Press Release

M002-95E

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For Release 15:00 Moscow Time

January 9, 1995

Transnational Radical Party will take part in protest action against bloodshed in Chechnya, organized by members of State Duma from "Russia's Choice" group on Tuesday, January 10, at 18.00 on Teatraljnaja Square in Moscow, under the slogans: "Stop Bloodshed In Chechnya", "No To Militarism", "Against Censorship, For Democracy", "Save Lifes In Chechnya - Save Democracy In Russia", "Human Rights Are Not An Internal Affair".

Just at the same time (at 16.00 MET) in Rome, where the central office of Transnational Radical Party is located, its Italian members will demonstrate in front of Russian Federation embassy in Italy (Via Gaeta, 5), in order to express protest against mass and brutal violation of human rights by Russian armed forces in Chechnya and to witness solidarity with Russian democrats, standing out against war.

Earlier, on December 30, six leaders of Transnational Radical Party (Emma Bonino, Secretary of the Party, member of Praesidium of the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament and recently designated Commissioner of EU; Marco Pannella, President of the Party and European MP; Olivier Dupuis, President of General Council of the RP; Antonio Stango, Chairman of Italian Helsinki Group and member of Secretariat of Radical Party; Mamuka Tsagareli, Vice President of General Council of the RP; Nikolaj Khramov, member of RP's General Council) appealed through RF embassy in Rome with an open letter to Boris Yeltsin, expressing their concern about human rights violation in Chechnya and requesting to allow them to go to Grozny as international non-governmental observers. No answer on this letter was received till now.

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