News

November 08, 2003 09:49

• Editorial staff of "ArmeniaNow" on-line weekly concerned over threats to journalist

  On November 4, John Hughes, editor-in-chief of the on-line weekly "ArmeniaNow" and director of the "New Time" Journalism Training Center, addressed a letter to Armenian Military Prosecutor Gagik Jangirian.

November 08, 2003 09:11

• Opposition supporters was fired at meeting in Zugdidi

  Before the meeting had begun, the gunmen - about 30 people - opened fire from submachine guns and a grenade launcher.

November 08, 2003 08:54

• Opposition in Georgia rejected election results

  The Burdjanadze - Democrats opposition bloc led by Parliament Speaker Nino Burdjanadze said they would not recognize the results of the parliament election of November 2 and would abstain from working in the new parliament.

November 07, 2003 23:23

• Revival Union intends to launch manifestation in Tbilisi

  Supporters of the Revival Union, led by Ajarian leader Aslan Abashidze, are gathered today in the Philharmonic Hall in the center of Tbilisi to celebrate the success in the November 2 parliamentary elections.

November 06, 2003 23:50

• There is "apparent lack of political will" in Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, hold OSCE and CoE leaders

  "Despite considerable pre-electoral assistance from the Council of Europe and OSCE, the elections held in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in 2003 did not meet international standards due to an apparent lack of political will in these countries," stated CoE/OSCE meeting participants.

November 06, 2003 23:41

• Election observer was detained in Ajaria

  Election observer from the Georgian Young Lawyers Association Giorgi Mshvenieradze was detained by the Ajarian authorities on November 2, while he was monitoring the elections in Kobuleti; he was sentenced to three-month pre-trail detention.

November 06, 2003 23:39

• Ruling Georgian bloc faces possible split

  "I have no intention of cooperating with the Government, whose members have all proved to be cowardly rabbits. It's immoral when the street opposition keeps demanding that voting results be rigged, and when the Government agrees to do this," said Irina Sarishvili-Chanturia, one of the leaders of the ruling pro-presidential "For New Georgia" bloc.

November 06, 2003 23:36

• Georgian opposition is preparing to mobilize its supporters

  After presenting an ultimatum to President Eduard Shevarnadze, leader of the National Movement opposition bloc Mikhail Saakashvili urged the crowd in front of the Central Election Commission's building to disperse and to get ready for mobilization.

November 06, 2003 18:05

• Alkhan-Yurt: four students were detained

  On November 4, 2003 in the village of Alkhan-Yurt, Chechnya's Urus-Martan district, Russian security agents, jointly with officers of Chechen Interior Ministry, arbitrary detained and took in an unknown direction four residents of this village.

November 06, 2003 17:21

• Activity of some international humanitarian organizations in camps of IDPs in Ingushetia attracted close attention of FSB

  Ingush Migration Service head Ivan Pomeschenko announced it. According to him, close checks of the humanitarian missions' activity will start as early as just after the New Year's Day.

November 06, 2003 17:07

• Civil society and problems of Chechnya

  Participants in the All-Russian Conference of Civil Society Organizations that took place in Moscow on October 26-28 have published their resume.

November 06, 2003 16:43

• Chechen National Rescue Committee chairman sued Ingush Migration Service Department acting head

  The Chechen human rights activist considers Ivan Pomeschenko is to be called to account for his public defamatory allegations and offences against him.

November 06, 2003 11:25

• New meeting was held in Tbilisi, with 5 thousand people being participants

  The demonstrators supported the demand to Georgian President Eduard Shevarnadze to cease garbling parliamentary election results and acknowledge a victory of "National Movement" led by Mikhail Saakashvili.

November 06, 2003 11:24

• Georgian Interior Ministry instituted criminal action against opposition leaders

  According to Interior Minister Koba Narchemashvili, the police do their best to keep up order. And the use of force is not excluded if necessary.

November 06, 2003 11:21

• Discord between Georgian opposition activists: one part calls upon the other to refrain from holding protest actions

  Leader of the opposition bloc "New Rules" David Gamkrelidze said it was inadmissible "to show muscles so that to put pressure on the Central Election Commission."

November 05, 2003 23:21

• Statement of Scientific and Information Center "Memorial" concerning rejection of former political prisoner Yuli Ribakov's registration as candidate for State Duma Deputy chair

  The statement reads, "A new totalitarian regime has been finally established in the country today. The KGB officer, dictator, who has unleashed state terror in the country, is at the head of it. The methods are still the same: falsification and elimination. And we have no choice but to defend out civil stand and independence."

November 05, 2003 22:52

• Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia offers cooperation in special report preparation

  As it is known, when the Commissioner presented a report on his activity in 2002 at a round table, he came to the agreement with NGO leaders that their organizations would take part in the preparation of the Commissioner's reports.

November 05, 2003 17:40

• Internews protests against monopolization of electronic media by authorities

  Yesterday Internews' Media Rights Institute made a statement regarding the monopolization of Azerbaijan electronic media by the authorities.

November 05, 2003 17:02

• Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship volunteer was released

  On November 1, 2003, the Information Center of the Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship received a report that Zairkhanov Ibragim (Rustam) Zelimkhanovich, 1979, was released on October 29, 2003.

November 05, 2003 15:43

• Alan Chochiev continues hunger strike in prison

  Information and analytical Internet agency "Caucasian Knot" keeps on watching the situation with the arrest of Alan Chochiev, the well-know South Osetian public figure.