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15:34, 30 October 2007

Journalist Fatullaev sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment in Azerbaijan

Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", has been sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment.

13:28, 29 October 2007

The action "Return of the Names" starts at the Solovki Boulder

The action "Return of the Names" in memory of the victims of political repressions has started in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow.

13:25, 29 October 2007

Committee in Trepashkin's defence: deprivation of the patient of vitally required medicines is inhuman

The public committee in defence of political prisoner advocate Mikhail Trepashkin has called inhuman the numerous refusals of the administration of SIZO (pre-trial detention facility) No. 1 of Ekaterinburg to hand over to the convicted ex-FSB officer Trepashkin the asthma medicines vitally wanted by him.

13:17, 29 October 2007

Natelashvili: President of Georgia is the head of "death squadrons"

According to Mikhail Machavariani, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, the yesterday's events in the district capital of Tsalendzhikha showed that the country is governed not by President-politician, but by President - head of "death squadrons".

13:14, 29 October 2007

Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" opens a temporary website

The employees of the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org), which was attacked by malefactors and disabled for the time being, have launched a special temporary site for information support. Its address is http://hro1.org.

13:07, 29 October 2007

The girl who perished in Dagestan at explosion in a shuttle-taxi saved other passengers

As a result of the investigation, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan have found out that Sidrat Gasankhadzhieva, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who died on October 23 in a shuttle-taxi, had nothing to do with the explosion.

12:59, 29 October 2007

Kabardino-Balkaria: defendants in the case of attack on Nalchik complain of tortures

The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre has received five applications from the relatives of the persons accused of attacking the power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, asking to help in defending their rights.

11:56, 27 October 2007

Azerbaijan and Patriarchy of Georgia continue dispute on Kurmukh church

The Kurmukh St George church located in the Gakh District of Azerbaijan (adjoining Georgia with partially Georgian population) is still closed.

11:51, 27 October 2007

Georgian opposition states the growth of the number of political prisoners

In Georgia the opposition demands that the authorities release five activists of opposition parties arrested on October 26 in the Tsalendzhikh District (region of Samegrelo, Western Georgia).

11:43, 27 October 2007

Human rights organizations call on Georgia to put an end to tortures

The international human rights organizations Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Penal Reform International are recommending in their report to the government of Georgia to take urgent measures to stop tortures and cruel treatment in the places of detention and custody.

11:34, 27 October 2007

Participants of Lubyanka meeting demand to withdraw "death squads" from Ingushetia

Near the Solovki Boulder in the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, a meeting was held in memory of the victims of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.

13:11, 26 October 2007

10 oppositionists accused of resisting police in Armenia

In Armenia, editors-in-chief of oppositional newspapers "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time) and "Chorord Ishkhanutyun" (Fourth Power) Nikol Pashinyan and Shoger Matevosyan are suspected under the articles of hooliganism and rendering resistance to the police. Ten persons in total, have also been attracted as suspects under the above articles.

13:08, 26 October 2007

Prosecution demands 10 years of imprisonment for journalist in Azerbaijan

At today's trial of journalist Einullah Fatullaev, the state prosecutor Chingiz Shukyurov made his statement. He has asked the court to sentence the journalist to 10 years of imprisonment.

13:05, 26 October 2007

Azerbaijan: refugees are evicted because of construction of US Embassy in Baku

Because of construction of a new building of the US Embassy in the capital of Azerbaijan, the authorities of the city made a decision to evict a group of refugees from the territory of the former trolleybus depot.

13:02, 26 October 2007

Residents of Ingushetia arrested on the case of the "Neva-Express" train could be near the place of the terror act

On the day of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, the residents of Ingushetia arrested on suspicion of having attitude to the terror act, probably, were near to the place of the accident, a spokesman of the Malaya Vishera District Court of the Novgorod Region has told today.

12:59, 26 October 2007

Parents of children lost in "Nord-Ost" accuse Russian authorities

After the mourning ceremony held in memory of the victims of the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in Moscow, about five hundred persons took part in a peaceful meeting.

12:54, 26 October 2007

Court has upholds verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev, participant of Beslan school capture

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia has confirmed the life imprisonment verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev, who took part in seizure of hostages at School No. 1 of the city of Beslan in North Ossetia.

06:31, 26 October 2007

Andrei Blinushov: Russian human rights defenders fall victim to cyber-warfare

Since 21 October 2007, the website Human Rights in Russia at www.hro.org, the largest Russian-language Internet resource on human rights in the Russian Federation, has been subjected to a relentless and concentrated computer attack with access to the site blocked.

05:11, 26 October 2007

Russian human rights website faces DDOS attack

The largest Russian language human rights website is facing a major and clearly deliberate DDoS attack.

10:37, 25 October 2007

Amnesty International warns Russia against repeating Chechen mistakes in Ingushetia

The Amnesty International has expressed its concern of the rapid aggravation of the situation in Ingushetia, caused by the growing number of violent disappearances, kidnappings and other violations of human rights.

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