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May 03, 2006 09:12

• Human rights activists: people are tortured in illegal prisons in Chechnya

  Illegal custodies in Chechnya, according to mass media and human rights activists, are located also in the territory of the Operations and Search Bureau of the North-Caucasian Operations Department of the Chief Administration of the MIA of Russia in the South Federal District ("OSB-2") in Grozny and Russian Military Base in Khankala, and in some other places where power units are deployed.

May 03, 2006 09:05

• In Moscow, the record of dispersal of the meeting in Dagestan was demonstrated

  Today, at the press conference in Moscow, human rights activists demonstrated video materials evidencing the shooting by the authorities of a peaceful demonstration in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25.

May 03, 2006 08:58

• Parliament of Chechnya demands to close the isolation facility at the OSB-2

  The deputies of the parliament of the Chechen Republic addressed the leadership of the MIA of Russia with a letter, in which they recommend to close the temporary isolator custody (TIC) at the Operations and Searching Bureau (OSB-2).

May 02, 2006 22:18

• In Dagestan, the independent car park is still blocked

  Information has appeared in Dagestan media that the Limited Liability Company (LLC) "RDR" resumes its work.

May 02, 2006 22:13

• In Chechnya, European human rights activists were let to Tsentoroj

  A delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures, headed by Mauro Palma, deputy chairman of the Committee, visited today the village of Tsentoroj - the family village of Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen government.

May 02, 2006 21:13

• Over 20 residents of the village of Tsentoroj kidnapped in Chechnya

  According to the information obtained from local citizens, during several latest days in the village of Tsentoroj (Chechnya), over 20 persons were kidnapped by armed soldiers in camouflage suits and taken to unknown places.

May 02, 2006 21:09

• Chechnya is visited by a delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures

  In the first half of May 2, the president of Chechnya received in Grozny Mauro Palma, head of the delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures.

May 02, 2006 21:05

• In Chechnya, human rights activists were not let to the family village of the Kadyrovs

  Mauro Palma, head of the delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures, which is now in Chechnya, says that they were not let to Tsentoroj.

May 02, 2006 08:49

• In Georgia, NGOs demand to hold an objective investigation into Girgvliani's murder

  Representatives of the non-governmental organization "Institute for Equal Rights" (Georgia) have held today a peaceful protest action in Tbilisi Shardeni Street, where in January an incident took place entailing death of Sandro Girgvliani, 28 years old.

May 02, 2006 08:43

• Azerbaijan has no political prisoners, representatives of the authorities think

  The problem of political prisoners is outside the agenda of the authorities of Azerbaijan.

May 01, 2006 21:00

• Meeting against despotism of power bodies held in Beslan

  Beslan (North Ossetia) was a venue of a several thousand strong meeting against abuse of power by law enforcement bodies.

April 29, 2006 20:58

• Azerbaijan denies any CIA prisons in its territory

  Azerbaijan rejected the information about secret CIA prisons located in its territory.

April 29, 2006 20:54

• In Chechnya, a local citizen was kidnapped and shot dead by unknown persons

  In Chechnya, unknown persons have kidnapped and killed a local citizen, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic informed today.

April 28, 2006 20:48

• "Nezavisimaya Gazeta": temporary residence centres (TRCs) of Chechnya are in better order that the streets of Grozny

  Despite declarations of Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, that the women living in temporary residence centres (TRCs) "have forgotten what is housekeeping and house work, and would not take a brush," the tent camps are in better order that the central cities of Grozny, the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" (Independent Newspaper).

April 28, 2006 15:50

• In Ingushetia, one of the refugees detained in Ordzhonikidzevskaya settlement released

  On April 25, in the course of operative-search actions in temporary residence centres of refugees in the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of the Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, two forced migrants from the Chechen Republic - Bislan Maaev, born in 1981, and Aslambek Ahmedov, born in 1968, were detained.

April 28, 2006 15:45

• Chernobyl liquidators of Rostov-on-Don think that money payouts instead of privileges is a government's deceit

  Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident implications from Rostov-on-Don think that replacement of privileges for monetary payments is another deception of the government.

April 28, 2006 15:42

• Sergey Enikolopov: closing refugees' camps in Chechnya is fair to some extent

  Experts think that Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction to liquidate Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) refugees may be fair to some extent.

April 28, 2006 15:33

• Human rights activists protest against closing refugees' camps in Chechnya

  According to human rights activists, authorities of Chechnya have started to close regional Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) of forced migrants who have no other roof over their head.

April 28, 2006 15:28

• In Azerbaijan, they wait for another pardon decree

  Before May 28 - the Republic Day - Ilkham Aliev, president of Azerbaijan, may sign another Pardon Decree. Elmira Akhundova, MP and member of the Pardon Commission under the president of the Republic, told about it in her talk with journalists.

April 27, 2006 15:24

• In Azerbaijan, the Committee Against Tortures visited disciplinary battalion

  Elchin Bekhbudov, chairman of the Committee Against Tortures in Azerbaijan, jointly with Bairam Sadykhov, his deputy, conducted a monitoring of the disciplinary battalion located in the Salianskiy District and subordinated to the Chief Administration of Military Police.