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February 09, 2008 17:33

• Georgia: "Thieves of Votes" action of the opposition

  The United Opposition of Georgia has held a two-hour action under the motto "Thieves of Votes" in the centre of Tbilisi, in Rustaveli Avenue, and accused President Mikhail Saakashvili and Levan Tarkhnishvili, Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission of Georgia, of falsification of the January 5 election.

February 09, 2008 17:28

• Journalist beaten by militiamen in Krasnodar Territory

  Sergey Rozhkov, a journalist from the city of Tuapse, Krasnodar Territory, was detained at night of February 2 in the house of his relative, when he was preparing a lawful protest action. According to the journalist, he was handcuffed, beaten and thrown into the luggage compartment of the militia's "Zhiguli" car.

February 09, 2008 17:23

• Suren Surenyants: Armenian TV Channels strongly hampered Ter-Petrosyan's pre-election campaign

  By their one-sided coverage of the pre-election campaign, the TV Channels of Armenia, including the private ones, have really created compelling obstacles for the first Armenian president in the pre-election race.

February 09, 2008 16:20

• Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya denies tortures in Chernokozovo

  On the outcomes of another inspection of the custody conditions of inmates kept at the Chernokozovo Corrective Colony No. 2, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has not confirmed that convicts are tortured in this facility and the custody conditions are intolerable.

February 08, 2008 12:23

• Aushev: military actions strengthen radicalism in the Caucasus

  Military actions and special operations undertaken in the Caucasus with the aim to eliminate the threat of terror are inefficient in struggling against radicalism, but on the contrary, they strengthen it, asserts Ruslan Aushev, the first President of Ingushetia.

February 08, 2008 12:20

• Conviction record lifted from imam of Pyatigorsk

  On February 7, 2008, the Khamovniki Court of Moscow ruled to cancel the conviction record from Anton Stepanenko, imam of the city of Pyatigorsk, under the verdict of the Pyatigorsk City Court of the Stavropol Territory of March 30, 2007.

February 08, 2008 12:17

• In Kabardino-Balkaria, a defendant in the case on attack on Nalchik wants to refuse from taking part in the trial

  Azamat Akhkubekov, one of those accused of attacking power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria, has sent a petition to the chair of the court Mohamed Tashuev with a complaint against the treatment of defendants during convoying. If the complaint is not satisfied, Akhkubekov is going to refuse from taking part in the process.

February 08, 2008 12:14

• Advocates of ex-Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan are dissatisfied with his treatment

  The advocates of Farkhad Aliev, former Minister of Economic Development of Azerbaijan, remained dissatisfied with the medical examination of their client. Elton Guliev, one of ex-minister's defenders, has stated that Aliev's transfer to the prison clinic was caused not by care of his health but by desire to prevent his meeting with PACE co-Rapporteurs.

February 08, 2008 12:11

• "Voice of Beslan" changes the name and will not get registered

  The "Voice of Beslan" public organization created by those who suffered from terror acts is changing its name to the "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian Public Organization of Terror Act Victims.

February 08, 2008 12:08

• Officer guilty of Chechen woman's death sentenced to three years of conditional imprisonment

  On February 7, the Grozny Garrison Military Court sentenced Alexei Korgun, Lieutenant Colonel of Internal Troops of the Russian MIA, guilty of the death of a woman-resident of the Shatoy District of Chechnya, to three years of conditional imprisonment.

February 08, 2008 11:55

• Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia: only several participants of disorders are still behind bars

  Sources in the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia refute the information that dozens of people detained on January 26 during mass disorders in Nazran are still under arrest.

February 07, 2008 10:05

• Board to assess the investigation of Beslan tragedy created in North Ossetia

  On February 5, in North Ossetia, the public organization "Styr Nykhas" held a sitting with participation of the Committees "Voice of Beslan" and "Beslan Mothers", where a decision was passed to found the Board in charge of assessing of the investigation of the Beslan tragedy.

February 07, 2008 10:03

• Court rejects Stomakhin's early conditional release

  The Tonshaev Court of the Nizhni Novgorod Region has refused to apply the procedure of early conditional release to Boris Stomakhin, publicist of the website of Chechen separatists "Kavkaz-Centre" who was sentenced to 5 years of colony for kindling interethnic enmity and extremism.

February 07, 2008 09:58

• Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejects the supervisory complaint of the "Voice of Beslan"

  On February 4, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia rejected the supervisory complaint of the public organization "Voice of Beslan", in which the relatives of the casualties of the Beslan terror act had asked to consider the materials of the Leninskiy Court about re-registration of the organization and to cancel the decision of this court.

February 07, 2008 09:55

• Residents of Chechnya complain against officials who give out compensations for destroyed houses for bribes

  Residents of Chechnya continue complaining that compensations for the houses lost during the conflict can be received, only if one pays back a half of the sum to bureaucrats as the so-called "otkat" (kick-back).

February 07, 2008 09:52

• Picket in memory of "zachistka" victims in Novye Aldy held in Moscow

  In the Pushkin Square in the centre of Moscow, a picket was held in memory of the victims of the clean-up ("zachistka") conducted eight years ago in Novye Aldy settlement located in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya.

February 07, 2008 09:45

• HRC "Memorial" to present its report "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"

  On February 11, a press conference will be held at the Independent Press Centre in Moscow to present the report of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" entitled "Ingushetia 2007. Where Now?"

February 06, 2008 16:42

• Defendant in the case on attack on the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria wants to refuse from his advocate

  At the following session of preliminary hearings of the criminal case on the events of October 13 in Nalchik (Kabardino-Balkaria) appointed on February 20, defendant Kaziev is going to refuse from the services of advocate Sukhikh, T. V., appointed by the court.

February 06, 2008 16:38

• Picket against kidnappings held in Dagestan

  Today, the public organization "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" and relatives of the people kidnapped in Makhachkala held a picket against kidnappings in the central square of the capital of the Republic.

February 06, 2008 16:35

• Project "Observatory" stands up for "Voice of Beslan"

  On February 5, the joint project of the International Organization for Fighting Torture (Geneva) and the Human Rights Federation (Paris) named "Observatory" condemned the legal pressure exerted on the "Voice of Beslan" Organization.