News

August 28, 2007 23:30

• European Parliament scarifies Azerbaijani authorities for pressing mass media

  In the course of yesterday's hearings at the sitting of the Commission for Human Rights of the European Parliament in Brussels, the authorities of Azerbaijan were criticized for the poor state of affairs with human rights in their country.

August 28, 2007 23:25

• Advocate: native of Chechnya arrested on Politkovskaya's case was tortured

  Mr Makhmudov, the native of Chechnya, arrested on charges of association in Anna Politkovskaya's murder, was beaten.

August 27, 2007 23:59

• Three natives of Chechnya arrested with regard to Politkovskaya's murder case

  Murad Musaev, advocate of one of the detainees, has informed that three brothers-Chechens are now among the persons arrested in relation to the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

August 27, 2007 18:56

• Manana Aslamazyan rejected of case consideration in absentia

  The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has rejected the petition of Manana Aslamazyan, head of the Foundation "Educated Media", accused of money contraband, to consider her criminal case without her presence - in absentia.

August 27, 2007 18:51

• CD with data on teenager's murder destroyed in court of Kabardino-Balkaria

  At the Urvan District Court (Kabardino-Balkaria), the CD with the materials of the investigatory experiment on the criminal case initiated on the fact of murder of Islam Kumyshev, 14, was found drilled through with a bore.

August 27, 2007 18:14

• SDM of Abkhazia concerned of the attitude of authorities to Islam

  The Spiritual Department of Moslems (SDM) of Abkhazia is concerned of the situation around the Muslim community of the Republic and development of Islam as a whole.

August 27, 2007 14:19

• Huge act of terror prevented in Ingushetia

  A powerful explosive device has been detected in Ingushetia under the railway bridge near the road that connects the area of the Kommunalnaya Street with a suburb of the city of Nazran - the Altievo village.

August 27, 2007 13:55

• Youth of Ingushetia to lodge a collective suit against President of the Republic

  Young people of Ingushetia continue to prepare a collective claim against President Murat Zyazikov.

August 25, 2007 14:50

• Court of North Ossetia stops the "Voice of Beslan" in its present composition

  The Leninskiy District Court of Vladikavkaz has passed a decision to stop the activities of the Public Organization (PO) "Voice of Beslan" in its present composition.

August 25, 2007 14:45

• Oppositional activist arrested in Azerbaijan

  Musa Ragim, leader of the Imishli Regional Organization of the Party of National Independence, was arrested for his protests against arbitrariness of local authorities.

August 25, 2007 14:42

• International Committee for Protection of Journalists asks Azerbaijani authorities to drop charges against Fatullaev

  The New York-based International Committee for Protection of Journalists has condemned the August 22 decision of the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholding the 30-month custody verdict in relation to Einullah Fatullaev, editor-in-chief of newspapers "Gyundalik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan."

August 25, 2007 14:34

• Killers of Armenian teenager are accused of creating an extremist organization

  With regard to the case of murdering schoolboy Narek Kocharyan accomplished in a Moscow suburb last November, four young persons were arrested. Now two of them are also accused of creating an extremist organization.

August 24, 2007 19:36

• Meeting on Anna Politkovskaya's birthday sanctioned in Moscow

  The Moscow's Mayoralty has sanctioned a meeting on August 30 in Russian capital dedicated to the 49th birthday of Anna Politkovskaya, which falls on this day.

August 24, 2007 15:06

• Authorities of Moscow allow holding a meeting in memory of Beslan act of terror

  A meeting in memory of the victims of the Beslan tragedy will take place on September 1 at 4:00 p.m. in the Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.

August 24, 2007 14:55

• Nikolaishvili: Georgadze's supporters were trialled in Georgia like American Negroes a hundred years ago

  "We can state that they were trialled in the same manner as America Negroes a hundred years ago. It is one of most shameful pages in the history of Georgian justice," advocate Gela Nikolaishvili said.

August 24, 2007 14:50

• Advocates: delay of Kaloev's release violates his rights

  The Swiss advocates of Vitaly Kaloev, who is serving his term for murdering Peter Nielsen, an air traffic controller of the SkyGuide Swiss Company, believe that the decision of the Federal Court of Switzerland to delay enforcement of the decision of the Zurich Canton Court about early release of their client is a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights.

August 24, 2007 14:11

• Experts are over with analyzing the bomb that had blown up the "Neva Express" train

  Criminalists from the Northern Capital of Russia (St-Petersburg), who have finished examination of the explosive, assert that they have found the thread capable to bring the investigation to the malefactors.

August 24, 2007 14:05

• Advocates of the anarchists accused of blowing up the "Neva Express" train go to Malaya Vishera

  "If today the advocates meet the detainees, then we'll be able to hope that in future no illegal methods of investigation will be applied to our comrades," Alexander Maishev said.

August 24, 2007 13:42

• Azerbaijan wants to build a monument to murdered Elmar Guseinov

  The Azerbaijani Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety is starting a campaign of gathering signatures for monumentalizing the memory of Elmar Guseinov, editor of the "Monitor" magazine who was assassinated in March 2005.

August 23, 2007 23:24

• "Dagestan Mothers" who protested against kidnappings stop hunger-strike

  Tonight, the women from the "Dagestan Mothers" Public Organization who protested against kidnappings of their relatives have stopped their hunger strike.