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15:04, 24 June 2008

Islamic Committee demands from Kremlin to stop oppressing Moslems in Northern Caucasus

The Islamic Committee of Russia has put forward five requirements to the country's leadership: admit Moslems to formation of home and foreign policy of the country; ensure free elections to power bodies in the republics "with the indigenous Muslim population", first of all in Northern Caucasus; admit Moslems to mass media; reconsider politically-motivated criminal cases against Moslems; and stop prohibiting Islamic books.

14:59, 24 June 2008

In Azerbaijan, trial of attack on Halil to be held with participation of the suffered journalist

On June 24, the Nasiminskiy District Court of the capital of Azerbaijan, presided by Judge Shakhin Abdullaev, has continued the trial of Sergey Strekalin, accused of giving a knife wound on March 13, 2008, to Agil Halil, employee of the "Azadlyg" (Freedom). The judge has ruled that the victim should take part in the trial.

14:52, 24 June 2008

Freedom House: Armenia's democracy indicators get worse

The Freedom House human rights organization has published its 2008 report on the progress of democracy in the transitive countries, according to which the aggregate democracy indicator in Armenia went down.

14:47, 24 June 2008

PACE demands releasing journalists arrested in Azerbaijan

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed a "serious concern" with deterioration of the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan and demanded immediate release of the arrested journalists.

14:44, 24 June 2008

Kabardino-Balkaria: new recruitment of candidates for jurymen to start on the case about attack on Nalchik

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has made a decision to recruit new candidates for the jury, since as a result of duly motivated withdrawals, today only 6 persons remained out of 145 candidates.

14:41, 24 June 2008

In Azerbaijan, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment

Today, the Azerbaijani Court for Grave Crimes, presided by Judge Shakir Aleskerov, has put a full stop in the process of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" (Talysh's Voice) newspaper, and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of the newspaper, who were accused of treason against the State.

14:36, 24 June 2008

FSPE employees try to evict Caucasian refugees from Moscow hostel

Right at this moment, employees of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (FSPE) try to move several families of refugees from Azerbaijan and Abkhazia out of a hostel located at No. 19 Yasny Proezd.

14:23, 23 June 2008

In Chechnya, a boy incidentally shot dead his small sister

In the Shali District of Chechnya, law enforcement bodies are investigating the circumstances of a tragedy in one of local families. A seven-year-old boy was casually handling a fowling piece and fatally wounded his sister who was five years old.

14:15, 23 June 2008

Lawyer Sadygov: journalist Halil is not let out from Azerbaijan under the order of special agencies

The non-announced ban on departing from Azerbaijan imposed on Agil Halil, a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), was introduced by the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan. This is the conclusion made by Elchin Sadygov, journalist's advocate.

14:13, 23 June 2008

Georgia: women-prisoners to resume their hunger strike on June 28

In Georgia, on June 28, the women kept at the Tbilisi corrective establishment for women and minors No. 5 are going to renew their hunger strike, which had been interrupted because of the pressure exerted by the prison administration.

14:10, 23 June 2008

Case on the murder of First Channel reporter Shurpaev delivered to court of Tajikistan

The materials of the murder case of Ilyas Shurpaev, reporter of Channel One and a native of Dagestan, have been transferred by inquiry bodies of Tajikistan to the court.

13:39, 23 June 2008

Trial on attack on Nalchik postponed till June 24

The court session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the trial of the militants' attack on Nalchik accomplished in October 2005 has been postponed till June 24. Advocate Elizabeth Shak has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason of the delay was another fact of beating the defendants by the escort.

13:36, 23 June 2008

Picket against eviction from Tuapse hostel held in Krasnodar

In Krasnodar, residents of the hostel located in Tuapse held a protest action against their eviction. Ten persons went out to the "Aurora" movie theatre with posters in their hands. They plan to hold a range of pickets in the Kuban capital.

13:26, 23 June 2008

Residents of Chechnya are sceptical on commission for searching missing people

People in Chechnya think that the appeal of the Republic's Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev to Russian president Medvedev with a request to set up an interdepartmental commission in charge of searching those residents of Chechnya who were kidnapped or regarded to be missing will not bring any serious results.

16:25, 21 June 2008

Chechnya: cadet screened out for religious convictions

In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, a cadet was dismissed from the local branch of the Krasnodar University of Interior, whom the University's bosses found to be an advocate of Wahhabism. The incident grew into a scandal, which draw even the attention of the Republic's Prosecutor's Office.

15:15, 21 June 2008

Sochi residents ask to preserve Imereti Valley

Today, after the rally held in Sochi, the residents of this resort city have addressed their letter to the leadership of Russia, Corporation "Olympstroy" and Public Chamber of Russia with a request to keep the territory of the Imereti Lowland untouched.

13:42, 21 June 2008

Russian human rights defenders tell US Congress about situation in Ingushetia

The US Helsinki Commission held a briefing on June 19 in the US Congress with participation of Russian experts on Northern Caucasus dedicated to aggravation of situation in Ingushetia.

21:52, 20 June 2008

Presidents of Azerbaijan and Georgia to launch part of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project

It is planned that in the 2nd decade of July, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev will visit Turkey. In the course of the visit, Mr Aliev, together with Presidents of Turkey and Georgia Abdullah Gьl and Mikhail Saakashvili, will take in the launching ceremony of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

18:48, 20 June 2008

Many thousands of oppositionists on rally in the capital of Armenia

In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, about five thousand supporters of the opposition are holding a non-sanctioned rally. Leader of the opposition Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters are among the participants.

17:43, 20 June 2008

Refugees from Chechnya want to leave Azerbaijan

A statement promulgated by the press service of the Council of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan runs that the refugees who now live in Azerbaijan want to leave this country since they think that their life and freedom are under threat.

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