On Wednesday April, 13 2011 at 11.00am Memorial Human Rights Center will present a new report the Independent Press Center entitled: “Magomedov's new policy? The situation of Human Rights and attempts to consolidate the society in the Republic of Dagestan. February 2010- March 2011”.

 

Speakers at the press conference:

Oleg Petrovich Orlov, Chairman of the Board of HRC “Memorial” and co-author of the report;
Ekaterina Leonidovna Sokiryanskaya, employee of HRC “Memorial”, supervisor of the work of “Memorial” in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria and co-author of the report;
Svetlana Alekseevna Gannushkina, member of the Board of the HRC “Memorial”, Head of the "Civic Assistance" Committee, member of the Council for the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights under the President of Russia.

The Human Rights Center “Memorial” has already worked for a few years in the Republic of Dagestan. The report “Magomedov's new policy? The situation of Human Rights and attempts to consolidate the society in the Republic of Dagestan. February 2010 - March 2011” was written following that work.

Last week “Memorial” collaborators Orleg Orlov, Svetlana Gannushkina and Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya went to Dagestan, where they met the President of the Republic, the Minister of internal affairs, the public prosecutor, head of the investigative department of the Investigative committee of the RF for Dagestan, community representatives, lawyers, victims of human rights violations committed by law enforcement officials. Among other things, the present report was discussed at each meeting. On April, 13 Orlov, Gannushkina and Sokiryanskaya will present it in Moscow.

 

Address of the Independent Press Center: metro station Kropotkinskaya, Prechistenka str, bld. 17/9, office 44, entrance from Barikovski pereulok.
Tel.:(495)2322891
http://www.infolegal.ru/

 

11 April, 2011