Results of your search

The Union of Armenian Public Organizations of Samtskhe-Dzhavakhk and Kvemo Kartli has expressed its support of the two Armenian activists - Grigor Minasyan and Sarkis Akopdzhanyan, - arrested in Georgia, and its readiness to provide advocates for defending the interests of the detainees.

In the course of a special operation conducted in Nazran, Ingushetia, two suspected members of illegal armed units have been killed.

Stanislav Markelov accepted politically motivated cases which other lawyers refused to undertake because they were afraid to be knocked out of the system. This was stated today to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent during the funeral of Markelov at Moscow Ostankino cemetery by Olga Trusevich, member of "Memorial" human rights center.

On January 22, the European Court on Human Rights considered three more complaints of Chechen residents which relate to the disappearance of five young people and execution of one man during the period from October 2002 to April 2004.

The complaint about torture and beatings of Ibraghim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, defendants accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, was considered by investigating officer Petros Garibian who was investigating the case itself. Garibian found no facts of violence or humiliation with regard to Makhmudovs.

The scale of corruption in the Chechen Republic is so serious that it will require drastic measures and serious efforts from the authorities, states Aslambek Apaev, expert of Moscow Helsinki Group on North Caucasus. Some local residents agree with him.

On Wednesday, the Moscow Regional Military Court rejected the petition of the defendants in the case - brothers Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - to take them out to the scene of the crime.

The interrogation of the defendants in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case - Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - is over. Both brothers refuse to admit their guilt and cannot recollect what they were doing on the murder day. Advocate Murad Musaev tried to prove insufficiency of one of important evidences of the guilt of his clients - the detailed printout of Makhmudovs' telephone conversations on the day of murder. Mr Musaev told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

An unauthorized march of anarchists in Novosibirsk in memory of advocate Stanislav Markelov and journalists Anastasiya Baburova assassinated in Moscow ended in a fight.

Today Ibram Garunov, Judge of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, has announced his verdict to Rasil Mamedrizaev, a resident of Miskindzha village, Dokuzparin District of Dagestan, suspected of murdering Farid Babaev. The court has supported the prosecution and appointed a punishment in the form of 16 years of tight security colony.

In Dagestan, the public prosecutor demanded 16 years of imprisonment in a tight security colony for Rasil Mamedrizaev, who was found guilty yesterday, on January 20, by jurymen of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of the Dagestan branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

The action in memory of assassinated advocate Markelov and journalist Baburova held yesterday, on January 20, in the capital of Chechnya moved a proposal to rename streets in their honour.

On January 20, the car model VAZ-2107, which was hijacked by unknown criminals who executed father and son Terkhoev on January 19, in Sunzha District of Ingushetia, was found in the southwest of Chechnya.

Anastasiya Baburova, an off-the-staff employee of the "Novaya Gazeta", who was wounded on January 19 in the centre of Moscow, during Markelov's murder and later died in hospital, published a week ago an article about former colonel Yuri Budanov in the edition named "Personal Correspondent".