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May 25, 2006 15:04

• "West" battalion possibly involved in kidnapping human rights activist in Chechnya

  Today, from 2 to 3 p.m., the "Civil Assistance" committee and the "Memorial" human rights centre will hold a picket protesting against the kidnapping of Bulat Chilaev, employee of the program of assistance to sick people of the "Civil Assistance" committee.

May 25, 2006 14:55

• Head of administration of the Datykh settlement in Ingushetia detained

  On May 24, Magomed Padiyev, head of administration of the Datykh settlement in Ingushetia, and his bother have been detained.

May 25, 2006 14:48

• More than 4000 people excluded from the list of refugees in Chechnya

  Six temporary shelters on the territory of the Chechen Republic have been vacated as a result of TS checks.

May 24, 2006 14:47

• "The Voice of Beslan" intend to apply to European Court of Human Rights

  Relatives of those who died as a result of seizure of school number 1 in Beslan intend to apply to the European Court of Human Rights.

May 24, 2006 14:32

• Azerbaijanis in Iran prepare mass actions

  A meeting in Tabriz is going to be held on May 28, Independence Day of Azerbaijan, as a continuation of the actions of protest of Azerbaijanis residing in Iran.

May 24, 2006 14:29

• Georgian NGO action against arbitrariness of police dispersed in Tbilisi

  Tonight the Georgian police has dispersed scores of representatives of non-government organizations and political parties holding an action of protest on the Rustaveli avenue in front of the Georgian parliament.

May 23, 2006 14:19

• Prosecutor's office of Dagestan appealed against the Khasavyurt court judgment on unlawfulness of arrest of Boliev, human rights activist

  The prosecutor's office of Khasavyurt has appealed in the Supreme Court of Dagestan the ruling of the Khasavyurt town court of May 17 of this year on invalidating the November 16, 2005 award of the magistrate of section No 35 on the arrest of Osman Boliev, the local human rights activist, for two days for defying the orders of militia officers.

May 23, 2006 14:16

• "Amnesty International": hostility towards foreigners, Chechens and human rights activists grows in Russia

  The "Amnesty International" human rights organization in its new report expresses concern with the growth of xenophobia in Russia and violations of human rights in the Chechen conflict.

May 23, 2006 14:12

• Women picket the Government building in the capital of Chechnya

  Today, a group of women are picketing the entrance to the territory of the Chechen Government building in Grozny.

May 23, 2006 14:10

• SFD ombudsmen to gather in Volgograd

  Ombudsmen from nine subject provinces of SFD will discuss problems connected with observance of human rights in the course of the international scientific and practical conference "Public relations and human rights in the south of Russia: History, modern times, perspectives" which is to be held in Volgograd.

May 22, 2006 14:06

• Alexander Cherkasov: "Disproportionate and unselective use of force takes place in North Caucasus"

  This morning, rubbles have started to be removed on the place of the operation in Khasavyurt on the liquidation of militants.

May 22, 2006 14:03

• Memory Day of Adygeis perished during the Russian-Caucasian war marked in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Two meetings were held on May 21 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in front of the memorial to the victims of the Russian-Caucasian war.

May 22, 2006 13:52

• The term of arrest of Stomakhin, author of the "Caucasus-centre" Chechen separatists' site, extended

  According to Frumkin, Stomakhin is still held in the prison hospital of the Moscow pre-trial prison "Matrosskaya Tishina."

May 20, 2006 13:47

• Armenia signs Protocol 13 to the Convention on Human Rights on abolishing the death penalty

  Vardan Oskanian, head of the Armenian MFA, has signed the 13th Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights abolishing the death penalty under any circumstances.

May 20, 2006 13:39

• International organizations condemn the attack on journalist in Azerbaijan

  The OSCE Baky office has resolutely condemned the "brutal attack" on Bakhaddin Khaziev, the chief editor of the opposition newspaper "Bizim Yol" ("Our way") and deputy chairman of the Party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA).

May 20, 2006 13:33

• Residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan are against harassment of believers

  Yesterday, on May 19, a group of residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan held an action of protest in front of the mosque "Teze Pir" in which the Directorate of Caucasian Moslems (DCM) is located.

May 16, 2006 00:39

• General prosecutor's office of Azerbaijan failed to prove links of Zbigniew Brzezinski with organization "Eni Fikir"

  Connections of the well-known American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski with the members of the youth organization "Eni Fikir" ("New Thought") active in Azerbaijan have not been proved.

May 16, 2006 00:27

• Human rights activists ask Merkel to ban the governor of the Krasnodar Territory to enter Germany

  At the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group that was marked in Moscow on May, Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the NGO "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee," offered the participants of the jubilee conference to address the FGR Chancellor Ms. Merkel not to grant an entry visa to Germany for the period of three years to Alexander Tkachov, governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

May 16, 2006 00:19

• Chechen prosecutor's office initiated a torture case on materials of human rights activists

  The human rights organization "Committee Against Tortures" (CAT) reported that the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic initiated a case of application of tortures against Mikhail Vladovskiy, a citizen of Chechnya who suffered from illegal actions of the workers of law enforcement bodies.

May 15, 2006 22:52

• In Ingushetia, they continue kidnapping refugees from Chechnya

  On May 12, 2006, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.