Groups call for Russia to act over Politkovskaya

[struggle4progress]

Source: Reuters

Sat Oct 6, 2007 4:20pm BST

MOSCOW/LONDON - Russian police briefly detained five foreign citizens who had planned to attend a human rights forum on Saturday to commemorate the first anniversary of the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

Organisers of the forum in Nizhny Novgorod, a city 400 km (250 miles) east of Moscow, said they were forced to cancel a series of meetings after police seized computers from their office and authorities blocked access to their bank account.

Neil Hicks, a British director of New York-based Human Rights First, told Reuters he was detained for four hours along with a German and three Spaniards and fined 3,000 roubles (59 pounds) for a violation of his visa status, a charge he denies ...

Another of the detained represented Amnesty International, an event organiser said ...

Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL0642097420071006

[eagler]

1. Are we becoming like them or are they becoming like us?

[DeepModem Mom]

2. K&R

[knitter4democracy]

3. I was there in '95. Usually more liberal than that.

What an odd happening. I wonder what's really going on.