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September 10, 2003 12:42

• 5,565 people fall victims to antipersonnel mines in 2002 - more than in any other country

  This was reported by the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.

September 10, 2003 12:40

• Council of Azerbaijan Editors calls on Defense Ministry and Public Prosecutor's Office to prevent pressure on journalists

  The appeal was caused by the clash of the police with a group of oppositionists and journalists that took place in front of the Baku Police headquarters on September 8. As a result several people, including media workers, suffered.

September 10, 2003 12:37

• Lithuanian Commission on Journalistic and Publishing Ethics has not found calls for terror on Chechen separatists' website

  "The materials published on the website "Kavkaz-Center" should be interpreted as a certain incitement against occupation Russian authorities in Chechnya and beyond its limits, however there is no incitement against the Russians and Christians themselves - this is the basic difference", declared the chairman of the commission.

September 10, 2003 12:34

• Armenian parliament passed Law "About the Institution of Human Rights Defense"

  As one of the authors of the draft, Parliament Vice-Speaker Tigran Torosian, reported, henceforth the ombudsman is appointed for a six-year term, he has no right to interfere in a trial, but he may introduce motions for fair treatment within the limits of the European norms on human rights.

September 09, 2003 23:42

• Georgian servicemen injured in Iraq will undergo treatment in US

  Four sappers from the Georgian peacekeeping contingent stationed in Iraq have been transferred from a hospital in Kuwait to the United States for medical treatment. The Georgian Defense Ministry stated such a decision had been taken upon the recommendation of their US colleagues.

September 09, 2003 23:40

• Armenian parliament voted for abolition of death penalty in county

  The National Assembly of Armenia ratified by 92 ayes with 1 nay Protocol 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights providing for the death penalty abolition.

September 09, 2003 23:37

• Azerbaijanians in Georgia are demanding settlement of social problems

  On September 8 residents of the Jandara village in Eastern Georgia, mainly ethnic Azerbaijanians, held a rally protesting against local authorities.

September 09, 2003 23:36

• Opposition members scuffled with police in Baku

  Members of Azerbaijan's opposition Popular Front Party clashed with police in Baku on Monday. The incident occurred in front of the Baku police headquarters.

September 09, 2003 20:57

• Five young Chechens were captured and taken away in unknown direction in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village

  To all appearances, the unsanctioned detention of Kerimov, Patsayev, and Idigov is a way to put pressure upon Vagap Tutakov, the special representative of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria in the PACE.

September 09, 2003 20:56

• Armenia must respect rules of Council of Europe, including those for death penalty abolition, says representative of this organization

  Ziman Christoph noted Armenia had joined the Council of Europe voluntarily and undertaken concrete obligations, so it must respect the rules of this organization, including those for the unconditional death penalty abolition.

September 09, 2003 17:32

• Chechen human rights activists are going to boycott presidential election

  They made such a decision at the meeting of Chechen non-government organizations in Nazran on September 7.

September 09, 2003 17:28

• Second court sitting on case of "Kavkaz-Center" was held in Vilnius

  Having briefly examined the course of the mission execution, the judge decided to carry over the date of the sitting for three weeks.

September 09, 2003 17:13

• Special representative of UN Secretary-General is getting acquainted with state of IDPs in Russia

  As the Secretary-General's official representative informed, Deng is visiting Russia on September 8-12 by the invitation of the Russian government.

September 09, 2003 17:11

• Picket near Solovetsky stone devoted to Chechnya's Independence Day

  Seven members of the Russian Movement for Chechen Independence demonstrated in central Moscow on September 6.

September 09, 2003 17:08

• Amnesty International: large Chechnya Film Festival in US

  Film festival organizers include human rights organizations known in the world. As the organizers of the Festival inform, the aim of this large-scale action is to acquaint world public with the best independent and not politically booked films about war in Chechnya.

September 08, 2003 20:01

• OSCE will assist Georgia to curb torture

  Top government officials and representatives of non-government organizations of Georgia agreed on the National Action Plan against Torture for 2003-2005, the OSCE Mission in Georgia reported on September 7.

September 08, 2003 19:25

• Efforts aimed to help under age people suffered in armed conflicts are being coordinated in Stavropol

  The Stavropol region's Center for Social Aid to the Family and Children became one of the seven regional centers of the Russian Federation which were entrusted to develop socially important programs.

September 08, 2003 19:24

• Extrajudicial execution of Yandi-Kotar's resident

  On the night of September 2, 2003 Russian servicemen killed local resident Mukhtarov Umar in the village of Yandi-Kotar of the Achkhoy-Martan region.

September 08, 2003 19:22

• A day before presidential election in Karachaevo-Cherkessia voter's aye cost 600 rubles

  Mass subornation of voters by candidate Mustafa Batdyev were fixed during the election, reported Mikhail Arutyunov, the President of the International Assembly for Human Rights Protection, international observer accredited by the Russian Central Election Commission.

September 08, 2003 19:20

• Azerbaijan opposition accuses police

  About 150 policemen broke up the unsanctioned meeting of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, tens of the picketers being injured.