8.7.2003
Amnesty International awards prize to Russian human rights activist
Moscow, RUSSIA. The human rights organisation, Amnesty International, has awarded
its prize “For achievements in the field of human rights” to Svetlana
Gannushkina, leader of “Civil Action”. On 7 July Peter Frank, one
of the directors of the German section of Amnesty International, presented Svetlana
Gannushkina with a diploma and statuette to commemorate the award.
Svetlana Gannushkina is well known as an active defender of the rights of refugees
and displaced people. Speaking at the award ceremony, she said people who had
come from the Caucasus region to live in Moscow were particularly vulnerable to
persecution after acts of terrorism, such as the “Nord-Ost” siege
or the explosions at Tushino on 5 July. According to Gannushkina, such terrorist
acts are evidence of crimes by federal armed forces in Chechnya.