Russian rights activists say hundreds more protestors detained before anti-Putin rally
Organizers and observers of a Moscow rally held Saturday by a coalition of opposition parties protesting Russian President Vladimir Putin's increasingly-restrictive rights record were quoted in press reports Sunday as saying that police pulled...
Russia police arrest Moscow demonstrators protesting Putin rights record
Russian police Saturday arrested several dozen activists among some 3000 protesting in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin's alleged infringements of rights and constitutional freedoms in the country. Authorities said the demonstrators disobeyed police orders to...
Japan's Justice Ministry said Wednesday that despite US requests to hand over fugitive former US chess champion Bobby Fischer, it would release him so that he could go to Iceland , which Monday granted...
Iceland's parliament voted unanimously Monday to grant citizenship to US chess champion Bobby Fischer . Fischer is currently being detained in Japan, and faced possible deportation to the US, where he is wanted for...
Former chess champion Bobby Fischer must be deported to the US under Japanese law, Japanese Immigration Bureau chief Masaharu Miura said Tuesday. Fischer has been fighting deportation to his home country, but Miura said that...
Rights activist Kasparov compares Putin to Caligula for judicial appointment
Former chess champion Garry Kasparov, who now works as a human rights activist, has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of creating a puppet judiciary to persecute opposition leaders. Kasparov compared Putin's recent appointment of an inexperienced jurist...
Iceland has offered a residency permit to Bobby Fisher, the US chess champion now detained in Japan and wanted for extradition to the US who beat Russian Boris Spassky in a famous international chess match in Reykyavik in 1972....
