Swiss Identity

Climbing champion feared victim of Kabul stoning

This content was published on May 11, 2004 Elie Chevieux’s father confirmed that police in Geneva had contacted him as part of the inquiry into the killings. Police announced on Tuesday that a Swiss passport found with the two men, who were beaten to death in a Kabul park, belonged to the former world-class indoor climber. A spokesman said the passport was in…

Culture

Joseph Joachim Raff: Symphony No.7 ‘In den Alpen’. Chaconne – Arrangement for Orchestra. Abends – Rhapsodie. Bamberger Symphoniker. Dir. Hans Stadlmair.

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Culture

D’ Gartehöckler: Jetzt goht’s urchig. 40 goldene Erfolge.

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Demographics

Online voting to take electronic leap forward

This content was published on May 10, 2004 The experiment is part of a long-term drive to introduce online voting, or e-voting, across the country. “Everything looks set to go ahead,” said Daniel Brändli, who heads the federal government’s e-voting project. Pilot projects in Geneva have already shown that a substantial number of voters are prepared to cast their ballots online. Successful trials…

Demographics

World Lupus Day sheds light on neglected disease

This content was published on May 10, 2004 Sufferers in Switzerland and around the world are hoping to draw attention to the debilitating illness on the first World Lupus Day on Monday. “Lupus is a disease that attacks the immune system, and like the wolf from which it gets its name, it never lets go of its prey,” said Britta Krismer of the…

Culture

Artist friends share wall space at the Beyeler

This content was published on May 10, 2004 By putting Calder’s mobiles together with Miró’s paintings, the museum aims to show how the artists’ relationship influenced their work. Miró and Calder met at the end of 1928 in avant-garde Paris and they remained friends until Calder’s death in 1976. Apart from championing each other’s art and exchanging works, the two men and their…

Demographics

Ecoterrorist goes on trial for murder

This content was published on May 10, 2004 Camenisch stands accused of the attempted murder of a prison guard in 1981 and the fatal shooting of a border guard eight years later. The 52-year-old, hailed by some as an antiglobalisation hero, has spent much of his life on the run or behind bars both in Switzerland and Italy. Police in Zurich arrested 98…

Demographics

Switzerland condemns abuse of Iraqi prisoners

This content was published on May 9, 2004 On Friday she summoned the United States and British ambassadors to express her outrage and denounce the abuse as an unacceptable breach of humanitarian law. Calmy-Rey said she told both countries that the mistreatment of prisoners contravened international regulations. During a meeting at the Swiss foreign ministry, she reminded them that Switzerland – as the…

Demographics

Survivor of Stalin’s camps recalls the horror

This content was published on May 8, 2004 For one Swiss woman who spent five years in a camp in Soviet Kazakhstan, the memories of her imprisonment are still vivid. Else Rutgers, now 92, was one of around 200 Swiss Communists who emigrated to Moscow after the Russian Revolution of 1917 – and one of the few to survive the Gulag. Rutgers was…

History

Jewish group marks 100 years of bridge-building

This content was published on May 7, 2004 But when it was set up in 1904, the federation’s main aim was to fight the ban on the ritual slaughter of animals in Switzerland. “We are still trying hard to get rid of the prejudices against Jews and combat anti-Semitism in Switzerland – as far as that’s possible,” Thomas Lyssy, vice president of the…

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