Policing and criminal justice system in Russia
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Student dies during police deportation
A 25-year-old Cameroonian student, Clarisse Gerardine Mbango died in south Russia on 7 December following a brutal deportation attempt by the police.
22 December 2004 (100 words)
DNA database prepared for criminals and immigrants
The interior ministry is drafting a bill that would make it mandatory for immigrants and criminals to register with a nation-wide DNA database.
20 November 2004 (34 words)
Banned party holds anti-Semitic rally in Moscow
Hundreds of people holding up dozens of anti-Semitic placards rallied in central Moscow on 13 November to protest against the arrest warrant of nationalist leader Boris Mironov, wanted on charges of inciting inter-racial hatred.
18 November 2004 (83 words)
St Petersburg skinhead rally for extremists on trial
An unauthorised nationalist rally took place in St Petersburg near the Leninsky court where the case of the Schulz-88 was due to be heard.
24 October 2004 (96 words)
Police accused of migrant raids to boost statistics
According to a former senior Moscow police officer, Viktor Klimchuk, police officers who cannot be bothered to track down real criminals or who are being forced to meet unrealistic targets, consistently carry out checks on migrant workers, who are often without the correct papers, so as to make up their so-called solved crimes figures.
20 May 2004 (77 words)
Moscow: human rights defender shot
On 25 March, 19-year-old German Galdetsky, who had been investigating a series of rapes of teenagers committed by the police force of the Moscow metro, was shot several times in a Moscow station and is now fighting for his life.
15 April 2004 (188 words)
St Petersburg: lenient sentences for skinhead killers
Three skinheads on trial for the murder in St Petersburg of Mamed Mamedov an Azeri man in 2002 received very light sentences when the case came to court in March 2004.
12 March 2004 (346 words)
Police raid Moscow's mosques
On March 5 Russian police from the Ministry of Internal and Federal Security Services carried out raids on Moscow's mosques following Friday prayers.
6 March 2004 (166 words)
Moscow survey: police greatest threat to foreigners
The first of four surveys, commissioned by the Moscow local authority in order to gauge the city's image abroad, has found that foreigners living in Russia consider the police the greatest threat to their personal safety.
29 April 2003 (177 words)
Police raid Moscow mosque
Muslim leaders have described a police raid on Moscow's main mosque, during which worshippers were beaten, as 'barbarian'.
1 December 1996 (51 words)
Russian police victimise ethnic minorities from Caucasus
The treatment of ethnic minorities from the Caucasus by police officers from the Russian Federation has become an issue of concern for AI.
1 October 1996 (68 words)
Compulsory aids tests for foreigners
The Russian state duma has passed a bill requiring all foreigners 'who come to Russia for work, study, or for any other purpose' to undergo compulsory aids tests or face deportation.
1 March 1995 (165 words)
Zimbabwean students killed
An unnamed Zimbabwean student was killed in October by police.
1 December 1992 (63 words)
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