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15:14, 31 May 2007

Nato Shavlakadze: reports on reduction of violence in Georgia are made for show of democracy

In May 2007, Anna Zunder-Plazman, an employee of the Amnesty International human rights organization, visited Georgia to gather information on application of violence to citizens by law enforcement bodies and on situation with women in Georgian villages.

13:42, 31 May 2007

Dagestan honours the memory of the victims of executed meeting

On May 30, a mourning meeting was held in Makhachkala to mark one year's anniversary of the shooting of the meeting, where the protesters had demanded resignation of Kerimkhan Abasov, head of the municipal formation "Dokuzparinskiy District."

13:10, 31 May 2007

Georgia: administration of Rustavi Colony No. 2 promises to improve custody conditions of inmates

353 inmates of Rustavi Colony No. 2 kept under strict and general custody regimes applied to the power authorities and OSCE Representative Office in Georgia with a complaint against intolerable custody conditions.

23:38, 30 May 2007

Amnesty act applied to Beslan militiamen will be appealed against

The victims of the Beslan terror act are going to appeal against the court judgement to amnesty the former heads of local militia accused of negligence that entailed the school capture.

19:10, 30 May 2007

Ingush refugees on hunger strike at the Council of Federation in Moscow

28 Ingush refugees have started a hunger strike at the building of the Council of Federation, Amir Bekbuzarov, Chairman of the Committee for the Matters of Forced Migrants from the Republic Northern Ossetia-Alania, reports.

18:20, 30 May 2007

Azerbaijan: trial of ex-Minister for Economic Development starts

The Court for Heavy Crimes has started the proceedings on the case of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister for Economic Development of Azerbaijan, and 18 other persons, including his brother Rafik Aliev, former president of the Azpetrol oil company.

15:50, 30 May 2007

European Court rules in favour of Russian Chernobyl liquidators

Lawyer Oksana Suprunova who defended the interests of a group of Bataisk Chernobyl liquidators at the Strasbourg Court told that the European Court for Human Rights had concluded that the cancellation of the lower court instance's ruling in favour of Chernobyl liquidators by the supervisory instance was a breach of the human right for a fair trial.

14:30, 30 May 2007

Parishioners who suffered in Dagestan mosque have no claims to militia

Tonight the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent had a meeting in the "Yuzhnaya" mosque with the parishioners - victims of the incident on March 30, 2007.

12:46, 30 May 2007

Another opposition paper stopped in Azerbaijan

Today, the last issue of the "Baky Khabar" newspaper has appeared in Azerbaijan: its publication will be suspended for indefinite time, said editor-in-chief Aidyn Guliev.

23:22, 29 May 2007

Court judgement to amnesty the militiamen figuring in the case of Beslan terror act was announced in the absence of victims and defendants

For the second time today, the victims have disrupted the announcement by the court of its judgement on the amnesty petition filed by three militiamen accused of negligence in the case of Beslan terror act. They were indignant at the judge's double attempt to announce the judgement in the absence of the defendants.

20:37, 29 May 2007

Chechnya's authorities want to return home the refugees remaining in Georgia

Currently, Georgia hosts a joint working group of the Chechen government and the FMS (Federal Migration Service) of Russia involved in resolving the problems related to homecoming of forced migrants from the Chechen Republic who had left their homes with the start of the "counterterrorist operation."

15:14, 29 May 2007

Estemirova: Chechnya is replete with falsified cases on participation in illegal armed formations

Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen Branch of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial," has stated that the cases when employees of power agencies, while imitating their fight against militants, are goofing on innocent people in Chechnya are "as many as one wishes."

13:14, 29 May 2007

"Memorial" Society tells on terror and distortions of Putin's policies

The Corriere della Sera newspaper has retold the manifesto of the Moscow Human Rights Society "Memorial," with which the Society presents itself to the Oslo Jury - the "Memorial" has been nominated for this year's Nobel Peace Prize.

11:43, 29 May 2007

Moscow refutes information on student's confession of murder of 37 natives of Caucasus

The investigators deny the nationalist character of the massacres of "Caucasians" in Moscow, allegedly accomplished by two students from the Russian capital.

22:13, 28 May 2007

Trial on Ulman's case will continue without three defendants

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court has made a decision to go on with proceedings despite the absence of three out of the four defendants - Eduard Ulman, Vladimir Voevodin and Alexander Kalaganskiy (only defendant Alexei Perelevskiy is present in the courtroom).

21:07, 28 May 2007

On June 6, the court will consider the cassation of Mikhail Trepashkin's defence on custody toughening

On June 6, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court will consider the cassation appeal against the decision of the Tagilstroj District Court of the city of Nizhni Tagil of March 9, 2007, according to which the custody regime for Mikhail Trepashkin, a political prisoner serving his term at the Correction Colony (IK-13), was toughened (transfer from settlement-colony into general regime colony).

20:48, 28 May 2007

Russian CC to consider the complaint of the relatives of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation (RF) has made a decision to consider, with participation of representatives of the parties, the appeal of the parents of the militants who died on October 13, 2005, in Nalchik.

20:39, 28 May 2007

Izmailov: two residents of Chechnya are Politkovskaya's killers

Anna Politkovskaya's colleagues from the "Novaya Gazeta" have progressed a lot in their investigation and found it necessary to tell the story. "We have identified the customers of the murder," Vyacheslav Izmailov, a former officer of the Russian Army, now a journalist of the newspaper engaged in the investigation, says.

19:24, 28 May 2007

Schoolboy confesses of murdering dozens of Caucasian natives

A scandalous case about crimes committed on motives of national hatred is investigated by the Public Prosecutor's Office of the South-West District of Moscow: a young skinhead has confessed of murdering 37 persons, including Caucasian natives.

18:57, 28 May 2007

Russia receives documents on Lugovoj's extradition to Great Britain

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has received and delivered to the State Office of Public Prosecutor the documents on extradition of Russian businessman Andrei Lugovoj accused by the British authorities of murdering FSB ex-officer Alexander Litvinenko.

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