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November 01, 2007 13:36

• "Voice of Beslan" to appeal against court ruling on victims' complaint against inspectors

  The "Voice of Beslan" public organization of terror act victims has filed a cassation complaint to the ruling of the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia, which had rejected the complaint of the victims on the actions of the investigatory group engaged in investigating the Beslan tragedy.

November 01, 2007 13:33

• Ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment

  The Azerbaijani Court for Grave Crimes has finalized, under the presidency of Judge Tofik Pashaev, the litigation on the case of ex-Minister of Economic Development of Farkhad Aliev and 18 more persons, accused of crimes under various articles of the Criminal Code.

November 01, 2007 13:29

• Opposition: Bacho Akhalaya's people stand behind Okruashvili's exclusion from Georgia

  Irakliy Okruashvili was going to take part in the meeting on November 2, but under a threat of arrest he was forced to leave Georgia by subordinates of Bacho Akhalaya, head of the Department for Enforcing Punishments under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

October 31, 2007 14:07

• Meeting at Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded release of political prisoners

  On October 30, about two hundred Moscow residents who rallied near the Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded that the Kremlin immediate release political prisoners and paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the repressions during the totalitarian Soviet regime.

October 31, 2007 14:01

• Russian-Chechen Friendship Society got registered in Finland

  On October 30, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RChFS) was officially registered in Finland. The RChFS registered in Finland is in fact completely reproducing the RChFS that was forbidden in Russia.

October 31, 2007 13:59

• Georgia: "Imedi" TV Company sold to media magnate Rupert Murdock

  Entrepreneur Badri Patarkatsishvili has sold his controlling stake in the "Imedi" Georgian TV Company to American media magnate Rupert Murdock. The businessman has explained that he did it to protect the TV Company from pressure.

October 31, 2007 13:51

• Committee in defence of journalist Fatullaev's rights to hold a support meeting in Azerbaijan

  The 157-strong committee in defence of Einullah Fatullaev's rights has adopted a statement condemning the verdict of the Court for Grave Crimes to the journalist.

October 31, 2007 12:57

• Kon-Bendit: we cannot help residents of Northern Caucasus because we are banned free entrance to the Russian Federation

  The problems created by Russian authorities for entering Russia and the ones connected with the freedom of travel inside the country are depriving the western public figures of a chance to render their help to residents of Northern Caucasus.

October 31, 2007 12:51

• US Embassy in Azerbaijan resumes its work

  Today all the employees of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan are at work, and all the divisions operate to the full scale.

October 31, 2007 12:32

• All the bus explosion casualties in Tolyatti identified

  All the victims of the explosion of the passenger bus in Tolyatti have been identified. The majority of them were students of the Tolyatti State University.

October 30, 2007 16:06

• Russians mark Memory Day of Victims of Political Repressions

  Today, citizens of Russia mark the Memory Day of the victims of political repressions of 1937, instituted by the Decree of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet of 18.10.1991 No. 1763/1-I "On Instituting the Memory Day of Victims of Political Repressions".

October 30, 2007 16:03

• Sozar Subari: justice works selectively in Georgia

  National Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia Sozar Subari has named the decision of Zugdidi Court on the events in Zugdidi during the oppositional meeting on October 28 to be another shameful fact in the history of Georgian justice.

October 30, 2007 15:59

• Azerbaijan: US, Great Britain Embassies and offices of western companies are afraid of terror acts

  In Azerbaijan, because of terrorist threats, Embassies of the USA and Great Britain, as well as offices of western companies are still closed.

October 30, 2007 15:49

• Rehabilitation problems of prisoners discussed in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The Centre of Civil Initiatives (CCI) in Nagorno-Karabakh has hosted a roundtable on psychological rehabilitation of prisoners, their problems during the arrest and post-prison social adaptation.

October 30, 2007 15:38

• Student from Adygea who placed video with execution in the Internet asks to stop his case

  The student from Adygea, who had placed in the Internet a video record showing execution of Dagestan and Tajikistan natives, has asked the court to stop his case because of his repentance.

October 30, 2007 15:34

• Journalist Fatullaev sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment in Azerbaijan

  Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", has been sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment.

October 29, 2007 13:28

• The action "Return of the Names" starts at the Solovki Boulder

  The action "Return of the Names" in memory of the victims of political repressions has started in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow.

October 29, 2007 13:25

• Committee in Trepashkin's defence: deprivation of the patient of vitally required medicines is inhuman

  The public committee in defence of political prisoner advocate Mikhail Trepashkin has called inhuman the numerous refusals of the administration of SIZO (pre-trial detention facility) No. 1 of Ekaterinburg to hand over to the convicted ex-FSB officer Trepashkin the asthma medicines vitally wanted by him.

October 29, 2007 13:17

• Natelashvili: President of Georgia is the head of "death squadrons"

  According to Mikhail Machavariani, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, the yesterday's events in the district capital of Tsalendzhikha showed that the country is governed not by President-politician, but by President - head of "death squadrons".

October 29, 2007 13:14

• Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" opens a temporary website

  The employees of the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org), which was attacked by malefactors and disabled for the time being, have launched a special temporary site for information support. Its address is http://hro1.org.