Russia police 'regularly torture'
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Russian officials frequently beat, rape and torture detainees, a report by Amnesty International says.
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NAZRAN, Russia  - Russian riot police fired warning shots into the air and beat demonstrators who tried to rally on Saturday against alleged vote-rigging in the Muslim region of Ingushetia, a witness said.
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia  - Police in the Russian  region traumatized by the Beslan school siege played down  reprisal fears as mourning drew to a close, while locals  thought the shattered community was too exhausted for revenge.
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A Russian man detained for driving a car packed with explosives was beaten to death during a police interrogation, local media quoted officials as saying on Sunday.
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The Russian authorities come under a torrent of press criticism for their alleged incompetence in the Beslan siege.
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Kremlin accused of invoking threat of forced military service to intimidate anti-Putin activists.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday accused neighboring Georgia of behaving like Stalin's secret police, stoking a row over Georgia's arrest of four Russian officers last week for spying.
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MOSCOW: On the day British police investigating the poisoning of a former Russian spy began forensic work in Moscow, Russia's prosecutor general laid down strict ground rules and said no Russians could be ...Comment
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Nigerian police routinely torture  suspects, shooting them in the legs, beating them and hanging  them from the ceiling for long periods, the U.N. Special  Rapporteur on Torture said on Friday.
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Those arrested included a Chechen crime boss and career officers from Russiaâs police and intelligence services.
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The government on Wednesday condemned as "completely unacceptable" the questioning and detention by the Russian authorities of a number of employees of the British Council cultural organisation.
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The investigation into the death of a Russian dissident in London heats up and sheds an ugly light on Vladimir Putin's rule
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Human rights violations in the Russian  region of Ingushetia have soared and a repeat of the systematic  abuses in neighboring Chechnya is unacceptable, Amnesty  International said on Thursday.
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President Vladimir Putin accused Georgia on Sunday of "state terrorism with hostage-taking" in unusually harsh language suggesting a tough Russian response to Georgia's arrest of four Russian officers last week for spying.
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The terrorists who took hostages at a Beslan secondary school on September 1, were addicted to narcotics, according to a statement by Russia&#39;s Deputy Prosecutor General, Nikolay Shepel.
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Russian police claimed yesterday that one of the country&#39;s most brutal and enigmatic contract killings - the drive-by shooting of the American journalist Paul Klebnikov in July - had
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Russian prosecutors said on Monday they had detained 10 suspects in the murder of reporter Anna Politkovskaya, but that the killing was masterminded from abroad by anti-Kremlin forces trying to discredit Russia.