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January 20, 2004 16:57

• Committee defending arrested oppositionists' rights to send report to PACE on people subjected to torture in investigatory wards

  The chairman of the committee, Vagif Gadjibeyli, says that lawyers and human rights defenders have gathered by joint efforts detailed materials about 40 prisoners, 35 of whom are kept in the Bailovskaya prison today.

January 20, 2004 16:42

• Press conference devoted to political prisoners at Baku Press Club

  The government must declare amnesty for people arrested in connection with the events of October 2003, stated poet Ramiz Rovshan, who is chair of the Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud.

January 20, 2004 15:46

• US State Department disappointed that Armenian delegation was absent from conference in Baku

  The Azerbaijan authorities impeded the arrival of the Armenian military in Baku last week.

January 20, 2004 14:56

• Chechnya's first training and production center for disabled women opens in Achkhoy-Martan

  It is a joint project sponsored by the Handicap International organization and the Chechen Labor Ministry.

January 20, 2004 13:50

• Oliver Dupuis criticizes term "Chechen network"

  Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical, asks the Commission: "What does the Commission think of the use of the term "Chechen network" by magistrates from EU member countries - and in particular by the French magistrate Bruguiere - to define a criminal affair in which the only involvement of Chechens seems to be the fact that the EU citizens - and not Chechens - under accusation have referred to Chechens as the possible beneficiaries of financial aid, or Chechnya as a place where they could carry out their plan for a holy war?"

January 19, 2004 23:36

• Action of protest against Aslan Abashidze in Gonio village

  Over 300 people participated in a meeting in the village of Gonio, not far from Batumi. They demanded that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze resign and accused him of establishing a totalitarian regime on the territory of the autonomy.

January 19, 2004 23:07

• Representatives of Georgian and Abkhazian sides meet in Gali district of Abkhazia

  The main issue on the agenda is a criminogenic situation in the Gali district of Abkhazia, which has worsened recently.

January 19, 2004 22:22

• Two people killed during "purge" in Katayama village

  On January 17, two locals were killed in the village of Katayama, which is in the Staropromislovsky district of Grozny.

January 19, 2004 18:20

• Refugees are ready to go back to Chechnya if they are given security guarantees

  A delegation from Chechnya, headed by acting chairman of the Chechen Government Eli Isayev, visited the tent camps of Chechen refugees "Satsita" and "Sputnik" on January 17.

January 19, 2004 17:36

• Night air raid in Achkhoy-Martan district

  The Achkhoy-Martan district was massively stricken by the federal attack aviation on the night of January 13-14.

January 19, 2004 15:53

• Albert Gazarian: no national strategy of diplomacy in Karabakh

  "It is not by accident that the world powers persistently present the conflict as the one between Armenia and Azerbaijan and not between Karabakh and Azerbaijan," says the Karabakh politician.

January 19, 2004 15:00

• Turks-Meskhetians insist on fulfillment of Georgia's commitments to Council of Europe

  "The Turks-Meskhetians are tired of explaining that they require no compensation, no restitution of the villages and territories taken from them before, they are not inclined to declare autonomy in Samtskhe-Javakheti, they just want to come back and start normal life at home," said Chingiz Neyman-Zade, deputy chair of the Association of Akhaltsikhe (Meskhetian) Turks "Vatan" (Motherland) in Azerbaijan.

January 19, 2004 14:00

• Memorial's statement devoted to 15th anniversary of rehabilitation of victims of political repressions

  Many thousands of people who were executed or sent to camps as well as millions of people who were dispossessed, deported and disfranchised have not been rehabilitated so far.

January 19, 2004 13:57

• Raid on Tangi-Chu village

  Russian servicemen rushed into houses, robbed and beat locals all night.

January 17, 2004 19:50

• Turkish Minister of Culture denounces refusal to show film by Atom Egoyan "Ararat" in Turkey

  Erkan Mumcu emphasized that the showing of Ararat in Turkey was not prohibited after all. The matter concerns only the refusal of Belge Company to show the film in Turkey.

January 17, 2004 19:47

• Tsiza Gumba: UN could issue interim documents to citizens of Abkhazia

  "Due to the fact that the international community has not recognized our state for already 10 post-war years and Russia, along with other CIS countries, has introduced sanctions against Abkhazia, people in the republic have no fundamental rights secured by the Declaration of Human Rights, including the right to leave Abkhazia and to return to it," thinks Lawyer Tsiza Gumba, a former deputy of the Abkhazian Parliament.

January 17, 2004 17:48

• Charge brought against direction of Moskovsky Komsomolets in Astrakhan newspaper

  On January 15, the senior investigator of the Trusovsky District Prosecutor's Office of Astrakhan, Rashid Zhumgaliyev, brought a charge against Damir Batyrshin, former director general of Publishing House Media Prestizh Company, and Vladimir Nikonov, his deputy. The mentioned company published and distributed the Moskovsky Komsomolets in Astrakhan newspaper.

January 17, 2004 17:10

• Refugees in Bart camp receive ultimatum from authorities

  Chechen refugees living in the Bart tent camp in Karabulak, Ingushetia, were offered to leave the camp territory within 10 days.

January 17, 2004 16:51

• President of Ingushetia to visit Geneva to settle problem of Chechen refugees

  President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov is going to Geneva to discuss issues concerning the return of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from Ingushetia to Chechnya.

January 16, 2004 20:41

• Georgian-Abkhazian peace talks within framework of Geneva Process to be continued

  In particular, the second meeting of working groups on security issues and a policy within the Geneva Process is designed for late February. This meeting was to be held in Tbilisi as early as the autumn of 2003, but it did not take place. The first meeting was held in Sukhum in the summer of 2003.