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April 03, 2008 15:14

• Administrative cases against "Voice of Beslan" closed

  The Pravoberezhny District Court of North Ossetia has stopped the cases on administrative offences against the members of the All-Russian NGO "Voice of Beslan" Emiliya Bzarova and Svetlana Margieva, as Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the organization, has informed today.

April 03, 2008 15:06

• State Duma rejects the bill on punishments for kidnapping brides brought in by Ingushetian parliament

  On April 2, the Russian State Duma refused again to amend the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as the National Assembly of Ingushetia offered back in 2005, and introduce punishments in the form of imprisonment for kidnappers of brides.

April 03, 2008 15:03

• Five more persons join hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  The number of hunger-strikers in Azerbaijan goes up: today, five new participants have joined the protest action.

April 03, 2008 14:44

• In Armenia, wheel-chair invalid holds hunger strike in support of arrested oppositionist

  Arshavir Bazinyan, a resident of the Armenian city of Razdan, a veteran of Karabakh war and wheel-chair invalid, is on hunger strike demanding to release his former commander Sasun Mikaelyan.

April 03, 2008 14:39

• Picket in defence of human rights in Ingushetia is on in Moscow

  A picket against violations of human rights in Ingushetia has started today at 5:30 p.m. in Novopushkinskiy mini-park of Moscow.

April 02, 2008 11:59

• Lady-journalist who accused Putin of Dubrovka terror act finds refuge in Great Britain

  Elena Tregubova, former journalist of the "Kommersant" newspaper, who accused Putin of the terror act in Dubrovka, received political asylum in Great Britain.

April 02, 2008 11:55

• Ingushetia: two out of eight detained for participation in rally released

  On March 26, 2008, inspector of the Chief Investigatory Department at the Prosecutor's Office released from custody under recognizance not to leave two residents of Ingushetia - Batyr Moshkhoev and Ahmed Izmailov, accused of organizing and participating in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, 2008.

April 02, 2008 11:50

• Lawyers start their hunger strike in Georgia

  Starting from today, advocates have launched their hunger strike in Tbilisi near the office of the National Defender of Georgia in support of the hunger-striker Malkhaz Dzhangirashvili.

April 02, 2008 11:42

• FSB of Ingushetia suspects that Chechen Committee for National Salvation is funded by foreign extremists

  The FSB Department for Ingushetia suspects that the Chechen Committee for National Salvation is financed by foreign extremist organizations. For this reason, in August 2007, the FSBD initiated an off-schedule audit of the activities of the organization by the Department of "Rosregistratsia" for Ingushetia.

April 02, 2008 11:37

• Bagapsh: when taking Georgia to NATO, the Alliance should take into account Abkhazia's opinion

  President of Abkhazia calls Secretary General of NATO and representatives of NATO member-states, to take into account the opinion of Abkhazia when considering at the summit in Bucharest the issue of Georgia's NATO membership.

April 02, 2008 11:34

• In Armenia, 28 arrested oppositionists begin their hunger strike

  On April 2, twenty-eight activists of Armenian opposition, now kept in custody, went on a hunger strike, and eight of them - a termless one, finding the charges against them to be forged.

April 01, 2008 12:53

• Lady-human rights activist joins journalists' hunger strike in Azerbaijan

  On March 31, Arzu Abdullaeva, co-chair of the International Helsinki Civil Assembly, expressed her solidarity with journalists in Azerbaijan by joining their protest hunger strike.

April 01, 2008 12:50

• Court again refuses to free Budanov accused of murdering Chechen girl

  The court of the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, has again rejected to provide early-conditional release to former colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted for murdering a Chechen girl in 2000.

April 01, 2008 12:47

• Court in Rostov-on-Don rejects complaint of the activist of "The Other Russia" on his custody conditions in the pre-trial facility

  In Rostov-on-Don, the Pervomaiskiy District Court has rejected the complaint of the activist of "The Other Russia" Pavel Nagibin on his custody conditions at the KPZ of the Kirovskiy District Interior Department of Rostov-on-Don after his detention at the picket with a demand to register the federal list of candidates for deputies from "The Other Russia" coalition on November, 24, 2007.

April 01, 2008 12:43

• Human Rights Watch demands sanctioning free peaceful actions in Armenia

  The government of Armenia shall lift the restrictions imposed on the right to hold rallies, marches and demonstrations and stop bringing participants of peaceful actions to police stations. This is a topic of the statement disseminated by the Human Rights Watch.

April 01, 2008 12:40

• Armenia: 20 arrested oppositionists go on hunger strike

  On April 1, twenty detained activists of Armenian opposition declared that on April 2 they would start a hunger strike in protest against the charges presented to them. The oppositionists assert that their arrests were politically motivated and demand to stop the criminal cases initiated against them.

April 01, 2008 12:34

• Name of the Internet terrorist searched in Chechnya is Doku Umarov

  The local resident announced into search by law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic for kindling interethnic enmity and calls to dethrone power bodies is the militants' leader Doku Umarov.

March 31, 2008 16:32

• The Times: 4000 to lose homes because of Sochi Olympiad

  In the opinion of Mark Franketti, an observer of British The Times newspaper, the fact that at construction of the objects for the Sochi-2014 Winter Olympic Games several hundreds families will lose their homes is casting a shadow on the preparation thereto.

March 31, 2008 16:23

• In Armenia, supporters of Suren Surenyants persuade him to stop hunger strike

  In Armenia, detainee Suren Surenyants, who announced a hunger strike a week ago, feels bad. His friends try to convince the oppositionist to stop his hunger strike.

March 31, 2008 16:20

• Tuapse prosecutors refuse the beaten journalist to open a criminal case against militiamen

  The Prosecutor's Office of the city of Tuapse (Krasnodar Territory) has rejected journalist Sergey Rozhkov's application to initiate a criminal case against the militiamen suspected of beating him.