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11:13, 26 May 2004

Azerbaijan life termer sues prison warden

The simple denial of the convict's request to continue education violated 8 international documents obligatory for Azerbaijan.

11:10, 26 May 2004

Tbilisi court sentences natives of Chechnya, Kistin to 4 year's imprisonment

Khanchukayev, Magomedov, Isayev, Aliyev, and Kushtanashvili were among 13 Chechens detained in August 2002 while crossing the Georgian-Russian border.

11:01, 26 May 2004

Volunteers spread information about children's rights in Rostov

The International Society Memorial and the Rostov Foundation for Social Technologies carried out a joint action in Rostov-on-Don on May 25. It was devoted to the rights of the child.

22:42, 25 May 2004

Practice of large-scale purges resumed in Chechnya

The Russian military start applying the practice of conducting large-scale operations in Chechnya again. They completely cordon off settlements and check all people in the course of these operations.

19:57, 25 May 2004

Human rights leader denies political process in Chechnya

A book about the situation in Chechnya has been published by Russian human rights organizations. Tatiana Lokshina, expertise and analysis director at the Moscow Helsinki Group, comments on its publication.

19:45, 25 May 2004

Opposition leader continues hunger strike, his health deteriorates

Suren Sureniants was arrested on April 6. He is charged with making public appeals to overthrow the power and insulting state officials.

18:52, 25 May 2004

Alleged organizers of May 9 blast may not be related to it

A high-ranking official at the Chechen interior ministry has cast doubt on the information that Elikhanov an Udayev, rebels killed in Grozny, were organizers of the May 9 terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium in the Chechen capital.

16:11, 25 May 2004

Rights action for young men conducted in Novocherkassk

Agitation groups visited town educational institutions and told young men about their rights for the whole week.

16:09, 25 May 2004

Student Parliamentary Debates held in Taganrog

The debates were held within the framework of the human rights campaign being waged in Rostov Region with the participation of the International Society Memorial.

16:06, 25 May 2004

Young men in Rostov Region to know more about their rights

The PR-campaign is being waged by the coalition of non-governmental organizations with the assistance of the Caucasian Knot information Internet agency.

15:03, 25 May 2004

Rights activists advocate withdrawal of Georgian military from Iraq

30 thousand signatures must be collected for the parliament to consider the issue of the withdrawal of the Georgian servicemen.

12:58, 25 May 2004

Purge conducted in Alkhan-Kala village

People who managed to leave this settlement reported on mass purges conducted in the houses of local residents.

12:53, 25 May 2004

Chechen village shelled by federal forces

Shell fragments damaged roofs of several houses.

11:52, 25 May 2004

Extra military elements enter Chechnya

To all appearances, the Russian military started conducting an operation to move extra military elements to Chechnya pursuant to the decree recently singed by the Russian president on the necessity to move extra police forces of 1,125 people to the republic.

11:50, 25 May 2004

First suspect in May 9 blast in Grozny declared wanted

"Investigators have every reason to suppose he is the man who was a committer of the May 9 terrorist act at the Dinamo stadium in Grozny, which left 7 people, including Chechen president Akhmat Hajji Kadyrov, dead," a source at the Chechen prosecutor's office said.

10:39, 25 May 2004

Skirmish between Russian, Chechen policemen leaves 3 dead

Three police officers were killed and another four wounded in a skirmish in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya on May 23.

17:23, 24 May 2004

Chechen child injured in grenade blast

An 11-year-old boy suffered in a grenade blast in the village of Chervlyonnaya, Chechnya's Shelkovskaya district.

16:59, 24 May 2004

Georgian media report on Cossacks terrorizing locals in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

Gali residents assert that under the pretext of searching for weapons, the Cossacks "raid houses of local people, terrorize them, extort money from them, and beat young men."

16:23, 24 May 2004

Cache with weapons found in Grozny

Two Kalashnikov automatic rifles and a Smith and Wesson revolver belonged to rebel Aslan Dzhabayev, who was destroyed by federal soldiers in May 2004.

16:00, 24 May 2004

Commandos kill 2 rebels linked to May 9 terrorist blast

One of the killed militants was identified as Said-Emin Elikhanov, 24, who led a militant group, another as Taus Udayev, 26, emir of the Wahhabi jamaat (society) of Chechnya's Urus-Martan district.

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