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April 06, 2005 13:31

• Women's rights violated in Georgia

  Several service women are discharged from the Georgian army while on maternity leave.

April 06, 2005 12:48

• War on innocents

  A five-year-old child is killed in a special operation in Dagestan.

April 06, 2005 12:12

• Just camouflage

  One man is killed and two are abducted in Chechnya.

April 05, 2005 12:32

• Maskhadov may have been trapped 'internationally'

  There is some evidence Germany and Switzerland may have been involved in trapping the Ichkeria president Aslan Maskhadov.

April 05, 2005 12:28

• Ridiculous ban

  Azerbaijan's government persists in preventing a rights advocate from going abroad, although it cannot prevent his report from being delivered to the UN Commission on Human Rights.

April 05, 2005 12:17

• Chechnya struck with unemployment

  The republic's economy is reconstructed too slowly, as 80% of the population remains jobless.

April 04, 2005 12:06

• More arbitrary detentions

  Law enforcers continue to detain local residents adding to thousands of abductions that plague Chechnya.

April 04, 2005 11:52

• Occasional casualties

  An officer in Chechnya kills a soldier 'through carelessness.'

April 01, 2005 15:02

• Commissioner reports human rights violations in N Caucasus

  The report of Russia's Commissioner on Human Rights for 2004 is published.

March 30, 2005 23:56

• Abkhaz leader gets clear

  President Sergey Bagapsh says Abkhazia's political status 'is not subject of discussion.'

March 30, 2005 23:10

• Bridge blown up in Dagestan

  A blast destroys much of a bridge in what appears to be targeting a local official.

March 29, 2005 23:59

• Media to sue Baku Underground

  The reason for the suit is a ban on selling opposition newspapers.

March 29, 2005 23:58

• Meskhetian Turks issue 'moved forward'

  A Georgian government commission on the repatriation of Meskhetian Turks to Georgia begins work.

March 29, 2005 23:00

• Local man abducted, found dead

  Another abducted person's body bears marks of severe torture and abuse.

March 28, 2005 23:59

• Policeman wounded in 'revenge attack'

  A regiment under <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/analyticstext/enganalytics/id/783160.html" target="_blank">Ramzan Kadyrov</a>'s command is attacked in what is thought to be "revenge."

March 28, 2005 23:58

• Arbitrary detentions continue

  Two arbitrary detentions add to crimes in Chechnya.

March 28, 2005 23:50

• Oil theft combated in Chechnya

  The fighters are reported to have a hand in though.

March 28, 2005 22:56

• Local government official abducted in Chechnya

  Turpal-Ali Suleymanov is abducted in the Shatoi district.

March 25, 2005 23:35

• Maskhadov's 'host' allegedly killed

  In addition to destroying all evidence by blowing up the house where <a href="http://eng.kavkaz.memo.ru/persontext/engperson/id/560900.html" target="_blank">Aslan Maskhadov</a> allegedly hid, his alleged host Musa Yusupov may have been killed too.

March 24, 2005 23:51

• Authorised abuse

  The destiny of the abducted relatives of Doku Umarov and Aslan Maskhadov remains unknown.