Russian mother’s rights violated, French NGO claims
Published: 26 September, 2009, 14:59
Edited: 12 May, 2010, 14:10
Irina Belenkaya (R) and Jean-Michel Andre with Eliza (AFP Photo / Attila Kisbenedek / Michel Gangne)
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The French human rights organization “Stop Violence” has accused the French and Hungarian governments of violating the rights of Russian citizen Irina Belenkaya and her daughter Eliza Andre.
The organization has addressed a complaint to European Court of Human Rights against France and Hungary, demanding 100,000 euro in compensation.
The head of the group says the French government has treated Irina Belenkaya in a biased manner, favoring her ex-husband Jean-Michel Andre, a French national.
And in Hungary, Eliza was given to her father, which breaches the Convention on Children’s Rights, the group alleges.
A legal battle has been going on for two years over the child, with a French court deciding Eliza should live with her father, while a Russian court decided in her mother’s favor.
Irina Belenkaya was arrested earlier this year in Hungary accompanied by her daughter, after she had been snatched from her father, who had custody of the child in France.
The mother was freed, but a French court allows her visit her daughter three times a month.
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Why did you not publish the comment which explained that the whole affair, regardless of Liza's happyness was teleguided from the Elysee Palace by a cynical machiavelic comedian of hungarian monarchic descent who hate everything being russian or social. I understand that it is difficult for russian leaders to admit having been fooled by that Bush kiss-ass; then having repeated the same mistake with N-PiPO (Obama)...Sorry Future Generations !Sincerely...Jean-Claude Meslin
to Kali; and why do you not tell that the father didn't want Liza to be born and insisted on the abortion, and that he abandoned Irina alone in Moscow during her pregnancy and the birth of the child, and that he came several months after Liza’s birth? That he begged Irina to forgive him and come to France, and after she came there threatened her with divorce and threatened to take Liza from her and that Ira should have paid aliments to him that he suspected also suspected in behaving say it so strange enough towards Liza. Of course Irina escaped from France, and they both the mother and the child were registered as residences in Russia. Andre kidnapped Liza in Moscow in 2008, causing a big psychological trauma to this kid, and he was sending e-mails to Irina describing how Liza was asking for her mother. Is it a normal person who does such things to the child? Liza is Russian citizen by her passport and by her birth in Moscow and French court has no right to decide about the destiny of this Russian girl. Now she is not allowed to speak her mother tongue and be with her mother and her sister.
In this affair, Russian authorities were really weak. It was for me the beginning of my reflexion about Mr Medvedev' sincerity. He is exactly the type of Russian leaders, imperialist want as partner. So far, after analyzing other subjects over a several months' time; the events are proved me to be right. Wake-up Russians ! Sincerely...JCM