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September 27, 2006 10:02

• Participants of the picket in memory of Beslan victims condemned in Moscow

  Yesterday, September 26, Judge Natalia Dyatlova from the Moscow Magistrate Court District No. 370 delivered her judgment on administrative cases of the participants of the mourning human rights picket held on September 3 this year "In Memory of Beslan Tragedy," which was prohibited and dispersed by the authorities of the capital.

July 17, 2006 15:13

• "The Other Russia" discussed situation in Northern Caucasus

  On July 11 and 12, 2006, the "Renaissance-Moscow" hotel hosted an All-Russian Conference "The Other Russia," convoked by the Action Committee of the All-Russian Civil Congress.

July 15, 2006 20:21

• Journalist Arrested in Azerbaijan is Worse

  Yesterday, July 14, the state of health of Sakid Zakhidov, the satirist journalist arrested in Azerbaijan, sharply deteriorated, told Emin Husseinov, head of committee for the protection of S. Zakhidov's rights, to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 14, 2006 20:48

• FC Approved Amendments into the Law on Extremism

  Today, the Federation Council plenary session approved amendments into the Federal Law "On Counteracting Extremist Activity ", which more precisely formulate the notion of "extremist activity."

July 14, 2006 20:40

• Inmates of Gobustan Prison in Azerbaijan Tried to Commit Suicide

  The administration of Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan) goes on exerting pressure on the participants in the hunger strike, trying to make them stop it, according to the sources linked with the prisoners' relatives who provided information to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

July 14, 2006 20:33

• OSCE is Concerned about Sentencing the "Eni Fikir" Activists in Azerbaijan

  Said Nuri, activist of the "Eni Fikir " ("New Thinking") youth organization, who is under a suspended sentence of five yours in prison in Azerbaijan, has called the sentence on his companions-in-arms unfair, noting that the court hearing was conducted with violations of the law.

July 14, 2006 20:29

• NGOs and Abkhazian Journalists Stand up for Parastaev and Tskhovrebov

  Today, representatives of a number of Abkhazian NGOs and journalists disseminated a joint declaration in which they note that people in Abkhazia have enthusiastically welcomed the decision to declare 2006 the Year of Abkhazia in South Ossetia and the Year of South Ossetia in Abkhazia.

July 13, 2006 15:08

• Information about death of arrested ex-minister of public health of Azerbaijan was not true

  Information about death of Ali Insanov, former Health Minister, was not confirmed, runs the message of the Public Relations Centre of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan.

July 12, 2006 19:31

• Authorities of Azerbaijan admitted the fact of hunger strike of the prisoners at Gobustan prison

  In his interview to Radio Liberty, a senior official of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan admitted the fact of hunger strike held by the inmates of the Gobustan prison. But the official insisted that only three life convicts are on the action.

July 12, 2006 19:29

• OSCE expresses concern with arrest of journalist in Azerbaijan

  Miklosh Kharashti, OSCE mass media representative, expressed his concern in relation to arrest in Azerbaijan of Sakit Zakhidov, a satirical journalist.

July 12, 2006 19:23

• Hunger strike of refugees in North Ossetia continues

  June 30, 2006, inhabitants of the refugee settlement Maiskiy of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia declared themselves getting prepared for a hunger strike action.

July 11, 2006 19:42

• Human rights activists dissatisfied with new amendments on extremism

  Amendments to the law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," adopted in the first reading by the State Duma, will impede the work of human rights activists and journalists who criticize bureaucrats, Russian human rights activists think.

July 11, 2006 19:39

• In Azerbaijan the inmates on hunger strike demand to meet human rights activists

  The hunger strike of the inmates of the Gobustan prison continues.

July 11, 2006 19:36

• A court in Kabardino-Balkaria refused to consider a torture case of Kudayev, a Guantanamo prisoner

  The Nalchik City Court refused to satisfy a complaint of Rasul Kudayev, who was arrested on accusation of participation in the events of October 13, 2005, a citizen of the settlement of Khasanya and a former prisoner of the American prison in Guantanamo, on refusal of the investigator of the prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria to initiate a criminal case on the facts of being tortured.

July 07, 2006 20:08

• Human rights activists of Azerbaijan are worried with worsening health condition of hunger-striking inmates

  On the eleventh day of the hunger-strike, started in Azerbaijan by life-sentenced inmates of the Gobustan prison, the health condition of some of them - Giorgiy Geladze, Shakir Rzakhanov, Ali Guliev and Bakhtiyar Dzhafarov who sewed up his mouth - got rapidly aggravated.

July 07, 2006 20:03

• Amnesty International is concerned with stronger pressure on journalists

  Public defenders of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov (Mirza Sakit), arrested in Azerbaijan, continue to inform the diplomatic corps on the events around the criminal case in relation to the journalist.

July 07, 2006 20:00

• General Prosecutor's Office of the South Federal District (SFD) refused to give out the bodies of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Some time ago the parents of the militants who had perished in Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, addressed president of Russia V. Putin with a request to exhibit an act of humanism and give out the bodies for burial.

July 07, 2006 19:58

• Several local citizens detained and killed in Chechnya

  On July 6, 2006, in the settlement of Chernorechye of the Zavodskoj District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, when conducting targeted special actions, the employees of the district department of internal affairs detained one of local citizens.

July 07, 2006 19:56

• Inmates of the colony in Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike

  The inmates of Colony No. 6 of the city of Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike, as their relatives have explained, because of "lack of elementary conditions."

July 07, 2006 19:52

• Parents of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria addressed G-8

  It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the parents of the militants who have been killed in Kabardino-Balkaria militants have sent today an appeal to the summit of the "Great Eight," in which they ask to affect the issue of giving out the bodies of their sons for burial.