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22:20, 8 May 2007

Break till May 14 announced in Arakcheev-Khudyakov's trial

Today's court session of the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don on the case of Khudyakov and Arakcheev, officers of Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, accused of murdering three peaceful residents of Chechnya, has interrogated one witness.

22:51, 7 May 2007

Suspects of murdering Elmar Guseinov arrested in Georgia

In Tbilisi, the law enforcement bodies of Georgia have arrested Tair Khubanov, and Teimuraz Aliev who are suspected of murdering Elmar Guseinov, editor-in-chief of the "Monitor" magazine.

22:50, 7 May 2007

New record of number of religious prisoners of conscience in Armenia

Armenia's Jehovah's Witnesses have complained to Forum 18 News Service that 72 of their young men are now imprisoned for refusing both military service and the alternative service under military control, the highest number ever.

22:37, 7 May 2007

Human rights defenders state a sharp reduction of kidnappings in Chechnya

A radical reduction in the number of kidnappings and massive non-targeted utilization of federal funds are the basic tendencies of modern Checnya's development.

22:24, 7 May 2007

Chechnya sets up a commission to restore the rights of repressed citizens

Under Ramzan Kadyrov's order a special commission has been formed in Chechnya that will be engaged in the issues of restoration of rights of the rehabilitated victims of political repressions.

22:22, 7 May 2007

Azerbaijan stops cooperation with "Reporters without Borders"

Azerbaijan is not going to cooperate with "Reporters without Borders" and attaches no value to declarations made by this organization.

22:18, 5 May 2007

Ombudsman of Georgia: situation in Georgian prisons is catastrophic

On May 4, 2007, while presenting his report for the second half of 2006 to the Committee for Human Rights and Civil Integration, Ombudsman Sozar Subari, "National Defender of Georgia," has named the state of the Georgian penitentiary system to be catastrophic and beyond the critical mark.

22:16, 5 May 2007

Leader of Chechnya: I'll let nobody goof on people

President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has stated the inadmissibility of illegal investigatory methods, the attention to which was drawn by heads of law enforcement bodies and representatives of power agencies of the Republic.

22:14, 5 May 2007

Two young people kidnapped by unknown persons in camouflage in Ingushetia

Two young people, born in 1984 and 1986, have been kidnapped by armed unknown persons in Nazran, a source at the city's department of internal affairs has telephoned on Saturday.

22:10, 5 May 2007

"Geiryat": Georgian citizens residing in Russia are scared to go out

Georgian citizens of Azerbaijan origin, like all other citizens of Georgia who live in Russia, cannot get employed and do not dare even to go out of their homes.

22:04, 5 May 2007

Jehovah's Witnesses win the case against Georgia in Strasbourg

The European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg has made its decision on the case "97 members of Gdlan congregations of Jehovah's Witnesses and four other persons versus Georgia."

15:38, 5 May 2007

Journalists jailed for inciting religious hatred in Azerbaijan

A court in Azerbaijan jailed two independent journalists today over an article that said Islam was hampering economic and political progress.

23:15, 4 May 2007

Outcomes of searching defendants in Ulman's case to be presented in Rostov-on-Don

On May 24, the court session on Ulman's case will announce the outcomes of the undertaken operative and search actions and discuss the destiny of Major Alexei Perelevskiy, the only defendant who did not disappear like the rest of them.

23:00, 4 May 2007

Human rights defenders to address EU on observance of human rights in Russia

Russian human rights defenders will address the European Union (EU) with a request to openly discuss with Moscow the problems that are obvious in Russia, and to demand that it should observe its international obligations.

22:48, 4 May 2007

Power officials in Chechnya ask Kadyrov to close ORB-2 down

Heads of Chechen law enforcement bodies and power agencies structures have decided to ask Ramzan Kadyrov, Republic's leader, to initiate liquidation of the Operative-Search Bureau-2 (ORB-2) located in the capital of the Republic.

22:10, 4 May 2007

The defence party in Khudyakov and Arakcheev's case will speak at court on May 7

On Monday, May 7, the hearing will restart of the case of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three Chechen residents.

22:29, 3 May 2007

Head of Kabardino-Balkarian MIA calls clerics to counteract religious extremism

Today, on May 3, Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, held a meeting with Mufti Anas Pshikhachov, Dean of Orthodox churches of Kabardino-Balkaria Valentin Bobylev and Chief Rabbi of Kabardino-Balkaria and Nalchik Levi Shabaev, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent informs.

22:27, 3 May 2007

Russia pays compensation to the person deported from Kabardino-Balkaria

In performance of the decision of the European Court for Human Rights, the government of Russia has transferred eight thousand euros to the personal account of Turkish citizen Hadj Bairam Bolat who had been earlier deported from Kabardino-Balkaria.

22:22, 3 May 2007

Case against Beslan power agents can be reconsidered

Today, after their meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia, the women of Beslan left the North Ossetian SC building. Ms. Anneta Gadieva, co-chair of the "Beslan Mothers" Committee, has reported the news by telephone.

23:10, 2 May 2007

E. Kisriev: the mosque in Dagestan was attacked because of "internal showdowns"

"The attack on 'Yuzhnaya' (Southern) mosque located in the outskirt of the capital of Dagestan committed at the end of March was caused by internal showdowns (conflicts) among the people engaged in servicing the mosque," Enver Kisriev, an employee of the Centre for Civilization and Regional Researches of the Russian Academy of Sciences, asserts.

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