All news

January 25, 2006 10:11

• Human Rights First Condemns False Accusations against Russian Human Rights Organizations

  A statement by a leading human rights organisation concerning the recent attacks on human rights defenders in Russia.

January 24, 2006 22:08

• ECHR applicants' relative tortured in Chechnya

  The Human Rights Centre Memorial receives information that beating and torture are used in Chechnya against a relative of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights.

January 23, 2006 21:57

• Television discredits human rights defenders

  The Moscow Helsinki Group chair denies allegations of its being involved in espionage against Russia.

January 23, 2006 21:47

• Police officer killed in Dagestan

  One police officer is killed and another one is wounded in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

January 20, 2006 19:08

• People continue to disappear in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Another resident of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Zaur Pshigotyzhev, has gone missing, unofficial sources say.

January 20, 2006 19:04

• Removed prisoner lost again

  Mr Rasul Kudayev, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is found not to be in the White Swan prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

January 19, 2006 19:01

• New law stifles independent civil society - AI

  Amnesty International regrets that President Putin has approved amendments to laws regulating NGO operation in Russia.

January 19, 2006 18:59

• Witnesses fail to come

  No witness comes to the Kulayev trial, including Ingush ex-president Ruslan Aushev and businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev.

January 18, 2006 18:57

• Caucasians hated most among ethnic minorities

  There were around 25 killings and more than 200 assaults on an ethnic basis last year, says a human rights defender.

January 18, 2006 18:54

• Eleven killed, wounded in Chechnya

  Six Russian military men are killed and five are wounded in Chechnya on 16-17 January, according to a France-Presse source.

January 18, 2006 18:49

• Chechen refugees rush for Europe

  Mr Kadyrov once said that those who refused to come back to Chechnya were "criminals and terrorists," Prague Watchdog reports.

January 17, 2006 19:47

• Abducted Chechen released after torture

  There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.

January 17, 2006 19:43

• Controversial evidence in Kulayev case

  Andrei Gagloyev, commander of the engineering troops of the 58th army, gives evidence at the Beslan attack case trial.

January 16, 2006 19:37

• Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner found in Piatigorsk

  Rasul Kudayev accused of taking part in the 13 October 2005 events in Kabardino-Balkaria is kept in a prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

January 16, 2006 19:34

• Killed rebels' parents willing to know their sons' bodies safe

  Parents of rebels killed on 13 October 2005 ask Kabardino-Balkaria's Prosecutor Yuri Ketov for an opportunity to make certain that their sons' bodies are safe.

January 16, 2006 19:24

• Bomb wounds teenager

  A 16-year-old boy is wounded because of the explosion of an unidentified device in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

January 16, 2006 18:59

• Four wounded in Chechnya

  Four contract soldiers are seriously wounded in a blast of a military truck in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district.

January 13, 2006 19:16

• Beslan Voice challenges federal officials

  The Beslan Voice public organisation makes a statement demanding that some federal officials give evidence and even prove their innocence.

January 13, 2006 18:47

• Abduction in Chechnya

  A Mairtup, Kurchaloi district, resident is abducted in the republic.

January 12, 2006 18:29

• N Ossetia's ex-president finally gives evidence

  Mr Dzasokhov claims that there was no information about a terrorist act planned in the republic.