News

August 29, 2003 14:03

• Yesterday night there was raid on rooms of Russian Commissioner for Human Rights Oleg Mironov

  Staff officials believe the robbery was premeditated because the second round of the election to the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation is to be held in September.

August 29, 2003 14:00

• Court acquitted oppositionist

  The Court of Appeal demanded that former Interior Minister Abdulla Allakhverdiev should prove that Azerbaijan National Independence Party Chairman Etibar Mamedov, one of the presidential contenders for the election lying ahead in October, was making for the Armenian occupation of the Lachinsky region of Azerbaijan or refute his words in the next issue of the Palitra newspaper.

August 29, 2003 13:58

• New Russian OSCE Minsk Group co-chairman is awaited in Baku

  The leadership of Azerbaijan assumes that the forthcoming change of the Russian OSCE Minsk group co-chairman will not affect the process of the Karabah conflict settlement.

August 29, 2003 11:00

• Civil rights activists has sued Central Election Commission

  The GYLA and other human rights advocacy organizations protest against the ruling adopted by the CEC on August 25, which defines the principles of coverage of the election process by the state and private mass media.

August 28, 2003 22:54

• Teachers and doctors of Ust-Donetsk held meeting of protest

  The Committee of the Russian Communist Party in the Rostov region says that people are displeased with the fact that this year they have been deprived of their privileges for housing and public utilities payments for the second time already.

August 28, 2003 22:52

• Slave-trader from Azerbaijan has been arrested in Novocherkassk

  A city resident addressed officials of the Novocherkassk Department for Struggle against Organized Crime. She said that her daughter was in the Arabian Emirates where she was forced to work as a prostitute. They started to check this information and found out that the girl managed to go abroad under the patronage of an Azerbaijan citizen.

August 28, 2003 22:50

• OSCE plans to hold regular monitoring on Armenian-Azerbaijan border

  The last OSCE monitoring was foiled by shooting on August 19.

August 28, 2003 22:48

• US wants to help Armenia to buy flats for refugees

  Over 300 thousand people fled from Azerbaijan to Armenia during the Karabah conflict in 1988-1991. Many of them still have no permanent residence.

August 28, 2003 22:46

• Group of public figures and human rights activists has spoken in defense of former head of Mozdok hospital Artur Arakelyan

  "A doctor who had taken on the responsibilities of the hospital head three weeks before the explosion can not be responsible for what happened", reads the statement.

August 28, 2003 22:45

• Kuban ecological organizations has launched campaign against construction of port "Zhelezny Rog" in Taman

  A meeting of protest against the ammoniac terminal of the corporation "TogliattiAzot" and the port "Zhelezny Rog" will take place in the center of Taman on August 31.

August 28, 2003 15:17

• Suspects of organization of Krasnodar explosions has been detained

  This was reported by the head of the Interior Department of the Krasnodar region Sergey Kucheruk after the meeting of the Regional Security Council.

August 28, 2003 15:15

• Despotism of Russian servicemen at block-post "Kavkaz-1"

  At about noon on August 25, 2003, Russian servicemen seized identity cards of two members of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" during the inspection of motor transport at the block-post "Kavkaz-1".

August 28, 2003 15:14

• Russian servicemen terrorize residents of Khattuny village

  "We'll soon slay all of your men here and your women will have to marry us for nobody is left here", said the servicemen.

August 28, 2003 15:12

• Convicts almost do not appeal for pardon

  Another meeting of the Regional Pardon Commission took place.

August 28, 2003 13:31

• Akhmad Kadirov - 1st registered candidate for Chechen presidency

  This was disclosed by Chechnya's Central Election Commission Secretary Ela Vakhitov on Wednesday.

August 28, 2003 13:29

• Suspects of assassination of Minister Gusayev has been established

  Acting top prosecutor of Dagestan Magomed Abdulkhalikov told it at a news conference.

August 27, 2003 23:57

• Libraries of penitentiary institutions of Nagorny Karabah are enriched

  On August 26, members of the Karabah non-government human rights organization "Center of Civil Initiatives" (CCI) visited the Reformatory and Labor Institution of the Interior Ministry of the Nogorno-Karabah Republic (NKR). They handed 150 books over to the Institution's administration.

August 27, 2003 23:56

• Central Election Commission of Georgia has declared moratorium for politicians' media appearances in 50 days before election

  The opposition and experts qualify this resolution of the Central Election Commission as a limitation of freedom of mass media and political activity.

August 27, 2003 23:55

• Chechen women are picketing government buildings

  The women protest against the night abductions of people that go on. In the case in question the matter concerns electricians from the villages of Makhkety and Tovzeni that were taken away in armored personnel carriers in an unknown direction over 10 days ago.

August 27, 2003 23:52

• Azerbaijanians complain to European Court

  The number of complaints to the European Court of Human Rights from Azerbaijan has approached 600. This was alleged by the Azerbaijan representative in the European Court of Human Rights Khanlar Gajiev.