News

May 04, 2012 14:00

• Azerbaijan starts website for journalists-investigators

  On May 3 in Baku, the celebrations of the World Press Freedom Day were accompanied by the presentation of the website of the Regional School of Investigative Journalism (RSIJ). The website investigator.az, operated in three languages (Azerbaijani, Russian and English) will be the first and the only in Azerbaijan special resource for investigative journalists.

May 04, 2012 10:00

• The family of deceased convict in Georgia demands inquiry on the cause of his death

  Zurab Delianidze aged 39 died in hospital of Gland prison of Tbilisi. According to the official version, the convict who was serving a six-years term of imprisonment for storage of drugs died from a serious disease, however, his people dispute this version. Delianidze’s wife Ketino Beridze states that her husband was quite healthy. She also said that the officials of the correctional facility informed her about her husband’s death too late.

May 04, 2012 09:00

• Public prosecutor’s office offers the defendants on the acts of terror in Georgia a procedural agreement

  Pronouncement of a verdict on the case of acts of terror in Georgia in 2009-2010 was deferred. The defendants’ attorneys are negotiating with Public prosecutor’s office on the conditions of procedural agreement.

May 04, 2012 08:00

• The Day of Renaissance of the Karachay people was celebrated in Karachay-Cherkessia

  On the day of the 55th anniversary of return of the Karachay people to their historic homeland after forcible deportation, ceremonies of celebration were held in the towns and districts of the republic.

May 04, 2012 06:00

• The court in Astrakhan on Sein’s lawsuit started interrogating the witnesses

  Interrogation of the witnesses on the lawsuit of ex-candidate for Mayor’s Office of Astrakhan Oleg Shein started in court. At the trial of May, 3, the witnesses invited by the plaintiff stated violations in the polling stations during the election of Mayor.

May 03, 2012 23:00

• Nagorno-Karabakh youngsters clean Shusha of garbage

  In Nagorno-Karabakh, about 60 young men held a subbotnik to clean the Dzhdrduz Meadow and the territory around the Church Gazanchetsots in the city of Shusha. The action was dated to the Workers' International Solidarity Day and May 9.

May 03, 2012 22:00

• Yerevan hosts many-thousand-strong oppositional rally

  Today, the Freedom Square in Yerevanhas hosted the final pre-election rally of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC). The elections to the National Assembly of Armenia will take place on May 6.

May 03, 2012 21:00

• HRC "Memorial" gives materials on power agents' crimes to ICRF

  Today, the materials gathered by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"on the crimes committed, according to human rights defenders, by law enforcement officials in Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia, North Ossetia and Chechnya, were sent to Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), to be investigated by the special unit of the ICRF.

May 03, 2012 19:00

• North Ossetia opens computer training centrefor pensioners

  A training centre aimed to teach old people in the basics of computer and IT skills has been opened today in Vladikavkaz.

May 03, 2012 17:00

• ECtHR: Russian authorities failed to properly investigate disappearance of Dagestani Shafiev

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found no proofs of involvement of power agents in Sirazhudin Shafiev's kidnapping in September 2009. However, the decision of the ECtHR states the guilt of Russian authorities of a failure to properly investigate the case.

May 03, 2012 16:00

• Gataevs from Chechnya receive asylum in Finland

  Khadizhat and Malik Gataev, the founders of the family children's home in Chechnya, have received political asylum in Finland; the same protection was also granted to three of their children. This was reported by Oksana Chelysheva, ahuman rights activist and Vice-Chair of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society.

May 03, 2012 15:00

• In Georgia, rights activists hold action on World Press Freedom Day

  Georgian human rights organizations have held a staged action – in Tbilisi, inRustaveli Avenue– under the motto "I am a reporter, not a spy!" dated to the World Press Freedom Day.

May 03, 2012 14:00

• Popular website attacked by hackers in Armenia

  A well-known Armenian Internet edition "1in.am", which is an electronic version of the "Zhamanak" newspaper, was attacked by hackers three days before the elections. As reported by Ruben Megrabyan,the editor of the Russian service of the website, currently they are actively recovering the resource and hope to cope with it by today's evening.

May 03, 2012 13:00

• Complaints of victims of 2004 Beslan terror communicated by ECtHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated to the Russian Federation seven complaints against violation by the state the rights to life and effective remedy in respect of acts and inaction of the authorities before, during and after the hostage-taking at School No. 1 in Beslan on September 1, 2004. The whole proceeding was awarded the name "Tagaeva and others versusRussia and six other complaints".

May 03, 2012 12:00

• In Dagestan, armed men kidnap a local

  Unidentified armed men have kidnapped Djavar Khanmagomedov, 31, a resident of the city of Derbent. Relatives do not exclude that is could be made by power agents.

May 03, 2012 08:00

• Stalls dismantled in Mashtots park of Yerevan

  Dismantling the stalls in Mashtots park was carried out upon the order of Mayor of Yerevan Taron Margaryan who acknowledged the decision of construction in this territory invalid.

May 03, 2012 07:00

• A resident of Dagestan who is under house arrest fears for his life

  Some unknown people wearing camouflage uniforms are spying on Seifudin Babaev, resident of the town of Dagestanskie Ogni, who is under house arrest.He fears for his life. This was reported by Dagestani regional organization (DRO) “Human Rights Protection”.

May 03, 2012 05:00

• Activist of the “Georgian Dream” party report dispersal of the participants of an action in Kutaisi by means of fire-engines

  The authorities attempted to disperse an action of the youth branch of the oppositional party “Georgian Dream” in the town of Kutaisi by water from fire-engines. A representative of the ruling party was skeptic about this statement of the opposition.

May 02, 2012 23:00

• Dagestani woman states kidnapping of her husband

  Zukhra Mutaeva, a resident of the villageof Zubutli-Miatli, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, claims that her husband KamilMutaev,36, father of four young children, was kidnapped and taken away to some unknown place by armed men in camouflage and masks.

May 02, 2012 22:00

• Gabibulaeva, detained at "Chermen", asks judge to let her marry defendant in Nalchik attack case

  Zalina Gabibulaeva,a resident of Dagestan, who was detainedat the road patrol checkpoint "Chermen" between Ingushetia and North Ossetia, was on her way to Nalchikaiming to get a permit to marriage with Rasul Kudaev, one of the defendants in the caseon events on October 13, 2005. This is stated in Gabibulaeva's application to the chair of the court dealing with this case.