On
December 8, 2009, the award ceremony of the Russian Ombudsman
Medal “Hurry Up to Make Good Deeds” took place in Moscow.
Human rights activists Natalya Estemirova and Maksharip Aushev
awarded medals post mortem.
Both were members of the Expert Council with the Ombudsman
of the Russian Federation. Natalya Estemirova had been investigating
abdications of civilians, executions and tortures since the
First Chechen War. She worked in the Memorial human rights
centre. Maksharip Aushev actively engaged in the protection
of human rights after his son and nephew abdicated in Grozny
in 2007 had been released.
The speakers at the ceremony were the laureates and their
representatives, director of the Taganka Theatre Yuri Lubimov,
Alexander Solzhenitsin’s widow – Nataliya Solzhenitsina, member
of the Board of Memorial Alexander Cherkasov and other.
The Russian Ombudsman has been awarding his prizes on the
threashold of the Human Rights Day. The slogan “Hurry Up to
Make Good Deeds” determines the choice of laureates. This
medal is awarded to the Russian citizens, foreign citizens,
persons without citizenship and legal entities for their deserts
in protection of human rights.
See also:
Human
Rights
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