Russia 2006
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News on Russia in 2006
- DECEMBER 8, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIAN LAWMAKERS MOVE TO EXTEND MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY
Russia’s Parliament extended a 10-year moratorium on the death penalty to 2010, an extension of three years, by delaying the introduction of juries in court cases in the rebellious republic of Chechnya.
- NOVEMBER 30, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE URGES RUSSIA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
the Council of Europe will insist that Russia ratify Protocol No. 6 to the European Convention on Human Rights, so as to abolish the death penalty in the country.
- NOVEMBER 13, 2006IraqDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIAN MUSLIMS CONDEMN DEATH SENTENCE FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN
Russian Muslims joined ultranationalist lawmaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky in condemning the death sentence of former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, saying his execution could destabilize the Muslim world.
- OCTOBER 25, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. UZBEK DEPORTED DESPITE APPEALS
Russia has deported an Uzbek man to his Central Asian homeland, defying pressure from activists who said he could face execution at home, his supporters said.
- JULY 27, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. EUROPEAN COURT CONDEMNS RUSSIA IN CHECHEN CASE
in a landmark ruling, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia had violated the "right to life" of Khadzimurat Yandiyev, a young Chechen who disappeared after a Russian general ordered him shot.
- JUNE 28, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. MOST RUSSIANS AGAINST ABOLISHMENT OF DEATH PENALTY, SPEAKER
Russia has not formally abolished the death penalty because such a move would not get the support of the majority of the population, the speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament said.
- JUNE 5, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. COUNCIL OF EUROPE WAITING FOR MOSCOW TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
the Council of Europe is still waiting for Russia to abolish the death penalty, the Council's Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg said.
- MAY 29, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. LAVROV DENIES BACKTRACKING ON PLEDGE TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied that Russia is backtracking on its commitment to the Council of Europe to abolish capital punishment.
- MAY 29, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIA DETERMINED TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY - GRYZLOV
Duma speaker Boris Gryzlov said Russia will abolish the death penalty sooner or later.
- MAY 26, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. BESLAN ATTACKER JAILED FOR LIFE
the sole surviving suspect from the Beslan school siege has been found guilty of murder and terrorism at a court in southern Russia.
- MAY 26, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. CE MEMBERSHIP AT RISK UNLESS DEATH PENALTY ABOLISHED IN 2006
Russia may be stripped of its membership in the Council of Europe if it fails to ratify the sixth protocol on the abolition of the death penalty this year, State Duma International Affairs Committee Chairman Konstantin Kosachyov told a news conference.
- MAY 19, 2006ChinaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. MOSCOW TO SEEK RETURN OF DRUG DEALERS FACING EXECUTION IN CHINA
Russian parliamentarians will make every effort to achieve the return of two Russians arrested for drug dealing in China so they avoid the death penalty, said Konstantin Kosachev, chairman of the State Duma's international affairs committee.
- MAY 18, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. VICTIMS DEMAND HARSH SENTENCE AGAINST BESLAN HOSTAGE-TAKER
relatives of those killed in the Beslan school massacre called for a harsh sentence -- even death -- as the reading out of a guilty verdict against the sole-surviving hostage-taker entered its third day.
- MAY 16, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. BESLAN REBEL COMMITTED TERRORISM, JUDGE
a Russian judge said the only surviving member of the group that seized a school and 1,300 hostages in the town of Beslan in 2004 had committed an act of terrorism, as he began reading his verdict in the trial.
- MAY 4, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. CONSTITUTIONAL BAN ON CAPITAL PUNISHMENT TO EXPIRE IN 2007
Russia’s Human rights commissioner Vladimir Lukin said life imprisonment should become the maximum punishment in Russia. "Life imprisonment is worse than capital punishment everywhere in the world, and especially in Russian conditions," he said.
- APRIL 29, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. MP HOPES RUSSIA WILL ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY IN 2006
Pavel Krasheninnikov, chairman of the Russian State Duma's Legislation Committee...
- APRIL 28, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. FEDERATION COUNCIL MEMBER SUPPORTS DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION
the abolition of death penalty in Russia will help the extradition of criminals and terrorists, who are hiding abroad, Chairman of the Federation Council International Affairs Committee Mikhail Margelov said, referring to prospects for Russia’s ratificati
- APRIL 5, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. COUNCIL OF EUROPE URGES RUSSIA TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
the Council of Europe's envoys urged Russia to fulfill its pledge to abolish the death penalty as it prepared to take over the rotating presidency in the continent's top human rights body.
- MARCH 22, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. OFFICIAL AGAINST EXECUTIONS
Chairman of the Russian Federation Council, Sergei Mironov, uttered his support to the banning of executions in Russia.
- MARCH 10, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIAN COURTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO PASS DEATH SENTENCES, SUPREME COURT CHAIRMAN
Russian courts have no right to pass death sentences, Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev said. “My attitude to the death penalty has been well known since 1998, when we signed European conventions. We have no right to sentence convicts to death,
- MARCH 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. ‘VOICE OF BESLAN’ AGAINST BRINGING BACK DEATH PENALTY
the public organization ‘The Voice of Beslan’ objected to the idea of suspending the death penalty moratorium currently in force in Russia.
- MARCH 4, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
COUNCIL OF EUROPE. COE HEAD URGES RUSSIA TO ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY
the secretary-general of the Council of Europe Terry Davis urged Russia to abolish death penalty.
- FEBRUARY 28, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY SHOULD BE LIFTED, COMMUNIST PARTY LEADER
Russian Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov assessed Russia's membership of the Council of Europe as positive, but suggested that Russia should lift its moratorium on the death penalty in the near future.
- FEBRUARY 24, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIANS IN FAVOUR OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT, POLL
seventy-four percent of Russian citizens interviewed in a survey said they considered death sentences acceptable, 15% took the opposite view, and ten per cent were undecided.
- FEBRUARY 17, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. BESLAN ATTACKER SHOULD BE SENTENCED TO DEATH - NORTH OSSETIAN LEADER
Nurpashi Kulayev, the sole surviving member of the group that seized Beslan school No. 1 in September 2004, deserves the death penalty, North Ossetian leader Taimuraz Mamsurov said.
- FEBRUARY 16, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. BESLAN SUSPECT'S LAWYER APPEALS FOR 'FAIR' SENTENCE AMID CALLS FOR EXECUTION
the lawyer for the only surviving alleged member of the Chechen commando unit responsible for the 2004 Beslan school massacre appealed for a "fair" verdict for his client.
- FEBRUARY 14, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. BESLAN MOTHERS CALL FOR RESTORING DEATH PENALTY IN RUSSIA
the Beslan Mothers, a group of women who lost their children in the deadly school siege of 2004 in Russia’s southern province near Chechnya, called for restoration of death penalty.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. PUTIN'S HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISOR URGES DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION
Russia should abolish the death penalty in the near future, presidential council for civil society and human rights development Chairman Ella Pamfilova said.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. RUSSIA ASKS DEATH PENALTY FOR BESLAN HOSTAGE-TAKER
Deputy Prosecutor-General Nikolai Shepel asked judges to pass the death penalty on the sole surviving hostage-taker from the 2004 Beslan school massacre that killed more than 300 people, half of them children.
- FEBRUARY 9, 2006RussiaDEATH PENALTY
RUSSIA. DECISION TO SENTENCE BESLAN TERRORIST TO DEATH SLAMMED
Russian human rights organizations slammed the decision to sentence Nurpashi Kulayev to death.