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14:28, 14 June 2006

Soldiers' mothers report on brutal beating of conscript from Krasnodar region

The Soldiers' Mothers Committee claims that a 19-year-old resident of Krasnodar region in Kuban, drafted to the army, was beaten and dropped from the train during transportation of a group of soldiers from Krasnodar region to Khabarovsk distribution centre.

00:25, 13 June 2006

Chechen prosecutor's office conducts additional check on the information about torture in the secret prison

Chechen prosecutor's office employees are conducting an additional check on the criminal cases initiated in the past against officers of Khanty-Mansijsk riot squad, suspected of illegal detentions of citizens and the use of torture with regard to them.

00:23, 13 June 2006

"Memorial" human rights centre: a local resident has been lost on the territory of a government complex in Chechnya

On June 8, 2006, Khamzat Shamsuldinovich Tushaev, born in 1959, was lost in Grozny on the territory of the Government Complex of Chechnya.

00:21, 13 June 2006

Human rights activist in Ingushetia wants information on mass burials to be checked

Intense rumours have been circulating in the republic during the recent days that traces of mass burials have been discovered in the village of Vesioloye of Mozdok district, North Ossetia, where the body of Uvais Dolakov, resident of Ingushetia kidnapped earlier, was found one of these days.

00:16, 13 June 2006

Participants of picket dispersed in Krasnodar subjected to administrative arrest

According to reports of human rights activists, on June 9, 2006, a picket near the monument to Pushkin in Krasnodar (Krasnaya Street) was dispersed by almost one hundred militiamen.

00:00, 13 June 2006

Moscow militia detains persons of Caucasian origin 20 times more often than Slavs

A study conducted in the Moscow metro shows that the number persons who are visually perceived as originating from the Caucasus or Middle Asia amounts to 50.9 % of persons stopped by militia, although the share of such people does not exceed 4.6% in the total passenger flow.

10:50, 9 June 2006

Check of information on torture in secret prisons is under way in Chechnya

Officers of the riot squad combined unit from Khanty-Mansijsk autonomous okrug are suspected of arranging in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a secret prison where detainees were tortured.

12:09, 8 June 2006

Residents of temporary shelters in Chechnya want to move into permanent dwelling only

Recently, a campaign to liquidate temporary shelters (TS) has been under way in Chechnya.

12:06, 8 June 2006

PACE prepares a report on disappearances in South Caucasus

Leo Platvoet, a Dutch MP, rapporteur of the Commission on migration, refugees and population issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has come to Azerbaijan.

12:03, 8 June 2006

"Memorial" insists that an illegal prison existed in Chechnya

"A temporary detention facility of the TDIA was located on this territory, it functioned normally and was not a secret site," yesterday, June 7, Valery Kuznetsov, prosecutor of Chechnya, stated before journalists.

21:42, 7 June 2006

Power authorities held mass checks in the capital of Chechnya

On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.

21:40, 7 June 2006

US State Department: 500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking

500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking. Such information is contained in the report on human trafficking (illegal trade in human beings) prepared by the US State Department.

21:38, 7 June 2006

President of Chechnya is satisfied with SC ruling on "Ulman's case"

Alu Alkhanov, President of Chechnya, has welcomed the ruling of the RF Supreme Court presidium to the effect that the "Ulman's case" will be considered by a panel of three professional judges and not by a jury.

21:34, 7 June 2006

Armenia listed in the second category of countries in trafficking

Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan, is listed among the second category countries where women, children and men become victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced labour.

21:31, 7 June 2006

Authorities fail to move refugees from TS in the Chechen capital

Yesterday, June 6, the Staropromyslovski district administration in the Chechen capital tried to move internally displaced persons (IDP) from the temporary shelter (TS) in Derzhavin Street of Grozny.

21:14, 7 June 2006

Chechen ombudsman refutes information on the secret prison in Grozny

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has refuted information of certain human rights activists on the discovery in the centre of Grozny of a secret prison in which people were tortured and killed.

21:08, 7 June 2006

Nakhushev's sister in Kabardino-Balkaria is indignant with the fact that her brother is in the list of militants

The today's issue of the newspaper "Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda" carries an article titled "Wanted!" with photographs of 24 individuals listed as wanted on the suspicion of taking part in the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, last October.

21:00, 7 June 2006

Urazaev: payment of compensations for lost dwelling delayed in Dagestan

The authorities of Dagestan delay the compensation for the damage inflicted on civilians as a result of secret operations on liquidation of militants.

12:13, 7 June 2006

Dina Vedernikova: Strasburg Court may consider Ulman's complaint

"Quite possibly, the complaint may be recognized as a priority and will be considered by an accelerated procedure," said Dina Vedernikova.

21:55, 6 June 2006

Kabardino-Balkaria MIA prepared a list of wanted in connection with attack on Nalchik

Yesterday, June 5, the Kabardino-Balkaria MIA published the lists of militants wanted in connection with the attack on Nalchik last October.

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