"memorial": European Court's decisions animate investigation into crimes committed in Chechnya
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posted by zaina19 on September, 2007 as Human Rights
rom: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2007 1:31 AM CAUCASIAN KNOT / NEWS 27/7/2007 HRC "Memorial": European Court's decisions animate investigation into crimes committed in Chechnya Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that on July 26 in the capital of Chechnya the HRC "Memorial" held a press conference dedicated to decisions of the European Court on complaints of Chechnya's residents. The press conference was attended by representatives of the press service of the President and Government of Chechnya, Public Chamber of the Republic, Deputy Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, journalists of local editions, agencies Reuter, ITAR-TASS, France Press, Associated Press, and residents of Novye Aldy village. Tatiana Kasatkina, Executive Director of the HRC "Memorial," has noted that both for human rights activists and for the applicants, compensations for moral and material damage paid out to the victims of state violence are far from being the ... >> full...
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Lengthy court procedures, enforcement plague Russia's justice system - Strasbourg court
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2007 1:42 AM Aug 3 2007 12:40PM Lengthy court procedures, enforcement plague Russia's justice system - Strasbourg court MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - President of the European Court for Human Rights (ECHR) Jean-Paul Costa has called on Russia to reduce the time defendants are held in custody. The main problems that the Strasbourg Court sees in Russia is "failure to enforce court rulings," and "the long time a case takes in the courts," Costa said. "But again, this is not only Russia's 'disease', but also that of Eastern European countries, and Italy (a champion, a case can take up to 20 years there) and France. Another example is the situation in Russian prisons. A similar problem also exists in Ukraine. And finally, too lengthy pre-trial detentions," Costa said in an interview with the Moskovskiye Novosti newspaper published on Friday. The Russian correctional system is in poor condition, and it can ... >> full...
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Politkovskaya Nominated For Top EU Human Rights Prize
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/10/2007 8:18 AM Monday, September 10, 2007 Politkovskaya Nominated For Top EU Human Rights Prize Russia -- Meeting of memory of Anna Politkovskaya, Moscow - 30aug2007 A rally in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Moscow on August 30 (RFE/RL) September 10, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Slain Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has been nominated for the European Union's top human rights award. The EU's Human Rights Unit told RFE/RL that Politkovskaya is among the candidates for the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought. Politkovskaya, who wrote frequently about rights abuses in the restive Russian republic of Chechnya, was gunned down in the stairwell of her Moscow apartment in October 2006. Other candidates for the prize include an Afghan women's rights defender and lawmaker, Joya Malalai; Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew; two Chinese rights defenders; and a Sudanese human rights attorney. A short-list of three will be announced on September 24, with the winner chosen in October. The Sakharov ... >> full...
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Greenpeace supporters protest in Sydney
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/9/2007 7:20 AM
Greenpeace supporters protest in Sydney
07 Sep 2007
Source: Reuters
Greenpeace supporters wearing masks of Russia's President Vladimir
Putin (L) and Australia's Prime Minister John Howard (2nd L) protest
in Sydney September 7, 2007, against the announcement that Australia
will sell uranium to Russia, ahead of the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) forum leaders' summit at the weekend.
REUTERS/WILL BURGESS
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/SYD33.htm
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Book Says Yeltsin Blocked Serb's Arrest
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From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 9/9/2007 3:54 PM
Monday, September 10, 2007
Book Says Yeltsin Blocked Serb's Arrest
Reuters
BELGRADE -- President Boris Yeltsin blocked the arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic in 1997, and U.S. President Bill Clinton persuaded France's Jacques Chirac not to insist on it, a new book says.
Florence Hartmann, former spokeswoman at the Hague tribunal for Yugoslavia, recounts in in "Peace and Punishment" how Clinton persuaded Chirac not to push the issue.
Hartmann says they met at the Elysee Palace in Paris in May 1997, 17 months after the peace accords that ended the 1992-95 Bosnia war. Chirac, fuming over the capture of two French pilots by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995, wanted to expunge the affront. "Clinton stressed that the operation could not be undertaken without informing the Russians. Chirac was opposed," she writes. But Clinton insisted, and Chirac finally gave in. Karadzic remains at large.
http://www.moscowtimes.ru/stories/2007/09/10/015.html
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