The 26th edition of the International Francophone Cinema Festival in Acadie (FICFA) will be held from November 15-23, 2012. One of the movies to be shown at the festival is about a Chechen refugee couple and is titled Welcome Yankee.
The Montauban office of Education without Borders (Réseau Education Sans Frontières – 82) reported that Chechen asylum seeker, Aslan Dangayev has been deported from France to Russia.
The Russian newspaper Izvestia has reported that the pro-Kremlin regime’s so-called Islamic administration in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria has confirmed a ban on the burial of Chechen mujahedeen in local cemeteries.
Local sources have reported that a family of Chechen asylum seekers is facing deportation from Poland to Russia but an initiative group has begun a campaign in support of the family.
Local sources have reported that a group of Ingush civilians, who have started a hunger strike to demand Yunusbek Yevkurov’s resignation, were beaten and detained.
Education without Borders (Réseau Education Sans Frontières) has asked for participation in their online petition against the deportation of a family of Chechen asylum seekers in France.
Human Rights Center “Memorial” has reported that they received a written complaint from a male civilian in the Russian occupied Chechen Republic of Ichkeria.
The PEN Center in Germany announced a new series of discussions called “Writers in Prison”, which will address the issue of persecuted and threatened writers. One of the program’s first guests will be Chechen journalist, Mainat Kurbanova.
Local sources have reported that a solidarity concert will be held in the town of Waidhofen for Chechen asylum seeker, Musa Malinkov and his family, who are facing deportation from Austria to Russia.
Local sources have reported that a group of Chechen women organized a protest in response to the upcoming deportation of Chechen asylum seeker Salman Mamaev to Russia.
