UN Rights Official Visits Chechnya
UN High Commissioner Arbour met with human rights groups yesterday in Nazran (RFE/RL)
Arbour is in Russia on a weeklong tour to examine the human rights situation in the country.
On 21 February, Arbour was in the North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, where she held talks with the regional President Murat Zyazikov and met with Ingush refugees of the 1992 conflict in North Ossetia.
On 22 February, Arbour heads to North Ossetia where she will visit Beslan, the site of the bloody school siege in 2004 that left more than 330 people dead, many of them children.
Before ending her stay, Arbour will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is expected to raise what Russia sees as the "politicization of human rights" and "double standards" in the international community's approach to such issues.
(AP)
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