News

August 11, 2005 15:01

• Victims released

  Two local residents abducted in Starye Atagi are released after being beaten in a police station.

August 11, 2005 14:59

• Fire in Chechnya

  Unidentified persons set fire to the houses of some law enforcement agents.

August 11, 2005 14:57

• Torture used as method

  An Azerbaijani youth movement activist undergoes violence in a prosecutor's office.

August 11, 2005 14:50

• Accident in Dagestan

  Police officer wounds his fellow servicemen.

August 10, 2005 21:07

• Muslims degraded in Kabardino-Balkaria

  Torture and degrading treatment of Muslims in this North Caucasus republic are regular, thinks a human rights defender.

August 10, 2005 12:34

• Candidates denied registration for political reasons

  "About 1,000 Azerbaijani citizens will not be able to exercise their electoral right," says human rights defender Leila Yunus.

August 09, 2005 11:40

• OSCE condemns government pressure

  The OSCE Baku Office makes a statement condemning attacks on People's Front of Azerbaijan.

August 09, 2005 11:37

• Another local resident abducted in Chechnya

  A group of unidentified armed people abduct Suleiman Kurbanov, 40.

August 09, 2005 11:28

• Police station under attack

  One person is wounded and one is abducted in the republic.

August 08, 2005 18:40

• Attack on military men

  A military vehicle is blown up in Chechnya.

August 08, 2005 18:23

• Two newspapers unwanted

  A printing house in Ingushetia declines to continue to service two newspapers from Chechnya.

August 08, 2005 11:42

• Adygeia hit with oil spill

  About 100 tonnes of oil spilt in the republic's Takhtamukai district.

August 05, 2005 21:07

• Kulayev thought to have 'mission'

  The Beslan investigation commission head says Kulayev survived because he had been given a task.

August 05, 2005 20:55

• Opposition pressurised in Azerbaijan

  About 25 people attack an office of the People's Front of Azerbaijan.

August 04, 2005 14:27

• Chief Beslan gunman described

  The Beslan attack case continues to be heard in N Ossetia.

August 03, 2005 14:49

• Bomb wounds two in Dagestan

  Another explosion occurs in Makhachkala.

August 03, 2005 14:46

• 'The difference is I am Chechen'

  In a letter to his mother, a Chechen convicted of being involved in the resistance movement says his sentence is unjust.

August 03, 2005 14:40

• Counter-terrorists beat police

  One police officer sustains a gunshot wound as a result.

August 02, 2005 13:25

• Beslan tragedy triggers trumped-up cases

  Human rights defenders in Russia know about 23 Muslims detained under trumped-up charges.

August 02, 2005 13:23

• New bodies found in Chechnya

  Three more people are killed and one goes missing in the republic.