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Russia to clarify capital punishment issue
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ST. PETERSBURG, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Constitutional
Court will clarify next week whether the country should lift the
moratorium on capital punishment according to national legislation or
continue to abide by it in compliance with its international commitments.
The press service of the Constitutional Court said the issue would be
considered at the coming session scheduled for November 3 "due to the
urgency and extreme significance of the matter."
The Russian Supreme Court requested to clarify the issue as in 1999
the Constitutional Court ruled that capital punishment could not be
re-introduced until trial by jury is instituted in all Russian regions.
At present only Chechnya has no trial by jury, which is to be
instituted on January 1, 2010 in the republic.
However, in 1996 Russia signed the sixth protocol to the European
Human Rights Convention, which prohibits capital punishment in peacetime.
The Supreme Court said it filed the clarification request in order to
"prevent contradicting law enforcement practice in courts."
It said courts may return to death penalty next year after a ten-year
break as the trial by jury will be instituted in the whole of Russia and
that would contradict international commitments of the country.
.Two servicemen wounded in Ingushetia, militant killed in Chechnya.
NAZRAN/GROZNY, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Two Russian army servicemen
were slightly wounded by a land mine that exploded when a military convoy
was driving in North Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia late on Thursday.
Also on Thursday in neighboring Chechnya police killed a militant
suspected of preparing a terrorist act.
Ingushi police said the incident with the army convoy took place on
the road between the settlements of Karabulak and Troitskaya.
Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Tass "member of illegal
armed formations Kureish Dulduyev was killed y return fire after he
rendered resistance to law enforcers during detention."
He specified the special operation to seize the suspected terrorist
took place in the Leninsky district of Grozny.
.Three extremists convicted for planned school terror.
YESSENTUKI, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Three religious extremists were
convicted in the North Caucasian Karachai-Cherkessia Republic for planned
terrorist act in a school in Kislovodsk and attacks on law enforcers.
The three men belonged to the bandit group of Rustam Ionov
subordinated to Chechen warlord Doku Umarov. Ionov was killed in September
2007.
The press service of the Federal Security Service for Stavropol region
told Tass on Thursday "members of the religious and extremist community A.
Ekzekov and A. Marchuk were sentenced to three years in a standard regime
penal colony, while S. Borlakov was sentenced to 7.5 years in maximum
security prison" for illegal acquisition and sales of arms and banditry.
It said the three men were trained by Georgian instructors in Kodori
gorge and back home arranged an arms trafficking channel for terrorist
groups in Karachai-Cherkessia and neighboring Kabardino-Balkaria.
In 2008 the bandits planned assassinations of several law enforcers in
the area of Caucasian Mineral Waters, as well as a terrorist act in a
school in Kislovodsk on VE-Day on May 9. They were arrested in April.
.Hizb-ut-Tahrir Islami men sentenced in Tatarstan.
KAZAN, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Twelve members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Islami terrorist group were sentenced on Thursday by the Supreme Court of
the Russian Muslim Republic of Tatarstan to various prison terms for
preparing forcible seizure of power.
"In the dock there were 12 active participants in the organization
whose members were involved in coup attempts in Uzbekistan and Kirgizia
that resulted in casualties," spokesman of the Federal Security Service of
Tatarstan Eduard Ismailov told Tass, adding the convicted repented.
They were sentenced for "preparing forcible seizure of power and
changing the constitutional system of the Russian Federation".
Seven of them were sentenced to 4-7 years in maximum security prison
and four received suspended sentences. One was found insane and was
sentenced to compulsory medical treatment.
The convicted recruited in mosques new members for the organization.
Police confiscated literature instigating ethnic hate from them. Arrests
began in 2006.
"We succeeded to protect the Muslim society of Tatarstan from
penetrating aggressive ideology," Ismailov said.
"Hizb-ut Tahrir Islami organization was created by non-Islamic circles
to split the Muslims and discredit the good essence of the religion,"
deputy mufti of Tatarstan Valiulla hazrat Yakupov said.
Russia listed Hizb-ut Tahrir Islami as terrorist organization in 2003
and banned its activities.
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ST. PETERSBURG, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- The Russian Constitutional
Court will clarify next week whether the country should lift the
moratorium on capital punishment according to national legislation or
continue to abide by it in compliance with its international commitments.
The press service of the Constitutional Court said the issue would be
considered at the coming session scheduled for November 3 "due to the
urgency and extreme significance of the matter."
The Russian Supreme Court requested to clarify the issue as in 1999
the Constitutional Court ruled that capital punishment could not be
re-introduced until trial by jury is instituted in all Russian regions.
At present only Chechnya has no trial by jury, which is to be
instituted on January 1, 2010 in the republic.
However, in 1996 Russia signed the sixth protocol to the European
Human Rights Convention, which prohibits capital punishment in peacetime.
The Supreme Court said it filed the clarification request in order to
"prevent contradicting law enforcement practice in courts."
It said courts may return to death penalty next year after a ten-year
break as the trial by jury will be instituted in the whole of Russia and
that would contradict international commitments of the country.
.Two servicemen wounded in Ingushetia, militant killed in Chechnya.
NAZRAN/GROZNY, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Two Russian army servicemen
were slightly wounded by a land mine that exploded when a military convoy
was driving in North Caucasian Republic of Ingushetia late on Thursday.
Also on Thursday in neighboring Chechnya police killed a militant
suspected of preparing a terrorist act.
Ingushi police said the incident with the army convoy took place on
the road between the settlements of Karabulak and Troitskaya.
Chechen Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov told Tass "member of illegal
armed formations Kureish Dulduyev was killed y return fire after he
rendered resistance to law enforcers during detention."
He specified the special operation to seize the suspected terrorist
took place in the Leninsky district of Grozny.
.Three extremists convicted for planned school terror.
YESSENTUKI, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Three religious extremists were
convicted in the North Caucasian Karachai-Cherkessia Republic for planned
terrorist act in a school in Kislovodsk and attacks on law enforcers.
The three men belonged to the bandit group of Rustam Ionov
subordinated to Chechen warlord Doku Umarov. Ionov was killed in September
2007.
The press service of the Federal Security Service for Stavropol region
told Tass on Thursday "members of the religious and extremist community A.
Ekzekov and A. Marchuk were sentenced to three years in a standard regime
penal colony, while S. Borlakov was sentenced to 7.5 years in maximum
security prison" for illegal acquisition and sales of arms and banditry.
It said the three men were trained by Georgian instructors in Kodori
gorge and back home arranged an arms trafficking channel for terrorist
groups in Karachai-Cherkessia and neighboring Kabardino-Balkaria.
In 2008 the bandits planned assassinations of several law enforcers in
the area of Caucasian Mineral Waters, as well as a terrorist act in a
school in Kislovodsk on VE-Day on May 9. They were arrested in April.
.Hizb-ut-Tahrir Islami men sentenced in Tatarstan.
KAZAN, October 30 (Itar-Tass) -- Twelve members of Hizb-ut-Tahrir
Islami terrorist group were sentenced on Thursday by the Supreme Court of
the Russian Muslim Republic of Tatarstan to various prison terms for
preparing forcible seizure of power.
"In the dock there were 12 active participants in the organization
whose members were involved in coup attempts in Uzbekistan and Kirgizia
that resulted in casualties," spokesman of the Federal Security Service of
Tatarstan Eduard Ismailov told Tass, adding the convicted repented.
They were sentenced for "preparing forcible seizure of power and
changing the constitutional system of the Russian Federation".
Seven of them were sentenced to 4-7 years in maximum security prison
and four received suspended sentences. One was found insane and was
sentenced to compulsory medical treatment.
The convicted recruited in mosques new members for the organization.
Police confiscated literature instigating ethnic hate from them. Arrests
began in 2006.
"We succeeded to protect the Muslim society of Tatarstan from
penetrating aggressive ideology," Ismailov said.
"Hizb-ut Tahrir Islami organization was created by non-Islamic circles
to split the Muslims and discredit the good essence of the religion,"
deputy mufti of Tatarstan Valiulla hazrat Yakupov said.
Russia listed Hizb-ut Tahrir Islami as terrorist organization in 2003
and banned its activities.
-0-nec
