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October 18, 2003 13:33

• Elections in Azerbaijan: post-election clashes turn deadly

  From the roof of a nearby building, a Human Rights Watch researcher saw police and military troops chase down protesters, surround them and viciously beat them.

October 18, 2003 13:27

• Minister of Defense of Nagorny Karabakh: "The election of Ilkham Aliyev as President of Azerbaijan will lead to the progress in the Karabakh settlement"

  The minister stressed that the truce on the contact line of the Azerbaijan-Karabakh conflict was sustained mainly due to the balance of military forces, which was to a large extent conditioned by the level of economic development of the conflict parties.

October 18, 2003 11:03

• On the whole, penitentiary institutions of Nagorny Karabakh meet international standards

  The Karabakh non-government organization Center of Civil Initiatives continues to monitor penitentiary institutions of Nagorny Karabakh.

October 17, 2003 18:21

• Discussion about mechanisms of implementation of Law "On Freedom of Information" took place in Yerevan

  The Law "On Freedom of information" recently adopted by the National Assembly of Armenia is progressive. It is only necessary that mechanisms of its implementation should be worked out. This was noted at the round-table meeting organized by the Association of Investigative Journalists on October 15.

October 17, 2003 18:19

• Champion of law observance declared to be police wanted

  On October 13 Panakh Kerimov, an election committee member, handed over a ballot illegally marked in favor of Aliyev to political parties, local and international human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch, as evidence of the crime. On October 14 police hemmed in and blocked Kerimov?s house.

October 17, 2003 17:26

• Crisis Center has been created

  Violent clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Azerbaijan left at least three civilians dead and hundreds wounded just one day after the falsified presidential elections of October 15.

October 17, 2003 16:30

• List of journalists suffered in clashes in Baku

  The Turan Information Agency published a list of journalists who were covering things happening in Baku and were beaten by the police.

October 17, 2003 16:26

• Aslan Maskhadov appealed to Chechen non-government organizations

  In Maskhadov's opinion, the Kremlin's policy in Chechnya aimed at settling the war conflict by means of armed forces has ended in a complete fiasco.

October 17, 2003 15:10

• Dozens of local and foreign journalists were beaten by interior troops soldiers in Baku

  The soldiers drove the journalists who were on the tribune into a corner and start trampling and batoning them.

October 17, 2003 14:37

• Appeal to OSCE Human Dimension Implementation Meeting participants

  "For the last three years those civil society activists who incurred the authorities' anger for any of several reasons have become a target of state repressions in the form of unconcealed judicial despotism and torture keeping conditions," reads the appeal.

October 16, 2003 19:57

• Opposition doesn't recognize Ilkham Aliyev's victory

  The capital's prosecutor's office has instituted criminal proceedings against 15 activists of the Musavat party on the accusation of public order violations and resistance to the police. In response, the Musavat party begins mass protests from today and states it will fight for its voters until the end.

October 16, 2003 19:00

• Statement of Federation of Azerbaijan's Human Rights Organizations

  The statement reads, "The preliminary analysis of information received is evidence that numerous violations on election day completed the picture of mass breaches, violence and lawlessness with which all the presidential election campaign was accompanied and of which the Federation repeatedly informed local public, the mass media and international organizations."

October 16, 2003 18:50

• Round table as attempt to find mutual understanding between representatives of public organizations and power organs of Ingushetia

  A round table for representatives of public organizations and power organs was arranged in the Sleptsovskaya village, Ingushetia, on October 11.

October 16, 2003 18:46

• Chechen Election Commission proclaimed results of republican presidential elections

  "The Election Commission of the Chechen Republic has not received complaints and applications on breaches of the electoral legislation that could have influenced voters' will", reads a resolution promulgated by the commission.

October 16, 2003 18:45

• Greenpeace hopes to save Sochi National Park from functionaries

  The activists of Greenpeace demanded that the ministry's leadership should fulfill tasks on the reserve system development determined by the law, but should not contribute to the destruction of reserves.

October 16, 2003 17:13

• Round table discussion "Karabakh Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"

  Consolidation of all sections of the Azerbaijan society and mobilization of all material and human resources is also needed so as to find a way out of the conflict as fast as possible.

October 16, 2003 14:44

• British experts reckoned casualties of Russian forces in Chechnya

  Russian forces have suffered more casualties in the past year in Chechnya than at any time since war resumed in 1999. Such data are given by the International Institute for Strategic Studies located in Great Britain.

October 16, 2003 14:42

• Azerbaijan election commission declared Aliyev Jr. president elect

  "The majority voted for Aliyev Junior, so there will be no second round. Ilkham Aliyev is president now," the election commission's press secretary Azer Sariyev told a news conference in Baku Thursday.

October 16, 2003 13:26

• Chechen journalist was deported to Germany and released there

  Said-Magomed Khachukayev was arrested by Belgium authorities several days ago and was imprisoned without arraignment and any explanation.

October 16, 2003 12:58

• Camps of Chechen refugees will likely be unblocked

  Members of international humanitarian organizations, human rights activists, journalists and even relatives of the displaced persons living in the tent camps "Satsita", "Alina" and "Sputnik" in Ingushetia's Sunzha district have not been admitted to these camps for the last two or three weeks.