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February 03, 2007 18:14

• Chair of electoral committee kidnapped in Abkhazia

  In the Galskiy District of Abkhazia, people in masks have kidnapped David Sigua, Head of the District Electoral Committee.

February 03, 2007 18:00

• North Caucasian Military Court hears the case on murder of Chechnya resident by Russian militaries

  The North Caucasian Regional Military Court has started the process on the case of Igor Denisov, former regular serviceman of federal troops, accused of murdering a resident of Chechnya aged 18, accomplished in February 1995.

February 03, 2007 17:58

• Military released from Armenian captivity arrested in Azerbaijan

  Vusal Garadzhaev, a soldier of the Azerbaijani army, who was released from Armenian captivity on December 23, 2006, was arrested in Azerbaijan.

February 02, 2007 23:37

• Igor Trunov: victims of metro terror acts will get no compensation from the convicts

  Although the complainants in the case of Moscow metro explosions are not completely satisfied with the judgment of conviction, they will not appeal against it.

February 02, 2007 23:23

• The officers who killed peaceful inhabitants of Chechnya will be released from custody

  The Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to release under signature not to leave the two lieutenants of internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Evgenij Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev - accused of murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya.

February 02, 2007 23:03

• Krasnodar Territory: Novorossiysk militia puts pressure on human rights defenders

  According to the information of the "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights," on January 23, 2007, a meeting of human rights activists and students with their guests from Germany in Novorossiysk (Krasnodar Territory) was interrupted by representatives of law enforcement bodies who appeared in the number of 15 persons.

February 02, 2007 22:46

• Moscow metro terror act perpetrators have got life sentences

  The Moscow City Court has sentenced the three persons accused on the case of acts of terror in Moscow metro in 2004 - at the "Rizhskaya" station and in the leg between the "Paveletskaya" and "Avtozavodskaya" stations to life imprisonment.

February 01, 2007 23:48

• International organizations condemn arrests of journalists in Azerbaijan

  The Baku OSCE office and the OSCE Representative for the freedom of mass media have expressed their deep concern with the new facts of criminal prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan.

February 01, 2007 23:21

• Putin waits for trial on Politkovskaya's murder case

  "Anna Politkovskaya was a sharp critic of the authorities, and it is nice," president of Russia Vladimir Putin has declared today in the Kremlin.

February 01, 2007 22:50

• Commission of Outstanding Lawyers has summed up its work in Russia

  The Experts' Commission of Outstanding lawyers, comprising Professor Mary Robinson, former commissioner for human rights and the first woman-president of the Republic of Ireland, Stephan Treshel, judge of the UN Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia, and China Jilani, judge of the Supreme court of Pakistan, has summed up two-day hearings on counterterrorism in Russia.

February 01, 2007 22:41

• Case on mass beating of citizens by "OMON" in Sochi delivered to court

  The Office of Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory has delivered to the court the criminal case on accusation of a group of "OMON" (Special Militia) officers of excess of official powers with application of violence in relation to a big group of peaceful citizens.

February 01, 2007 22:15

• Verdict on case of Moscow metro terror acts to be announced tomorrow

  At midday on February 2, the Moscow City Court plans to start announcing of the verdict on the case on the acts of terror in Moscow metro, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" was told by Igor Trunov, defendants' advocate.

January 31, 2007 23:41

• Litvinenko's poisoning case delivered to the British Public Prosecutor's Office

  The British police have delivered the case on Alexander Litvinenko's murder to the Office of Public Prosecutor.

January 31, 2007 23:19

• Armenia: students protest against murders of Armenians in the Russian Federation

  On January 31, the Students-and-Youth Union "Sarkis Tkhruni" of the "Gnchak" Social-Democratic Party held a protest action in front of the building of the Russian embassy in Yerevan in connection with continuing murders of Armenian natives in Russia.

January 31, 2007 23:12

• Draft resolution on recognition of Armenians' genocide submitted to US Congress

  A draft resolution has been submitted to the House of Representatives of the US Congress, calling to recognize the genocide of Armenians, the Armenian Assembly of America has reported.

January 31, 2007 21:48

• Constitutional Court of Chechnya intends to demand higher compensations to victims of political repressions

  The Judges of the Constitutional Court of Chechnya have addressed the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation with a request to bring a bill to the RF State Duma stipulating an increase of monetary compensations to the citizens of the Republic who have become victims of political repressions.

January 31, 2007 21:46

• Figurant in Khlebnikov's case punished with nine years for swindle

  The Preobrazhenskiy Court of Moscow has sentenced Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, one of the figurants in Khlebnikov's case, to nine years of imprisonment for a swindle with an apartment.

January 31, 2007 21:38

• Supreme Court of Russia upholds cancellation of verdict to natives of Chechnya

  Today, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has rejected the supervisory presentation of the State Office of Public Prosecutor, with which it tried to protest against the decision of the Judicial Board on Criminal Cases of the RF Supreme Court, which cancelled the verdict passed to two natives of Chechnya and their allies, who were sentenced by the Tver Regional Court for extortion with application of violence, robbery, kidnapping and possession of munitions.

January 30, 2007 23:24

• Militiamen injured in South Ossetia have been taken to North Ossetia

  The Ossetian militiamen who were wounded as a result of the attack on the post of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia are alive, although two of them are still in a grave condition.

January 30, 2007 23:14

• "Expert Commission of Outstanding Lawyers" discusses war on terror issues

  In Moscow today the public hearings held by the "Expert Commission of Outstanding Lawyers" have continued; the conference has considered the issues of fighting terrorism and the problem of non-observance of human rights in Chechnya.