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January 16, 2007 22:06

• Officers accused of killing peaceful Chechnya residents refuse to plead guilty

  Officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, refuse to admit their guilt.

January 15, 2007 23:08

• Moscow discussed prospects of enforcing final recommendations of the UN Committee against Tortures

  On January 15, the premises of the Federation for Peace and Accord have become the venue of the roundtable with participation of human rights defenders from such public organizations like the Committee for Civil Rights, "Social Partnership" Foundation, "Public Verdict," as well as representatives of state institutions for defence of human rights and specialists in the area of fighting tortures, cruel and humiliating treatment and punishment.

January 15, 2007 23:00

• European Court will deliver a judgment on the case of two Chechen residents

  On January 16, the European Court for Human Rights will notify about 27 court judgments made and will announce decisions on 24 cases. One of them refers applicants from Chechnya - Arbi Chitaev and his brother Adam, born in 1964 and 1967, respectively.

January 15, 2007 22:53

• Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya is satisfied with the results of amnesty of militants

  January 15 is the deadline for the amnesty declared last July by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia to participants of armed formations in North Caucasus.

January 15, 2007 22:43

• "Reporters without Borders" hold action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Paris

  Today, an action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, is held in Paris.

January 15, 2007 22:36

• Web-site author-protester against price rise arrested in Azerbaijan

  On January 13, Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, creator of the web-site www.susmayaq.biz, was detained in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

January 13, 2007 23:03

• Antiterrorist Commission of Kabardino-Balkaria has again called militants to lay down arms

  The Antiterrorist Commission of Kabardino-Balkaria has again addressed the members of illegal armed formations who remain under search with an appeal to take advantage of the several days left till the end of the amnesty, and to lay down arms.

January 13, 2007 22:59

• Ms. Alekseeva, human rights defender, is happy for not taking part in meeting with Putin

  Liudmila Alekseeva, a human rights activist for over 30 years, one of the most influential and respected human rights defenders of the country, for a long time was among the most active members of the Board for Human Rights under the President.

January 13, 2007 22:58

• Council of Europe is ready to help Russia with investigation of Politkovskaya's murder

  Rene Van der Linden, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has declared that PACE is ready to help Russia in investigating the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, if "the investigation will come to a deadlock.

January 13, 2007 22:45

• International Committee for Defence of Journalists calls the Azerbaijani authorities to release Sadagatoglu and Tagi

  The International Committee for Defence of Journalists (ICDJ) has expressed a regret that judicial authorities of Azerbaijan had decided to extend by two more months the custody term for the two journalists accused of insulting Prophet Mohammed.

January 13, 2007 22:42

• Institute for Peace and Democracy in Azerbaijan will disclose the names of politically dependent judges

  On January 16, the Institute for Peace and Democracy in Azerbaijan will make public its list of judges who are passing politically-motivated verdicts. In the opinion of the organization, analysis of the legislative base and operation of the judicial system allows to conclude on the absence of an independent judiciary in Azerbaijan.

January 12, 2007 23:46

• Chechnya resident blamed of taking part in Beslan school capture will sue the "MK"

  Ruslan Demilkhanov, 30, resident of the Starye Atagi village of the Groznenskiy Rural District of the Chechen Republic, is trying to bring Vadim Rechkalov, journalist of the "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" ("MK") newspaper, to responsibility.

January 12, 2007 23:42

• Amnesty International is concerned with oppression of journalists in Azerbaijan

  The Amnesty International organization intends to attract attention of international community to the facts of attacks on journalists in Azerbaijan.

January 12, 2007 22:37

• "Human Rights Watch" scarified Azerbaijan again for breaching human rights

  The international "Human Rights Watch" organization has accused Azerbaijani authorities of voluntary arrests and beating of opposition activists and of using tortures against them.

January 12, 2007 22:33

• Azerbaijani human rights activists satisfied with European Court judgment on the oppositionist's case

  The Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan (HRCA) welcomes the judgment of the Chamber of the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) dated January 11, 2007, on Application No. 34445/04 of Sardar Dzhalaloglu (Mamedov), a former political prisoner.

January 12, 2007 22:30

• PACE is not going to investigate Politkovskaya's murder yet

  Mr. Rene Van der Linden, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), sees no reason now to start an international investigation into the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

January 11, 2007 23:05

• Council of Europe to hear report on Politkovskaya

  Mr. Rene Van der Linden, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), does not exclude, that a report will be prepared under the auspice of the Council of Europe on the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

January 11, 2007 23:02

• European Court admits the fact of torturing the opposition leader in Azerbaijan

  Today, the European Court for Human Rights has recognized that Sardar Dzhalaloglu, opposition leader, was tortured by Azerbaijani police in 2003.

January 11, 2007 22:59

• Azerbaijan extended arrest of journalists who insulted Prophet Mohammed

  Today, the Nasiminskiy Court of the capital of Azerbaijan has extended the custody term of publicist Rafik Tagi and Samir Sadagatoglu, editor of the "Sanat" (Arts) newspaper.

January 11, 2007 22:52

• Meeting in defence of officers accused of murdering peaceful people in Chechnya dispersed in Moscow

  Yesterday, on January 10, Special Militia ("OMON") fighters dispersed a meeting held in the centre of Moscow near the Ministry of Defence of Russia in defence of Evgeniy Khudiakov and Sergey Arakcheev, interior officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya.