News

September 09, 2004 20:30

• Armenian officers' participation in military exercises undecided

  Representatives of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry negotiated with NATO officials in Brussels and came to the agreement that no more than three Armenian officers would be able to take part in the exercises.

September 09, 2004 18:59

• Detainees undergo torture in Georgia

  The Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights NGO has reported on 72 cases of using torture against detainees recorded since new authorities came to power in Georgia.

September 09, 2004 18:55

• Azerbaijan's Chechen diaspora denies financing terrorists

  It is not inconceivable that the September 7 attack against Ruslan Zelimkhanov may have been the Russian special services' doing, Chechen human rights activist Mairbek Taramov said. The Kremlin actively uses "Chechens against Chechens" in recent years, he added.

September 08, 2004 19:51

• Joint NGO statement on Beslan hostage tragedy

  "A coalition of Russian and international human rights organizations united today to condemn in the strongest terms the taking hostage and killing of hundreds of children, parents and teachers by a group of armed men and women in a school in the city of Beslan, North Ossetia in the North Caucasus region of Russia," reads the document.

September 08, 2004 19:49

• OSCE delegation visits Sukhum

  Meeting participants touched upon questions concerning the resolution of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict, Abkhazia's political status, the return of refugees and internally displaced persons, and the honoring of Sochi agreements by the Russian, Georgian and Abkhazian leadership.

September 08, 2004 19:25

• NGO denies accusations brought against it

  "Such repressive actions have a single goal - to block information about human rights abuse coming from Chechnya and Ingushetia," head of the Chechen National Rescue Committee Ruslan Badalov said.

September 07, 2004 21:17

• Georgian Embassy to Russia gives support to detained journalists

  The embassy will guarantee that the Rustavi 2 journalists detained in Beslan will come to an interrogation at the first instance of investigators in case the Russian authorities set them free.

September 07, 2004 21:14

• House explosion in Chechen village

  On the night of September 5, a private house was completely destroyed as a result of an explosion in the village of Chechen-Aul. Investigators have established the happening was caused by mortar fire.

September 07, 2004 21:11

• Anti-presidential meeting held in Vladikavkaz

  Speakers demanded that republican authorities, in particular President of the Republic of North Osetia - Alania Aleksandr Dzasokhov, should resign.

September 06, 2004 23:49

• Talish separatist leader granted pardon

  Ilkham Aliyev issued two decrees on September 3. By one of them he granted a pardon to Alikram Gumbatov, the leader of the self-proclaimed Talish-Mugan Republic who led a revolt in the south of Azerbaijan and was sentenced to life imprisonment then. By the other decree the President revoked Gumbatov's Azerbaijan citizenship.

September 06, 2004 20:15

• Chechen field commanders' relatives persecuted

  According to information spread by the Regional Operations Headquarters on September 4, Maskhadov, Basayev and other field commanders planned to commit terror attacks against their close relatives and then put the blame on Russian servicemen.

September 03, 2004 19:23

• Beslan hostage crisis over

  Approximately 340 wounded people have been taken to hospitals in Beslan and Vladikavkaz after the storm of the school captured by rebels in Beslan, reported the North Osetian Health Minister.

September 03, 2004 18:42

• NGO activist abducted in Chechnya

  A group of gunmen in masks and camouflage uniforms broke into the house on Kochubeya Street and took Fatima Gaziyeva and her husband away in an unknown direction without any explanations.

September 02, 2004 19:45

• Institute of Peace and Democracy monitors trial against opposition leaders

  The Human Rights Protection Department of the Institute of Peace and Democracy is deeply concerned with the situation around the witnesses who refused from their testimonies and declared about the tortures.

September 02, 2004 19:40

• 'No justification for targeting civilians'

  We call your attention to the statement issued by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) on September 2, 2004.

September 02, 2004 19:04

• Rebels release several hostages

  So far the rebels have rejected suggestions to provide the hostages with water, food and medicines and exchange a group of hostages.

September 01, 2004 19:03

• 15 children released from captured school

  About 400 students, parents, and teachers are reported to be among the hostages in the school captured by rebels in North Osetia.

September 01, 2004 18:04

• 9 die in Moscow blast

  The capacity of the explosive device that went off near the Rizhskaya station is preliminary estimated at about 2 kilograms of trotyl equivalent with damaging elements, the public relations center of the Federal Security Service has reported.

September 01, 2004 17:43

• Alkhanov's rivals will not appeal against election results

  A representative of one of the candidates who lost believes "it is a useless occupation in any case."

August 31, 2004 20:46

• Several tenders announced in Nagorny Karabakh

  The tender is announced within the framework of the Humanitarian Aid to Nagorny Karabakh program financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).