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21:13, 2 May 2006

Over 20 residents of the village of Tsentoroj kidnapped in Chechnya

According to the information obtained from local citizens, during several latest days in the village of Tsentoroj (Chechnya), over 20 persons were kidnapped by armed soldiers in camouflage suits and taken to unknown places.

21:09, 2 May 2006

Chechnya is visited by a delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures

In the first half of May 2, the president of Chechnya received in Grozny Mauro Palma, head of the delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures.

21:05, 2 May 2006

In Chechnya, human rights activists were not let to the family village of the Kadyrovs

Mauro Palma, head of the delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures, which is now in Chechnya, says that they were not let to Tsentoroj.

08:49, 2 May 2006

In Georgia, NGOs demand to hold an objective investigation into Girgvliani's murder

Representatives of the non-governmental organization "Institute for Equal Rights" (Georgia) have held today a peaceful protest action in Tbilisi Shardeni Street, where in January an incident took place entailing death of Sandro Girgvliani, 28 years old.

08:43, 2 May 2006

Azerbaijan has no political prisoners, representatives of the authorities think

The problem of political prisoners is outside the agenda of the authorities of Azerbaijan.

21:00, 1 May 2006

Meeting against despotism of power bodies held in Beslan

Beslan (North Ossetia) was a venue of a several thousand strong meeting against abuse of power by law enforcement bodies.

20:58, 29 April 2006

Azerbaijan denies any CIA prisons in its territory

Azerbaijan rejected the information about secret CIA prisons located in its territory.

20:54, 29 April 2006

In Chechnya, a local citizen was kidnapped and shot dead by unknown persons

In Chechnya, unknown persons have kidnapped and killed a local citizen, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic informed today.

20:48, 28 April 2006

"Nezavisimaya Gazeta": temporary residence centres (TRCs) of Chechnya are in better order that the streets of Grozny

Despite declarations of Kadyrov, Prime Minister of Chechnya, that the women living in temporary residence centres (TRCs) "have forgotten what is housekeeping and house work, and would not take a brush," the tent camps are in better order that the central cities of Grozny, the "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" (Independent Newspaper).

15:50, 28 April 2006

In Ingushetia, one of the refugees detained in Ordzhonikidzevskaya settlement released

On April 25, in the course of operative-search actions in temporary residence centres of refugees in the settlement of Ordzhonikidzevskaya of the Sunzhenskiy District of Ingushetia, two forced migrants from the Chechen Republic - Bislan Maaev, born in 1981, and Aslambek Ahmedov, born in 1968, were detained.

15:45, 28 April 2006

Chernobyl liquidators of Rostov-on-Don think that money payouts instead of privileges is a government's deceit

Liquidators of the Chernobyl accident implications from Rostov-on-Don think that replacement of privileges for monetary payments is another deception of the government.

15:42, 28 April 2006

Sergey Enikolopov: closing refugees' camps in Chechnya is fair to some extent

Experts think that Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov's instruction to liquidate Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) refugees may be fair to some extent.

15:33, 28 April 2006

Human rights activists protest against closing refugees' camps in Chechnya

According to human rights activists, authorities of Chechnya have started to close regional Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) of forced migrants who have no other roof over their head.

15:28, 28 April 2006

In Azerbaijan, they wait for another pardon decree

Before May 28 - the Republic Day - Ilkham Aliev, president of Azerbaijan, may sign another Pardon Decree. Elmira Akhundova, MP and member of the Pardon Commission under the president of the Republic, told about it in her talk with journalists.

15:24, 27 April 2006

In Azerbaijan, the Committee Against Tortures visited disciplinary battalion

Elchin Bekhbudov, chairman of the Committee Against Tortures in Azerbaijan, jointly with Bairam Sadykhov, his deputy, conducted a monitoring of the disciplinary battalion located in the Salianskiy District and subordinated to the Chief Administration of Military Police.

15:22, 24 April 2006

Militiamen stopped human rights activists from picketing in the Krasnodar Territory

Eduard Mktrchyan, Akhmad Choloyan and Vadim Karastelyov, members of the "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee" departed from Novorossisk to Krasnodar to take part in a picket against militia voluntarism committed in the village of Gulkevichi.

15:17, 22 April 2006

Trial of human rights activist Boliev in Dagestan will continue on Monday

In Khasavyurt (Dagestan), the court process on human rights activist Osman Boliev, head of the Dagestan regional public organization "Romashka," accused of storage, acquisition and bearing of firearms, will continue on Monday, April 24.

15:12, 22 April 2006

Armenian Security Service agents took away and beat oppositionist's bodyguards

On April 21, about 1 p.m., not far from Erebuni police station in Yerevan, 12 unidentified persons, eight of them in masks, stopped the car of Aram Karapetyan, chairman of the "Novye Vremena" (New Times) Armenian Party, and his accompanying cars.

23:42, 21 April 2006

Chief federal inspector for Stavropol Territory inspected Kochubej colony

Prosecutor of the Stavropol Territory, has inspected, together with Alexander Korobeinikov, Chief Federal Inspector for the Stavropol Territory of the machinery of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the South Federal District, the observance of the requirements of the law at enforcement of criminal punishments at the Federal State Institution - Corrective Colony No. 2 of the Administration of the Federal Punishment Enforcement Service for the Stavropol Territory.

23:29, 21 April 2006

In Dagestan, at the trial of human rights activist Boliev, defence evidences were presented

In Dagestan, in the town of Khasavyurt, the trial continues on the case of Osman Boliev, human rights activist, head of the Dagestan regional public organization "Romashka," accused of storage, acquisition and bearing of firearms.

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