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UCSJ Statement on the Bogus Prosecution of the Committee for Human Rights
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Ukrainian Lawmaker Demonizes Jews, Threatens Pogroms
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UCSJ Statement on Trial of Yuri Samodurov and Andrey Erofeev
UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, a
Washington-based human rights NGO founded in 1970, condemns the prosecution
of human rights activist Yuri Samodurov and art critic Andrey Erofeev in
Moscow. The latest hearing of their case began on May 29 before the
Tagansky district court. "We urge the court to exonerate the defendants,
whose trial is all too reminiscent of Soviet era intimidation of dissident
thought," declared today Micah H.
Naftalin, UCSJ's national director.
The Samodurov/Erofeev trial stems from a 2007 art exhibition they organized
entitled "Forbidden Art - 2006" at the Sakharov Center in Moscow. Under
pressure from some Russian Orthodox Church circles, they were accused by
prosecutors of inciting religious hatred (part 2 of the Article 282 of the
Russian Criminal Code), which carries a possible prison sentence.
UCSJ Reaction to Attack on Lev Pononmaryov
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Leonid Stonov, UCSJ's director of interntional programs and coordinator of its human rights bureaus in the FSU, decried the beating. Speaking from Moscow today, he declared: "This obscene attack on our friend Lev Ponomaryov is clearly another in a long and egregious sequence of attacks and murders of human rights leaders and their truth-telling supporters in the media. UCSJ calls on the Russian gvernment to greatly step up its eforts to combat hate crimes and the intimidation of human rights leaders and their NGOs."
UCSJ Statement on the Murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova
UCSJ: Union of Councils for Jews in the Former Soviet Union, an NGO
that has worked in the former Soviet Union since 1970, condemned today
the brazen murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, who
were gunned down in broad daylight in downtown Moscow on Monday.
Police are still looking for the masked gunman, who shot his victims
in front of numerous witnesses.
Mr. Markelov, a prominent lawyer who worked on behalf of several
journalists and others who fell victim to violence in Chechnya and
elsewhere, had just given a press conference during which he condemned
the early release of former Russian army Colonel Yuri Budanov, granted
earlier this month by a Russian court. Budanov is one of a small number of Russian
military personnel who actually served prison time for committing
atrocities against civilians in Chechnya. He was found guilty of
UCSJ Expresses Solidarity With Moscow Helsinki Group
UCSJ put out a statement supporting the Moscow Helsinki Group's decision to not participate in the EU's December 5-7 NGO conference in Penza. The conference was dominated by GONGOs and its procedures were changed at the insistence of the Russian government.
Lithuanian Holocaust Site Vandalized
Three memorial stones at a Holocaust site in Lithuania were painted
with antisemitic graffiti, according to UCSJ's Baltic Bureau. On
October 16, a forest ranger noticed the vandalism near the village of
Pluskiai in the Kelme region. The vandals also broke off pieces of
the memorial stones.
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