Report: Russian protest right violated
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Russian authorities often violate citizens' right to hold public protests, the country's human rights ombudsman said in a report published Thursday.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent, Russian media reported.
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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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Amnesty International on Wednesday accused Russian police of beating and torturing suspects and criticized authorities for what it said were insufficient investigations into such allegations.
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Hundreds of protesters demanding that a local leader step down clashed with riot police Wednesday in an impoverished region of southern Russia, authorities said.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Ukraine's Constitutional Court ruled Saturday that parts of recent legislation restricting the voting rights of homebound people violate the country's constitution, clouding the presidential rerun vote one day before ballots were to be cast.
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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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The United States is violating  international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror  incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch  said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end  to such practices.
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Hundreds of protesters ransacked and occupied the regional administration building in a southern Russian province Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the
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: The Bush administration today protested Russiaâs auction of Yukosâ main oil production unit and warned it could have a âchilling effectâ on foreign investment in Russia.
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A federal jury found the city of Seattle guilty on Tuesday for violating the constitutional rights of about 170 demonstrators protesting globalization during the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings.
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MOSCOW, Sept. 10 -- Russian authorities have refused to renew the visa of an American labor activist working with a dockworkers union in Kaliningrad, the latest in a series of visa denials targeting Western trade unionists, business people, journalists and lawyers whose activities attracted the...
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Chechnya's Kremlin-backed government on Thursday dismissed as a bluff a report on a Web site linked to separatist rebels that top leaders of the insurgency have called for a unilateral cease-fire in February.
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Russian police detained gay protesters  calling for the right to hold a Gay Pride parade in central  Moscow on Sunday while nationalists shouting &quot;death to  homosexuals&quot; punched and kicked the demonstrators.
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Right-wing nationalists and residents in a northern Russian town clashed with riot police and destroyed a restaurant, activists and witnesses said Saturday.
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Dozens of leftist activists were  arrested near Moscow's Kremlin on Monday after they forced  their way into the finance ministry to protest against  government policies, witnesses said.
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The United States is violating international law by holding prisoners in its war on terror incommunicado and in secret hiding places, Human Rights Watch said in a report to be published on Tuesday calling for an end to such practices.