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20:08, 7 July 2006

Human rights activists of Azerbaijan are worried with worsening health condition of hunger-striking inmates

On the eleventh day of the hunger-strike, started in Azerbaijan by life-sentenced inmates of the Gobustan prison, the health condition of some of them - Giorgiy Geladze, Shakir Rzakhanov, Ali Guliev and Bakhtiyar Dzhafarov who sewed up his mouth - got rapidly aggravated.

20:03, 7 July 2006

Amnesty International is concerned with stronger pressure on journalists

Public defenders of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov (Mirza Sakit), arrested in Azerbaijan, continue to inform the diplomatic corps on the events around the criminal case in relation to the journalist.

20:00, 7 July 2006

General Prosecutor's Office of the South Federal District (SFD) refused to give out the bodies of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria

Some time ago the parents of the militants who had perished in Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, addressed president of Russia V. Putin with a request to exhibit an act of humanism and give out the bodies for burial.

19:58, 7 July 2006

Several local citizens detained and killed in Chechnya

On July 6, 2006, in the settlement of Chernorechye of the Zavodskoj District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, when conducting targeted special actions, the employees of the district department of internal affairs detained one of local citizens.

19:56, 7 July 2006

Inmates of the colony in Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike

The inmates of Colony No. 6 of the city of Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike, as their relatives have explained, because of "lack of elementary conditions."

19:52, 7 July 2006

Parents of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria addressed G-8

It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the parents of the militants who have been killed in Kabardino-Balkaria militants have sent today an appeal to the summit of the "Great Eight," in which they ask to affect the issue of giving out the bodies of their sons for burial.

19:47, 7 July 2006

Journalists of Azerbaijan ask Aliev to release Zakhidov

The Committee for defence of the rights of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov adopted today an appeal to the name of the head of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliev.

20:12, 6 July 2006

Andrey Bachman: "Volgograd bureaus of medical-social examination are instruments of reviving eugenics"

"Recently, the bureaus of medical-social examination of Volgograd have transformed into an efficient instrument of eugenics that is reviving in Russia and is aggressively trying to penetrate the fundamental dogmata of state policy of Russia," Andrey Bachman, an activist of antifascist movement of Volgograd told in his interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

00:19, 1 July 2006

Representatives of "Amnesty International" on visit to Kabardino-Balkaria

Victoria Webb and Frieda Vike, representatives of the international human rights organization "Amnesty International", have visited Kabardino-Balkaria.

22:42, 27 June 2006

Grebelskiy: the law prohibiting the bodies of terrorists to be handed over to relatives runs contrary to the Constitution

The legislative norms prohibiting the bodies to be handed over to relatives, adopted recently in Russia, run contrary to the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms and other international norms on human rights, and to the Constitution of Russia, said Alexander Grebelskiy.

13:56, 27 June 2006

Pickets against torture of human rights activists in the capital of Dagestan

Yesterday, June 26, pickets were held in Makhachkala against torture used by the law-enforcement agencies of Dagestan.

13:51, 27 June 2006

"Reporters without Borders" condemn the arrest of a journalist in Azerbaijan

The "Reporter without Borders" human rights organization suspect that the arrest of Sakit Zakhidov, Azeri opposition journalist, is politically motivated, reports the Center of Extreme Journalism.

13:46, 27 June 2006

PACE charges Azerbaijan with lack of democracy

Yesterday, on June 26, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PАСЕ) discussed the issue of the mandate of the Azeri parliamentary delegation.

13:41, 27 June 2006

Human rights activists: social protection agencies in Volgograd region violate the rights of relatives of soldiers killed in the army

"It seems that we are protecting the population of Volgograd region from social protection agencies and military commissariats," stated Victoria Podkhvatilova.

13:35, 27 June 2006

Red Cross: visits to Chechnya prisons are useful for authorities

Jacob Kellenberg, head of International Red Cross Committee, expressed his deep concern in connection with violation of prisoners' rights in the prisons of Northern Caucasus and, in particular, in Chechnya.

17:07, 26 June 2006

Dagestan court has considered the legitimacy of a new case against human rights activist Boliev

On Friday 23 June, the Khasavyurt town court of Dagestan considered the issue of the legitimacy of initiation by Khasavyurt department of internal affairs of a new criminal case against Osman Boliev, leader of the local human rights organization "Romashka" charged with acquisition, storage and carrying of fire arms and participation in an illegal armed unit.

14:56, 26 June 2006

An opposition newspaper journalist is arrested in Azerbaijan for transportation of drugs

Sakit Zakhidov, journalist of the "Azadlyg" opposition newspaper, was detained on June 23 night and brought to the Azeri MIA Department on Fighting Drug Business.

14:51, 26 June 2006

PACE Bureau decides against compilation of a report on human rights in Chechnya

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a decision not to compile a report on human rights situation in Chechnya.

14:39, 26 June 2006

Dagestan court finds initiation of a new case against human rights activist Boliev legitimate

The Khasaviurt town court of Dagestan adopted a decision on the legitimacy of initiation of new criminal proceedings against Osman Boliev, leader of the local human rights organization "Romashka", charged with acquisition, storage and carrying of fire arms and participation in an illegal armed unit.

14:34, 26 June 2006

A hunger strike of life prisoners started in Azerbaijan

On June 26, 2006, 109 life prisoners in Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan) started another hunger strike demanding that their sentences should be reviewed.

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