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July 09, 2007 11:32

• North Ossetian Ingushes protest against kidnapping of locals

  On July 7, two residents of Chermen village, Prigorodny District, Mukhazhir Gaisanov, 61, and Magomed Torshkhoev, 67, disappeared. On July 8 and 9, relatives and fellow-villagers of the missing persons took part in spontaneous meetings.

July 07, 2007 21:35

• Armenia does not believe in complete disclosure of Hrant Dink's murder

  On July 2 the first hearing took place at the Court of Istanbul of Hrant Dink's murder case. The trial of 18 defendants lasted for about 12 hours. For 12 of them, the custody was chosen to be the freedom restriction measure.

July 07, 2007 17:48

• Activists of the "Equality Institute" released in Georgia

  Representatives of the Georgian nongovernmental organization (NGO) "Equality Institute" Jaba Dzhishkariani, Leval Gogichaishvili and David Dalakishvili were released from arrest today at 2:00 p.m.

July 07, 2007 17:13

• Azerbaijan: criminal case initiated against officer who gave up his citizenship

  The conflict of the Azerbaijani officer with the top managers of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) started two years ago after inspection at the Peace-Making Battalion of Azerbaijan in Iraq, where numerous violations had been revealed.

July 07, 2007 13:23

• After approval of Sochi-2014 application the second wave of protest begins

  The residents of the Imereti Lowland are preparing their new meetings of protest against their eviction.

July 07, 2007 12:07

• Relatives of those perished in Nalchik: they burnt torture traces in crematorium

  The relatives of the militants who fell victim during the 2005 autumn attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria are convinced that cremation of the militants' bodies was nothing else but an attempt of the authorities to destroy the traces of tortures applied to them and lawless executions.

July 07, 2007 11:56

• President of Abkhazia blames Georgia for escalating the conflict

  Today, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has met Ivo Petrov, deputy special representative of the UN Secretary General in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, and chief military observer of the UN Mission General Khan-Khattak.

July 06, 2007 23:53

• Azerbaijan upholds the verdict to journalists who abused Prophet Mohammed

  Today in Azerbaijan, the Appeal Court has considered the complaint of Samir Sadatoglu, editor-in-chief of the "Sanat" (Culture) newspaper, and publicist Rafik Tagi.

July 06, 2007 23:00

• Azerbaijani human rights activists meet "Ago" Group

  The "Ago" Group that is now in Azerbaijan met human rights activists. The meeting considered the situation with the freedom of speech, the law "On Freedom of Assembly," the staff of electoral commissions, voters' lists, the problem of political prisoners, etc.

July 06, 2007 16:30

• Sh. Torosyan: Javakhk problems in Georgia should be solved systemically

  The numerous problems existing in Javakhk now have an addition: Georgian authorities intend to dismiss all the Armenians who do not speak Georgian.

July 06, 2007 16:25

• "Memorial": European Court's decisions on Chechnya do not reduce the crime count

  The judicial system of the European Court for Human Rights is far from being perfect, since it resorts to forcing a respondent-state to pay out compensation. Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," called this practice the "impunity tax."

July 06, 2007 15:57

• State Duma has passed the law on fighting extremism

  The Russian State Duma has passed in the third and final reading the law on strengthening the struggle against extremism.

July 06, 2007 15:46

• Dagestan native sentenced to 4.5 years in prison for driving his comrade-in-arms to suicide

  In February 2006, at anonymous polling on the problem of hazing in the army, held in the military unit No. 22292 of the 85th Motor Rifle Division, a number of servicemen pointed to private Ruslan Velkhiev as an infringer of statutory relations.

July 06, 2007 13:13

• Secretary of Dagestan Security Council met refugees from Borozdinovskaya village

  On July 5, Ahmed-Nabi Magdigadzhiev, Secretary of the Security Council of Dagestan, had a meeting with the initiative group of the refugees from Borozdinovskaya village.

July 05, 2007 21:48

• Russia to pay out over 42,000 euros for kidnapping and death of Chechen Parliament's Speaker

  The European Court for Human Rights has recognized that Ruslan Alihadjiev, Speaker of Chechen Parliament, was kidnapped by Russian authorities and became "a victim of violent disappearance."

July 05, 2007 19:54

• Court extends arrest of Chechnya natives accused of preparing a terror act in Moscow

  On July 4, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow made a decision to extend till October 8 the arrest term of three Chechnya natives (Umar Batukaev, Ruslan Musaev and Lors Khamiev), accused of preparing a terror act in the Russian capital on the Victory Day.

July 05, 2007 18:05

• Defender of ex-head of Armenian MFA to appeal against court's verdict in Arzumanian's case

  Ovik Arsenyan, advocate of Alexander Arzumanian, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, has filed a petition to the Appeal Court claiming to appeal against the first instance court's decision on extension by two months the ex-Minister's custody term.

July 05, 2007 16:09

• Amnesty International: refugees are in disaster in Azerbaijan

  Some 700,000 Azerbaijanis, who have received, after 1994, the status of internally displaced persons in connection with the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, are facing serious discrimination and segregation in Azerbaijan.

July 05, 2007 15:04

• State Duma toughens punishment for extremism

  On July 4, the State Duma approved in the second reading amendments to the Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," to the Criminal Code and a number of other legislative acts.

July 05, 2007 14:16

• A new meeting of residents of Manaskent village held in Dagestan

  On July 4, hundreds of local residents rallied in Manaskent village (Dagestan) with the demand to hold an objective investigation and punish those guilty of murdering local resident Kamil Chamsudinov.