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March 02, 2008 21:32

• Civilians Die as Police Suppress Demonstrations and Riots

  The Armenian government should launch a prompt and independent investigation into the use of lethal force by security forces to quell demonstrations and rioting overnight on March 1, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today.

March 01, 2008 13:28

• Georgian journalists detained in Abkhazia deny their beating

  Today, Svetlin Sergeyenkov, an employee of the Sukhumi UN Office for Human Rights, has addressed the Service of the State Security of Abkhazia with a request to have a meeting with detained journalists from Georgia Malkhaz Basilaya and David Tsotsoriya.

March 01, 2008 13:21

• Source in MIA of Ingushetia: FSB officers shot peaceful citizens dead

  On February 28, employees of the FSB could have shot dead two men and a woman who had been kidnapped earlier, having simulated a skirmish and planting the weapons.

March 01, 2008 13:16

• Oppositional rally and clashes with police continue in the capital of Armenia

  As of 11:30 p.m. local time, the rally in the centre of Yerevan continues, despite the state of emergency introduced by President of Armenia, according to official information, because of disorders in the capital.

March 01, 2008 13:13

• OSCE condemns violent dispersal of rally in Armenia

  The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Ilkka Kanerva has condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.

March 01, 2008 13:05

• Famous journalist beaten in the capital of Dagestan

  On February 29, in Makhachkala, well-known Dagestan journalist and publicist Zaur Gaziev was beaten by unknown persons.

February 29, 2008 12:25

• Meboniya: visit to Georgia of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had formal character

  Advocate Onise Meboniya asserts that the visit to Georgia of Louise Arbor, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, had an absolutely formal character and brought no essential results.

February 29, 2008 12:20

• In Ingushetia, court session on ChCNS' complaint postponed till April 1

  On February 28, the court continued the proceeding on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.

February 29, 2008 12:10

• Relatives of a detainee during mass disorders in Ingushetia appeal to HRC "Memorial"

  The relatives of Batyr Moshkhoev, who was arrested on charges of taking part in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, assert that the young man had nothing to do with the above events and is kept behind the bars without a slightest reason.

February 29, 2008 12:02

• Picket against arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies held in the capital of Dagestan

  Today in Makhachkala, journalists of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper held a picket against voluntary actions of the UBOP employees who have launched a series of targeted audits of non-state mass media.

February 29, 2008 11:56

• People of Kabardino-Balkaria ask Putin to be more active in cutting short anti-Caucasian propaganda

  In the context of recent attacks on natives of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow, public organizations and political parties of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic sent a letter to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.

February 28, 2008 19:55

• Iranian authorities forbade Azerbaijanis to commemorate victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the mosque "Nur"

  On February 26, the Iranian authorities stopped the service in memory of the victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the Teheran mosque "Nur".

February 28, 2008 19:47

• Results of the action "I did not vote!" in Ingushetia are still unknown

  The outcomes of the action "I did not vote!", held in Ingushetia by the initiative group as an act of disagreement with the official results of elections to State Duma on December 2, 2007, have not been delivered to the court.

February 28, 2008 19:42

• Public organization of prisoners of war and hostages to be created in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Today, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Centre of Civil Initiatives has convoked a roundtable on the problem of social rehabilitation of former prisoners of war and hostages, where it was decided to create their public organization, which could lobby the rights of this social group.

February 28, 2008 19:33

• High UN Commissioner notes Georgian progress with human rights

  Georgia has reached an essential progress in the sphere of defence of human rights, for example, by having ratified the basic human rights conventions, in particular, the Protocol on the struggle against torture.

February 28, 2008 19:23

• Explosion in South Ossetia can be related to Russian presidential election

  The today's explosion in the Dmenisi Unit of the Tskhinval District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia can be related to the forthcoming election of the president of Russia.

February 28, 2008 19:15

• Supreme Court of Dagestan acquits a suspect accused of murdering Imam

  The Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan has acquitted Sultan Arslangereev, who was accused of murdering Dagir Kachaev, Imam of the mosque, on February 22, 2007, in Makhachkala.

February 28, 2008 18:56

• ChCNS: off-schedule audit was initiated by Department of FSB for Ingushetia

  On February 27, the Nazran District Court, Ingushetia started litigation on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.

February 27, 2008 10:50

• Advocate Gevorkov: IWPR works in Northern Caucasus under Russian laws

  The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) works in Northern Caucasus in strict conformity with the Russian legislation, thinks Professor Vladimir Gevorkov, Merited Lawyer of the Russian Federation, President of the Bar of the Stavropol Territory on the Caucasian Mineral Waters and Doctor of Jurisprudence.

February 27, 2008 10:47

• Ter-Petrosyan: negotiations with the power are possible only at announcement of new election in Armenia

  Negotiations with the authorities are possible only provided the presidential election on February 19 were recognized failed and new election announced in Armenia.