Meeting in the memory of Natalia Estemirova

On Monday, August 24, 2009, at 7.00-8.30 p.m. in Moscow on the Chistoprudny bulvar near the monument to Griboedov meeting in the memory of killed human rights defender Natalia Estemirova will take place.

We invite you to honor the memory of Natalia on the 40th day after her death, to honor the memory of other journalists and human rights defenders killed in the North Caucasus, to protest against extrajudicial executions and repressions in the North Caucasus and throughout Russia. Participants of the meeting will speak about actual socio-political and human rights problems of the country, and will demand effective investigation and punishment of the killers and their accomplices.

Friends and colleagues of killed human rights defenders will speak at the meeting.

The meeting is organized by the Human Rights Center Memorial, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, Union of the solidarity with political prisoners, Anti-war club, and Movement "For human rights".

The organizers ask everybody to bring items, such as pictures, pins and signs, bearing a black ribbon symbol.

The meeting has been coordinated with the Moscow mayor's office.

Contact: +7-9262471119, Anna Karetnikova

The page of the action on the Internet: http://voinenet.ru/index.php?aid=21292

Section of the Memorial site dedicated to Natalia Estemirova: http://www.memo.ru/2009/07/16/nest.htm

August 21, 2009