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June 23, 2010 22:00

• MCC: suspects of murdering Ruslan Yamadaev refuse to plead guilty

  The Moscow City Court (MCC) held a closed preliminary hearing on the case on murdering in September 2009 of the ex-deputy of the State Duma, Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev.

June 23, 2010 21:00

• Militant can be named to be Estemirova's killer, a source reports

  A well-informed source in Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" that soon the recruiter of militants Alkhazur Bashaev, who was liquidated in November 2009, may be announced by the investigation to be the murderer of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", while the motive of her murder could possibly be found in the report of human rights activists, where Bashaev was mentioned. The employees of the HRC "Memorial" are afraid that this version may conceal real customers of the murder from responsibility.

June 23, 2010 20:00

• Picket against human rights violations in Chechnya is on in Strasbourg

  In front of the building of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg, a protest action is held by members of the Chechen Diaspora in France against illegal actions of power agents in Chechnya.

June 23, 2010 19:00

• In Armenia, four policemen are accused of Vaan Khalafyan's death

  The case initiated on the death of Vaan Khalafyan, 24, has been transferred to the general jurisdiction court of the Kotaik Region. Four employees of the police saw their charges.

June 23, 2010 18:00

• Svetlana Zemskova: Kadyrov's claim to Orlov aims at restriction of freedom of speech

  The claims like the one filed by President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov against the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Oleg Orlov are not aimed at protecting one's good name, but attempt to restrict dissemination of information, as Svetlana Zemskova, a lawyer of the Fund in Defence of Glasnost, asserts.

June 22, 2010 23:50

• Azerbaijan holds charitable marathon in support of "prisoners of conscience"

  In Azerbaijan, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has started a charitable campaign named "Marathon in support of 'prisoners of conscience'". The action is dated to the Day of National Press marked annually on July 22.

June 22, 2010 23:30

• Nature defenders try again to draw attention to Sochi ecology

  In central Sochi, nature defenders have again held a picket, asserting that many environmental problems of the resort have not been given due attention yet.

June 22, 2010 23:10

• Employees of Azerbaijani Ombudsman's office register traumas in arrested oppositionist

  Employees of the office of the Azerbaijani Ombudsman have confirmed traces of bodily injuries in oppositionist Rovshan Nasirli, who was arrested on June 19 for his participation in the protest action of the oppositional block "Azadlyg" (Freedom).

June 22, 2010 23:00

• HRW demands to punish those who beat lawyer in Dagestan

  The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that Russian authorities should investigate the beating by militiamen in Dagestan of lawyer-rights defender Sapiyat Magomedova and bring those guilty to responsibility.

June 22, 2010 22:00

• Russian delegation votes for PACE resolution on human rights in Northern Caucasus

  Leonid Slutskiy, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the PACE and the first deputy chair of State Duma committee for international matters, has noted a great importance of the discussion by European MPs of the resolution on situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus. The head of the Russian delegation to the PACE Konstantin Kosachov finds the adopted resolution to be objective and well-balanced.

June 22, 2010 21:00

• South Ossetia sets free three citizens of Georgia

  On June 22, the South-Ossetian party released, on the basis of the decision of the Tskhinvali District Court, three citizens of Georgia detained on June 20.

June 22, 2010 20:00

• Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, son of the first president of Georgia, stops his hunger strike

  Today Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, has stopped his hunger strike, as reported by his advocate Keti Bekauri.

June 22, 2010 19:00

• Early relief of figurant in "Neva-Express" explosion case rejected

  Today, the Valdai District Court of the Novgorod Region refused to release Maksharip Khidriev, a native of Ingushetia and a figurant in the first case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007.

June 22, 2010 18:00

• Kalyapin: inquiry bodies hamper investigation into Chechen kidnappings

  The investigation of human rights violations in Chechnya is sabotaged by local inspectors. This was stated by Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Nizhniy Novgorod Inter-Regional Committee against Torture and Coordinator of the Public Commission on Chechnya, on June 20 in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

June 21, 2010 23:50

• Released defendant in Nalchik attack case is not allowed to contact journalists

  Kazbek Budtuev, a defendant in the Nalchik attack case, whose custody was replaced today by home arrest, can communicate only with his mother and advocate. The court ruling especially emphasizes that Kazbek Budtuev has no right to communicate with journalists and make statements.

June 21, 2010 23:40

• Suspects of trafficking in humans detained in Northern Caucasus

  In the end of last week at the same time in several cities of the Caucasian Mineral Waters and Kabardino-Balkaria a special operation was conducted, as a result of which seven members of the inter-regional criminal grouping were detained as suspects ed of trafficking in humans. This was reported today by the MIA's Central Administration for the Southern Federal District (SFD).

June 21, 2010 23:30

• Corriere Della Sera apologizes to Chechen employee of the HRC "Memorial"

  Andrea Nikastro, a journalist of the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, has explained the fact of distortion of the words of Doku Itslaev, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Chechnya, by the deficit of time he had for the publication.

June 21, 2010 23:20

• Sochi residents protest against alternate Kurortny Avenue

  On June 20 residents of city-resort Sochi held a number of rallies and pickets in defence of municipal streets against construction of federal highways; most of them are planned right under tenants' windows and assume cutting away a lot of greenery.

June 21, 2010 23:10

• Karabulak OVD forces doctors to discharge kidnapped Chitigov, his relatives assert

  As reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", where on June 18 Zukhra Chitigova, Zelimkhan's mother, addressed her repeated written application, her son is still under guard in Karabulak hospital.

June 21, 2010 23:00

• Sunday Times' photographer: Sharipova who blew her up in Moscow did not look like a committed terrorist

  Video clips have been published, in which, supposedly, the natives of Dagestan Janet Abdurakhmanova and Maryam Sharipova - suicide bombers on March 29 in Moscow metro, justified the motives of their actions.