Migrants flee town after racial violence
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2006 as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/13/2006 9:46 PM September 14, 2006 Migrants flee town after racial violence Dozens of wrecked market stalls rot in the rain and a restaurant stands burnt and looted, its windows boarded up. This is the scene of Russia's latest explosion of race violence in which, for the first time, an alliance of locals and Moscow-based extremists appears to have driven almost an entire ethnic group from a town. Three dark-skinned men from the Caucasus region interviewed in Kondopoga, near the Finnish border, said there had been 150 migrants in the town before the violence. Fewer than two dozen remain. "If things don't improve, we'll have to leave too. And we don't think they'll get any better," one of the men said, talking in a lowered voice and glancing nervously around the empty market. "This is unique," Maria Lipman, a political analyst at the Carnegie Moscow Center said. "Disturbingly, this is what ... >> full...
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Moscow Court declares legal the sending of Mikhail Trepashkin to Nizhniy Tagil
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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: 9/13/2006 9:54 PM 11.9.2006 11:16 MSK Moscow Court declares legal the sending of Mikhail Trepashkin to Nizhniy Tagil RUSSIA, Moscow. On September 6th, the Zamoskvorechye Court of Moscow recognized as legal the sending of attorney and former FSB colleague Mikhail Trepashkin to penal colony IR -13 in Nizhniy Tagil in the Sverdlovsk region. According to Elena Liptser, Trepashkin’s defense attorney, representatives of the Federal Prison Service justified Trepashkin being sent to Tagil by the absence of vacant places in colonies near Moscow, where Trepashkin lived. Liptser noted that her client was sent to Nizhniy Tagil two months after the verdict, and places in colonies near Moscow were free at this time. Trepashkin is serving time in a penal colony on the charge of divulging state secrets. Trepashkin’s attorneys ... >> full...
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Russia: Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Get Faulty Trial
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/13/2006 10:22 PM HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH Russia: Ex-Guantanamo Detainees Get Faulty Trial New Evidence of Unfair Procedure, Ill-Treatment (Moscow, September 3, 2006) – The Russian government’s prosecution of two former Guantanamo detainees for an explosion on a gas pipeline has been riddled with procedural irregularities and allegations of mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said today. According to a document obtained by Human Rights Watch, a criminal suspect now in police custody confessed in July 2005 to the same crime for which the two men were convicted on May 5, 2006. Earlier, in September 2005, a jury had unanimously acquitted the two former Guantلnamo detainees, Ravil Gumarov and Timur Ishmuratov, as well as a third defendant, Fanis Shaikhutdinov, of the January 2005 explosion on a gas pipeline in Tatarstan, a republic within Russia several hundred miles east of Moscow. But prosecutors subsequently got approval from the Russian Supreme Court to annul ... >> full...
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Russia: Clashes In Karelia Underscore Mounting Ethnic Tensions
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/6/2006 3:08 AM Monday, September 4, 2006 Russia: Clashes In Karelia Underscore Mounting Ethnic Tensions By Valentinas Mite Russia – Ethnic relations – A market stall being overturned after clashes between Chechens and local residents, Kondopoga, Karelia, 03Sep2006 A kiosk being overturned during the riots (TASS) PRAGUE, September 4, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Relative calm has settled over the industrial city of Kondopoga in Russia's northwestern Karelia Republic after clashes between Slavs and natives of the Caucasus on September 1-2 left two dead. Police detained some 100 participants in the violent riots that broke out in Kondopoga after the August 30 incident between a group of ethnic Russians and Chechens at a restaurant, Chaika, owned by a Chechen man. Brawl Sparks Riots The fight, which by all reports began as a drunken brawl, sparked angry riots after two of the Russians involved were killed. Angry mobs of Russian youths subsequently attacked businesses run by ... >> full...
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Chechen Refugee Brutally Beaten by Cops in Austrian Prison
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posted by zaina19 on as Human Rights
From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/6/2006 11:08 AM
Chechen Refugee Brutally Beaten by Cops in Austrian Prison
Publication time: Today at 15:38 Djokhar time
An unidentified 37-year-old Chechen refugee awaiting his deportation from Austria was brutally beaten by 3 to 4 policemen equipped with anti-riot shields and wearing helmets in a prison in the eastern Austrian town of Eisenstadt. The policemen dragged the Chechen out of his cell and started beating him after he asked for a doctor. The refugee suffers from a heart desease. The beating lasted for 10 minutes, his prison mates said.
Afterwards, the policemen transferred him to another prison. The incident happened 3 weeks ago but the Chechen was afraid to complaint fearing further police beatings. After his lawyer made a complaint, the police accused the Chechen of beating their cops and speeded up his deportatin procedure, a provincial service of the Austrian State TV and Radio Company reported.
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http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2006/09/06/5503.shtml
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