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December 04, 2008 11:42

• Mutsolgov: Public Board on Human Rights in Ingushetia should address real problems

  The Public Board for Human Rights now set up in Ingushetia will make sense only in case all its members are involved in real work aimed at solving existing problems, believes Magomed Mutsolgov, leader of the Ingush Human Rights Organization "MAShR".

December 04, 2008 11:40

• In Azerbaijan, journalists Zakhidovs should be back in jail on December 8

  On Tuesday, December 2, brothers-journalists Ganimat and Sakit (Mirza Sakit) Zakhidov were been temporarily released from custody to take part in commemoration of their father. Initially they were prescribed to get back into their cells on December 3, but then they were allowed to stay at large till December 8.

December 04, 2008 11:37

• Ilaev brothers murdered in Chechnya could be victims of denunciation

  The Ilaev brothers, who lived in Pervomaiskoe village, Grozny District of Chechnya, and who were allegedly killed in a skirmish, and were militants as the law enforcement bodies assert, could become victims of a denunciation. This is the idea of one of the brothers' acquaintances.

December 04, 2008 11:35

• Strasbourg Court calls on Azeri authorities to render treatment to former minister

  The European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) has sent a letter to the Government of Azerbaijan in the context of consideration of the complaint filed by ex-Minister of Public Health Ali Insanov. The document refers to Article 39 of the Regulations of the Court and emphasizes the need to send Insanov to the hospital of the Penitentiary Service of the Ministry of Justice.

December 04, 2008 11:17

• European Court finds Russia guilty of war crimes against Chechnya residents

  The authorities of Russia are guilty of disappearance of Arthur Bersunkaev, a resident of Chechnya, in 2001 and of a heavy injury of Lipatu Umaeva in 2000. This decision was made public today by the European Court on Human Rights.

December 04, 2008 11:14

• European Court finds Russia guilty of four disappearances in Chechnya

  The European Court on Human Rights has found the authorities of Russia guilty of disappearances of four men, which happened in different districts of Chechnya in the period from May 2001 to November 2002; this was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Arsen Sakalov, Director of the Ingush NGO named "Legal Initiative", which rendered assistance to the applicants.

December 04, 2008 11:06

• "Memorial" Office in St-Petersburg searched

  Today in the morning, unknown persons in masks appeared at the office of the Scientific and Information Centre "Memorial", situated at 23 Rubinshtein Street. They presented a statement of the Prosecutor's Office of St-Petersburg on making a search. Three employees of the "Memorial" were blocked inside the office.

December 03, 2008 23:00

• In Kalmykia, communal workers stop their hunger strike

  Today in the afternoon, seven workers of the Iki-Burul public utilities enterprise in Kalmykia stopped their protest action in the form of a termless hunger strike.

December 03, 2008 22:55

• Yerevan holds protests against destruction of Armenian cultural heritage in Georgia

  Today, the city of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, has hosted a students' mass protest action against destruction in Georgia of historical and cultural heritage of the Armenian nation, and, first of all, against encroachments on the Armenian Church Surb Norashen in Tbilisi; the action took place at the building housing the UN representative office.

December 03, 2008 22:48

• Chairman of Dagestan Committee on Religious Matters stands for dialogue with militants

  Today, the Committee on Religious Matters under the Government of Dagestan held a press conference. Chairman Ahmed Magomedov met journalists.

December 03, 2008 22:39

• Jurymen find seven skinheads from "Ryno Group" guilty

  The jury has found guilty seven members of the skinhead gang headed by Arthur Ryno and Pavel Skachevskiy. Other two figurants in the case were completely acquitted and released right in the court room.

December 03, 2008 12:22

• Karabakh war veteran goes on termless hunger strike in Armenian prison

  Sarkis Atspanyan, former participant of the Karabakh war, activist of the opposition, currently a citizen of France, sentenced to two months of deprivation of freedom, has started a termless hunger-strike in prison "Vardashen" in Armenia; he demands to stop the illegal criminal prosecution against him. Mr Atspanyan also protests against tapping his telephone conversations and control of his correspondence.

December 03, 2008 12:19

• Criminal case initiated on marauding in "Nord-Ost"

  The Investigatory Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (ICPO) of Russia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of stealing money from the hostages after the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre. The advocate of the suffered party Igor Trunov thinks that by doing so at the Prosecutor's Office tries to hamper consideration of civil suits lodged.

December 03, 2008 12:14

• Ecologists re-address UNESCO on threats to "Western Caucasus"

  Five ecological organizations have sent a letter to the World Heritage Centre with description of the facts of defaulting by Russia of recommendations of UNESCO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) on ensuring safety of the object of the World Natural Heritage "Western Caucasus".

December 03, 2008 12:09

• In Chechnya, parents of young men kidnapped by power agents find bodies of their kids in morgue

  On December 1, at 3 a.m., the house of the Ilaev family located in Pervomaiskaya village, Grozny District of Chechnya, was surrounded by employees of power agencies. Having rushed into the house, some of them dragged brothers Alvi and Adkhan out of their beds and pushed them into the cars, in which the agents arrived. Others searched the house and took away TV and video appliances.

December 03, 2008 12:07

• Examination results presented at trial on Politkovskaya's murder

  The state prosecution at the process considering the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya has presented the results of comparative examination of video records and the pistol, by which the journalist was killed.

December 03, 2008 12:02

• Human rights defenders: EU shall regard the war in South Caucasus in its relations with Russia

  The Russia's leading human rights organizations demand that the European Union (EU) in its negotiations with Russia stop pretending that there was no war in South Caucasus this August.

December 02, 2008 14:36

• CE calls Azerbaijani authorities not to stop western radio stations

  The Council of Europe (CE) plans to negotiate with the government of Azerbaijan on continuation of broadcasting in local frequencies of radio stations Voice of America, Liberty and BBC.

December 02, 2008 14:32

• Armenia: investigation of March 1 mass disorders is over

  The Special Investigatory Service of Armenia has sent the so-called "Case of Seven", related to the events of March 1, to the Criminal Court of Yerevan. Seven oppositionists are accused of an attempt of violent overthrow of the existing power.

December 02, 2008 14:14

• The casualty of skirmish with militiamen in Makhachkala was a schoolboy

  The person has been established of the member of the armed group killed in a skirmish, when the group attacked militiamen in Makhachkala on November 30. According to the FSB Department for Dagestan, it was Rizvan Kurbanov, 16, an 11th form pupil of a school in the city of Kizilyurt.