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July 14, 2006 20:29

• NGOs and Abkhazian Journalists Stand up for Parastaev and Tskhovrebov

  Today, representatives of a number of Abkhazian NGOs and journalists disseminated a joint declaration in which they note that people in Abkhazia have enthusiastically welcomed the decision to declare 2006 the Year of Abkhazia in South Ossetia and the Year of South Ossetia in Abkhazia.

July 13, 2006 15:08

• Information about death of arrested ex-minister of public health of Azerbaijan was not true

  Information about death of Ali Insanov, former Health Minister, was not confirmed, runs the message of the Public Relations Centre of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan.

July 12, 2006 19:31

• Authorities of Azerbaijan admitted the fact of hunger strike of the prisoners at Gobustan prison

  In his interview to Radio Liberty, a senior official of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan admitted the fact of hunger strike held by the inmates of the Gobustan prison. But the official insisted that only three life convicts are on the action.

July 12, 2006 19:29

• OSCE expresses concern with arrest of journalist in Azerbaijan

  Miklosh Kharashti, OSCE mass media representative, expressed his concern in relation to arrest in Azerbaijan of Sakit Zakhidov, a satirical journalist.

July 12, 2006 19:23

• Hunger strike of refugees in North Ossetia continues

  June 30, 2006, inhabitants of the refugee settlement Maiskiy of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia declared themselves getting prepared for a hunger strike action.

July 11, 2006 19:42

• Human rights activists dissatisfied with new amendments on extremism

  Amendments to the law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," adopted in the first reading by the State Duma, will impede the work of human rights activists and journalists who criticize bureaucrats, Russian human rights activists think.

July 11, 2006 19:39

• In Azerbaijan the inmates on hunger strike demand to meet human rights activists

  The hunger strike of the inmates of the Gobustan prison continues.

July 11, 2006 19:36

• A court in Kabardino-Balkaria refused to consider a torture case of Kudayev, a Guantanamo prisoner

  The Nalchik City Court refused to satisfy a complaint of Rasul Kudayev, who was arrested on accusation of participation in the events of October 13, 2005, a citizen of the settlement of Khasanya and a former prisoner of the American prison in Guantanamo, on refusal of the investigator of the prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria to initiate a criminal case on the facts of being tortured.

July 07, 2006 20:08

• Human rights activists of Azerbaijan are worried with worsening health condition of hunger-striking inmates

  On the eleventh day of the hunger-strike, started in Azerbaijan by life-sentenced inmates of the Gobustan prison, the health condition of some of them - Giorgiy Geladze, Shakir Rzakhanov, Ali Guliev and Bakhtiyar Dzhafarov who sewed up his mouth - got rapidly aggravated.

July 07, 2006 20:03

• Amnesty International is concerned with stronger pressure on journalists

  Public defenders of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov (Mirza Sakit), arrested in Azerbaijan, continue to inform the diplomatic corps on the events around the criminal case in relation to the journalist.

July 07, 2006 20:00

• General Prosecutor's Office of the South Federal District (SFD) refused to give out the bodies of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Some time ago the parents of the militants who had perished in Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, addressed president of Russia V. Putin with a request to exhibit an act of humanism and give out the bodies for burial.

July 07, 2006 19:58

• Several local citizens detained and killed in Chechnya

  On July 6, 2006, in the settlement of Chernorechye of the Zavodskoj District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, when conducting targeted special actions, the employees of the district department of internal affairs detained one of local citizens.

July 07, 2006 19:56

• Inmates of the colony in Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike

  The inmates of Colony No. 6 of the city of Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike, as their relatives have explained, because of "lack of elementary conditions."

July 07, 2006 19:52

• Parents of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria addressed G-8

  It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the parents of the militants who have been killed in Kabardino-Balkaria militants have sent today an appeal to the summit of the "Great Eight," in which they ask to affect the issue of giving out the bodies of their sons for burial.

July 07, 2006 19:47

• Journalists of Azerbaijan ask Aliev to release Zakhidov

  The Committee for defence of the rights of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov adopted today an appeal to the name of the head of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliev.

July 06, 2006 20:12

• Andrey Bachman: "Volgograd bureaus of medical-social examination are instruments of reviving eugenics"

  "Recently, the bureaus of medical-social examination of Volgograd have transformed into an efficient instrument of eugenics that is reviving in Russia and is aggressively trying to penetrate the fundamental dogmata of state policy of Russia," Andrey Bachman, an activist of antifascist movement of Volgograd told in his interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

July 01, 2006 00:19

• Representatives of "Amnesty International" on visit to Kabardino-Balkaria

  Victoria Webb and Frieda Vike, representatives of the international human rights organization "Amnesty International", have visited Kabardino-Balkaria.

June 27, 2006 22:42

• Grebelskiy: the law prohibiting the bodies of terrorists to be handed over to relatives runs contrary to the Constitution

  The legislative norms prohibiting the bodies to be handed over to relatives, adopted recently in Russia, run contrary to the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms and other international norms on human rights, and to the Constitution of Russia, said Alexander Grebelskiy.

June 27, 2006 13:56

• Pickets against torture of human rights activists in the capital of Dagestan

  Yesterday, June 26, pickets were held in Makhachkala against torture used by the law-enforcement agencies of Dagestan.

June 27, 2006 13:51

• "Reporters without Borders" condemn the arrest of a journalist in Azerbaijan

  The "Reporter without Borders" human rights organization suspect that the arrest of Sakit Zakhidov, Azeri opposition journalist, is politically motivated, reports the Center of Extreme Journalism.