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September 09, 2003 23:37

• Azerbaijanians in Georgia are demanding settlement of social problems

  On September 8 residents of the Jandara village in Eastern Georgia, mainly ethnic Azerbaijanians, held a rally protesting against local authorities.

September 09, 2003 23:36

• Opposition members scuffled with police in Baku

  Members of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party clashed with police in Baku on Monday. The incident occurred in front of the Baku police headquarters.

September 09, 2003 20:57

• Five young Chechens were captured and taken away in unknown direction in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village

  To all appearances, the unsanctioned detention of Kerimov, Patsayev, and Idigov is a way to put pressure upon Vagap Tutakov, the special representative of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the PACE.

September 09, 2003 20:56

• Armenia must respect rules of Council of Europe, including those for death penalty abolition, says representative of this organization

  Ziman Christoph noted Armenia had joined the Council of Europe voluntarily and undertaken concrete obligations, so it must respect the rules of this organization, including those for the unconditional death penalty abolition.

September 09, 2003 17:32

• Chechen human rights activists are going to boycott presidential election

  They made such a decision at the meeting of Chechen non-government organizations in Nazran on September 7.

September 09, 2003 17:28

• Second court sitting on case of "Kavkaz-Center" was held in Vilnius

  Having briefly examined the course of the mission execution, the judge decided to carry over the date of the sitting for three weeks.

September 09, 2003 17:13

• Special representative of UN Secretary-General is getting acquainted with state of IDPs in Russia

  As the Secretary-General's official representative informed, Deng is visiting Russia on September 8-12 by the invitation of the Russian government.

September 09, 2003 17:11

• Picket near Solovetsky stone devoted to Chechnya's Independence Day

  Seven members of the Russian Movement for Chechen Independence demonstrated in central Moscow on September 6.

September 09, 2003 17:08

• Amnesty International: large Chechnya Film Festival in US

  Film festival organizers include human rights organizations known in the world. As the organizers of the Festival inform, the aim of this large-scale action is to acquaint world public with the best independent and not politically booked films about war in Chechnya.

September 08, 2003 20:01

• OSCE will assist Georgia to curb torture

  Top government officials and representatives of non-government organizations of Georgia agreed on the National Action Plan against Torture for 2003-2005, the OSCE Mission in Georgia reported on September 7.

September 08, 2003 19:25

• Efforts aimed to help under age people suffered in armed conflicts are being coordinated in Stavropol

  The Stavropol region's Center for Social Aid to the Family and Children became one of the seven regional centers of the Russian Federation which were entrusted to develop socially important programs.

September 08, 2003 19:24

• Extrajudicial execution of Yandi-Kotar's resident

  On the night of September 2, 2003 Russian servicemen killed local resident Mukhtarov Umar in the village of Yandi-Kotar of the Achkhoy-Martan region.

September 08, 2003 19:22

• A day before presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia voter's aye cost 600 rubles

  Mass subornation of voters by candidate Mustafa Batdyev were fixed during the election, reported Mikhail Arutyunov, the President of the International Assembly for Human Rights Protection, international observer accredited by the Russian Central Election Commission.

September 08, 2003 19:20

• Azerbaijan opposition accuses police

  About 150 policemen broke up the unsanctioned meeting of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, tens of the picketers being injured.

September 08, 2003 19:18

• Governor of Kuban declares war on illegal migrants and promises to win

  "We will pursue them until they leave, no matter where," declared Aleksandr Tkachyov.

September 08, 2003 19:16

• Ella Pamfilova visited camps of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia

  A delegation of Russian human rights defenders led by Ella Pamfilova, the chairwoman of President Putin's Commission on Human Rights, paid a visit to refugee camps in Ingushetia, primarily to the Bella camp. According to Pamfilova, their aim was "to see for themselves what the current situation in the camps was."

September 08, 2003 19:12

• People of Khambi-Irze village demand to put end to night raids of military forces

  People from the village of Khambi-Irze (Lermontovo) in the Achkhoy-Martan district rallied on the Rostov-Baku road on September 5 demanding to put an end to the night raids of various military and police forces, which result in civilian "disappearances".

September 08, 2003 15:26

• Residents of Azerbaijan village may be expelled from republic for their support of opposition

  Representatives of the ruling Yeni Azerbaijan Party threatened to deport residents of the Cherkibogan village of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic's Sharur region (Azerbaijan) in case they supported opposition candidates at the presidential elections.

September 08, 2003 13:00

• Armenia is ready to provide movement on Armenian-Turkish railroad

  "It is up to the Turkish authorities to make a political decision and the railroad will start working", noted Armenian Minister of Transport and Communications Andranik Manukian.

September 08, 2003 12:55

• Stanislav Ilyasov is going to report to English court that all pensions have been paid out in Chechnya

  "Rybkin, Yakunin and Kovalyov present everything in the way as if nothing is being done in the republic. I am going to disprove it. Of course, there are several facts of human rights violations, but we do not say that everything is smooth", remarked Ilyasov.