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May 08, 2007 22:54

• Chechen separatists' web site author sentenced to compulsory medical treatment

  On May 7, the court of the town of Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region, found Andrei Novikov, author of the "Chechenpress" separatists' web site, guilty of public appeals to extremist activities (Part 1, Article 280, of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

May 08, 2007 22:51

• Whereabouts of Hussein Mutsolgov, kidnapped in Ingushetia, unknown

  On May 5, 2007, in the Nazran District of Ingushetia, unknown persons in masks and camouflage uniform kidnapped Hussein Mutsolgov, 21, a resident of Surkhakhi village, and Zaurbek Evloev, 23.

May 08, 2007 22:20

• Break till May 14 announced in Arakcheev-Khudyakov's trial

  Today's court session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on the case of Khudyakov and Arakcheev, officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, accused of murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya, has interrogated one witness.

May 07, 2007 22:51

• Suspects of murdering Elmar Guseinov arrested in Georgia

  In Tbilisi, the law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested Tair Khubanov, and Teimuraz Aliev who are suspected of murdering Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine.

May 07, 2007 22:50

• New record of number of religious prisoners of conscience in Armenia

  Armenia's Jehovah's Witnesses have complained to Forum 18 News Service that 72 of their young men are now imprisoned for refusing both military service and the alternative service under military control, the highest number ever.

May 07, 2007 22:37

• Human rights defenders state a sharp reduction of kidnappings in Chechnya

  A radical reduction in the number of kidnappings and massive non-targeted utilization of federal funds are the basic tendencies of modern Checnya's development.

May 07, 2007 22:24

• Chechnya sets up a commission to restore the rights of repressed citizens

  Under Ramzan Kadyrov's order a special commission has been formed in Chechnya that will be engaged in the issues of restoration of rights of the rehabilitated victims of political repressions.

May 07, 2007 22:22

• Azerbaijan stops cooperation with "Reporters without Borders"

  Azerbaijan is not going to cooperate with "Reporters without Borders" and attaches no value to declarations made by this organization.

May 05, 2007 22:18

• Ombudsman of Georgia: situation in Georgian prisons is catastrophic

  On May 4, 2007, while presenting his report for the second half of 2006 to the Committee for Human Rights and Civil Integration, Ombudsman Sozar Subari, "National Defender of Georgia," has named the state of the Georgian penitentiary system to be catastrophic and beyond the critical mark.

May 05, 2007 22:16

• Leader of Chechnya: I'll let nobody goof on people

  President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated the inadmissibility of illegal investigatory methods, the attention to which was drawn by heads of law enforcement bodies and representatives of power agencies of the Republic.

May 05, 2007 22:14

• Two young people kidnapped by unknown persons in camouflage in Ingushetia

  Two young people, born in 1984 and 1986, have been kidnapped by armed unknown persons in Nazran, a source at the city's department of internal affairs has telephoned on Saturday.

May 05, 2007 22:10

• "Geiryat": Georgian citizens residing in Russia are scared to go out

  Georgian citizens of Azerbaijan origin, like all other citizens of Georgia who live in Russia, cannot get employed and do not dare even to go out of their homes.

May 05, 2007 22:04

• Jehovah's Witnesses win the case against Georgia in Strasbourg

  The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has made its decision on the case "97 members of Gdlan congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and four other persons versus Georgia."

May 05, 2007 15:38

• Journalists jailed for inciting religious hatred in Azerbaijan

  A court in Azerbaijan jailed two independent journalists today over an article that said Islam was hampering economic and political progress.

May 04, 2007 23:15

• Outcomes of searching defendants in Ulman's case to be presented in Rostov-on-Don

  On May 24, the court session on Ulman's case will announce the outcomes of the undertaken operative and search actions and discuss the destiny of Major Alexei Perelevskiy, the only defendant who did not disappear like the rest of them.

May 04, 2007 23:00

• Human rights defenders to address EU on observance of human rights in Russia

  Russian human rights defenders will address the European Union (EU) with a request to openly discuss with Moscow the problems that are obvious in Russia, and to demand that it should observe its international obligations.

May 04, 2007 22:48

• Power officials in Chechnya ask Kadyrov to close ORB-2 down

  Heads of Chechen law enforcement bodies and power agencies structures have decided to ask Ramzan Kadyrov, Republic's leader, to initiate liquidation of the Operative-Search Bureau-2 (ORB-2) located in the capital of the Republic.

May 04, 2007 22:10

• The defence party in Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case will speak at court on May 7

  On Monday, May 7, the hearing will restart of the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three Chechen residents.

May 03, 2007 22:29

• Head of Kabardino-Balkarian MIA calls clerics to counteract religious extremism

  Today, on May 3, Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, held a meeting with Mufti Anas Pshikhachov, Dean of Orthodox churches of Kabardino-Balkaria Valentin Bobylev and Chief Rabbi of Kabardino-Balkaria and Nalchik Levi Shabaev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent informs.

May 03, 2007 22:27

• Russia pays compensation to the person deported from Kabardino-Balkaria

  In performance of the decision of the European Court for Human Rights, the government of Russia has transferred eight thousand euros to the personal account of Turkish citizen Hadj Bairam Bolat who had been earlier deported from Kabardino-Balkaria.