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April 10, 2004 14:36

• Abkhazian Interior Ministry publishes its version of hostage taking in Gali district

  A Georgian armed group captured a serviceman of the Abkhazian Armed Forces, Valery Morokhia, on April 6.

April 10, 2004 13:28

• Fast response human rights group created in Armenia

  Human rights defenders mention arbitrary bans on meetings, bans on citizens' free movement in the country, illegal detentions, and attacks against media representatives.

April 10, 2004 13:16

• TV cameraman abducted in Grozny

  A cameraman for Chechen State TV and Radio Company was abducted by gunmen in masks and camouflage in Grozny on April 9.

April 09, 2004 23:04

• Chechen president: draft resolution on Chechnya lends moral support to rebels

  "The authors of such statements really impede the process of political settlement in Chechnya," Akhmad Kadyrov said on Friday, April 9.

April 09, 2004 18:08

• Chechen villagers to be paid for info on separatist commander

  Two residents of Shelkovskaya in Chechnya will be paid 300,000 rubles each within a few days for having alerted special services to the presence of a notorious separatist field commander and mastermind of terror attacks, Abubakar Visimbayev, in their village.

April 09, 2004 17:46

• Georgia commemorates anniversary of 9 April 1989 tragedy

  Fifteen years ago, elements of the Soviet Army dispersed thousands of activists of the national movement who had gathered for a peaceful meeting on Rustaveli Avenue in the heart of Tbilisi.

April 09, 2004 17:39

• Shamil Basayev's subordinate killed in Chechnya

  According to the military, the operation to destroy Saidov, who was Shamil Basayev's subordinate, was conducted by the special operations battalion Vostok under the command of Sulim Yamadayev.

April 09, 2004 16:51

• FSB officer killed in Shelkovskaya village in Chechnya

  Two other officers received wounds of different severity.

April 09, 2004 16:49

• Anna Neistat expects no UN sanctions against Russia for policy in Chechnya

  "There is no force which can make a sovereign state change its internal policy, except for international tribunal," said the Moscow director for Human Rights Watch.

April 09, 2004 14:52

• Mikhail Gorbachev is not going to Georgia, his press secretary says

  "We have no information that Mikhail Sergeevich is going to visit Georgia," Vladimir Polyakov said on April 8.

April 09, 2004 14:08

• Dagestan Moslems refuse to receive singer Boris Moiseyev

  The Moslem community of Dagestan has succeeded in canceling Boris Moiseyev's concerts on the territory of the republic.

April 09, 2004 13:54

• Abkhazian authorities release 33 Georgian hostages

  The captured people were released after the regular quadripartite meeting in the village of Chuburkhindzhi in the Gali district on April 8.

April 09, 2004 13:36

• Adjarian leader ready to release Tengiz Asanidze

  The international court in Strasbourg announced its decision on April 8 that Tengiz Asanidze, former mayor of Batumi and a former deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the autonomous republic, should be released.

April 09, 2004 12:19

• Joint statement by leading rights monitors: UN Human Rights Commission should adopt resolution on Chechnya

  Human rights groups have recently documented a number of "disappearances," summary executions, and attacks against civilians in both Chechnya and Ingushetia.

April 09, 2004 12:07

• Zarema Muzhakhoyeva sentenced to 20-years imprisonment

  Muzhakhoyeva was found guilty of attempting to commit a terrorist act near the Imbir restaurant in 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the heart of Moscow on July 10, 2003. Then, a FSB bomb disposal expert Sergey Trofimov was killed by the bomb.

April 08, 2004 20:55

• Georgian human right defenders want Mikhail Gorbachev to be arrested

  The All-Georgian Association for the Defense of Human Rights expressed a protest against the visit of former president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to Tbilisi designed for April 9. The organization demanded that the Georgian law-enforcement agencies arrested him.

April 08, 2004 18:06

• Shamil Basayev's bodyguard destroyed in Chechnya

  The military assert that the killed bodyguard of Basayev, Abubakar Visimbayev, was directly connected with the terrorist act in the Theatre Center "Nord-Ost" in Moscow.

April 08, 2004 18:04

• Azerbaijan parliament discusses Armenian-Turkish border opening

  Speaker Murtuz Alekserov said the border opening could deal a serious blow to the relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey.

April 08, 2004 16:54

• Saakashvili urges Abashidze to release former mayor of Batumi

  "Asanidze is not a politician or important figure, but he is still being held in prison in defiance of all judicial norms and procedures. We will not allow that a man be illegally held in custody in a Georgian region," the Georgian President said to journalists.

April 08, 2004 15:58

• Youth NGO seeks registration

  On April 7, the Promishlenny District Court of Stavropol was to consider a complaint by the chairman of the interregional youth public charitable organization Caucasian Youth Human Rights League, Maksim Abrakhimov, against an illegal decision by the Department of the Russian Ministry of Justice in Stavropol Territory.