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Amnesty International Addresses Medvedev
Amnesty International will promulgate today its public address to Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev, prompting him to confirm adherence to the human right observance. The right defenders urge Medvedev to be more tolerant towards the opposition, contain nationalism growth, pay attention to numerous human right breaches in North Caucasus and remedy other violations committed under Vladimir Putin.
In its today’s address to the president, Amnesty International will call on Medvedev to express adherence to human rights (the president pledged to observe human rights and freedoms of the Russians in one of his first public speeches).
According to Nicola Duckworth, who is in charge of Amnesty International program for Europe and Central Asia, Russia’s authorities have been even less tolerant to dissidence and criticism concerning them in the recent year. They failed to affront racist and xenophobia views. No positive changes in the human right observance in North Caucasus have happened either.
The address is timed to the annual report of Amnesty International, which worldwide presentation is slated for today and which text is top secret. But judging by Russia’s section of the report that Kommersant has eventually obtained Medvedev will be held accountable for lots of violations first voiced by the right defenders in time of ex-president Vladimir Putin.
The report emphasizes strict control of the government over the better part of Russia’s media, the continuous abductions and tortures in Chechnya and the surge in such crimes in Ingushetia. Since the release of the previous report, the European Court for Human Rights has delivered 15 verdicts against Russia for abductions, tortures and off-court executions during the second Chechen war that started in 1999.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of May 28, 2008
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