News

August 23, 2007 12:36

• Chechnya native accused of blowing up "Neva Express" declares his alibi

  Three persons were arrested under the case of blowing up the "Neva Express" train: two St-Petersburg anarchists - Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk, and Hasan Didigov, 25, a native of Chechnya.

August 23, 2007 12:34

• Manana Aslamazyan asks to consider her case in absentia

  Manana Aslamazyan, head of the "Educated Media" Foundation, asks to consider her criminal case at court without her presence - in absentia.

August 22, 2007 23:57

• "Dagestan Mothers" continue hunger strike, their condition is worse

  In Makhachkala, the hunger strike of the women-members of the "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" Public Organization continues. The health condition of some of them is close to critical.

August 22, 2007 23:48

• Military guilty of death of woman trialled in Chechnya

  On August 21, the Garrison Military Court of the City of Grozny started another trial of the case of Lieutenant Colonel Alexei Korgun, for whose guilt a local woman-resident was killed and two more women were heavily wounded.

August 22, 2007 22:28

• Azerbaijan: health of "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement's chairman is worse

  Ruslan Bashirli, Chairman of the "Eni Fikir" Youth Movement, who is kept at Corrective Facility No. 1 in Azerbaijan, has health problems.

August 22, 2007 21:31

• Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upholds verdict to journalist Einullah Fatullaev

  Today, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has considered the cassation complaint lodged by advocates of journalist Einullah Fatullaev.

August 22, 2007 21:04

• Police disperses journalists in Azerbaijan

  Today, a group of dissidents from Iran has made an attempt to hold a picket in front of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Baku in connection with the visit to Azerbaijan of Iranian President Mahmud Akhmadinezhad.

August 22, 2007 15:50

• Union of Georgian Writers demands resignation of the authorities

  On August 21, a spontaneous action was held near the building of the Union of Georgian Writers, which was attended by Georgian writers and poets, public figures and representatives of some opposition parties.

August 22, 2007 12:34

• Conference on 1937 repressions held in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Today, the city of Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, has hosted a conference dated to the 70th anniversary of the "great terror" that took place in 1937 and the years to follow.

August 21, 2007 14:20

• People in Chechnya refute complete liquidation of separatists

  The recent statement of General Dmitri Fomenko that all the militants' regiments have been liquidated in the territory of the Republic, and those remaining ones have moved to Ingushetia and Dagestan, is perceived by residents of the Chechen Republic as a bad joke.

August 21, 2007 14:12

• David Ovannisyan: Iraqi Armenians are persecuted

  David Ovannisyan, Plenipotentiary Ambassador and Associated Professor at the Division of Arabism of the Yerevan State University, has reported that recently the number of threats and kidnappings of Armenians in Iraq has increased.

August 21, 2007 14:03

• Chairman of Board of Elders fined for holding a meeting in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Ismail Sabanchiev, one of the organizers of the meeting in Nalchik (capital of Kabardino-Balkaria) on July 14, was brought to administrative responsibility by the Nalchik magistrate court.

August 21, 2007 13:54

• Defendants in case on Kondopoga disorders plead partially guilty

  Today, the Kondopoga City Court has started considering on the merits the case about mass disorders.

August 21, 2007 13:49

• Arrested journalist asks to transfer him to another prison in Azerbaijan

  Mirza Sakit (Zakhidov), a satirical journalist who is currently at a prison hospital, is complaining of his heavy custody conditions, non-observance of sanitary norms and remoteness of his custody.

August 20, 2007 12:06

• Two suspects of blowing up the "Neva Express" detained

  A source in the investigatory bodies of the region has reported today that two suspects of undermining the "Neva Express" train were detained in the Novgorod Region.

August 20, 2007 11:59

• Act of terror prevented in the capital of Chechnya

  Employees of the interior department have detected a self-made explosive device in the Zavodskoy District of the capital of Chechnya in the area of the central marketplace in the Marx Street.

August 20, 2007 11:41

• Film about refugees from the mountain Chechnya shown in Sakharov Centre

  On August 10, a festival of Caucasian films opened at A. Sakharov Public Centre. Eight films made by young Caucasian film directors, already presented at international film festivals and recognized by leading humanitarian organizations, were applied for demonstration during two weeks.

August 20, 2007 00:33

• Mother of Rasul Kudaev, resident from Kabardino-Balkaria on trial, asserts that her son is punished for his complaints

  Rasul Kudaev, an inmate of SIZO-1 (pre-trial facility) of Nalchik, was transferred into a dungeon till August 30.

August 20, 2007 00:20

• Yuri Budanov was rejected early relief

  The Court of the city of Dimitrovgrad, Ulyanovsk Region, has refused today to satisfy the petition for conditional early relief of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov, convicted for murdering a Chechen girl in 2000.

August 18, 2007 14:16

• Emin Guseinov: there is a real threat to life of arrested journalists in Azerbaijan

  In the opinion of Emin Guseinov, Chairman of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety, the life and health of the journalists kept in custody in Azerbaijan are in danger.