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August 06, 2007 16:26

• Eighteen persons disappeared in North Ossetia during the recent two years

  A total of eighteen persons have disappeared in North Ossetia during the recent two years, five of them - during the last two months.

August 06, 2007 14:31

• Dzhamalkhanov's militants searched in Chechnya

  A special operation continues in the Vedeno District of the Chechen Republic aimed to search the militants who made an attack on the Tsa-Vedeno village, as a result of which several persons were lost.

August 06, 2007 14:22

• Three women trained as suicide-bombers made use of the amnesty in Chechnya

  Oleg Zhidkov, deputy head of the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC), informed on August 3 that among the persons who used the amnesty announced by the State Duma for militants in Chechnya there were relatives of militants' leaders and three women trained to be suicide-bombers.

August 06, 2007 14:12

• Working group on the case of arrested journalist of the "Bizim Yol" newspaper founded in Azerbaijan

  Today, the first sitting was held of the working group on the case of Mushfig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, arrested in Azerbaijan.

August 06, 2007 14:06

• Conservative Party of Georgia demands response from the Prosecutor-General's Office on Robakidze's case

  The Georgian Conservative Party requests an answer from the Prosecutor-General's Office on the case of Amiran Robakidze.

August 06, 2007 13:36

• Keilin's defence may not appeal against extension of his custody

  The Leninskiy District Court of the city of Stavropol has extended by one month more Andrei Keilin's custody, due to expire on August 6.

August 03, 2007 18:15

• "Dagestan Mothers" go on hunger strike

  At the meeting held in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, in protest against kidnappings, mothers of missing people have announced their intention to start a hunger strike and keep in until President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev receives them.

August 03, 2007 17:35

• From August 11 on, photo and video filming in courtrooms of Georgia will be banned

  On August 2, it became clear that President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili had signed the bill on amending the Law "On Ordinary Courts," according to which all photo, video and movie filming shall be prohibited in the premises and courtrooms of Georgian courts.

August 03, 2007 16:28

• Human rights defenders think that Chechnya's authorities want to put NGOs under tough control

  On August 2, President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov recommended all humanitarian and nongovernmental organizations, who execute their activities in the territory of the Republic, to move to its capital.

August 03, 2007 12:39

• Georgian opposition demands to respect the rights of inmates

  Today, leaders of seven oppositional parties have signed - near Tbilisi Ortachal Prison No. 5 - a unified memorandum on the penitentiary system.

August 03, 2007 10:21

• Stavropol Territory: militia disperses a meeting for dismissal of the head of Kislovodsk

  On August 3 in the city of Kislovodsk (Stavropol Territory) militia disrupted a meeting that demanded resignation of Vitaly Biryukov, Mayor of the city, organized by the City Public Movement "Veche" (Popular Assembly).

August 02, 2007 15:01

• Residents of Kantyshevo village: resident of Ingushetia killed in Chechnya was not a militant

  On July 27, in Ordzhonikidzevskaya village of the Sunzha District, an armed group captured and took in unknown direction Mr Barkinkhoev, Magomed Bagaudinovich, born in 1978, resident of Kantyshevo village of the Nazran District.

August 02, 2007 14:36

• Resident of Stavropol Territory to appeal against court ruling on compensation for his illegal stay in mental hospital

  The court decision on paying out 500,000 roubles as compensation for illegal keeping Dmitri Medkov, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, in mental hospital on a charge of murdering his own sister will be appealed against by him to the Stavropol Territorial Court.

August 02, 2007 13:57

• Azerbaijani mass media campaign against their colleague arrested for bribery

  The official newspapers of Azerbaijan have unfolded a campaign against Mushfig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, treating his as a criminal.

August 02, 2007 13:42

• Stavropol: district militiaman accused of severely beating a suspect

  A criminal case has been initiated in Stavropol against the district militia officer from the Promyshlenny District Department of Interior, who had severely beaten a suspect.

August 02, 2007 13:29

• Arrest of leaders of Talysh Cultural Centre extended in Azerbaijan

  In Azerbaijan, the arrest term of Novruzali Mamedov, Chairman of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" newspaper, and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of this public organization, has been prolonged for three months more.

August 02, 2007 13:22

• "Memorial": young Moslems are secretly kidnapped in Dagestan

  Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Ingushetia, speaks on the subject of kidnappings in Dagestan.

August 02, 2007 13:09

• Supreme Court of North Ossetia upholds amnesty to militiamen

  The Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has rejected the complaint of the victims against amnestying of the militiamen accused of negligence that had entailed the act of terror in Beslan.

August 01, 2007 18:37

• Health of journalist-hunger-striker gets worse in Azerbaijan

  Faramaz Allakhverdiev, journalist of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, convicted to 2.5 years of imprisonment for slander, is on his 12th day of hunger strike, and his health condition has worsened.

August 01, 2007 17:45

• Lawyer: Rasul Kudaev, prisoner in Kabardino-Balkaria, sick with infectious hepatitis

  A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Rasul Kudaev, who is kept at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of the Chief Department for Enforcement of Punishments of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on accusation of taking part in the attack on KBR's law enforcement bodies on October 13, 2005, is sick with infectious hepatitis.