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January 13, 2007 22:58

• Council of Europe is ready to help Russia with investigation of Politkovskaya's murder

  Rene Van der Linden, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has declared that PACE is ready to help Russia in investigating the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, if "the investigation will come to a deadlock.

January 13, 2007 22:45

• International Committee for Defence of Journalists calls the Azerbaijani authorities to release Sadagatoglu and Tagi

  The International Committee for Defence of Journalists (ICDJ) has expressed a regret that judicial authorities of Azerbaijan had decided to extend by two more months the custody term for the two journalists accused of insulting Prophet Mohammed.

January 13, 2007 22:42

• Institute for Peace and Democracy in Azerbaijan will disclose the names of politically dependent judges

  On January 16, the Institute for Peace and Democracy in Azerbaijan will make public its list of judges who are passing politically-motivated verdicts. In the opinion of the organization, analysis of the legislative base and operation of the judicial system allows to conclude on the absence of an independent judiciary in Azerbaijan.

January 12, 2007 23:46

• Chechnya resident blamed of taking part in Beslan school capture will sue the "MK"

  Ruslan Demilkhanov, 30, resident of the Starye Atagi village of the Groznenskiy Rural District of the Chechen Republic, is trying to bring Vadim Rechkalov, journalist of the "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" ("MK") newspaper, to responsibility.

January 12, 2007 23:42

• Amnesty International is concerned with oppression of journalists in Azerbaijan

  The Amnesty International organization intends to attract attention of international community to the facts of attacks on journalists in Azerbaijan.

January 12, 2007 22:37

• "Human Rights Watch" scarified Azerbaijan again for breaching human rights

  The international "Human Rights Watch" organization has accused Azerbaijani authorities of voluntary arrests and beating of opposition activists and of using tortures against them.

January 12, 2007 22:33

• Azerbaijani human rights activists satisfied with European Court judgment on the oppositionist's case

  The Human Rights Centre of Azerbaijan (HRCA) welcomes the judgment of the Chamber of the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR) dated January 11, 2007, on Application No. 34445/04 of Sardar Dzhalaloglu (Mamedov), a former political prisoner.

January 12, 2007 22:30

• PACE is not going to investigate Politkovskaya's murder yet

  Mr. Rene Van der Linden, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), sees no reason now to start an international investigation into the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

January 11, 2007 23:05

• Council of Europe to hear report on Politkovskaya

  Mr. Rene Van der Linden, Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), does not exclude, that a report will be prepared under the auspice of the Council of Europe on the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

January 11, 2007 23:02

• European Court admits the fact of torturing the opposition leader in Azerbaijan

  Today, the European Court for Human Rights has recognized that Sardar Dzhalaloglu, opposition leader, was tortured by Azerbaijani police in 2003.

January 11, 2007 22:59

• Azerbaijan extended arrest of journalists who insulted Prophet Mohammed

  Today, the Nasiminskiy Court of the capital of Azerbaijan has extended the custody term of publicist Rafik Tagi and Samir Sadagatoglu, editor of the "Sanat" (Arts) newspaper.

January 11, 2007 22:52

• Meeting in defence of officers accused of murdering peaceful people in Chechnya dispersed in Moscow

  Yesterday, on January 10, Special Militia ("OMON") fighters dispersed a meeting held in the centre of Moscow near the Ministry of Defence of Russia in defence of Evgeniy Khudiakov and Sergey Arakcheev, interior officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya.

January 11, 2007 22:40

• Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has sentenced members of jama'at "Yarmuk"

  Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has announced its verdict to two members of jama'at "Yarmuk."

January 10, 2007 23:42

• Criminal case on torturing detainees by power agents is investigated in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Anzor Emkuzhev, investigator of the prosecutor's office of the city of Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, has informed the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the criminal case initiated against the members of the Republic's Administration for Fighting Organized Crime (Centre "T") under the Article "Excess of service duties with use of violence and special means" is at the stage of preliminary investigation.

January 10, 2007 23:39

• "MK" has erroneously accused physical culture teacher of seizing Beslan school

  Ruslan Demilkhanov, whose photo was published by the "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" newspaper with a comment that he is "a good sniper" and 33rd militant allegedly attracted by Yunus Matsiev to capturing Beslan school on September 1, 2004, "shot from nothing more than a children's catapult."

January 10, 2007 22:47

• Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan demand guarantees of safety

  The Board of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan has addressed Mr. Anthoniu Gutterish, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, to draw attention of the international community to the "trend of serious aggravation of situation with Chechen refugees in Azerbaijan.

January 10, 2007 22:46

• "MAShR": Russia is illegally jailing convicts of crimes in North Caucasus

  Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the human rights organization "MAShR," has addressed the Spanish authorities not to extradite Murad Gasaev, an earlier detained resident of the Republic of Ingushetia.

January 10, 2007 22:39

• Parents of the person declared by the "MK" a participant of Beslan school seizure will suit the paper

  The parents of Ruslan Demilkhanov, whose photo was published by the "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" ("MK") in an article stating that he was the 33rd militant, allegedly attracted by Yunus Matsiev to Beslan school capture on September 1, 2004, have promised to move to court on collection of moral damage from the "MK" and to send a letter to the paper. Ruslan Badalov, president of the Chechen Committee for National Salvage (CCNS) told about it to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

January 09, 2007 22:55

• Journalists intend to boost investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder

  Journalists' investigation of Anna Politkovskaya's murder "committed in February will be full-scale unfolded," Dmitri Muratov, Editor-in-Chief of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, has stated on live air of the "Echo Moskvy" Radio Station.

January 09, 2007 22:49

• Human rights defenders: "MK" accuses a guiltless man of Beslan school seizure

  On December 25, 2006, the "Moskovskiy Komsomolets" ("MK") newspaper published an article "33rd Beslan Militant" signed by journalist Vadim Rechkalov.