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The people said Beso Kokaya had been beaten four days earlier by about 10 servicemen who then tied him to a tree.

Policemen are allowed to open aimed fire first if there is a real threat to their life in the course of special operations to detain criminals.

The stalemate position of Armenian political parties

The life and death of Zelimkhan Yandarbiev

Abkhaz "Christians" and "Muslims" profess the common religion of their ancestors

Djambul Shaminadze, head of the precinct election commission in the village of Danisparauli, which is in the Khulo election district, was detained by officers of law-enforcement agencies in the morning of April 16 in a hospital ward, to which he had been taken with signs of beating the day before.

At about 19:00 local time April 16, the opposition staged a meeting on the square adjacent to Matenadaran in downtown Yerevan. About 10 thousand people gathered in spite of the cold weather and torrential rain.

When an UAZ car with members of the Russian interior ministry's mobile detachment for Chechnya was moving near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya, an improvised radio controlled bomb went off.

An unidentified bomb went off near the village of Alleroy in Chechnya's Kurchaloy district.

The Prime Minister of Abkhazia and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Georgia met on April 16 in Sukhum to discuss the Georgian-Abkhazian meetings set for April - in Moscow and Geneva.

In its report, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) has summarized the evidence of violations of freedom of assembly, of freedom of movement, of freedom of the media, and of the persecution of political dissenters that have occurred in Armenia.

The human rights organization recommends that the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture examine and establish clear standards and criteria for the use of diplomatic assurances by governments with the purpose of ensuring that governments adhere to their absolute obligation not to expose persons to a risk of torture.