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June 23, 2008 14:15

• Lawyer Sadygov: journalist Halil is not let out from Azerbaijan under the order of special agencies

  The non-announced ban on departing from Azerbaijan imposed on Agil Halil, a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), was introduced by the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan. This is the conclusion made by Elchin Sadygov, journalist's advocate.

June 23, 2008 14:13

• Georgia: women-prisoners to resume their hunger strike on June 28

  In Georgia, on June 28, the women kept at the Tbilisi corrective establishment for women and minors No. 5 are going to renew their hunger strike, which had been interrupted because of the pressure exerted by the prison administration.

June 23, 2008 14:10

• Case on the murder of First Channel reporter Shurpaev delivered to court of Tajikistan

  The materials of the murder case of Ilyas Shurpaev, reporter of Channel One and a native of Dagestan, have been transferred by inquiry bodies of Tajikistan to the court.

June 23, 2008 13:39

• Trial on attack on Nalchik postponed till June 24

  The court session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the trial of the militants' attack on Nalchik accomplished in October 2005 has been postponed till June 24. Advocate Elizabeth Shak has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason of the delay was another fact of beating the defendants by the escort.

June 23, 2008 13:36

• Picket against eviction from Tuapse hostel held in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, residents of the hostel located in Tuapse held a protest action against their eviction. Ten persons went out to the "Aurora" movie theatre with posters in their hands. They plan to hold a range of pickets in the Kuban capital.

June 23, 2008 13:26

• Residents of Chechnya are sceptical on commission for searching missing people

  People in Chechnya think that the appeal of the Republic's Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev to Russian president Medvedev with a request to set up an interdepartmental commission in charge of searching those residents of Chechnya who were kidnapped or regarded to be missing will not bring any serious results.

June 21, 2008 16:25

• Chechnya: cadet screened out for religious convictions

  In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, a cadet was dismissed from the local branch of the Krasnodar University of Interior, whom the University's bosses found to be an advocate of Wahhabism. The incident grew into a scandal, which draw even the attention of the Republic's Prosecutor's Office.

June 21, 2008 15:15

• Sochi residents ask to preserve Imereti Valley

  Today, after the rally held in Sochi, the residents of this resort city have addressed their letter to the leadership of Russia, Corporation "Olympstroy" and Public Chamber of Russia with a request to keep the territory of the Imereti Lowland untouched.

June 21, 2008 13:42

• Russian human rights defenders tell US Congress about situation in Ingushetia

  The US Helsinki Commission held a briefing on June 19 in the US Congress with participation of Russian experts on Northern Caucasus dedicated to aggravation of situation in Ingushetia.

June 20, 2008 21:52

• Presidents of Azerbaijan and Georgia to launch part of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project

  It is planned that in the 2nd decade of July, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev will visit Turkey. In the course of the visit, Mr Aliev, together with Presidents of Turkey and Georgia Abdullah Gьl and Mikhail Saakashvili, will take in the launching ceremony of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

June 20, 2008 18:48

• Many thousands of oppositionists on rally in the capital of Armenia

  In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, about five thousand supporters of the opposition are holding a non-sanctioned rally. Leader of the opposition Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters are among the participants.

June 20, 2008 17:43

• Refugees from Chechnya want to leave Azerbaijan

  A statement promulgated by the press service of the Council of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan runs that the refugees who now live in Azerbaijan want to leave this country since they think that their life and freedom are under threat.

June 20, 2008 15:29

• European parliamentarians nominate "Memorial" Society to Nobel Peace Award

  A group of European parliamentarians has offered to nominate the International Society "Memorial", which deals, among other things, with investigations of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, to the Nobel Peace Award.

June 20, 2008 12:23

• Fried: unblocking of Turkish-Armenian border should not be associated with Nagorno-Karabakh

  Daniel Fried, assistant of the US Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, told on June 18 at the hearing held in the Committee for Foreign Matters of the US Congress that unblocking of the Turkish-Armenian border should not be interlinked with settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

June 20, 2008 10:18

• Burial of 800 persons found in Chechnya

  Human rights activists have detected another mass burial from the time of the 1995 Chechen war. This is already the third burial found in Chechnya during the last month.

June 19, 2008 18:36

• Abkhazia exhibits her investment projects to international economic forum

  Kristina Ozgan, Minister of Economy of Abkhazia, has noted, while speaking to the participants of the International Economic Forum "Abkhazia-2008. Investments and Prospects", the needs to have investments made into agriculture, industry, wholesale trade, power engineering, construction and transports.

June 19, 2008 18:26

• Eva Biaudet calls on Azerbaijani authorities to join NGOs in combating trafficking

  Special OSCE representative in fighting trafficking in humans Eva Biaudet has invited the authorities of Azerbaijan to cooperate with NGOs in combating trafficking in humans.

June 19, 2008 18:20

• Prosecutor's Office investigates disorders in Rostov Colony

  On June 18, a group of inmates of the general custody No. 10 made a fight with the sentries. There are injured persons among the colony officers and the inmates, several persons were hospitalized with grave traumas.

June 19, 2008 18:15

• International Federation of Journalists asks to punish Politkovskaya's killers

  The human rights organization named "The International Federation of Journalists", based in Brussels, is satisfied with the charges presented to the three journalists suspected of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya and demands that they should be properly punished.

June 19, 2008 17:14

• Advocates appeal against closure of the "Ingushetia.Ru" website

  Authors of the "Ingushetia.Ru" website have lodged a cassation complaint against the ruling of the Kuntsevo District Court of Moscow that prescribes to stop the operation of the Internet resource.