August 16, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: One Comment
Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov were abducted from the headquarters of the children’s charity Save the Generation on Monday, 10 August, and found dead the following day, their bodies riddled with bullets and stuffed in the trunk of their car. The gruesome murder is the latest in a long string of killings of rights workers and activists investigating or with access to evidence about atrocities and human rights abuses in Chechnya.
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July 24, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: 2 Comments
Natalya Estemirova was a seasoned journalist and well-known human rights activist and researcher. She was one of the leading sources of information about human rights abuses and major atrocities committed in Chechnya, and was considered a leading voice against authoritarian leader Ramzan Kadyrov.
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July 17, 2009 :: staff :: Comments Off
Dear President Obama, As you are about to visit Russia at President Dmitri Medvedev’s invitation, the international press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders would like to draw your attention to the frequency of crimes of violence against journalists in Russia and the prevailing impunity for those responsible.
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July 15, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: 4 Comments
Natalya Estemirova, from the Russian human rights organization, the Memorial Human Rights Center, was kidnapped today while leaving her home in Grozny, the Chechen capital, and later found dead. She reportedly shouted to bystanders “This is a kidnapping!” No one was able to intervene, as four armed men grabbed her and put her into a white automobile.
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May 2, 2009 :: Riga Listin :: 5 Comments
UNESCO Committee on Communication and Information representative presents award for research into press freedom. Debate discusses anti-press actions that have impeded the free flow of information about civilian suffering in war-zones ranging from Gaza to Sri Lanka to Iraq. The debate is hosted and moderated by William Horsley, of the Association of European Journalists.
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January 22, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: 3 Comments
A top human rights activist in Russia has been murdered in cold blood, in broad daylight, just one week after the man most negatively impacted by his campaigning, Col. Yuri Budanov, was freed from prison, where he was sent for war crimes in Chechnya. Budanov was convicted of the kidnap, rape, and murder, of Elza Kungaeva, a Chechen woman who was brutally raped, beaten and sodomized, found dead 2 hours after Budanov ordered her abduction.
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September 20, 2007 :: J.E. Robertson :: Comments Off
In late August, prosecutors announced the arrest of 10 individuals in connection with an alleged conspiracy to murder investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was gunned down in her apartment-building’s lobby last year. A judge in Russia has ruled against the detention of an FSB agent, who was released, then re-arrested on unrelated charges of abduction, murder and abuse of power. Now the Russian government has replaced the lead investigator, provoking “disappointment and bewilderment” at Novaya Gazeta, where Politkovskaya worked.
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