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22:38, 2 March 2007

СЕ Commissioner is concerned with interrogation methods used in Chechnya

The Council of Europe (CE), whose delegation has visited Chechnya these days, relates the violations of inmate detention conditions in the Republic with the deficit of judges.

22:02, 2 March 2007

Kadyrov approved as Chechen president

Today, the Parliament of Chechnya has approved awarding Ramzan Kadyrov with the powers of the president of the Republic. Overall, 56 deputies of both Chambers has voted for this decision.

21:59, 2 March 2007

Georgia hopes for the dialogue with South Ossetia

Georgia will welcome a sitting of the Mixed Control Commission (MCC) for settling the Georgian-Ossetian conflict in Tbilisi, should mutual understanding be reached by the parties at the Istanbul meeting.

22:54, 1 March 2007

Court completed Ulman's interrogation in Rostov-on-Don

The North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has finished today the interrogation of Captain Eduard Ulman, officer of the military reconnaissance, who is accused of murdering peaceful residents in Chechnya in January 2002.

22:50, 1 March 2007

Putin has chosen Kadyrov to be the president of Chechnya

President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has made a decision to offer the candidature of Ramzan Kadyrov to the post of the president of Chechnya.

22:47, 1 March 2007

Participants of the human rights conference in Chechnya find it "topical" and "critical"

The participants of the international human rights conference that has opened today morning in the capital of Chechnya state that "serious topics" have been considered at the forum.

22:34, 1 March 2007

Opposition has failed to unite in Armenia before elections

The overwhelming number of political movements in Armenia are planning their independent, outside any blocks, participation in the elections on May 12 to the National Assembly of Armenia, and some even intend to boycott the elections whatsoever.

22:32, 1 March 2007

At the conference in Grozny, they state mass violations of human rights in Chechnya

At the international conference, now held in Grozny, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for human rights in the Republic, has presented his report enumerating multiple facts of violation of human rights and freedoms in Chechnya in the course of armed actions.

23:06, 28 February 2007

"Committee against Tortures" hopes the law will be respected in Chechnya prisons

Today, on February 28, 2007, the city of Grozny has hosted a sitting of the Committee for Security, Legal Order and Interaction with Power Agencies under the Parliament of Chechnya.

23:04, 28 February 2007

Chechen refugees resident in Azerbaijan held a protest action

Today, several dozens of Chechens, who resettled to Azerbaijan after the start of military actions in Chechnya, have picketed the Baku office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

20:53, 28 February 2007

Human rights defender Mutsolgov has refused to take part in the human rights conference to be held in Chechnya

Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the "Mashr" Association of Kidnapped Relatives (Ingushetia) has refused to take part in the international conference on human rights, which will open tomorrow, on March 1, in the city of Grozny, capital of Chechnya.

20:46, 28 February 2007

Christian Bzhania: pre-election campaign in Abkhazia is not accompanied by any skirmishes

In Abkhazia, they have perceived with irony the messages of Georgian mass media about certain alleged skirmishes between supporters of the president and vice-president of the Republic, the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" reports.

20:37, 28 February 2007

Azerbaijani authorities would not let journalists to the process on Insanov's case

On February 28, the Court for Grave Crimes has continued the proceedings of the case of Ali Insanov, ex-Minister of Public Health of Azerbaijan, and a group of his former subordinates.

22:37, 27 February 2007

Saakashvili finds "Kosovo model" unacceptable for Georgia

President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili has stated today in Brussels that he rejects any parallels between settling the Kosovo status problem and the situation with South Ossetia и Abkhazia.

22:34, 27 February 2007

CE Commissioner did not meet human rights activists in Chechnya and Ingushetia

Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe (CE) for Human Rights, who is for the second day touring North Caucasus, had no meetings with human rights defenders.

19:17, 27 February 2007

European Commission funds projects in support of IDPs in Georgia

The aim of six projects is to revive the social and political dialogue between the government of Georgia and the society on the issues that worry the refugees: integration of internally displaced persons (IDPs) into the current Georgian society and capacity building of the NGOs who work with IDPs.

19:15, 27 February 2007

Trial of OMON fighters will continue tomorrow in Krasnodar Territory

A court trial has started in Sochi of OMON (Special Militia) members of the Head Department of Internal Affairs ("GUVD") of the Krasnodar Territory accused of excess of powers during the mass clean-up ("zachistka") in the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp, which was committed in summer of 2006.

19:12, 27 February 2007

Lev Ponomaryov: human rights defenders would not approve Kadyrov's personality cult

While Mr. Thomas Hammarberg, EU Commissioner, is getting ready to attend the human rights conference in Grozny, capital of Chechnya, Russian human rights defenders continue to boycott Ramzan Kadyrov's invitation.

22:18, 26 February 2007

Leader of youth movement "Eni Fikir" tortured in Azerbaijan

Ruslan Bashirli, chairman of the "Eni Fikir" Movement, who is serving his penalty in Azerbaijan, was beaten, shaved clean and put into the dungeon.

22:17, 26 February 2007

Embassy of the Russian Federation refutes the statement of the Georgian parliamentary

The Russian Embassy has drawn attention to mass media reports about a statement made by Mr. G. Targamadze, Chairman of the Committee for Defence and Security of the Parliament of Georgia, that Mr. V. Kovalenko, Russia's Ambassador to Georgia, allegedly held some negotiations with a number of Georgian political parties on the issue, as one could understand, on Georgia's neutrality and its non-accession to NATO.

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