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22:00, 3 September 2009
The court of general jurisdiction of the Vaik and Ararat Regions of Armenia has satisfied the petition of the inspector of the Military Prosecutor's Office asking to arrest Captain Andok Galstyan, who beat to death private Aram Mkrtchyan.
21:00, 3 September 2009
The Court of the Alekseev District of the Volgograd Region has sentenced the obstetrician-gynaecologist of the central district hospital for using a technique at delivery, forbidden by the WHO (World Health Organization), which entailed death of the newborn to 18 months of conditional punishment.
20:10, 3 September 2009
Kidnapping and subsequent murder in July of the well-known Chechen human rights defender, employees of the HRC "Memorial" Natalia Estemirova and a similar later crime against the leader of the youth public organization "Let's Save the Generation" Zarema Sadulayeva and her husband Alik Dzhabrailov could be accomplished by one and the same group. This is the opinion of some Chechen NGOs, which are convinced that true organizers and customers of these murders will be never punished.
20:00, 3 September 2009
Murad Musaev, an advocate of one of the defendants, said that the Supreme Court of Russia has recognized lawful the cancellation of the "not guilty" verdict in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta".
19:00, 3 September 2009
The Moscow GUVD (Chief City Interior Department) has refused to open a criminal case against Oleg Orlov, head of the Society "Memorial", under the article of "Slander" in the context of his statements that connection with its{his} statement that President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is responsible for the murder of human rights defender Natalia Estemirova. This was reported by Andrei Krasnenkov, Kadyrov's advocate.
18:00, 3 September 2009
The Special Investigatory Service has finished investigation on the case of four policemen, accused of using violence to citizens in the course of the events on March 1, 2008, in Yerevan. Their cases have already been sent to the court of general jurisdiction of the communities Tsentr and Nork-Marash of Yerevan. Journalists were told about it by Sona Truzyan, press secretary of the General Public Prosecutor of Armenia.
23:50, 2 September 2009
On September 1, eight children-refugees from Ingushetia came back from Spain, where they stayed for about one month. Many of them were in children camps, and some of them lived in families. The trip became possible due to the Foundation of Deported Nations. According to Alikhan Akhilgov, President of the Foundation, the organization has been helping children for about 15 years.
23:30, 2 September 2009
1000 families of Azerbaijani refugees now live in Yerevan and have no permanent residence. By different estimates, about 45 million US dollars are needed to build housing for them. This year, it is planned to provide permanent apartments to 50 families. This was reported to journalists by Eganyan, head of the migration agency under the Ministry of Territorial Management of Armenia.
23:10, 2 September 2009
Jorg Tauss, a deputy of German Bundestag, has arrived for the second time in the last two months in Baku in connection with the fate of young arrested bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Gadjizade, accused of hooliganism. However, same as in late July, he was not allowed to meet them in the Baku SIZO, in spite of the fact that he had sent a prior letter to President Ilham Aliev.
23:00, 2 September 2009
Five years have passed after the tragedy in Beslan; the investigation is still on; but people until now do not know the whole truth why 334 persons perished and who was guilty of the tragedy. This was stated on September 1 by the members of the organization "Beslan Mothers" at a press conference.
22:50, 2 September 2009
The Military Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has initiated a criminal case on the fact of a murder of Aram Mkrtchyan, 18, a regular soldier, who died as a result of beatings, rendered, according to the investigation, by an officer of the Vaiksk military unit.
22:10, 2 September 2009
Malkhaz Gulashvili, owner of the Media Holding "Georgian Times" and a member of the Russian-Georgian Public Commission, has treated the actions of Georgian frontier guards, who tonight at the International Tbilisi Airport stopped Russian journalists Maxim Shevchenko and Vladimir Mamontov from crossing the Georgian border, as a provocation and a great scandal.
21:10, 2 September 2009
In Beslan, the state programmes aimed at helping the victims of the 2004 terror act do not work; people are left alone with their problems, as stated by Susanna Dudieva, leader of the organization "Beslan Mothers". According to her story, children-former hostages cannot get their free of charge and expensive medication; they have to do it for their own money.
21:00, 2 September 2009
In Armenia, the court of general jurisdiction of Yerevan communities Tsentr-Nork-Marash has made a decision to extend by two months, that is, till November 5, the custody term of the young activist of the opposition Tigran Arakelyan, who has become half-blind while behind bars. The latter has promised to go on a termless protest hunger strike.
20:00, 2 September 2009
Today, the Independent Press Centre in Moscow has hosted a press conference of human rights activists under the motto "Death Squadrons in Northern Caucasus. Summer of 2009". According to Alexander Cherkasov, a member of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", a system of violence has formed in Northern Caucasus, where torture, kidnappings, illegal prisons and extrajudicial executions are integral elements.