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12:49, 27 June 2008

CPJ claims lack of independent TV news in Georgia

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has disseminated a statement related to the stop of information broadcasting by the "Mze" Independent TV Channel.

12:45, 27 June 2008

Residents of six Dagestan villages demand compensation of damage caused by construction of Irganay HPP

Residents of six villages of Dagestan, whose land estates are gradually flooded as the reservoir of the Irganay Hydroelectric Power Plant (IHPP) is formed, demand compensation for their loss of land and houses. Additionally, the population complains of being intimidated by the authorities, who try to hide the problem from the public.

12:11, 27 June 2008

Defender of Azerbaijanis' rights assassinated in Iran

Afshin Irfan Khosroshakhi, a human rights activist who was engaged in defending the rights of Azerbaijanis living in Iran, was found murdered in his own office.

12:08, 27 June 2008

Relatives of missing people rallying at prosecutor's office of Dagestan

In Makhachkala, near the building of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, relatives of two young men, who had been kidnapped, as they assert, by employees of law enforcement bodies, have organized a spontaneous rally and blocked the traffic in the Yaragskiy Avenue.

11:56, 27 June 2008

Azerbaijani democrats state absence of conditions for free elections

The democratic forces of Azerbaijan believe that the country has no conditions for free elections. This was stated today during the Civil Forum held in the Baku-based Hotel "Europe" under the motto "On Situation with Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Azerbaijan before Presidential Election".

11:53, 27 June 2008

Another oppositional journalist detained in Azerbaijan

Today, in the capital of Azerbaijan, the police have detained the well-known journalist Makhal Ismailoglu. According to certain data, his article in the newspaper was the cause of his arrest.

11:43, 27 June 2008

Rally in support of arrested MP held in the capital of Armenia

The court has ruled to extend for two more months the custody term of Akop Akopyan, Deputy of Armenian Parliament, who had supported the leader of the opposition Levon Ter-Petrosyan and was deprived of his deputy's immunity after the March 1 events. A protest action in support of Akopyan was held in Yerevan.

14:10, 26 June 2008

Moscow Mayoralty informs parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria on measures of fighting xenophobia

The parliament of Kabardino-Balkaria has received an answer to their request to the Moscow Municipal Duma on the facts of attacks and murders in Moscow of natives of Kabardino-Balkaria committed in January-March of this year.

14:04, 26 June 2008

Kidnappers of Moscow resident detained in Chechnya

Employees of law enforcement bodies have detained a group of local residents suspected of kidnapping a lady-resident of Moscow in the Grozny District of Chechnya. A source in the interior bodies has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

13:57, 26 June 2008

Former militant from Salman Raduev's group surrenders in Chechnya

A local resident, 37, who for some time had been a fighter of the regiment of field commander Salman Raduev, has surrendered to employees of law enforcement bodies in the Oktiabrskiy District of the capital of Chechnya.

13:51, 26 June 2008

Hammerberg insists on Azerbaijan's obeying to PACE's guidelines

Thomas Hammerberg, Higher Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights, plans to visit Azerbaijan after the presidential election. Mr Hammerberg told about it in his conversation with a group of Azerbaijani journalists in Strasbourg.

13:47, 26 June 2008

HRC "Memorial" to present another chronicle of violence in Chechnya

On June 27, at a press conference in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" will present the fourth part of the violence chronicle in Chechnya entitled "People Live Here", dedicated to the period from July to September 2001.

13:44, 26 June 2008

PACE gives time to Armenia to fulfil all requirements of Resolution No. 1609

The PACE's Monitoring Commission has supported with its 24 votes the document on the progress in fulfilling the requirements of PACE's Resolution No. 1609. According to the new document, Armenia will have time till January 2009 to cope with all the requirements.

13:41, 26 June 2008

Members of Kurmanch community protest against tortures in Krasnodar

Today, 10 Kurmanch nationals have held a picket in Krasnodar against tortures applied to Rashid Gurzhiev, Anatoly Dursunov and Ruslan Kelosmanov. The picketers grouped in the mini-park opposite the administration of the Krasnodar Territory and demanded that law-enforcement and judicial bodies treat the detainees objectively.

12:34, 25 June 2008

Supreme Court of Dagestan acquits Dibirov accused of ties with militants

On June 24, it became known that on June 19, 2008, the board of jurymen of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan acquitted Ilyas Abutalibovich Dibirov, born in 1983, on all indictment points and released him right in the courtroom.

12:32, 25 June 2008

Krasnodar journalists strive to release their colleague Sergey Rozhkov

Journalists of Krasnodar have sent an appeal to Alexei Simonov, President of the Foundation in Defence of Glasnost, with a request to inquire the Dean of Journalism Department of the Kuban State University and Chair of the Union of Journalists of Kuban, why they do nothing to release Sergey Rozhkov from custody.

12:29, 25 June 2008

In Moscow, FSPE employees seized six apartments of refugees from Caucasus

On June 24, employees of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (FSPE) stormed and seized six apartments in the hostel located in the Yasny Proezd in Moscow, where families of refugees from Azerbaijan and Abkhazia lived.

12:26, 25 June 2008

CE's Secretary General demands to find those in charge of people's deaths on March 1 in Armenia

Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), finds it especially important to investigate into the murders committed on March 1 in Yerevan. Mr Davis made this statement today at a press conference in Strasbourg, while answering the question about his estimates of fulfilment by the authorities of Armenia of PACE's Resolution No. 1609.

12:23, 25 June 2008

CE's Secretary General hopes Azerbaijani authorities to seriously treat PACE's recommendations

Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, made his comments on the Resolution "On Operation of Democratic Institutes in Azerbaijan", adopted on June 24 in Strasbourg at the PACE session, and expressed his confidence that the Azerbaijani government will seriously treat the recommendations of the Council of Europe and take the required measures.

12:20, 25 June 2008

In Azerbaijan, journalist Gusejnov discharged from hospital despite poor health

Today, Emin Guseinov, head of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was discharged from the emergency hospital, where he had been taken in the state of unconsciousness as a result of the physical violence exerted on him at the 22nd police station of the Nasiminskiy District Interior Department of Baku.

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