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Strasbourg Permits the So Called Uzbeks from Ivanovo to Emigrate to the Third Countries |
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Saturday, 26 April 2008
The European Court for Human Rights the so called Uzbeks from Ivanovo appealed to ruled that their claims were justified and that Russia should permit them to emigrate to the third countries rather than extradite them to Uzbekistan.
The matter concerns 13 people currently in the Russian town of Ivanovo, one of them a citizen of Kyrgyzstan and the rest citizens of Uzbekistan. All thirteen were arrested in June 2005 when the Uzbek authorities accused them of involvement in the events in Andijan the previous month. Uzbek law enforcement agencies requested their extradition from Russia as activists of outlawed Islamic organizations.
The Uzbeks from Ivanovo spent between June 2005 and March 2007 in the Ivanovo detention cell. They were released on March 5 but ordered to remain within reach. Their lawyers fear that the people may be picked up and extradited to Uzbekistan any moment. Yelena Ryabinina of the Civil Assistance Committee claims that the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has already decided to extradite the people to Uzbekistan. Denied political asylum by the Russian authorities, the Uzbeks from Ivanovo appealed to the UN that recognized them as political refugees. The decision of the Prosecutor General's Office to extradite them was never annulled by the Russian Supreme Court, however, and the people in question cannot emigrate into West Europe prepared to offer them shelter.
The Russian human rights community maintains in the meantime that the procedure of extradition was suspended only when the European Court for Human Rights intervened on the hapless Uzbeks' behalf. When it did, the Russian Supreme tabled the matter pending the decision from Strasbourg.
Strasbourg decided, but the Uzbeks from Ivanovo are not safe even so. "Russia went against Strasbourg's decisions on two occasions already in 2006 and 2007," Ryabinina said. "I'm not going to venture guesses at this point but I sincerely hope that the matter will be settled in the Uzbeks' favor. As far as Strasbourg is concerned, Russia did break provisions of the European Convention in this particular matter."
25.04.2008
Ferghana.ru |
Saturday, 26 April 2008
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