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June 15, 2006 17:46

• Aslan Bezrukov, public figure and businessman from Adygea, set free

  Aslan Bezrukov, a well-known public figure and entrepreneur in Adygea, was released on bail yesterday on June 14 from the pre-trial prison.

June 15, 2006 10:42

• Lawyer Rashid Gadjily to defend the rights of students of "Independent Azerbaijan" university

  Lawyer Rashid Gadjily is going to act as defence lawyer for the students of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university who are on hunger strike.

June 14, 2006 23:53

• Discrimination of national minorities continues in Krasnodar region

  Some ethnic groups residing in Krasnodar Territory have not been recognized as citizens of the Russian Federation.

June 14, 2006 14:43

• Another criminal case initiated against human rights activist Boliev in Dagestan

  Another criminal case has been initiated in Khasavyurt, Republic of Dagestan, against Osman Boliev, head of "Romashka" regional human rights organization.

June 14, 2006 14:40

• Release of Sadretdinov acquitted on the case of Khlebnikov, postponed

  The Moscow city court has postponed for unspecified period of time the consideration of release of notary Fail Sadretdinov acquitted earlier on the case of murder of Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of Forbes Russian version.

June 14, 2006 14:36

• Students in Azerbaijan continue hunger strike

  The hunger strike of several scores of students of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university has been lasting for 14 days already.

June 14, 2006 14:32

• Salaev, ex-president of Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences, left for US

  Academician Eldar Salaev, former president of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, has left for the United States of America for a course of treatment. Elman Salaev, the son of the academician has reported this to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 14, 2006 14:28

• Soldiers' mothers report on brutal beating of conscript from Krasnodar region

  The Soldiers' Mothers Committee claims that a 19-year-old resident of Krasnodar region in Kuban, drafted to the army, was beaten and dropped from the train during transportation of a group of soldiers from Krasnodar region to Khabarovsk distribution centre.

June 13, 2006 00:25

• Chechen prosecutor's office conducts additional check on the information about torture in the secret prison

  Chechen prosecutor's office employees are conducting an additional check on the criminal cases initiated in the past against officers of Khanty-Mansijsk riot squad, suspected of illegal detentions of citizens and the use of torture with regard to them.

June 13, 2006 00:23

• "Memorial" human rights centre: a local resident has been lost on the territory of a government complex in Chechnya

  On June 8, 2006, Khamzat Shamsuldinovich Tushaev, born in 1959, was lost in Grozny on the territory of the Government Complex of Chechnya.

June 13, 2006 00:21

• Human rights activist in Ingushetia wants information on mass burials to be checked

  Intense rumours have been circulating in the republic during the recent days that traces of mass burials have been discovered in the village of Vesioloye of Mozdok district, North Ossetia, where the body of Uvais Dolakov, resident of Ingushetia kidnapped earlier, was found one of these days.

June 13, 2006 00:16

• Participants of picket dispersed in Krasnodar subjected to administrative arrest

  According to reports of human rights activists, on June 9, 2006, a picket near the monument to Pushkin in Krasnodar (Krasnaya Street) was dispersed by almost one hundred militiamen.

June 13, 2006 00:00

• Moscow militia detains persons of Caucasian origin 20 times more often than Slavs

  A study conducted in the Moscow metro shows that the number persons who are visually perceived as originating from the Caucasus or Middle Asia amounts to 50.9 % of persons stopped by militia, although the share of such people does not exceed 4.6% in the total passenger flow.

June 09, 2006 10:50

• Check of information on torture in secret prisons is under way in Chechnya

  Officers of the riot squad combined unit from Khanty-Mansijsk autonomous okrug are suspected of arranging in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a secret prison where detainees were tortured.

June 08, 2006 12:09

• Residents of temporary shelters in Chechnya want to move into permanent dwelling only

  Recently, a campaign to liquidate temporary shelters (TS) has been under way in Chechnya.

June 08, 2006 12:06

• PACE prepares a report on disappearances in South Caucasus

  Leo Platvoet, a Dutch MP, rapporteur of the Commission on migration, refugees and population issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has come to Azerbaijan.

June 08, 2006 12:03

• "Memorial" insists that an illegal prison existed in Chechnya

  "A temporary detention facility of the TDIA was located on this territory, it functioned normally and was not a secret site," yesterday, June 7, Valery Kuznetsov, prosecutor of Chechnya, stated before journalists.

June 07, 2006 21:42

• Power authorities held mass checks in the capital of Chechnya

  On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.

June 07, 2006 21:40

• US State Department: 500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking

  500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking. Such information is contained in the report on human trafficking (illegal trade in human beings) prepared by the US State Department.

June 07, 2006 21:38

• President of Chechnya is satisfied with SC ruling on "Ulman's case"

  Alu Alkhanov, President of Chechnya, has welcomed the ruling of the RF Supreme Court presidium to the effect that the "Ulman's case" will be considered by a panel of three professional judges and not by a jury.