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20:29, 14 July 2006

NGOs and Abkhazian Journalists Stand up for Parastaev and Tskhovrebov

Today, representatives of a number of Abkhazian NGOs and journalists disseminated a joint declaration in which they note that people in Abkhazia have enthusiastically welcomed the decision to declare 2006 the Year of Abkhazia in South Ossetia and the Year of South Ossetia in Abkhazia.

15:08, 13 July 2006

Information about death of arrested ex-minister of public health of Azerbaijan was not true

Information about death of Ali Insanov, former Health Minister, was not confirmed, runs the message of the Public Relations Centre of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan.

19:31, 12 July 2006

Authorities of Azerbaijan admitted the fact of hunger strike of the prisoners at Gobustan prison

In his interview to Radio Liberty, a senior official of the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan admitted the fact of hunger strike held by the inmates of the Gobustan prison. But the official insisted that only three life convicts are on the action.

19:29, 12 July 2006

OSCE expresses concern with arrest of journalist in Azerbaijan

Miklosh Kharashti, OSCE mass media representative, expressed his concern in relation to arrest in Azerbaijan of Sakit Zakhidov, a satirical journalist.

19:23, 12 July 2006

Hunger strike of refugees in North Ossetia continues

June 30, 2006, inhabitants of the refugee settlement Maiskiy of the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia declared themselves getting prepared for a hunger strike action.

19:42, 11 July 2006

Human rights activists dissatisfied with new amendments on extremism

Amendments to the law "On Counteracting Extremist Activities," adopted in the first reading by the State Duma, will impede the work of human rights activists and journalists who criticize bureaucrats, Russian human rights activists think.

19:39, 11 July 2006

In Azerbaijan the inmates on hunger strike demand to meet human rights activists

The hunger strike of the inmates of the Gobustan prison continues.

19:36, 11 July 2006

A court in Kabardino-Balkaria refused to consider a torture case of Kudayev, a Guantanamo prisoner

The Nalchik City Court refused to satisfy a complaint of Rasul Kudayev, who was arrested on accusation of participation in the events of October 13, 2005, a citizen of the settlement of Khasanya and a former prisoner of the American prison in Guantanamo, on refusal of the investigator of the prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria to initiate a criminal case on the facts of being tortured.

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.

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