogue with the political opposition, and support the formation of [similar]coalitions in the regions.”
In their statement, they indicated that the new council will not be registered as a juridical person but instead will act as "a permanent round table,” thus depriving ...
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Aljazeera: Crimean Tatars Fear For Future
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| | Crimean Tatars fear for future | | | By Matthew Collin in Simferopol, Ukraine |
"I've already been here for 960 days, and today is the 961st," said the weather-beaten Tatar man, squinting beneath the powerful Crimean sun. Seydamet Smailov has spent almost three years living alone in a dilapidated cabin by the side of a busy road in the Ukrainian city of Simferopol because he has a vital task to accomplish: standing guard over a pile of bricks. For him, these are no ordinary bricks: one day, he hopes, they will form part of a grand new mosque which the Crimean Tatars plan to build on the site where he is now living. "I didn't expect it would take so long, but because I was given this mission, I have to fulfill it," Smailov said. "It's important for the Muslims of Crimea - and for my own children." But the local authorities in ... |
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