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17:40, 3 December 2005

Local residents demanding imam's release

A spontaneous public meeting to protect Mr Ali Khaskhanov, an imam at a local mosque, abducted earlier today, is under way in Achkhoi-Martan.

17:36, 2 December 2005

Legislature denies executive pressure

The parliament of N Ossetia denies that the prosecutor's office exerted pressure on the commission on Beslan.

17:18, 2 December 2005

Violence against journalists to be punished

Azerbaijan's Internal Affairs Minister promises to punish the police officers who used force against journalists.

12:26, 1 December 2005

Police officer killed in Abkhazia

The body of an Abkhaz police officer, Fridon Jgerenaia, is found in the Gal district of Abkhazia.

12:09, 1 December 2005

Victims interrupt Kulayev case hearing

North Ossetia's Supreme Court declares a break in the hearing of the case of Mr Nurpashi Kulayev, a participant in the Beslan school attack.

12:08, 1 December 2005

Authorised public meeting may be declared crime

Azerbaijan's Prosecutor General's Office opens a criminal case over the 26 November public meeting in Baku.

22:06, 30 November 2005

Head of administration, his son shot dead in Avtury

Unidentified attackers kill the Avtury head of administration, Ibrahim Umpashayev, and his 26-year-old son, Isa Umpashayev.

21:45, 30 November 2005

Several oppositionists disappear after dispersal

Five members of Azerbaijan's opposition parties are missing after the dispersal of the public meeting on 26 November.

21:20, 30 November 2005

Pamiatoi head of administration killed by Russian military man

The killing was committed by Dmitry Arnautov, a serviceman of the Shatoi district military commandant's office, a source says.

21:20, 29 November 2005

Beslan Mothers dissatisfied with parliamentary report

Ms Ella Kesayev, Chairwoman of the Beslan Mothers Committee, says the North Ossetian parliamentary commission's report on the events in Beslan on 1-3 September 2004 is "smoothed very much."

21:18, 29 November 2005

Minister's evidence fails to shed light

Interrogated at today's hearing of Mr Nurpashi Kulayev's case, Mr Kazbek Dzantiyev, former Internal Affairs Minister of North Ossetia, avoids giving answers.

21:16, 29 November 2005

University president violates human rights

A student is sent down at the Baku State University for taking part in opposition actions.

21:07, 28 November 2005

Chechnya's president to meet separatists

"Without peace, there is no creation, development is impossible, and democratic processes are impossible," Alu Alkhanov said.

21:05, 28 November 2005

Grozny ignores parliamentary election - Memorial

The Human Rights Centre Memorial says that attendance in the capital of Chechnya was much lower than in the previous elections, counter to expectations of the human rights defenders.

11:21, 26 November 2005

Police disperse public meeting, beat journalists

The police use force against participants in the public meeting in the Gelebe Square in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, earlier today.

11:20, 26 November 2005

Landmine wounds one in Chechnya

A federal serviceman was seriously wounded having triggered an antipersonnel mine in the mountainous district of Vedeno.

21:23, 24 November 2005

'No onslaught was planned' – Beslan headquarters member

Victor Sobolev, commander of the 58th army and a member of the operations headquarters for the rescue of hostages in Beslan, gives evidence.

21:57, 23 November 2005

Suspects in Nalchik attack ill-treated - HRW

Below is a full-text version of a <a href="http://www.hrw.org" target="_blank">Human Rights Watch</a> <a href="http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/11/18/russia12053_txt.htm" target="_blank">report</a> of ill-treatment with respect to Nalchik attack suspects.

21:17, 23 November 2005

Lawyer at risk of abduction

Law enforcement agencies threaten to make short work of Ms Larissa Dorogov, lawyer of Muslim protesters in Kabardino-Balkaria.

11:09, 23 November 2005

Esprit de corps vs criminal cover-up

Mr Igor Trunov, a Nord-Ost lawyer, says that looting on the part of law enforcement and other militarised agencies accompanies all terrorist acts and disasters.

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