News

February 04, 2004 17:19

• Georgia conducts special operation near Abkhazian border

  Early in the morning today, the Georgian Interior Ministry launched a special operation in Georgia's Zugdidi district to disarm gangs acting in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone.

February 04, 2004 16:59

• Azerbaijan human rights defenders raise alarm at child prostitution

  The head of the NGO Clear World, Mekhribana Zeynalova, is convinced that the night bars where facts of child prostitution have been established are "in ward" of officials connected with law-enforcement agencies.

February 04, 2004 14:41

• Yalta Initiative denies information that winners of Peace Prize competition have already been chosen

  We call your attention to the statement by the Coalition of Chechen and Russian NGOs "Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya."

February 04, 2004 13:51

• Conference on issues of counteraction to national and religious extremism takes place in Stavropol

  Various religious sects have been quite active in their missionary work in the region for the last ten years. Participants of the conference were offered to pay attention to two confessions: Wahhabism and Jehovism.

February 04, 2004 13:50

• South Caucasian Press Club of Refugee Journalists established

  Its creation was initiated by refugee journalists as a result of their meeting in Tbilisi in late January.

February 04, 2004 12:09

• Red Cross calls for release of employee abducted in Chechnya

  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Usman Saidaliev and wishes to stress that the abduction of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law.

February 04, 2004 11:47

• Elena Bonner: "I am ashamed of Europe"

  The statement reads, in particular, "Olivier Dupuis, a member of the European Parliament, has gone without food for thirteen days but has received no glance from his parliamentary colleagues, from the Council of Europe, from other European bodies or from the transatlantic UN or White House."

February 03, 2004 23:47

• Explosion in Shali district leaves three servicemen dead

  10. Explosion in Shali district leaves three servicemen dead The first explosion took place on a road about 100 meters from the settlement. The other one was set off on the road to Shali not far from a bridge.

February 03, 2004 23:26

• Human rights activists arrange holiday for Chechen orphan children

  After the traditional offering ceremony, the cow's meat was distributed among 214 orphan children living in the villages of Stariye Atagi, Avtury, Serzhen-Yurt, and in the district center of Shali, Chechnya.

February 03, 2004 19:58

• Threats against expert of Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations

  Tamerlan Aliyev is threatened with savage punishment for being a "national traitor".

February 03, 2004 17:43

• Angusht - only independent republican newspaper - goes through hard times

  The founder of the Angusht newspaper, Murat Oziev, has to print it beyond the bounds of Ingushetia as the Ingush printing houses were given a private instruction not to cooperate with this media, which lays claim to be oppositionist.

February 03, 2004 16:53

• ICRC allocates $21 million for relief programs in North Caucasus

  About 140 thousand people from socially unprotected sections of population, including displaced persons from Chechnya, are expected to receive humanitarian aid this year.

February 03, 2004 16:00

• Young people from Karabakh take part in pan-Armenian youth gathering

  The third pan-Armenian youth gathering "Baze - 2004" is taking place in Armenia from 2 to 9 February.

February 03, 2004 15:41

• Picket in support of Rauf Arifoglu expected

  The action is supposed to be held under the slogan "Set Rauf Arifoglu free!" in front of the Prosecutor General's Office on February 5.

February 03, 2004 15:02

• Osetins hold action of protest in front of Georgian Supreme Court

  The goal of the action was to express a protest against discrimination of national minorities and corruption in Georgian judicial bodies.

February 03, 2004 14:22

• Special operation in Berkat-Yurt village

  Even though the two men staying in the house did not offer resistance, Kadyrov's people kept on firing until it became obvious that those people were dead.

February 03, 2004 13:32

• Northern Avenue residents in Yerevan protest against removal and amount of compensation payments

  Protesting against the authorities' policy, the residents formed a committee, which declared the Government's decision to alienate the land-plots for construction anticonstitutional.

February 02, 2004 23:58

• Abkhazian social and political movements and Forum of People's Consent demand to speed up process of working out laws on presidential elections and elections for National Assembly

  The statement issued on January 29 reads: "The society is experiencing a political crisis."

February 02, 2004 23:47

• Local detained in Mesker-Yurt village

  The servicemen in masks and camouflage reportedly rushed at daybreak into the house where the young man lived and took him in an unknown direction without bringing any charges against him.

February 02, 2004 22:52

• Human rights activists to keep eye on Kadyrov

  The agreement on interaction was reached in Grozny during a meeting between Kadyrov, members of the presidential commission and activists of the Human Rights Center "Memorial".