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13:34, 5 February 2008

Commander of special operation in Kondopoga to be trialled in camera

On February 7, the Supreme Court of Karelia will start considering, in private session, the criminal case of Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) Victor Vysokikh, commander of the special operation aimed to stop mass disorders in the city of Kondopoga in September 2006.

19:17, 4 February 2008

Kidnapped person released for ransom in Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone

Davis Nadaraya, a kidnapped resident of Shamgon village, Zugdidi District of Georgia, was released after a week of detainment in the Georgia-Abkhazia conflict zone.

19:05, 4 February 2008

Activist of "The Other Russia" released in Rostov-on-Don

Sergey Volodin, a National-Bolshevik and one of the coordinators of "The Other Russia" Coalition for the Rostov Region, is back at large.

18:58, 4 February 2008

Arrested Mirza Sakit restarts his hunger strike in Azerbaijan

On February 3, journalist-satirist Mirza Sakit who is imprisoned in Azerbaijan has renewed his protest hunger strike against the refusal of the prison administration to transfer him to the prison hospital despite his poor health condition.

18:55, 4 February 2008

PACE Rapporteurs were told about the problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan

Today the Rapporteurs of the PACE Monitoring Committee Andres Herkel and Evgenia Zhivkova have begun their meetings in Baku within their four-day visit.

18:29, 4 February 2008

Opposition restarts protest actions in Georgia

Next week, on the initiative of the United Opposition of Georgia, a campaign will be launched in Georgia under the motto "I didn't elect Saakashvili". Today, the leaders of the opposition have informed journalists about it at the press conference held in front of the building of the Parliament of Georgia.

14:25, 2 February 2008

The trial of the "Voice of Beslan" to be held in North Ossetia

The trial on the case about recognition of the information materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" will be held in the Prevoberezhny District of North Ossetia.

13:33, 2 February 2008

Presentation of the "Vatan" Meskhetian Turks' International Foundation held in Georgia

Yesterday, on February 1, the Tbilisi Hotel "Kortiyard Marriott" hosted the presentation of the International Foundation of Meskhetian Turks named "Vatan", where Suleiman Barbakadze is the Chairman, and of a book about Meskhetian Turks.

12:28, 2 February 2008

Resident of Ingushetia kidnapped in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

Unknown armed persons kidnapped Daud Khutiev, 20, a resident of Nazran, the Republic of Ingushetia, from the hospital located in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.

12:24, 2 February 2008

Protest rally in Ingushetia postponed from February 23 till May

The organizing committee of the protest rally in Ingushetia has held a sitting where a decision was made to postpone the date of the action from February 23 to some date in May.

12:18, 2 February 2008

Human Rights Watch assesses the defence of human rights in Armenia as "unsatisfactory"

In its 2007 report on Armenia, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) treats the defence of human rights in Armenia as "unsatisfactory". The report accents the pressure and prosecution of the opposition.

12:13, 2 February 2008

In Turkey, Hrant Dink's family complains of murder threats

The leaders of the "Hrant Dink" International Foundation that was established under the initiative of Hrant Dink's family has addressed the Prosecutor's Office of Turkey because of death threats and glorifications of Dink's assassins that arrived to the electronic address of the Foundation.

12:07, 1 February 2008

Alaverdyan: presidential election in Armenia cannot be regarded as free and fair

Certain provisions of the Electoral Code of Armenia are contradictory to the constitutional rights of the citizens of the country.

11:56, 1 February 2008

Imprisoned ex-minister of economic development starts a hunger strike in Azerbaijan

On February 1, Farkhad Aliev, ex-minister of economic development, who is serving his term in prison, started his 48-hour hunger strike with a demand to ensure his medical examination by his personal doctor or other independent doctors in the presence of advocates.

11:50, 1 February 2008

Bekhbudov: 63 persons were tortured in 2007 in Azerbaijan

Human rights activist Elchin Bekhbudov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in 2007 63 persons were subjected to tortures in Azerbaijan, and four of them died.

11:45, 1 February 2008

Adygea court sentenced Milkov to one-year imprisonment

The Maikop City Court has sentenced Victor Milkov, accused of disseminating a video depicting the scene of execution of residents of Dagestan and Tajikistan.

11:41, 1 February 2008

Hunger strike of SIZO-1 inmates lasted for a week in Kalmykia

For more than a week, inmates kept in SIZO-1 of the city of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia, were on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of the facility's administration.

11:35, 1 February 2008

Kabardino-Balkaria: the Bar tries to find out why advocate Dorogova was not let to SIZO

The leaders of the Bar Association of Kabardino-Balkaria sent a letter to Oleg Zharikov, Public Prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria, asking him to clear out the reasons why advocate Larissa Dorogova was not admitted to the Nalchik SIZO, where she wanted to render legal aid to one of the defendants.

11:32, 1 February 2008

Vice-commander of Sochi's Lazarevskoe ROVD: OMON raid to children's camp in July 2006 was illegitimate

Sergey Saveliev, second commander of the Lazarevskoe ROVD of the city of Sochi, asserts that the raid in July 2006 of the OMON to the "Druzhba" (Friendship) children's camp located in Nizhnee Makopse village was unjustified.

13:08, 31 January 2008

Bastrykin: executors of blowing up of the "Neva-Express" train are established, three of them arrested

Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigatory Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of Russia, spoke to the Russian FSB Collegium on January 30 and stated that the investigation had establishes the executors of the explosion of the "Neva-Express" train, and three of them were arrested.

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