Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
URL: http://app.bronto.com/public/?q=ulink&fn=Link&ssid=500&id=7drrmh6zfobsick2hcuwu3cjsv1ao&id2=25ksikbj1swglt8zc0gnzttyp369v . Source: PACE. This report cites a number of specific cases of human rights abuses throughout the region. It also examines what it calls the "wave of killings of human rights defenders," including the case of Natalya Estemirova, the Memorial human...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
[JURIST] A lawyer for the man accused of the double murder of human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova said Friday that his client has confessed to the crime. Nikita Tikhonov and female companion Yevgenia Khasis were arrested Thursday and brought before the Basmanny District Court. In an interview on the radio program Echo Moskvy, Tikhonov's lawyer, Yevgeny Skripelev,...
Netizen News Brief (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
. The internet, Russia's last source of information free of state control is now under threat. Seizing control of internet freedom could be the next step in the re-imposition of totalitarianism in Russia. Over the past decade, while proud KGB spy Vladimir Putin has held power, there have been two alarming trends. First, the Russian government has taken control of all the traditional mass media organs....
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
[JURIST] Russia must undertake extensive legal reforms in order to protect human rights, according to a report issued Friday by the UN Human Rights Committee. The committee found that Russia is failing to protect important human rights in a number of areas. The report emphasized the problems the country is having guaranteeing its citizens rights such as fair trials and freedoms of speech and of the...
Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009 : Russia has seen an alarming rise in the murders of journalists and activists speaking out about government abuses in the embattled North Caucasus region. We speak to Elena Milashina, a Russian investigative journalist who has just won the 2009 Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism from Human Rights Watch. She was friends with both the activist and journalist...
Free Media Online Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
(Moscow) - Russian authorities should immediately drop criminal libel charges against Oleg Orlov, the prominent activist who heads Memorial Human Rights Center, Human Rights Watch said today. The charges stem from Orlov's statement that Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of Chechnya, was responsible for the murder of Natalia Estemirova, Memorial's leading researcher in Chechnya. read more
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
[JURIST] A lawyer for Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov said Tuesday that a criminal libel suit has been filed against the leader of human rights group Memorial, according to media reports. Oleg Orlov, who accused Kadyrov of responsibility for the July death of Memorial journalist Natalia Estemirova, could face a maximum sentence of three years in prison. Orlov already lost a civil suit filed by Kadyrov,...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Maksharip Aushev becomes latest campaigner to die in North Caucasus region following killing of Natalya Estemirova A prominent opposition activist in the southern province of Ingushetia was shot and killed todayby unidentified gunmen in at least the third such killing in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region in just over three months. Maksharip Aushev died when several assailants sprayed his vehicle...
Human Rights Watch (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
PEN American Center, Human Rights Watch, the Committee to Protect Journalists, CUNY's School of Journalism, and WITNESS present: Bearing Witness in Chechnya: The Legacy of Natalia Estemirova Featuring read more
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Russia rights group wins EU prize from BBC News | Europe | World Edition Russian rights group Memorial wins the European Parliament’s annual Sakharov Prize in memory of activist Natalya Estemirova. A Euronews roundup: Parliament’s group leaders agree on Sakharov prize winner for 2009 from ALDE News The leaders of Parliament’s political groups today reached consensus on the 2009 winner...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Russian rights group Memorial wins the European Parliament's annual Sakharov Prize in memory of activist Natalya Estemirova.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
Today marks the third anniversary of the murder of the Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya ( Getting away with murder , 16 September). Yesterday the human rights organisation Reach All Women in War presented the annual Anna Politkovskaya Award, set up to recognise women defending human rights in zones of war and conflict, to the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality in Iran....
Wellbeing Newsline: Europe (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Call ‘to try war crimes and crimes against humanity’ Edited by Andy Porter: The deterioration of the human rights situation in Russia, especially the northern Caucasus, was the focus of a public hearing last week which involved Members of the European Parliament [MEPs] and Russian activists. One issue discussed was how best to strike a balance between dialogue and pressure in relations...
English Pen (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
7 October 2009 marks the third anniversary of the killing of Anna Politkovskaya. Since then, more journalists have been killed, including Anna's friend and colleague, the courageous Natalia Estemirova , murdered in August this year. Politkovskaya's lawyer, Stanislav Markelov was shot dead on a Moscow street on 19 January....
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
President Ramzan A. Kadyrov is suing human rights activist, Oleg P. Orlov, for suggesting that he was complicit in the murder of Natalya Estemirova.
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