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January 17, 2009 09:13

• Azerbaijan: five persons killed by exploding house

  An explosion of an apartment house in one of micro-districts of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, killed five persons.

January 17, 2009 08:09

• Strasbourg Court grants priority to 7 complaints from South Ossetia

  The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has awarded a priority to seven claims against Georgia filed by residents of South Ossetia and a Russian Army soldier. They will be considered out of turn.

January 16, 2009 21:17

• Authorities and public of Chechnya condemn Budanov's release

  The early release from prison of former colonel Yuri Budanov, who has served his term for kidnapping and murder of a Chechen girl of 17, caused an extremely negative reaction in Chechnya.

January 16, 2009 21:00

• Surgeon accused of child's death tried in Stavropol Territory

  The Pyatigorsk City Court, Stavropol Territory, considers a criminal case against a surgeon of the Municipal Establishment of Public Health (MEPH) "Central City Hospital", accused of manslaughter because of improper execution of his professional duties.

January 16, 2009 00:00

• Kidnapped resident of Gali District of Abkhazia released

  Gocha Chaava, a resident of Bargebi village who was kidnapped in the Gali District of Abkhazia has been released and now is at home. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Laurens Kogoniya, head of the Gali ROVD.

January 16, 2009 00:00

• Protesters clash with police in Armenia

  On January 16, in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, at about 1 p.m. local time, in the Arshakunyants Avenue, a clash burst out between police units and participants of the protest action who rallied near the court building, where a session on the "Case of Seven" was held.

January 16, 2009 00:00

• Armenian Ombudsman concerned of violence in prisons

  Ombudsman Armen Arutyunyan plans to launch a detailed study of the cases of violence and torture, registered in Criminal-Corrective Establishments (CCEs) of Armenia.

January 15, 2009 23:00

• Rostov Region: miners-pensioners start hunger strike

  Today at 4:00 p.m., in the city of Zverevo, Rostov Region, a hunger strike was announced by miners-pensioners who demand that court decision be enforced, free-of-charge coal provided to them, as well as discounts in payments for heating.

January 15, 2009 22:00

• Prosecutor's Office of Kabardino-Balkaria reveals roughest violations of rights of pupils of boarding school in Nartan

  Administration of Boarding School No. 5 in Nartan village, Chegem District of Kabardino-Balkaria, is roughly breaching the legislation on accommodation of children-orphans and children deprived of parents' care.

January 15, 2009 21:00

• Advocate: fire-arm was planted on relative of "Mothers of Dagestan" employee

  Ziyavutdin Uvaisov, advocate of detained Dinara Butdaeva, suspected of helping militants, operating in Dagestan, asserts that the fire-arm was planted on her by law enforcers.

January 15, 2009 20:00

• Court releases Budanov and rejects complaint of Kungaev family

  The decision of the Dimitrovgrad City Court made the basis for conditional early relief (CER) of former colonel Yuri Budanov.

January 15, 2009 19:00

• ECtHR finds Russia guilty of disappearance of Ingush resident in 2004

  Today, the European Court on Human Rights has passed a decision on the case of Adam Medov, a resident of Karabulak, who disappeared in June 2004 (then he temporarily lived in Nazran). Adam Medov's wife was the applicant. According to the decision of European Court, Russia was found responsible for Medov's disappearance and obliged to pay 35,000 euros of compensation to his relatives.

January 15, 2009 18:00

• Young man kidnapped in Chechnya was beaten at ROVD

  The young man named Zaurbek Tagirov, who was kidnapped in Tsotsi-Yurt village, Kurchaloy District of Chechnya, had been prosecuted for several months by militiamen and them beaten after detention. The "Caucasian Knot" was informed about it by Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

January 14, 2009 23:00

• Armenia: Ombudsman confirms that oppositionists are tortured

  Ombudsman in Armenia Armen Arutyunyan has stated that oppositional activists are exposed to violence and even torture in the country's criminal corrective establishments (CCEs).

January 14, 2009 22:00

• Case on beating Azerbaijani citizen by militiaman in Nizhni Novgorod sent to court

  The criminal case initiated on beating Emil Dadashov, a citizen of Azerbaijan, by a militiaman of Nizhni Novgorod has arrived to the Nizhniy Novgorod District Court.

January 14, 2009 20:00

• Human rights activist from Chechnya asks Russian President to get into the case of former militant

  Aslambek Apaev, expert of the Moscow Helsinki Group for Northern Caucasus, has addressed his open letter to President of Russia Dmitri Medvedev. The pretext was in the litigation against Abubakar Mezhiev, a resident of the Chechen Republic.

January 14, 2009 20:00

• European Court satisfies claims of three Armenian citizens

  Today, on January 14, the European Court on Human Rights has passed a decision to satisfy claims of Zhora Sapeyan, Sarkis Amiryan and Maxim Gasparyan. The Republic of Armenia shall pay three thousand euros to each claimant as compensation.

January 14, 2009 18:00

• In Kalmykia, colony inmates complain of beating

  The inmates of Corrective Colony OL 27/3 (light-security camp), located in Kalmykia, are beaten by employees of the Republic's Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (the so-called "UFSIN") on a regular basis. This was reported by public figure Valery Badmaev who referenced the prisoners themselves.

January 13, 2009 21:00

• "Freedom House": democracy in Armenia is regressing

  In the 2009 report "Freedom in the World" of the international human rights organization "Freedom House", published on January 12, Armenia is named a partially free country. The "Freedom House" notes that Armenia exhibits regress in the area of democratic freedoms.

January 13, 2009 21:00

• President of Chechnya disbelieves Budanov's repentance

  President of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov has stated that he does not trust in Yuri Budanov's repentance, when making his comments on the decision of the court on conditional early relief (CER) of former colonel convicted for murdering a Chechen girl.