In a protest against the US’s continued presence in Iraq and the continuing Russian aggression and human rights abuses in Chechnya, prominent human right’s activist Said-Emin Ibragimov began a hunger strike to raise awareness on November 16. His condition has grown grave; <\/A> at this time he appeals for others to join him in solidarity, as has Yelena Bonner, Andrey Sakharov’s widow. The situation in Chechnya is complex and ugly; however, these protestors do not seek a violent solution, are entirely seeking a peaceful solution. The Jamestown Foundation assessment<\/A> discusses current human rights abuses in Chechnya and the Russian response. For additional information contact Banchik Nadezhda, columnist for Zapad \u2013 Vostok<\/I> and Viche, <\/I>at Nadia76@sbcglobal.net<\/A>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a protest against the US’s continued presence in Iraq and the continuing Russian aggression and human rights abuses in Chechnya, prominent human right’s activist Said-Emin Ibragimov began a hunger strike to raise awareness on November 16. His condition has grown grave; at this time he appeals for others to join him in solidarity, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}