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August 03, 2007 17:35

• From August 11 on, photo and video filming in courtrooms of Georgia will be banned

  On August 2, it became clear that President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili had signed the bill on amending the Law "On Ordinary Courts," according to which all photo, video and movie filming shall be prohibited in the premises and courtrooms of Georgian courts.

August 03, 2007 16:28

• Human rights defenders think that Chechnya's authorities want to put NGOs under tough control

  On August 2, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov recommended all humanitarian and nongovernmental organizations, who execute their activities in the territory of the Republic, to move to its capital.

August 03, 2007 12:39

• Georgian opposition demands to respect the rights of inmates

  Today, leaders of seven oppositional parties have signed - near Tbilisi Ortachal Prison No. 5 - a unified memorandum on the penitentiary system.

August 03, 2007 10:21

• Stavropol Territory: militia disperses a meeting for dismissal of the head of Kislovodsk

  On August 3 in the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) militia disrupted a meeting that demanded resignation of Vitaly Biryukov, Mayor of the city, organized by the City Public Movement "Veche" (Popular Assembly).

August 02, 2007 15:01

• Residents of Kantyshevo village: resident of Ingushetia killed in Chechnya was not a militant

  On July 27, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village of the Sunzha District, an armed group captured and took in unknown direction Mr Barkinkhoev, Magomed Bagaudinovich, born in 1978, resident of Kantyshevo village of the Nazran District.

August 02, 2007 14:36

• Resident of Stavropol Territory to appeal against court ruling on compensation for his illegal stay in mental hospital

  The court decision on paying out 500,000 roubles as compensation for illegal keeping Dmitri Medkov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, in mental hospital on a charge of murdering his own sister will be appealed against by him to the Stavropol Territorial Court.

August 02, 2007 13:57

• Azerbaijani mass media campaign against their colleague arrested for bribery

  The official newspapers of Azerbaijan have unfolded a campaign against Mushfig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, treating his as a criminal.

August 02, 2007 13:42

• Stavropol: district militiaman accused of severely beating a suspect

  A criminal case has been initiated in Stavropol against the district militia officer from the Promyshlenny District Department of Interior, who had severely beaten a suspect.

August 02, 2007 13:29

• Arrest of leaders of Talysh Cultural Centre extended in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, the arrest term of Novruzali Mamedov, Chairman of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" newspaper, and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of this public organization, has been prolonged for three months more.

August 02, 2007 13:22

• "Memorial": young Moslems are secretly kidnapped in Dagestan

  Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Ingushetia, speaks on the subject of kidnappings in Dagestan.

August 02, 2007 13:09

• Supreme Court of North Ossetia upholds amnesty to militiamen

  The Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has rejected the complaint of the victims against amnestying of the militiamen accused of negligence that had entailed the act of terror in Beslan.

August 01, 2007 18:37

• Health of journalist-hunger-striker gets worse in Azerbaijan

  Faramaz Allakhverdiev, journalist of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, convicted to 2.5 years of imprisonment for slander, is on his 12th day of hunger strike, and his health condition has worsened.

August 01, 2007 17:45

• Lawyer: Rasul Kudaev, prisoner in Kabardino-Balkaria, sick with infectious hepatitis

  A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Rasul Kudaev, who is kept at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of the Chief Department for Enforcement of Punishments of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on accusation of taking part in the attack on KBR's law enforcement bodies on October 13, 2005, is sick with infectious hepatitis.

August 01, 2007 15:59

• President of Dagestan holds a meeting on kidnapping

  On August 1, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting on the problem of kidnappings that are frequent in the Republic. The meeting was attended by heads of the Republic's law enforcement bodies and representatives of human rights and public organizations.

August 01, 2007 12:31

• Court rejects Aslamazyan's complaint against inspection of "Educated Media"

  The Tverskoj Court of Moscow has recognized lawful the pre-investigatory inspection undertaken in relation to the management of the Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews") on suspicion of illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering.

August 01, 2007 10:18

• Krasnodar Territory: judicial solution of Kurds' citizenship problem

  The Korenovskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory is hearing the case of four Kurds who are trying to become Russian citizens.

July 31, 2007 18:54

• Re-trial of "Cadet" case starts in Chechnya

  On July 30, the Octiabrskiy district court in Grozny started a re-trial of the case of senior lieutenant Sergey Lapin, former officer of Nizhnevartovsk district internal affairs department (radio call sign "Cadet"), charged with torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, resident of the Chechen capital.

July 31, 2007 15:14

• Soldiers who drove their comrade-in-arms to suicide in Krasnodar sentenced to 7 and 4 years in penal colony

  Krasnodar garrison military tribunal has passed sentences to two soldiers on the case of non-statutory relations in Krasnodar region.

July 31, 2007 15:08

• South Osetia accuses Georgian MIA of killing an Osetin

  The South Osetia authorities accuse Georgian MIA officers of killing Felix Ghaghiyev, resident of South Osetia, who died in hospital after beating.

July 31, 2007 13:23

• All defendants in the case of murder of anti-fascist Timur Kacharava found guilty

  Today, the St-Petersburg jury court has passed a verdict on the case of murder of Timur Kacharava, student and anti-fascist, and assault on his friend Maxim Zghibay in November 2005.