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June 27, 2006 13:46

• PACE charges Azerbaijan with lack of democracy

  Yesterday, on June 26, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PАСЕ) discussed the issue of the mandate of the Azeri parliamentary delegation.

June 27, 2006 13:41

• Human rights activists: social protection agencies in Volgograd region violate the rights of relatives of soldiers killed in the army

  "It seems that we are protecting the population of Volgograd region from social protection agencies and military commissariats," stated Victoria Podkhvatilova.

June 27, 2006 13:35

• Red Cross: visits to Chechnya prisons are useful for authorities

  Jacob Kellenberg, head of International Red Cross Committee, expressed his deep concern in connection with violation of prisoners' rights in the prisons of Northern Caucasus and, in particular, in Chechnya.

June 26, 2006 17:07

• Dagestan court has considered the legitimacy of a new case against human rights activist Boliev

  On Friday 23 June, the Khasavyurt town court of Dagestan considered the issue of the legitimacy of initiation by Khasavyurt department of internal affairs of a new criminal case against Osman Boliev, leader of the local human rights organization "Romashka" charged with acquisition, storage and carrying of fire arms and participation in an illegal armed unit.

June 26, 2006 14:56

• An opposition newspaper journalist is arrested in Azerbaijan for transportation of drugs

  Sakit Zakhidov, journalist of the "Azadlyg" opposition newspaper, was detained on June 23 night and brought to the Azeri MIA Department on Fighting Drug Business.

June 26, 2006 14:51

• PACE Bureau decides against compilation of a report on human rights in Chechnya

  The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a decision not to compile a report on human rights situation in Chechnya.

June 26, 2006 14:39

• Dagestan court finds initiation of a new case against human rights activist Boliev legitimate

  The Khasaviurt town court of Dagestan adopted a decision on the legitimacy of initiation of new criminal proceedings against Osman Boliev, leader of the local human rights organization "Romashka", charged with acquisition, storage and carrying of fire arms and participation in an illegal armed unit.

June 26, 2006 14:34

• A hunger strike of life prisoners started in Azerbaijan

  On June 26, 2006, 109 life prisoners in Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan) started another hunger strike demanding that their sentences should be reviewed.

June 26, 2006 14:29

• A committee to defend the rights of arrested opposition journalist has been formed in Azerbaijan

  A committee to defend the rights of arrested Sakit Zakhidov, an opposition satirist journalist, was formed at today's sitting of the Council of Editors and representatives of journalist and human rights organizations of Azerbaijan.

June 26, 2006 14:13

• International day of supporting victims of torture is marked in Georgia

  Yesterday, on June 25, non-government organizations held a silent action in Sharden Street (a street in Tbilisi, close to the embankment, where the most popular cafes in the Georgian capital are open).

June 26, 2006 14:09

• A "round table" in support of victims of torture in Kabardino-Balkaria

  When opening the "round-table" discussion, Valery Khatazhukov, leader of the Kabardino-Balkaria human rights center, stated that, so far, it had been impossible to discuss torture publicly, since the republic's political regime itself used to be source of numerous unlawful actions.

June 26, 2006 14:06

• Caucasian NGO network recommends the Caucasian authorities to deal with the refugees' problems

  Today, the Caucasus still faces the consequences of numerous conflicts which brought about complicated problems of displacement and migration and a destructive socio-economic situation. Several conflicts are in a deadlock.

June 23, 2006 17:24

• International organizations come up in protection of Osman Boliev, human rights activist from Dagestan

  The "Caucasian Knot" editorial office has received a joint open letter of the International Helsinki Federation on Human Rights, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Moscow Helsinki Group in protection of Osman Boliev, a well-known human rights activist from Dagestan, addressed to Rashidkhan A. Magomedov, prosecutor of the Republic of Dagestan.

June 23, 2006 17:20

• Residents of Pyatigorsk have managed to suspend construction in Komsomolsk park

  The protests of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol region) residents on the issue of city construction have resulted in the creation of a city duma commission on monitoring the construction development of the resort city, which is going to exercise its powers until the Pyatigorsk general plan has been approved.

June 23, 2006 17:16

• Pickets against torture to be held in Dagestan on June 26

  On Monday, June 26, pickets in protest against torture applied by the Dagestan law-enforcement agencies with regard to persons under investigation are to be held in Makhachkala.

June 23, 2006 17:12

• Rostov court obliges the military to pay 244,000 to the father of a killed soldier

  Yesterday, June 22, the Lenin district court of Rostov-on-Don considered the law suit on compensating moral and material damage, filed by the "Mother's Rights" foundation on behalf of the father of Alexander Artiushin, a regular army soldier from Moscow who had been killed in the army.

June 22, 2006 17:34

• ChSU student beaten in Chechen capital by law enforcement authorities

  On June 21, a 20-year-old man was beaten in the Staropromyslovsk district of the Chechen capital by officers of law enforcement agencies.

June 22, 2006 17:30

• Human rights activist from Azerbaijan demands that Iranian authorities should not violate the rights of Azerbaijanis

  Novella Jafaroglu, an Azeri human rights activist, has demanded that the government of Iran should not violate the rights of Azerbaijanis who form the majority of the country's population.

June 22, 2006 17:27

• Armenia joins the UN Convention against torture

  Armenia has joined the UN Convention against Torture, reports today Grisha Grigorian, head of information and public relations section of "Human Rights Activist.

June 21, 2006 17:58

• Azerbaijan plans to liquidate all tent camps by end of 2007

  On June 20, Refugees' Day was marked in Azerbaijan. This Day was marked for the first time on June 20, 2001 upon a decision of the UN General Assembly.