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June 13, 2006 00:21

• Human rights activist in Ingushetia wants information on mass burials to be checked

  Intense rumours have been circulating in the republic during the recent days that traces of mass burials have been discovered in the village of Vesioloye of Mozdok district, North Ossetia, where the body of Uvais Dolakov, resident of Ingushetia kidnapped earlier, was found one of these days.

June 13, 2006 00:16

• Participants of picket dispersed in Krasnodar subjected to administrative arrest

  According to reports of human rights activists, on June 9, 2006, a picket near the monument to Pushkin in Krasnodar (Krasnaya Street) was dispersed by almost one hundred militiamen.

June 13, 2006 00:00

• Moscow militia detains persons of Caucasian origin 20 times more often than Slavs

  A study conducted in the Moscow metro shows that the number persons who are visually perceived as originating from the Caucasus or Middle Asia amounts to 50.9 % of persons stopped by militia, although the share of such people does not exceed 4.6% in the total passenger flow.

June 09, 2006 10:50

• Check of information on torture in secret prisons is under way in Chechnya

  Officers of the riot squad combined unit from Khanty-Mansijsk autonomous okrug are suspected of arranging in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a secret prison where detainees were tortured.

June 08, 2006 12:09

• Residents of temporary shelters in Chechnya want to move into permanent dwelling only

  Recently, a campaign to liquidate temporary shelters (TS) has been under way in Chechnya.

June 08, 2006 12:06

• PACE prepares a report on disappearances in South Caucasus

  Leo Platvoet, a Dutch MP, rapporteur of the Commission on migration, refugees and population issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has come to Azerbaijan.

June 08, 2006 12:03

• "Memorial" insists that an illegal prison existed in Chechnya

  "A temporary detention facility of the TDIA was located on this territory, it functioned normally and was not a secret site," yesterday, June 7, Valery Kuznetsov, prosecutor of Chechnya, stated before journalists.

June 07, 2006 21:42

• Power authorities held mass checks in the capital of Chechnya

  On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.

June 07, 2006 21:40

• US State Department: 500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking

  500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking. Such information is contained in the report on human trafficking (illegal trade in human beings) prepared by the US State Department.

June 07, 2006 21:38

• President of Chechnya is satisfied with SC ruling on "Ulman's case"

  Alu Alkhanov, President of Chechnya, has welcomed the ruling of the RF Supreme Court presidium to the effect that the "Ulman's case" will be considered by a panel of three professional judges and not by a jury.

June 07, 2006 21:34

• Armenia listed in the second category of countries in trafficking

  Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan, is listed among the second category countries where women, children and men become victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced labour.

June 07, 2006 21:31

• Authorities fail to move refugees from TS in the Chechen capital

  Yesterday, June 6, the Staropromyslovski district administration in the Chechen capital tried to move internally displaced persons (IDP) from the temporary shelter (TS) in Derzhavin Street of Grozny.

June 07, 2006 21:14

• Chechen ombudsman refutes information on the secret prison in Grozny

  Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has refuted information of certain human rights activists on the discovery in the centre of Grozny of a secret prison in which people were tortured and killed.

June 07, 2006 21:08

• Nakhushev's sister in Kabardino-Balkaria is indignant with the fact that her brother is in the list of militants

  The today's issue of the newspaper "Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda" carries an article titled "Wanted!" with photographs of 24 individuals listed as wanted on the suspicion of taking part in the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, last October.

June 07, 2006 21:00

• Urazaev: payment of compensations for lost dwelling delayed in Dagestan

  The authorities of Dagestan delay the compensation for the damage inflicted on civilians as a result of secret operations on liquidation of militants.

June 07, 2006 12:13

• Dina Vedernikova: Strasburg Court may consider Ulman's complaint

  "Quite possibly, the complaint may be recognized as a priority and will be considered by an accelerated procedure," said Dina Vedernikova.

June 06, 2006 21:55

• Kabardino-Balkaria MIA prepared a list of wanted in connection with attack on Nalchik

  Yesterday, June 5, the Kabardino-Balkaria MIA published the lists of militants wanted in connection with the attack on Nalchik last October.

June 06, 2006 21:45

• Authorities try to move refugees out of TS in Chechnya capital

  "Go to your villages!" declared Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of Staropromyslovski district administration of the capital of Chechnya, to the residents of the temporary shelter for refugees (TS) located at 289, Derzhavin Street in Grozny.

June 06, 2006 21:30

• Seminar for human rights activists from Chechnya and Ingushetia held in Nazran

  On June 3-4, 2006, a two-day seminar "Counteracting violations in North Caucasus" was held, which was organized by the regional human rights organization "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" headed by Ruslan Badalov, with the financial support of the European Commission office in the RF.

June 06, 2006 20:50

• A secret prison existed in Chechnya

  On May 29, 30 and 31, employees of the "Memorial" human rights centre examined and made video and photo records of vacant buildings in the Chechen capital where prior to May 27 the RF MIA Operational Group in October district of Grozny had been dislocated, and previously the Temporary department of internal affairs (TDIA) of the district, reports Dmitri Grushkin, employee of the "Memorial" HRC to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.