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November 21, 2008 13:25

• Nikoyan: firearms were used on March 1 in Yerevan

  Samvel Nikoyan, Chairman of the ad hoc commission of the National Assembly of Armenia, which was set up to study the events on March 1 in Yerevan, has confirmed in his conversation with journalists the words that he addressed to a foreign correspondent that firearms were used and a sniper worked in the course of the said events.

November 21, 2008 13:20

• Three defendants from Kabardino-Balkaria have their custody extended

  Yesterday, on November 20, the court prolonged the term of custody for three residents of Kabardino-Balkaria, who are kept in Pyatigorsk SIZO, till January 11, 2009. According to advocate Magomed Abubakarov, in the course of investigation the suspects were exposed to violence.

November 21, 2008 13:12

• In Ingushetia, detainees complain of torture by the militia

  Four residents of Ingushetia have stated their illegal arrest and torture at militia units. According to their statement, they were forced into confession of the crime they never committed.

November 21, 2008 13:09

• Judge in Politkovskaya's murder case can be brought to disciplinary responsibility

  Judge Evgeniy Zubov can be brought to disciplinary responsibility, if it is proved that his decision to make the trial of Anna Politkovskaya's murder case closed was illegal.

November 21, 2008 13:06

• Dagestan SC reopens trial of Farid Babaev's murder

  The Supreme Court of Dagestan has made a decision to continue consideration of the murder case of Farid Babaev, leader of the regional branch of "Yabloko" Party in the open regime.

November 21, 2008 13:02

• Trial on Nalchik attack: candidates for jurymen polled

  Today, in the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, at the proceedings on events of October 13, 2005, the prosecution asked questions to candidates for jurymen. A break was made in the trial till November 28, when the defence and prosecution should present their motivated challenges.

November 20, 2008 14:06

• Kramer: USA wait for Azerbaijan to pardon convicted journalists

  The States as a whole are satisfied with the progress in their relations with Azerbaijan, but Washington has some questions which are causing concern. Among them is the situation with the freedom of speech. This was discussed yesterday, on November 19, at the press conference in Baku, which was given by David Kramer, under Secretary of State for democracy, human rights and labour.

November 20, 2008 14:02

• Rostov Military Court denies complaint of soldier's father against decision of NCMD Prosecutor

  The Rostov Garrison Military Court has rejected the complaint of Valery Markaryan, father of a mandatory service soldier, against the decision of the Military Public Prosecutor of the North-Caucasian Military District (NCMD), who had reversed the inspector's decision to initiate a criminal case against officer Alexei Gvozdkov. The latter, according to Markaryan, incited him to bribery for making the verdict to his son more lenient.

November 20, 2008 13:59

• Armenia: Smbat Aivazyan, ex-minister of state revenues, sentenced to two years

  On Wednesday, November 19, the general court of Yerevan communities Kentron and Noek-Marash convicted Smbat Aivazyan, a member of the Board of the "Republic" opposition party and former minister of state revenues, to two years of imprisonment and fined him by 300,000 drams (about 1000 US dollars).

November 20, 2008 13:57

• Trial on Anna Politkovskaya's murder case interrupted till early December

  The Moscow Regional Military Court has announced a break in considering the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", till December 1.

November 20, 2008 13:53

• On March 1, snipers were at work in Yerevan, opposition says

  During the press conference on November 20, Levon Zurabyan, coordinator of the centre of the Armenian National Congress, promulgated an audio record of the interview of Samvel Nikoyan, chairman of the ad hoc parliamentary commission to a foreign journalist, where he said that during the events on March 1 snipers were used in the capital of Armenia.

November 20, 2008 13:48

• Trial on attack on Nalchik continues choosing jurymen

  Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued selecting reserve jurymen for the case on the attack of militants on Nalchik in October 2005.

November 20, 2008 13:46

• Doctor convicted in Sofia Kulivets' case commits suicide in Krasnodar SIZO

  Today at night, at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of Krasnodar, doctor Vladimir Pelipenko, sentenced to eleven months of imprisonment in the case of newborn Sofia Kulivets, whose arm was amputated, has committed suicide.

November 20, 2008 13:41

• Dagestan: independent journalist beaten

  Today, in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in the editorial office of the popular independent weekly "Novoe Delo" (Res Nova), an attempt was made on Gadzhimurat Sagitov, deputy editor-in-chief for development and organizational work.

November 19, 2008 13:36

• Student from North Ossetia killed in mass fight in Moscow

  On November 17, during a fight in a Moscow-based higher school between natives of Ingushetia and North Ossetia, a student from North Ossetia was killed. The capital's militia marks a sharp growth in the number of interethnic conflicts among students.

November 19, 2008 13:33

• Aseev: human rights activists concerned of "spy scare" in South Ossetia

  More and more persons in South Ossetia have been recently accused of treason. However, according to Vissarion Aseev, a public figure and human rights activist from North Ossetia, none of these cases has been brought to the court.

November 19, 2008 13:28

• Anna Politkovskaya's case will be considered behind closed doors

  The process on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya will be held in the closed regime. The court had to make this decision after the jurymen refused to appear in the courtroom in the presence of the press, although no threats against them ever arrived.

November 19, 2008 13:26

• Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan analyses how law enforcers' combat kidnappings

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has analysed the results of the work of the law enforcement bodies of the Republic after 10 months of 2008 in fighting against kidnappings. Under the Office's information, in 2008, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic received 158 messages on kidnappings, of them the majority - 106 applications related to kidnapping of girls with the aim of forced marriage.

November 19, 2008 13:21

• Public figures join hunger strike of political prisoners in Armenia

  Eight members of the "Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners" have stated that they join the protest action of 28 political prisoners who had announced a one-day hunger strike as a protest action against the "hypocritical and inconsistent policy of the Council of Europe."

November 19, 2008 13:17

• HRC "Memorial" to hold press conference "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan"

  On November 24, at 12:15 a.m., the Independent Press Centre will host a press conference of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial": "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan".