Document #1176370
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the treatment of members
and activists of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers in Russia since
1995, please consult the attachment sent to the Research
Directorate on 18 March 1998 by a programme officer of the Memorial
Human Rights Centre in Moscow. Please note that a sentence in the
second paragraph of the attachment's first page is partially
illegible; however, in a 19 March 1998 letter sent to the Research
Directorate by the programme officer, the sentence is legible and
states, "Any information about SMC, that we possess, is not an
output of any special investigation, but a result of an ordinary
circulation of news among NGOs."
This Response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is
not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any
particular claim to refugee status or asylum.
References
The Memorial Human Rights Centre,
Moscow. 19 March 1998. Letter sent to the Research Directorate by a
programme officer.
_____. 18 March 1998. Letter sent to the
Research Directorate by a programme officer.