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    Interfax News Agency, Russia
    Oct 27 2008


    Komi rights group reports illegal detention of two foreign nationals

    SYKTYVKAR Oct 27


    A human rights group in the Komi Republic has informed the Bulgarian
    and Armenian consulates-general in Moscow of the poor conditions at
    the Syktyvkar detention facility, where two citizens of these
    countries are being held, the regional human rights commission
    Memorial told Interfax.

    Rights activists hope that the consulates-general's intervention will
    put an end to violations of the two foreign nationals' rights and
    liberties, it said.

    Bulgarian citizen Ivan Genov and Armenian citizen Ashot Kirakosian
    were sentenced by Komi courts to expulsion from Russia for violating
    migration regulations, according to the commission. But they have been
    held at a Syktyvkar detention facility for about four months now, in
    prison conditions, the commission said.

    "The foreigners are absolutely isolated from society. There is neither
    a TV or a radio, and there is an open stall lavatory in their
    cell. The detention regime rules out meetings with anyone except their
    lawyer. Meanwhile, neither Kirakosian, nor Genov is under an
    administrative arrest which requires complete isolation," Memorial
    said.

    The rights group urged the Bulgarian and Armenian consuls to intervene
    and put an end to abuses of the Convention for the Protection of Human
    Rights and Basic Human Liberties committed by the Syktyvkar interior
    department in relation to their compatriots.

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