News

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.

March 31, 2008 16:16

• Chechen militiamen refuse to disclose the name of Internet extremist

  Power agents of Chechnya refuse to tell anything about the person searched on suspicion of disseminating via the Internet of extremist appeals.

March 31, 2008 16:11

• Court to consider the ban on "Ingushetia.Ru" website on April 11

  On April 11, the Moscow City Court will consider the suit on recognition of the "Ingushetia.Ru" Internet website to be extremist one and on stopping its activities.

March 31, 2008 16:07

• MIA of Tajikistan: Ilyas Shurpaev's murder was not contracted

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Tajikistan rejects any assumptions about possible contractual nature of the murder of Ilyas Shurpaev, a correspondent of Channel One of Russian TV.

March 31, 2008 16:02

• Court of North Ossetia nullifies protocol on Ella Kesaeva's administrative offence

  The Pravoberezhny Court of North Ossetia has invalidated the protocol on administrative offence in relation to Ella Kesaeva, leader of the All-Russian Public Organization "Voice of Beslan", accused of beating a judge and court marshals.

March 29, 2008 11:49

• USA call Azerbaijani authorities to free arrested journalists

  US Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ms Ann Dears, who visited yesterday, on March 28, the family of the editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper Ganimat Zakhid, called the authorities of Azerbaijan to release all the arrested journalists.

March 29, 2008 11:46

• In Armenia, Maralik residents demand to free oppositionist

  In the city of Maralik, Shirak Region of Armenia, signatures are gathered under the petition in defence of Arutyun Urityan, head of the city election office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan, who was convicted to 7 years of imprisonment on charges of hampering elections and beating an election agent of Serzh Sarkisyan.

March 29, 2008 11:44

• Now, there are three suspects of murdering Ilyas Shurpaev

  The searches underway in Tajikistan with the aim to find the suspects of murdering the journalist of Channel One Ilyas Shurpaev gave an unexpected result. Three persons are already figurants in the case.

March 29, 2008 11:39

• Gyulnara Rustamova: Dagestan advocates would not defend interests of kidnapped persons

  Gyulnara Rustamova, chair of the committee "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" has told today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that her organization has faced new problems caused by the refusal of local advocates to render legal aid to arrested citizens.

March 29, 2008 11:31

• Sozar Subari: Parliament avoids considering the situation with human rights in Georgia

  Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari has stated this fact at the presentation of his report "Anatomy of Human Rights Violations in Georgia".