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December 11, 2007 22:29

• Gadzhily: over 1000 defamation trials held in Azerbaijan this year

  During 2007, over 100 court trials took place in Azerbaijan on defamation charges initiated by personal accusation or in the civil order of litigations.

December 11, 2007 22:04

• In Azerbaijan journalists join Ganimat Zakhidov's hunger strike

  More and more Azerbaijani journalists join the hunger strike of inmate Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

December 11, 2007 22:02

• "Imedi" TV Channel to restart broadcasting with restrictions

  At first, the news programs of the "Imedi" TV Channel will be broadcast in Georgia not on the hourly basis but once every three hours.

December 11, 2007 21:50

• Verdict on Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case to be announced in Rostov-on-Don on December 25

  At the process on the case Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three residents of Chechnya in 2003, which is held by the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the debate of the parties has ended.

December 11, 2007 20:56

• US embassy people meet released journalist Nasibov in Azerbaijan

  Today in Nakhichevan, representatives of the US embassy to Azerbaijan have met Ilgar Nasibov, Radio Liberty correspondent, who was released yesterday, on December 10.

December 10, 2007 18:35

• Association of Abkhazian Women demands ensuring women's rights legislatively

  The problems of family violence were discussed at the roundtable held by the Association of Abkhazian Women (AAW) under the UN action "16 days of active actions against violence on women".

December 10, 2007 18:33

• Relatives of Zeitun Gaev from Kabardino-Balkaria disbelieve in his suicide

  Muzafar Gaev, father of Zeitun Gaev from the village of Gerpegezh, Kabardino-Balkaria, has filed application to different instances asserting that Zeitun Gaev could not have committed suicide.

December 10, 2007 18:31

• Employee of Radio Liberty released in Azerbaijan

  Today, the Nakhichevan City Court of Azerbaijan has passed a decision to release Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist of Radio Liberty, from under arrest.

December 10, 2007 18:25

• Four persons suspected of blowing up the bus in Stavropol Territory

  On December 9 a route "Ikarus" model bus that performed a trip Pyatigorsk-Stavropol arrived to the bus station of the city of Nevinnomyssk. Most of its passengers went out of the bus, and an explosion thundered in the rear section of the bus that killed two passengers.

December 10, 2007 18:20

• Kidnapped local resident searched in Chechnya

  The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are searching the persons who kidnapped at night of December 8 a local resident right from his own house in the city of Grozny.

December 10, 2007 18:17

• Court of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria obliges the prosecutor's office to eliminate its violations in criminal case on the fact of tortures of Kudaev

  The Nalchik City Court has recognized the decision of Nalchik prosecutor's office to reject initiation of a criminal case on the fact of application of violence in relation to Rasul Kudaev to be illegal and unreasonable and has obliged the prosecutor's office to eliminate the admitted violations.

December 08, 2007 14:41

• Nukhazhiev: attack on pilgrims in North Ossetia had its "producer"

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for Chechnya, has called on the law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia to bring all those involved in the attack on pilgrims from Chechnya - both performers and organizers - to responsibility.

December 08, 2007 14:39

• Sozar Subari: Georgia has "prisoners of conscience"

  In the opinion of Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari, there are "prisoners of conscience" in Georgia.

December 08, 2007 14:27

• Editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper arrested in Azerbaijan goes on hunger strike

  Today, Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who is in custody, has begun his termless hunger strike with a demand to stop suppression of the freedom of press in Azerbaijan.

December 08, 2007 14:22

• Council of Europe is concerned with arrest of Radio Liberty journalist in Azerbaijan

  Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has addressed the Azerbaijani authorities in connection with the arrest in Nakhichevan of Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist of Radio Liberty.

December 07, 2007 11:30

• Moslems from Chechnya beaten in North Ossetia

  Pilgrims from Chechnya who were making their way to Saudi Arabia were beaten in North Ossetia.

December 07, 2007 11:23

• Organization that helps refugees in Stavropol Territory wins Putin's grant

  The "Solidarity" Stavropol organization for rendering help to refugees and forced migrants has won a grant instituted by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, thanks to which they plan to develop the legal aid system to migrants residing in the Stavropol Territory.

December 07, 2007 11:19

• Opposition held a rally in memory of November 7 in the capital of Georgia

  Today, the "Equality Institute" and members of youth oppositional organizations have held a rally in the Riket Square of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in memory of dispersal of the meeting on November 7.

December 07, 2007 11:16

• Georgia: Sozar Subari demands to initiate a case on the fact of pogrom at "Imedi"

  Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia, has informed today that he demands to initiate a criminal case on the fact of pogrom of the oppositional "Imedi" TV Company.

December 07, 2007 11:13

• Police rummages the office of the Resource Centre for Human Rights in Azerbaijan

  In the city of Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan), the police have searched the office of the Resource Centre for Human Rights and confiscated computers and documents.