News

May 30, 2008 19:54

• Akbulatov: Russia fails to completely fulfil European Court's decisions on Chechnya

  Head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Shakhman Akbulatov has stated, while making his comments on the May 29 decision of the European Court for Human Rights obliging Russia to pay out money compensation to five residents of Chechnya, that Russia fails to completely fulfil the decisions of the European Court.

May 30, 2008 18:30

• Several oppositionists beaten in Georgia

  Amiran Iobashvili, a member of the Party "Movement for United Georgia", was beaten in the morning near his house by five person in masks armed with truncheons. Earlier, at night, two members of the block "United Opposition: National Council - Right-Wingers" and the Republican Party were beaten in Tbilisi and Gori.

May 30, 2008 18:03

• Pogromists of Azerbaijanis convicted in Transbaikalia

  Today, the Khilok District Court of the Transbaikalian Territory has announced a verdict on the criminal case against 32 local residents accused of attacking in May 2006 families of Azerbaijani natives in the village of Kharagun, where 11 persons suffered and one perished.

May 30, 2008 16:46

• Ruslan Aushev's cousin heavily wounded in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, Vakha Evloev, cousin of the ex-president of Ingushetia Ruslan Aushev, was heavily wounded. His car was shelled in the Surkhakhi village. Mr Evloev with gunshot wounds was delivered to the central hospital of Nazran in a critical condition.

May 30, 2008 15:06

• Suspects of funding Chechen separatists detained in Bulgaria

  Bulgaria has stopped a criminal group suspected of financing militants in Chechnya.

May 30, 2008 14:21

• Armenian human rights activists ask to punish those who attacked Kharatyan

  Thirteen NGOs and human rights organizations of Armenia have disseminated a statement demanding to hold an objective investigation of the attack on the head of the Youth Movement "It Has Begun" Arsen Kharatyan and to punish the criminals.

May 30, 2008 13:03

• Historical buildings dismantled in Tbilisi

  On May 29, the organization for preservation of Tbilisi named "Tbilisi Amkari" held a preventive protest action with posters "SOS Tbilisi", standing against dismantling historical buildings in the centre of the Georgian capital.

May 29, 2008 11:40

• Memorial to 1944 deportation victims dismantled in Chechnya

  Today, in the Leninskiy District of the capital of Chechnya, building workers have started dismantling the memorial complex erected in Grozny during Dzhokhar Dudaev's rule in memory of the victims of mass deportation of Chechens undertaken in February 1944.

May 29, 2008 11:09

• PACE concerned with Armenia's reaction to Resolution No. 1609

  The authorities of Armenia have made "imperceptible" steps to enforce PACE's Resolution No. 1609 dealing with the freedom of democratic institutes in the country. This conclusion was made at the recent session of the PACE's Monitoring Commission held in Kiev.

May 29, 2008 11:03

• Victims of terror act in South Ossetia brought to Vladikavkaz

  Four persons out of those wounded in South Ossetia by explosion in the territory of the South-Ossetian OMON (Special Militia) unit in the centre of the city of Tskhinvali have been forwarded to the Republic's Clinical Hospital of Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia.

May 29, 2008 10:54

• European Court awards 70,000 euros to relatives of Chechnya residents kidnapped in 2003

  Today, the European Court for Human Rights has made public its decisions on five cases related to residents of Chechnya.

May 29, 2008 10:48

• Kabardino-Balkaria: trial on attack on Nalchik to continue on June 11

  Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has continued, at its next session on the case considering the attack on Nalchik, selection of jurymen. Then, the court announced a break till June 11.

May 29, 2008 10:41

• Picket in defence of Ingushetia residents' rights held in Moscow

  Today, the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in Moscow was the venue of a 40 persons-strong picket held against violations of human rights and freedoms in Ingushetia. The participants have expressed their concern with the growth of violence and their protest against prosecution of independent media and oppositional leaders in Ingushetia.

May 28, 2008 14:51

• Abkhazian authorities reiterate their stand on refugee return

  On the issue of return of the refugees, the position of Abkhazian leadership remains constant - stage-by-stage return at an initial stage only to the Galskiy District.

May 28, 2008 14:42

• Leader of youth movement injured in the capital of Armenia

  Today, in the centre of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, not far from the Republic Square, Arsen Kharatyan, leader of the youth civil movement named "Sksela" (Beginning), was attacked, got a head trauma and was hospitalized.

May 28, 2008 14:35

• Scientist from Kabardino-Balkaria: much of Russia's political practice can be treated as radicalism

  Dangerous (ideological and political-ideological) forms of radicalism are fed and provoked by seemingly harmless manifestations of radicalism that abound in our life.

May 28, 2008 14:22

• Dagestan asserts absence of grounds for oppressing Jewish nationals

  In recent years, the Republic's media published no articles aimed at kindling enmity between the Jewish and other nations inhabiting Dagestan, Marta Alekyan, office manager of the Makhachkala Jewish community, has stated.

May 28, 2008 14:11

• Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office demands to establish order in Republic's corrective colonies

  The Prosecutor's Office has revealed violations of the legislation on prisoners' custody conditions and brought a presentation to the local Department of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement with a demand to eliminate the drawbacks.

May 28, 2008 13:44

• Detainees at rally in Ingushetia are on hunger strike at Nalchik SIZO

  Six arrested participants of the January rally in Ingushetia are holding a protest hunger strike in the SIZO (pre-trial detention facility) of the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, against extension of their custody term.

May 27, 2008 21:26

• Azerbaijani authorities appoint bodyguards to opposition journalist

  "In Azerbaijan, PACE co-rapporteurs meet the arrested journalists", "Leila Yunus: Azerbaijani authorities deprive citizens of the freedom of choice"