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10:11, 25 January 2006

Human Rights First Condemns False Accusations against Russian Human Rights Organizations

A statement by a leading human rights organisation concerning the recent attacks on human rights defenders in Russia.

22:08, 24 January 2006

ECHR applicants' relative tortured in Chechnya

The Human Rights Centre Memorial receives information that beating and torture are used in Chechnya against a relative of applicants to the European Court of Human Rights.

21:57, 23 January 2006

Television discredits human rights defenders

The Moscow Helsinki Group chair denies allegations of its being involved in espionage against Russia.

21:47, 23 January 2006

Police officer killed in Dagestan

One police officer is killed and another one is wounded in the capital of Dagestan, Makhachkala.

19:08, 20 January 2006

People continue to disappear in Kabardino-Balkaria

Another resident of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Zaur Pshigotyzhev, has gone missing, unofficial sources say.

19:04, 20 January 2006

Removed prisoner lost again

Mr Rasul Kudayev, the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner, is found not to be in the White Swan prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

19:01, 19 January 2006

New law stifles independent civil society - AI

Amnesty International regrets that President Putin has approved amendments to laws regulating NGO operation in Russia.

18:59, 19 January 2006

Witnesses fail to come

No witness comes to the Kulayev trial, including Ingush ex-president Ruslan Aushev and businessman Mikhail Gutseriyev.

18:57, 18 January 2006

Caucasians hated most among ethnic minorities

There were around 25 killings and more than 200 assaults on an ethnic basis last year, says a human rights defender.

18:54, 18 January 2006

Eleven killed, wounded in Chechnya

Six Russian military men are killed and five are wounded in Chechnya on 16-17 January, according to a France-Presse source.

18:49, 18 January 2006

Chechen refugees rush for Europe

Mr Kadyrov once said that those who refused to come back to Chechnya were "criminals and terrorists," Prague Watchdog reports.

19:47, 17 January 2006

Abducted Chechen released after torture

There is information that he has some fingers and toes broken and his kidneys injured and that he is currently in a very grave condition.

19:43, 17 January 2006

Controversial evidence in Kulayev case

Andrei Gagloyev, commander of the engineering troops of the 58th army, gives evidence at the Beslan attack case trial.

19:37, 16 January 2006

Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner found in Piatigorsk

Rasul Kudayev accused of taking part in the 13 October 2005 events in Kabardino-Balkaria is kept in a prison in Piatigorsk, Stavropol territory.

19:34, 16 January 2006

Killed rebels' parents willing to know their sons' bodies safe

Parents of rebels killed on 13 October 2005 ask Kabardino-Balkaria's Prosecutor Yuri Ketov for an opportunity to make certain that their sons' bodies are safe.

19:24, 16 January 2006

Bomb wounds teenager

A 16-year-old boy is wounded because of the explosion of an unidentified device in Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

18:59, 16 January 2006

Four wounded in Chechnya

Four contract soldiers are seriously wounded in a blast of a military truck in Chechnya's Nozhai-Yurt district.

19:16, 13 January 2006

Beslan Voice challenges federal officials

The Beslan Voice public organisation makes a statement demanding that some federal officials give evidence and even prove their innocence.

18:47, 13 January 2006

Abduction in Chechnya

A Mairtup, Kurchaloi district, resident is abducted in the republic.

18:29, 12 January 2006

N Ossetia's ex-president finally gives evidence

Mr Dzasokhov claims that there was no information about a terrorist act planned in the republic.

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