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13:11, 17 January 2008

Azerbaijani Ministry of Justice ignores messages about tortures and extortions in colony

Leila Yunus, Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, has reported that the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan gives no reaction whatsoever to numerous appeals of inmates' relatives about offences committed at the Corrective-Labour Colony No. 1.

12:28, 16 January 2008

Tbilisi Court refuses to cancel the election outcomes

The Tbilisi City Court has rejected the claims of oppositional parties who demanded to annul the final protocol of the CEC of Georgia on January 5 election because of mass-scale falsifications.

12:05, 16 January 2008

"Beslan Mothers": prosecution of "Voice of Beslan" can cause interethnic collisions

The "Beslan Mothers" Committee has treated the judicial persecution of the "Voice of Beslan" Public Organization as "revolting" and "immoral".

11:58, 16 January 2008

In Chechnya power agents would not give out the body of murdered militant to his relatives

Relatives of the murdered militant Adam Askhabov cannot take away his body from employees of law enforcement bodies of Chechnya for burial.

11:50, 16 January 2008

"Memorial": closure of "Peacekeeping Centre" in Chechnya is politically motivated

In the opinion of Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the HRC "Memorial", the initiative of the prosecutor's office to liquidate the branch of the British "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre" in Chechnya is "politically-coloured".

11:35, 16 January 2008

"Memorial" to verify information on tortures in Chechen Colony of Chernokozovo

At this date, the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" has no information about tortures and rough violations of custody regulations in relation of the inmates of Colony No. 2 located in Chernokozovo settlement of Chechnya, but is going to check the information of this sort.

15:01, 15 January 2008

MoE: explosion of apartment block in Zheleznovodsk was not terror act

While making his comments on the reasons of the explosion of the apartment block in the city of Zheleznovodsk, Alexander Kolupaev, head of the South Regional Centre of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation, has emphasized that the accident has nothing to do with a terror act, and what happened in Zheleznovodsk is just a household disaster.

14:57, 15 January 2008

Chechnya: tortures in Chernokozovo not confirmed

Representatives of the office of the Ombudsman in the Chechen Republic, who have visited Colony No. 2 located in the settlement of Chernokozovo, the Naur District of the Republic, found no confirmation of the data about tortures and beatings of the prisoners who are kept in this corrective establishment.

14:50, 15 January 2008

United Opposition of Georgia starts its protest rally in Tbilisi

A protest action of the United Opposition of Georgia has been launched in Tbilisi, in front of the Public Television building; the participants demand to hold the second round of early presidential election in the country.

14:40, 15 January 2008

Chechnya's Prosecutor's Office demands to close foreign NGO branch

The Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic demands to liquidate the branch of the organization "Peacekeeping and Social Development Centre", located in Grozny.

14:36, 15 January 2008

Mass detentions of Gipsies continue in Volgograd Region

In the cities of Volgograd and Volzhsk militiamen commit mass detentions of Gipsy nationals.

14:33, 15 January 2008

In Dagestan power agents pursue the followers of Turkish theologian Said Nursi

On January 15, a search was conducted and goods were confiscated from one of private shops in the capital of Dagestan. The owner of the shop regards that the actions of power agents were explained by his belonging to the followers of the Turkish philosopher and theologian Said Nursi.

11:30, 15 January 2008

Kesaeva is satisfied with transfer of the "Voice of Beslan" trial to North Ossetia

Today, the Nazran Court of Ingushetia has passed a decision to transfer the hearing on the case of recognition of the materials published by the "Voice of Beslan" to be extremist ones to North Ossetia in spite of the fact that the Acting Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia had insisted that the trial should take place in Nazran.

14:25, 14 January 2008

80 applicants for political asylum from Chechnya stay at the Paris airport

The Paris airport Roissie-Charles de Gaulle is overwhelmed by applicants for political asylum from Chechnya. The refugees are in the conditions unfit for long stay of people.

14:22, 14 January 2008

Victims of explosion in apartment block in Stavropol Territory are now six in number

The number of casualties of the explosion of utility gas in the five-storey apartment block in Lenina Street in Zheleznovodsk has reached six persons.

14:19, 14 January 2008

Up to now, no electricity and heat at hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan

Despite the assurances of the officials about restoration of electricity and heat supplies in Makhachkala, many hospitals and kindergartens of the capital of Dagestan continue to survive without heating.

14:15, 14 January 2008

Life prisoners go on hunger strike again in Azerbaijan

The inmates of the Gobustan Prison in Azerbaijan sentenced to life imprisonment have started a hunger strike in protest against their custody conditions.

14:11, 14 January 2008

Georgian NGOs: consideration of complaints on election outcomes is not less important than the election itself

The consideration of the complaints related to the election and tabulation of the final results of the election in Georgia are the same important steps of the electoral process like the pre-election period and the voting day, Georgian NGOs state.

13:01, 14 January 2008

Ella Kesaeva: no more grounds to postpone the trial on "Voice of Beslan"

Ella Kesaeva, co-chair of the "Voice of Beslan" Organization, has stated that all the necessary documents have been submitted to the Court of Nazran for restart of the trial on charges of extremism.

12:56, 14 January 2008

Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria stops the Board of Elders of Balkar People

The Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has passed a decision to liquidate the Board of Elders of Balkar People (CEBP) as an extremist organization.

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