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AI Urgent Action: Life of Human Rights Defender at risk
24.06.2010
Human rights defender and ethnic Uzbek, Azimzhan Askarov, was detained on 15 June in southern Kyrgyzstan. It has been reported that he is being tortured, denied medical care and his life is in danger. He is a prisoner of conscience and must be released immediately
Strasbourg finds Russia guilty of denying the right of petition to the Court
04.06.2010
The case concerned Abdugani Kamaliyev’s deportation to Uzbekistan in December 2007 despite the European Court of Human Rights having applied Rule 39 (interim measures) halting any removal pending its decision.
Moscow Police violently disperse peaceful protest
01.06.2010
The venue and date are known – in Russia rallies are held on the 31st of each month to defend Article 31 of the Constitution which guarantees the right to peaceful protest. The authorities regularly think up events to clash with this entirely foreseeable attempt by citizens to exercise their right to peaceful protest
Kuzbass: To feel like people who have found the courage to speak out
24.05.2010
The authorities prevented most of the planned protests in the Kuzbass region, with huge numbers of armed riot police, etc, intimidating miners who in any case depend on the mines to support their families. Some refused to be intimidated
Urgent Action: Demand a fair appeal for Aleksei Sokolov
19.05.2010
As reported, Russian human rights activist and defender of prisoners’ rights, Aleksei Sokolov has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in a case which arouses serious doubts regarding motives and procedure. Please add your voice in his defence
Kuzbass Miners defend their Right to Life
16.05.2010
These are people forced to risk – and often lose – their lives, as in the disaster at Raspadskaya Mine in Mezhdurechinsk (West Siberia) on 9 May. Brutally dispersing protest and lying about their demands is no way to resolve an urgent problem. Please help to break the Russian FSB information blockade
Russian Human Rights Activist Alexei Sokolov gets 5 years
14.05.2010
The Head of “Pravovaya osnova” [“Legal Basis”], Alexei Sokolov has been sentenced to 5 years imprisonment on flagrantly absurd charges. Sokolov has been declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. An appeal will doubtless soon be appearing at : http://www.amnesty.org/en/ai Please respond and also pass this information on to others
PACE suspends high-level contacts with Belarusian Government and Parliament
29.04.2010
The Parliamentary Assembly notes a “lack of progress” towards Council of Europe standards and a “lack of political will” on the part of the authorities to adhere to the Organisation’s values
Moscow: Stalin’s portrait only inside?
29.04.2010
The First Deputy to the Mayor of Moscow has told the newspaper Kommersant that portraits of Joseph Stalin will not appear on the streets of the capital for Victory Day. Supposedly at the request of veterans, fearing acts of vandalism, the portraits will be presented in closed premises
Russia: Victory Day must not divide us
20.04.2010
The posting of Stalin’s portraits is incompatible with respect for the People-Victor. It is precisely Stalin who bears responsibility for crimes against his own people and for the terrible price of Victory.
Moscow authorities insist on pictures of Stalin for Victory Day
10.04.2010
Dozens of posters depicting Stalin will be hung around Moscow despite protests. Memorial is planning to place alternative banners telling people about Stalin’s crimes during the War
Strasbourg finds Russia responsible for 10 Chechen and Dagestani disappearances and the killing of a 7 year-old girl
10.04.2010
The victims were civilians detained or killed by Russian forces in Chechnya and Dagestan between 2000-2005
Belarus: Back to old methods for fighting dissident voices
02.04.2010
The prominent opposition journalist and founder of the opposition publication Belarusian Partisan Pavel Sheremet has received official notification from the Belarusian Embassy that his citizenship has been annulled
Veteran Russian Rights Activist Believes She Was Targeted For Attack
01.04.2010
Veteran Russian rights activist Lyudmila Alekseyeva says she was probably the target of a pre-planned attack at a memorial to commemorate victims of the Moscow bombings that killed 39 people
“United Russia”: five years for “falsifying history”
01.04.2010
The “United Russia” party has drawn up a new version of the draft law on criminal liability for “rehabilitation of Nazism” and reviewing the results of the Second World War
Russian reality: Police officer who criticized his bosses for corruption convicted of libel
24.03.2010
A Russian court has found former police officer Alexei Dymovsky guilty of defamation and ordered him to pay compensation to two heads of the Novorossiysk Police and publicly refute his accusations
Russian Justice as an instrument of political repression
23.03.2010
Political repression continues unabated in the Russian Federation; with the number of political prisoners or people whose persecution is linked with a wish by the state authorities and officials to strengthen their positions and control over different spheres of life, according to various estimates, standing at about 200
Memorial appeals to President Medvedev to end lies and secrecy over Katyń
06.03.2010
We believe that clear and unequivocal condemnation of the crime committed by Soviet State bodies following the decision of the leadership, a statement of steps planned to bring the Katyń case out of a dead end could be a turning point in the relations between Russia and Poland
Memorial: On Portraits of Stalin for the anniversary of Victory Day
04.03.2010
The fortitude, courage and valiant deeds of people defending their country in the years of War have been and remain a spiritual legacy for the entire nation, and nobody has the right to make use of this legacy at their will. Any attempt to rewrite this legacy in Stalin’s name is nothing more than pillage and blasphemy
CPJ outraged by ruling freeing Yevloyev’s killer in Russia
04.03.2010
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns today’s court decision to release Ibragim Yevloyev, the high-ranking security officer who shot and killed independent Ingush publisher Magomed Yevloyev (no relation to the killer) in police custody in August 2008.
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