News

June 24, 2008 14:47

• PACE demands releasing journalists arrested in Azerbaijan

  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has expressed a "serious concern" with deterioration of the situation with human rights in Azerbaijan and demanded immediate release of the arrested journalists.

June 24, 2008 14:44

• Kabardino-Balkaria: new recruitment of candidates for jurymen to start on the case about attack on Nalchik

  The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has made a decision to recruit new candidates for the jury, since as a result of duly motivated withdrawals, today only 6 persons remained out of 145 candidates.

June 24, 2008 14:41

• In Azerbaijan, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment

  Today, the Azerbaijani Court for Grave Crimes, presided by Judge Shakir Aleskerov, has put a full stop in the process of Novruzali Mamedov, head of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" (Talysh's Voice) newspaper, and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of the newspaper, who were accused of treason against the State.

June 24, 2008 14:36

• FSPE employees try to evict Caucasian refugees from Moscow hostel

  Right at this moment, employees of the Federal Service for Punishment Enforcement (FSPE) try to move several families of refugees from Azerbaijan and Abkhazia out of a hostel located at No. 19 Yasny Proezd.

June 23, 2008 14:23

• In Chechnya, a boy incidentally shot dead his small sister

  In the Shali District of Chechnya, law enforcement bodies are investigating the circumstances of a tragedy in one of local families. A seven-year-old boy was casually handling a fowling piece and fatally wounded his sister who was five years old.

June 23, 2008 14:15

• Lawyer Sadygov: journalist Halil is not let out from Azerbaijan under the order of special agencies

  The non-announced ban on departing from Azerbaijan imposed on Agil Halil, a journalist of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), was introduced by the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan. This is the conclusion made by Elchin Sadygov, journalist's advocate.

June 23, 2008 14:13

• Georgia: women-prisoners to resume their hunger strike on June 28

  In Georgia, on June 28, the women kept at the Tbilisi corrective establishment for women and minors No. 5 are going to renew their hunger strike, which had been interrupted because of the pressure exerted by the prison administration.

June 23, 2008 14:10

• Case on the murder of First Channel reporter Shurpaev delivered to court of Tajikistan

  The materials of the murder case of Ilyas Shurpaev, reporter of Channel One and a native of Dagestan, have been transferred by inquiry bodies of Tajikistan to the court.

June 23, 2008 13:39

• Trial on attack on Nalchik postponed till June 24

  The court session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the trial of the militants' attack on Nalchik accomplished in October 2005 has been postponed till June 24. Advocate Elizabeth Shak has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason of the delay was another fact of beating the defendants by the escort.

June 23, 2008 13:36

• Picket against eviction from Tuapse hostel held in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, residents of the hostel located in Tuapse held a protest action against their eviction. Ten persons went out to the "Aurora" movie theatre with posters in their hands. They plan to hold a range of pickets in the Kuban capital.

June 23, 2008 13:26

• Residents of Chechnya are sceptical on commission for searching missing people

  People in Chechnya think that the appeal of the Republic's Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev to Russian president Medvedev with a request to set up an interdepartmental commission in charge of searching those residents of Chechnya who were kidnapped or regarded to be missing will not bring any serious results.

June 21, 2008 16:25

• Chechnya: cadet screened out for religious convictions

  In Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, a cadet was dismissed from the local branch of the Krasnodar University of Interior, whom the University's bosses found to be an advocate of Wahhabism. The incident grew into a scandal, which draw even the attention of the Republic's Prosecutor's Office.

June 21, 2008 15:15

• Sochi residents ask to preserve Imereti Valley

  Today, after the rally held in Sochi, the residents of this resort city have addressed their letter to the leadership of Russia, Corporation "Olympstroy" and Public Chamber of Russia with a request to keep the territory of the Imereti Lowland untouched.

June 21, 2008 13:42

• Russian human rights defenders tell US Congress about situation in Ingushetia

  The US Helsinki Commission held a briefing on June 19 in the US Congress with participation of Russian experts on Northern Caucasus dedicated to aggravation of situation in Ingushetia.

June 20, 2008 21:52

• Presidents of Azerbaijan and Georgia to launch part of Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project

  It is planned that in the 2nd decade of July, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev will visit Turkey. In the course of the visit, Mr Aliev, together with Presidents of Turkey and Georgia Abdullah Gьl and Mikhail Saakashvili, will take in the launching ceremony of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway.

June 20, 2008 18:48

• Many thousands of oppositionists on rally in the capital of Armenia

  In Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, about five thousand supporters of the opposition are holding a non-sanctioned rally. Leader of the opposition Levon Ter-Petrosyan and his supporters are among the participants.

June 20, 2008 17:43

• Refugees from Chechnya want to leave Azerbaijan

  A statement promulgated by the press service of the Council of Chechen Refugees in Azerbaijan runs that the refugees who now live in Azerbaijan want to leave this country since they think that their life and freedom are under threat.

June 20, 2008 15:29

• European parliamentarians nominate "Memorial" Society to Nobel Peace Award

  A group of European parliamentarians has offered to nominate the International Society "Memorial", which deals, among other things, with investigations of human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, to the Nobel Peace Award.

June 20, 2008 12:23

• Fried: unblocking of Turkish-Armenian border should not be associated with Nagorno-Karabakh

  Daniel Fried, assistant of the US Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, told on June 18 at the hearing held in the Committee for Foreign Matters of the US Congress that unblocking of the Turkish-Armenian border should not be interlinked with settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

June 20, 2008 10:18

• Burial of 800 persons found in Chechnya

  Human rights activists have detected another mass burial from the time of the 1995 Chechen war. This is already the third burial found in Chechnya during the last month.