UN human rights report slams Moscow

UN human rights report slams Moscow
Saturday 08 November 2003

Russia has been sharply criticised by a UN panel for human rights violations, highlighting the situation in Chechnya and the Kremlin’s crackdown on Russian media.

On Friday the UN Human Rights Committee said it was disturbed about reports of ill-treatment of prisoners under interrogation, executions and torture in Chechnya as well as the closure of independent television and newspapers.

"We were certainly concerned about a substantial number of things and it's quite a long list," said Sir Nigel Rodley, one of the members of the 18-strong panel of legal experts.

The Committee said in its concluding report that it was "deeply concerned about continuing substantiated reports of human rights violations in the Chechen Republic, including extrajudicial killings, disappearances and torture including rape".

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/4029A518-15E0-4D8E-BE6D-5543DCD14D88.htm

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