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13:02, 16 July 2007

Well-known political scientist arrested in Azerbaijan

Mr Veliev, Rovshan Novruzoglu, Director of the Centre for Fighting Corruption and International Terrorism and science collaborator of the Human Rights Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, has been arrested.

12:56, 16 July 2007

Azerbaijan: policemen burn Wahhabites' beards

Faik Shabanov, police chief of the Zagatala District in Azerbaijan, is torturing Wahhabites: they are brought to the police, where their beards are burnt with a lighter and then shaved off.

13:26, 13 July 2007

European Court's decision obliges to investigate into activities of the Oktiabrskiy VOVD of the Chechen capital

Chechnya needs a laboratory for identification of body remains found in mass and individual burials that abandon in the Republic. This conclusion can be drawn from the decision of the European Court announced on July 12 on the case of violent disappearance of Magomadov brothers.

13:13, 13 July 2007

Turkish Armenians: Dink's murder strengthened threats towards Armenian schools and churches

Rober Attechyan, editor-in-chief of the Istanbul Armenian-language "Marmara" newspaper, has told Armenian journalists that after Dink's murder Armenian schools and churches began to receive frequent threats.

13:05, 13 July 2007

UNICEF concerned of the attitude to AIDS patients in Azerbaijan

Khana Singer, Representative of the UNICEF in Azerbaijan, made a statement for the press, in which she expressed her concern of the recently escalating negative attitude in the country towards HIV/AIDS patients.

12:08, 13 July 2007

Congress of Caucasian Nations demands that State Office of Public Prosecutor stops xenophobia in mass media

The Russian Congress of Caucasian Nations has called on the Russian State Office of Public Prosecutor to escalate its efforts to prevent kindling of interethnic enmity in mass media and Internet publications.

12:00, 13 July 2007

Azerbaijan: arrested journalists go to law against Ministry of Justice

Rovshan Kebirli, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mucaliphate," and journalist Yashar Agazade, who are now in prison, filed a complaint to the Yasamal District Court against the Ministry of Justice of Azerbaijan on poor conditions of their custody.

16:53, 12 July 2007

Parents of perished militants address the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria

The parents of the perished militants - Elena Karmova, Raissa Keresheva and Larissa Alakaeva - filed a complaint to Yuri Mairov, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria, Vladimir Vybornov, Chairman of the Nalchik City Court, sending copies to the President of the Republic and mass media.

16:36, 12 July 2007

Journalists of TV Channel "Rossiya" detained today in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone

Today Georgian power agents have detained the camera crew of the "Rossiya" State Radio and Television Company (GTRK). The Committee for Information and Press of South Ossetia has informed that Andrei Chistiakov and 3 assistants were detained.

16:29, 12 July 2007

Problem of media freedom discussed at the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria

Today, a roundtable was held at the Human Rights Centre of Kabardino-Balkaria with participation of mass media representatives to discuss the situation with the freedom of speech in the Republic.

16:21, 12 July 2007

European Court again finds Russia guilty of disappearance and death of Chechnya resident

Today, the European Court for Human Rights has once again found the state of Russia guilty of disappearance and death of a Chechnya resident. According to the Court's decision, in 2000 Ayubkhan Magomadov fell victim of violent disappearance, and his right to live was breached.

16:05, 12 July 2007

Four other employees of "Real Azerbaijan" interrogated at MNS

Today, four more employees of the newspapers "Gyundelik Azerbaijan" and "Real Azerbaijan" Famil Jafarli, Jeihun Nagiev, Ainur Elgyunesh and Neimat Guseinli have been interrogated as witnesses at the Ministry of National Security (MNS).

14:28, 11 July 2007

Chairman of the Azerbaijani Board of the Press has visited the arrested journalists

Aflatun Amashev, Chairman of the Board of the Press, has met the arrested journalists Mirza Sakit and Faramaz Allakhverdiev ("Nota Bene").

14:17, 11 July 2007

Dubrovka victims ask to excite a criminal case against the rescue headquarters

Representatives of the "Nord-Ost" public organization have filed an application to the State Office of Public Prosecutor with a demand to open a criminal case against the members of the operative headquarters set up to rescue the hostages.

14:10, 11 July 2007

Five persons to be punished for a fight attempt between locals and Caucasian natives in Zelenograd

In Zelenograd, a town near Moscow, the militia has prevented a mass fight between a group of local youth and natives from the Caucasus.

13:39, 11 July 2007

Over four thousand citizens disappeared during two military campaigns in Chechnya

In the course of clean-ups ("zachistkas") and non-authorized detentions in the period of military actions in the territory of Chechnya, a total of 4,400 persons disappeared in this Republic.

13:22, 11 July 2007

Parents of the militants who perished in Kabardino-Balkaria assert that bodies of their sons were not cremated

Today, the correspondent's office of the "Caucasian Knot" located in the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has been approached by the relatives of the victims of the October 2005 events who have stated that the bodies of the casualties were not cremated.

17:35, 10 July 2007

Militants who attacked militaries are searched in Chechnya

A special operation is underway in Chechnya to search the militants who yesterday, on July 9, blew up armoured personnel carrier (APC) of Federal Troops.

16:27, 10 July 2007

Committee for Defence of Mamedov: rights of non-Turkis are prejudiced in Azerbaijan

Khilal Mamedov, head of the Committee for Defence of the Rights of Novruzali Mamedov, arrested editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado," has accused the Azerbaijani authorities of discriminating the national minorities living in the country, in particular, the Talyshes.

15:17, 10 July 2007

"Memorial": hundreds thousands of repressed people are unfairly rejected rehabilitation

Hundreds thousands of victims of political repressions in the USSR have been illegally rejected rehabilitation, and in some cases "they rehabilitate those whom they should not," Nikita Petrov, a Board member of the Scientific-Information and Education Centre "Memorial" and author of many books on Stalinist history, told.

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