Human Rights Watch urges Russian authorities to combat vicious hazing in army
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MOSCOW  - Human Rights Watch urged Russian authorities on Wednesday to take action against the vicious hazing that plagues the country's military, saying the abuse that kills dozens of conscripts every year and traumatizes thousands more can be prevented.
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Onerous regulations and excessive bureaucracy are crippling independent activist groups in Russia, a leading U.S. rights group said in a report released Wednesday.
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Hundreds of thousands of conscripts in the Russian armed services are abused each year under a cruel system of hazing that military leaders have been unwilling to stop, a rights
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A State Department report that said Russia's human rights record has deteriorated in the past year was criticized by the government as aimed at furthering American political interests
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A human rights group said it had evidence of two previously unreported deaths of Afghan prisoners in US custody in Afghanistan and accused Washington of covering up abuse of detainees.
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Human rights organisations have called for an end to media intimidation in Ukraine after a prominent opposition journalist was allegedly beaten by thugs and told to write articles in favour of the prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich.
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Russian military prosecutors pledged Monday to investigate allegations that young conscripts were forced into prostitution by fellow soldiers &#151; the latest claim of rampant abuse in the nation's armed forces.
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Russian sailors who barricaded themselves in their cabins in a row over wages are seeking to have the ship arrested.
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Russian police on Sunday broke up a  human rights campaigners' rally calling on President Vladimir  Putin to tell the whole truth about the deaths of more than 300  hostages in the Beslan school siege two years ago.
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A respected Russian human rights group says 38 people have been killed in racist violence this year.
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Kremlin accused of invoking threat of forced military service to intimidate anti-Putin activists.
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Human rights groups fear the generals may be using police reform as a cover for consolidating power under the military.
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Rights group Amnesty International on  Friday urged Russia to provide proper treatment for a jailed  oil executive who has AIDS and says he could die if he is not  moved to a specialized hospital.
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The group "Human Rights Watch" has issued a detailed report outlining allegations of torture, abuse and violence against prisoners. Prisoners who have been made to "vanish" by unaccountable agencies.
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Russia on Thursday proposed a U.N. crackdown on the abuse of political asylum for terrorist purposes, raising pressure on Western states to hand over wanted Chechen activists.
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The abuse of conscripts in the Russian military -- known as hazing or &quot;rule of the grandfathers&quot; (&quot;dedovshchina&quot;) in Russian -- is a widespread problem that independent monitors say claims several thousand lives each year.
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An American civil rights group filed a criminal complaint in Germany on Tuesday alleging Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other U.S. officials condoned torture and human rights violations at Abu Ghraib ...