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Chechen Human Rights Activist Suspends Hunger Strike
January 19, 2006
Security forces in operation in Chechnya (file photo) (RFE/RL)
In comments posted on the pro-Chechen independence website Kavkaz-Center on 19 January, Said-Emin Ibragimov says he made his decision after receiving assurances that he would be given the opportunity to address the 23-27 January session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on human rights violations in Chechnya.
Ibragimov, a former minister in the Chechen separatist government, is calling upon the Council of Europe, of which Russia is a member, to condemn the war in Chechnya as a mass violation of human rights.
Earlier this week, the PACE rapporteur on Chechnya, German Socialist parliamentarian Rudolf Binding, wrote Ibragimov a letter urging him to end his hunger strike.
(Kavkaz-Center)