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23:34, 18 January 2007

New trial on Khlebnikov's murder will start within 30 days

The case files on the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Forbes Russian version, have arrived to the Moscow City Court for retrial.

22:50, 18 January 2007

European Court has accounted Russian authorities guilty of torturing Chechnya residents

The authorities of Russia have been found guilty of torturing the residents of Chechnya.

22:47, 18 January 2007

Beslan victims ask to hear Saveliev's report

The victims of the terrorists' capture of Beslan school No. 1 (North Ossetia) have sent an open letter to the deputies of the parliament of the republic with a request to hold hearings of Yuri Saveliev, a member of the federal parliamentary commission for investigating the act of terror, who has prepared an alternative report.

22:41, 18 January 2007

Kremlin: murders of Politkovskaya and Litvinenko are connected

The Kremlin has linked together the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and ex-FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko.

22:24, 18 January 2007

Activists of "Nord-Ost" complain of pressure by the authorities

On January 18, 2007, a press conference "A Year to Presidential Election: Terror Victims Want the Truth" was held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.

23:39, 17 January 2007

HRC "Memorial": family of Chechnya residents is persecuted because of a relative militant

The Musaev family, residents of the village of Avtury of the Shali District of Chechnya, addressed the representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny.

23:37, 17 January 2007

Amnesty International is aggrieved with Supreme Court's decision on the case of Lapin, guilty of tortures in Chechnya

"We are afflicted with the decision of the Court on Sergey Lapin," Fredericka Ber, representative of the largest in the world human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) a AI's researcher for Russia, stated to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot."

21:33, 17 January 2007

42 lawsuits of Borozdinovskaya residents will be considered separately

Each of the forty-two claims lodged by residents of Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya versus the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation on compensation of moral damage will be considered separately.

21:30, 17 January 2007

Imam Stepanenko's advocate and the second defendant Grudin beaten in Stavropol Territory

On January 16, 2007, before the start of a court session in Pyatigorsk (Stavropol Territory), a sentry beat Anton Stepanenko's advocate and Andrei Grudin, the second defendant in the case.

21:27, 17 January 2007

The case of "Cadet," convicted for tortures in Chechnya, will be reconsidered

On January 17, the Supreme Court of Russia has ruled to send the case of Sergey Lapin (radio call sign "Cadet"), criminal search senior lieutenant of the Interior Department of the city of Nizhnevartovsk, who was convicted for torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, a resident of Grozny, capital of Chechnya, to the first instance court for a new consideration.

23:17, 16 January 2007

Azerbaijan releases the arrested editor of Internet-edition

The Appellate Court of Azerbaijan has changed the restriction measure (arrest) in relation to Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, creator of the Internet web-site susmayaq.biz.

22:20, 16 January 2007

At the process of the persons accused of killing peaceful Chechnya residents, Khudyakov was identified by his eyes

Today, the North Caucasian Regional Military Court has continued the proceedings of the case of interior troops officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering Chechnya residents.

22:12, 16 January 2007

K. Moskalenko: Russia authorities imitate enforcement of European Court's judgements on Chechnya cases

The trend of recent years - hampering by the state of enforcement of the decisions of the European Court in the territory of the Russian Federation - may result in suspension of the Council of Europe membership.

22:07, 16 January 2007

Militiamen who harried an Adygea resident to death convicted in the Krasnodar Territory

The Krasnodar Territory Court has passed a verdict on the criminal case in relation to four district militia officers and one their civil acquaintance, accused of murdering an Adygea resident.

22:06, 16 January 2007

Officers accused of killing peaceful Chechnya residents refuse to plead guilty

Officers Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, refuse to admit their guilt.

23:08, 15 January 2007

Moscow discussed prospects of enforcing final recommendations of the UN Committee against Tortures

On January 15, the premises of the Federation for Peace and Accord have become the venue of the roundtable with participation of human rights defenders from such public organizations like the Committee for Civil Rights, "Social Partnership" Foundation, "Public Verdict," as well as representatives of state institutions for defence of human rights and specialists in the area of fighting tortures, cruel and humiliating treatment and punishment.

23:00, 15 January 2007

European Court will deliver a judgment on the case of two Chechen residents

On January 16, the European Court for Human Rights will notify about 27 court judgments made and will announce decisions on 24 cases. One of them refers applicants from Chechnya - Arbi Chitaev and his brother Adam, born in 1964 and 1967, respectively.

22:53, 15 January 2007

Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya is satisfied with the results of amnesty of militants

January 15 is the deadline for the amnesty declared last July by the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia to participants of armed formations in North Caucasus.

22:43, 15 January 2007

"Reporters without Borders" hold action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya in Paris

Today, an action in memory of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, is held in Paris.

22:36, 15 January 2007

Web-site author-protester against price rise arrested in Azerbaijan

On January 13, Bakhtiyar Gadzhiev, creator of the web-site www.susmayaq.biz, was detained in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.

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