News

May 26, 2006 16:07

• Human rights activists consider Kulaev's verdict justified

  Representatives of Russian and foreign human rights organizations consider the verdict passed on Friday in Vladikavkaz, the capital of North Ossetia, with regard to Nurpashi Kulaev, involved in the terrorist act in Beslan, as justified.

May 26, 2006 16:00

• Actions of protest of Azerbaijanis in Iran continue

  As has been reported to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" in the Baku office of the Movement for National Awakening of South Azerbaijan, actions of protest of Azerbaijanis in Iran, which started on May 22 in connection with the publication in the "Iran" newspaper of insulting caricatures of Azerbaijanis, continue.

May 26, 2006 15:55

• Relatives of Chilaev kidnapped in Chechnya notified on his death

  The relatives of Bulat Chilaev, employee of the "Civil Assistance" committee for assistance to refugees kidnapped in Chechnya on April 9 by soldiers of unknown units, have been notified that Bulat and Aslan Israilov, resident of Grozny who disappeared simultaneously with him, were killed on the day of "disappearance," reports Svetlana Gannushkina.

May 25, 2006 15:43

• Picket was held in Chechnya with a demand to find kidnapped Chilaev

  Today, from 2 to 3 p.m., the "Civil Assistance" committee and the "Memorial" human rights centre held a picket protesting against kidnapping of Bulat Chilaev, employee of the program of assistance to sick people of the "Civil Assistance" committee.

May 25, 2006 15:40

• High delegations from the Council of Europe to visit Azerbaijan

  The Council of Europe information centre in Azerbaijan has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Andreas Gross and Andres Herkel, co-rapporteurs of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Monitoring Committee on Azerbaijan, are arriving with a two-day visit today.

May 25, 2006 15:36

• Today, human rights activists to meet with Chechen President Alu Alkhanov

  Today, after the completion of the picket of protest in Grozny against the kidnapping of Bulat Chilaev, employee of the "Civil Assistance" committee, which, as already has been reported by the "Caucasian Knot," is to be held from 2 to 3 p.m. on the Akhmad-Khadji Kadyrov square in the Chechen capital, a meeting of human rights activists with Chechen President Alu Alkhanov will take place.

May 25, 2006 15:04

• "West" battalion possibly involved in kidnapping human rights activist in Chechnya

  Today, from 2 to 3 p.m., the "Civil Assistance" committee and the "Memorial" human rights centre will hold a picket protesting against the kidnapping of Bulat Chilaev, employee of the program of assistance to sick people of the "Civil Assistance" committee.

May 25, 2006 14:55

• Head of administration of the Datykh settlement in Ingushetia detained

  On May 24, Magomed Padiyev, head of administration of the Datykh settlement in Ingushetia, and his bother have been detained.

May 25, 2006 14:48

• More than 4000 people excluded from the list of refugees in Chechnya

  Six temporary shelters on the territory of the Chechen Republic have been vacated as a result of TS checks.

May 24, 2006 14:47

• "The Voice of Beslan" intend to apply to European Court of Human Rights

  Relatives of those who died as a result of seizure of school number 1 in Beslan intend to apply to the European Court of Human Rights.

May 24, 2006 14:32

• Azerbaijanis in Iran prepare mass actions

  A meeting in Tabriz is going to be held on May 28, Independence Day of Azerbaijan, as a continuation of the actions of protest of Azerbaijanis residing in Iran.

May 24, 2006 14:29

• Georgian NGO action against arbitrariness of police dispersed in Tbilisi

  Tonight the Georgian police has dispersed scores of representatives of non-government organizations and political parties holding an action of protest on the Rustaveli avenue in front of the Georgian parliament.

May 23, 2006 14:19

• Prosecutor's office of Dagestan appealed against the Khasavyurt court judgment on unlawfulness of arrest of Boliev, human rights activist

  The prosecutor's office of Khasavyurt has appealed in the Supreme Court of Dagestan the ruling of the Khasavyurt town court of May 17 of this year on invalidating the November 16, 2005 award of the magistrate of section No 35 on the arrest of Osman Boliev, the local human rights activist, for two days for defying the orders of militia officers.

May 23, 2006 14:16

• "Amnesty International": hostility towards foreigners, Chechens and human rights activists grows in Russia

  The "Amnesty International" human rights organization in its new report expresses concern with the growth of xenophobia in Russia and violations of human rights in the Chechen conflict.

May 23, 2006 14:12

• Women picket the Government building in the capital of Chechnya

  Today, a group of women are picketing the entrance to the territory of the Chechen Government building in Grozny.

May 23, 2006 14:10

• SFD ombudsmen to gather in Volgograd

  Ombudsmen from nine subject provinces of SFD will discuss problems connected with observance of human rights in the course of the international scientific and practical conference "Public relations and human rights in the south of Russia: History, modern times, perspectives" which is to be held in Volgograd.

May 22, 2006 14:06

• Alexander Cherkasov: "Disproportionate and unselective use of force takes place in North Caucasus"

  This morning, rubbles have started to be removed on the place of the operation in Khasavyurt on the liquidation of militants.

May 22, 2006 14:03

• Memory Day of Adygeis perished during the Russian-Caucasian war marked in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria

  Two meetings were held on May 21 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in front of the memorial to the victims of the Russian-Caucasian war.

May 22, 2006 13:52

• The term of arrest of Stomakhin, author of the "Caucasus-centre" Chechen separatists' site, extended

  According to Frumkin, Stomakhin is still held in the prison hospital of the Moscow pre-trial prison "Matrosskaya Tishina."

May 20, 2006 13:47

• Armenia signs Protocol 13 to the Convention on Human Rights on abolishing the death penalty

  Vardan Oskanian, head of the Armenian MFA, has signed the 13th Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights abolishing the death penalty under any circumstances.