Lidia Yusupova - Oslo Freedom Forum 2010

Lidia Yusupova, a journalist and lawyer considered to be one of the bravest women in Europe, shares with us her life as Chechnya's witness. Yusupova has spent the last decade documenting the murders, kidnappings, bombardments, and disappearances still rife in Chechnya today. As she shows us photographs of a destroyed Grozny, bombed-out school buildings, and her many colleagues who have disappeared or been murdered, the danger inherent in her job becomes vividly clear. How many innocent civilians and journalists, she asks us, have to be killed before the world pays attention to what is going on in Chechnya? Yusupova urges the international community to help her build a human rights center that can support the work of the activists in the region and provide for their safety. To succeed, she needs our support - together, she says, we can end the world's indifference toward a place where human rights defenders are openly assassinated in their quest for justice.

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[adena539]

hello can someone please tell me if she is related to the Russian Imperial Yusupova's? she resembles Princess Irina Yusupova

[MonkeyNinjaDo]

Harper's Semester 1 project 2011!

[xMaXiMuSx]

lol what a joke this..

IF Russia allowed the Saudi/US/British backed separatists/terroists to take Checnya they would have gone under Dagestan, ingushetia and alll the way up to tatarstan.. That's the plan orchestrated by western powers to partition Russia, the same $hit they did in Yugoslavia by orchestrating fighting between various groups there, supporting fascistisc criminal elements..