News

February 08, 2008 12:11

• "Voice of Beslan" changes the name and will not get registered

  The "Voice of Beslan" public organization created by those who suffered from terror acts is changing its name to the "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian Public Organization of Terror Act Victims.

February 08, 2008 12:08

• Officer guilty of Chechen woman's death sentenced to three years of conditional imprisonment

  On February 7, the Grozny Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Korgun, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, guilty of the death of a woman-resident of the Shatoy District of Chechnya, to three years of conditional imprisonment.

February 08, 2008 11:55

• Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia: only several participants of disorders are still behind bars

  Sources in the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia refute the information that dozens of people detained on January 26 during mass disorders in Nazran are still under arrest.

February 07, 2008 10:05

• Board to assess the investigation of Beslan tragedy created in North Ossetia

  On February 5, in North Ossetia, the public organization "Styr Nykhas" held a sitting with participation of the Committees "Voice of Beslan" and "Beslan Mothers", where a decision was passed to found the Board in charge of assessing of the investigation of the Beslan tragedy.

February 07, 2008 10:03

• Court rejects Stomakhin's early conditional release

  The Tonshaev Court of the Nizhni Novgorod Region has refused to apply the procedure of early conditional release to Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the website of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz-Centre" who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

February 07, 2008 09:58

• Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejects the supervisory complaint of the "Voice of Beslan"

  On February 4, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejected the supervisory complaint of the public organization "Voice of Beslan", in which the relatives of the casualties of the Beslan terror act had asked to consider the materials of the Leninskiy Court about re-registration of the organization and to cancel the decision of this court.

February 07, 2008 09:55

• Residents of Chechnya complain against officials who give out compensations for destroyed houses for bribes

  Residents of Chechnya continue complaining that compensations for the houses lost during the conflict can be received, only if one pays back a half of the sum to bureaucrats as the so-called "otkat" (kick-back).

February 07, 2008 09:52

• Picket in memory of "zachistka" victims in Novye Aldy held in Moscow

  In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a picket was held in memory of the victims of the clean-up ("zachistka") conducted eight years ago in Novye Aldy settlement located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

February 07, 2008 09:45

• HRC "Memorial" to present its report "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"

  On February 11, a press conference will be held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow to present the report of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"

February 06, 2008 16:42

• Defendant in the case on attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria wants to refuse from his advocate

  At the following session of preliminary hearings of the criminal case on the events of October 13 in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) appointed on February 20, defendant Kaziev is going to refuse from the services of advocate Sukhikh, T. V., appointed by the court.

February 06, 2008 16:38

• Picket against kidnappings held in Dagestan

  Today, the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and relatives of the people kidnapped in Makhachkala held a picket against kidnappings in the central square of the capital of the Republic.

February 06, 2008 16:35

• Project "Observatory" stands up for "Voice of Beslan"

  On February 5, the joint project of the International Organization for Fighting Torture (Geneva) and the Human Rights Federation (Paris) named "Observatory" condemned the legal pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization.

February 06, 2008 16:32

• Hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan continues in Rostov-on-Don

  On February 5, Elena Sannikova, one of initiators of the hunger strike with a demand to release heavily sick prisoner Vasily Aleksanyan and send him to treatment, had a hypoglycaemic crisis.

February 06, 2008 16:19

• Arrested ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan placed into prison hospital

  For 24 hours already, Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, is at the Medical Establishment of the Penitentiary Systems. The diagnosis has not been formulated yet.

February 06, 2008 16:17

• Institute for Peace and Democracy: trial of the leader of Talyshes in Azerbaijan is absurd

  The Institute for Peace and Democracy is emphasizing the absurdity of litigation against Novruzali Mamedov, 67, a linguist, head of one of the divisions at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences, founder and editor-in-chief of the only newspaper in Azerbaijan in the Talysh language "Talyshi Sado", and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of the newspaper, accused of high treason.

February 06, 2008 16:09

• "Vlast" Magazine: aggravated situation in Ingushetia may have financial roots

  Apart from political reasons, the aggravated situation in Ingushetia may also have financial ones. This conclusion was made by Musa Muradov, correspondent of the "Vlast" (Power) Magazine, who has associated with residents of the Republic.

February 05, 2008 14:17

• Ombudsman defends the rights of residents of Volgograd Region arrested in Greece

  Mikhail Tarantsov, Ombudsman for the Volgograd Region, is concerned with the fate of two residents of the town of Kamyshin, Volgograd Region, who serve their terms in one of the prisons of the Greek Republic.

February 05, 2008 14:14

• In Azerbaijan, the state of health of the arrested ex-minister of economic development is worse

  The state of health of Farkhad Aliev, arrested ex-minister of economic development of Azerbaijan, has again worsened. He suffers from strong heartaches and requires hospitalization.

February 05, 2008 13:54

• Woman from Rostov-on-Don joins the hunger strike in defence of Vasily Aleksanyan

  Raissa Grishechkina, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, has joined the hunger strike demanding to release Vasily Aleksanyan, former vice-president of the YUKOS Oil Company, who is seriously ill but still kept in SIZO (pre-trial facility).

February 05, 2008 13:49

• A schoolboy and a girl among those arrested for nationality-motivated murders in Moscow

  Among the arrested four figurants in the case on a skinhead grouping, suspected of committing of at least 20 murders, whose arrest was sanctioned by the Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow, there are a girl and a minor.