News

May 20, 2008 10:55

• EU supports independent investigation into March 1 events in Armenia

  Today, the European Union has disseminated a statement related to the extraordinary report presented by the Ombudsman of Armenia and supporting the Ombudsman's initiative to have an independent investigation of the events that happened on March 1 this year in Yerevan.

May 20, 2008 10:51

• In Krasnodar Territory, Rashid Gurzhiev from Kurmanch community kidnapped

  On May 19, at about 12 p.m., about a dozen of persons in civilian clothes appeared in ward No. 14, Surgery Division, of the Central District Hospital of the city of Apsheronsk, Krasnodar Territory, and forced away patient Rashid Gurzhiev, a member of the Kurmanch community.

May 19, 2008 10:40

• "Voice of Beslan" dissatisfied with Ustinov's appointment as plenipotentiary representative for SFD

  The members of the All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" are dissatisfied with appointment of Vladimir Ustinov to the post of plenipotentiary representative of Russian President in the South Federal District (SFD) and sent a letter today to the new official.

May 19, 2008 10:37

• "Memorial" demands to investigate the crimes of "Vostok" battalion fighters in Chechnya

  Human rights activists are concerned with the situation around the "Vostok" (East) battalion of the 42nd Motorized Rifle Division of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, deployed in Chechnya, and state that irrespective of the political context, the grave crimes revealed during the recent weeks shall be investigated.

May 19, 2008 10:34

• Capital of Dagestan hosts a rally against closing the "Charitable Women's Hospital"

  The central square of Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, is now the venue of a protest rally, in which about one hundred persons take part. The protesters demand to stop prosecuting the "Charitable Women's Hospital".

May 19, 2008 10:29

• Two members of Kurmanch community beaten by law enforcers in Krasnodar Territory

  Rashid Gurzhiev and Anatoly Dursunov, members of the Kurmanch community, were beaten by employees of law enforcement bodies of the Krasnodar Territory.

May 19, 2008 10:26

• In Azerbaijan, PACE co-rapporteurs meet the arrested journalists

  Andres Herkel and Evgenia Zhivkova, co-rapporteurs of the PACE, continue their meetings in Azerbaijan. Today they had a meeting with Azer Ahmedov, director of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

May 19, 2008 10:23

• At trial on attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, the defence questions candidates for jurymen

  Today, at the trial on the events on October 13, 2005, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria continued to select future jurymen. The defence party has finished questioning the candidates. Two defendants have stated that they were beaten by sentries.

May 17, 2008 23:56

• Alan Parastaev lodged a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court of South Ossetia

  On May 15, Alan Parastaev, a citizen of South Ossetia, who was sentenced on charges of an attempt on President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity and high treason, lodged a cassation complaint to the Supreme Court of the Republic of South Ossetia with a demand to reconsider the verdict.

May 17, 2008 23:52

• Georgian Ombudsman demands to punish those who destroyed Eka Beseliya's election posters

  Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari has addressed Levan Tarkhnishvili, head of the Central Electoral Commissions of Georgia, with a request to draw up a protocol on Lado Kvichidze, Manager of the Tbilisi City Illumination Agency ("Tbilgorodosveschenie"), who ordered to take away pre-election posters of Eka Beseliya, a candidate from the United Opposition.

May 17, 2008 23:48

• Yakobashvili: Georgia to hamper Russia's accession to WTO

  Temur Yakobashvili, State Minister for Reintegration Issues, made his forecast in answer to the question on how the present status of Russian-Georgian relations can affect the next round of negotiations on accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization to start early next week.

May 16, 2008 15:15

• Oleg Orlov: experience of Northern Caucasus is spreading militia's violence all over Russia

  Beatings, tortures and other illegal actions of Russian militiamen against their fellow citizens are in many aspects provoked by their experience gained in the course of "counterterrorist operations" in Northern Caucasus, Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" asserts.

May 16, 2008 15:11

• In Georgia, 26 "industrialists" withdraw their candidatures from elections

  Because of the pressure exerted by the authorities of Georgia, 26 majority candidates from the block of "industrialists" have withdrawn their candidatures.

May 16, 2008 15:06

• In Armenia, police has confiscated hunger-strikers' tent

  Today in the afternoon, the police have undertaken a number of steps to prevent a protest action planned by supporters of Aram Karapetyan, leader of the opposition party "New Times", near the building of the State Office of Public Prosecutor of Armenia, and took away their tent.

May 16, 2008 15:04

• Dagestan: Women's Charitable Hospital exposed to total audits

  The Women's Charitable Hospital, located in Makhachkala, is now under audits and inspections held by the Ministry of Public Health of Dagestan. The Hospital managers explain these measures by their unwillingness to abandon the premises now occupied by the Hospital.

May 16, 2008 15:00

• Leila Yunus: Azerbaijani authorities deprive citizens of the freedom of choice

  The authorities of Azerbaijan are depriving their citizens of the opportunity not only to resist falsifications during elections and violence in the country, but also to trace these crimes. This is the topic of the statement of Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy.

May 16, 2008 14:57

• In Krasnodar Territory, the case of Private Ivanov who was beaten by his comrade-in-arms sent to the court

  The case of Private Alexander Ivanov who was beaten on February 24 in Military Unit No. 6822, deployed in Krasnodar, was transferred to the Krasnodar Garrison Military Court.

May 16, 2008 14:55

• Larissa Dorogova: in Kabardino-Balkaria, many people are dissatisfied with how militants' relatives are defended

  Advocate Larissa Dorogova told that she is persecuted by those for whom proper defence of the rights of the relatives of those militants who perished on October 13, 2005, during the attack on power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria is disadvantageous.

May 15, 2008 13:03

• "Voice of Beslan" has drafted a bill in defence of rights of terror act victims

  The All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" has drafted, together with the Volgodonsk NGO of Terror Act Victims, a bill named "On Social Defence of Terror Act Victims".

May 15, 2008 12:55

• Prosecutor's Office of Volgograd Region finds lenient verdicts to militiamen who have beaten teenagers inadmissible

  The Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd Region states the inadmissibility of the lenient verdicts passed by the Regional Court to former militiamen who had severely beaten teenagers.