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January 19, 2005 23:15

• IHF, FIDH indignant at kidnappings of Maskhadov's relatives

  Today, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have addressed an open letter to President Putin on the kidnappings of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives by Chechen enforcement agencies.

January 18, 2005 23:59

• Chechen student's sentence to be appealed

  Vladimir Suvorov and Zezag Usmanova, the defense of Zara Murtazaliyeva - a resident of Chechnya convicted by the Moscow City Court on January 17, are extremely dissatisfied with the court decision. The court sentenced the 22-year-old student from Chechnya to 9 years' imprisonment.

January 18, 2005 23:57

• Journalist sees political motives behind his beating

  Director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies Alan Parastayev supposes that political motives are behind his beating by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry on December 30, 2004.

January 17, 2005 23:56

• Azerbaijan authorities consider HRW report biased

  In the latest report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) lays strictures on actions of the Azerbaijan authorities and mentions numerous violations of human rights.

January 17, 2005 23:54

• NGO raided, no comments given

  The special operation in the office of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs, which is situated in Nazran, Ingushetia, was conducted on January 12. A group of military men in masks armed with automatic rifles and light machine-guns rushed into the flat in the center of Nazran the organization rented as an office.

January 17, 2005 23:21

• Two special operations in Dagestan

  Private houses, which rebels from the Dzhennet group were supposed to be in, were stormed in two Dagestani towns, Makhachkala and Kaspiysk.

January 14, 2005 23:45

• Azerbaijan pilgrims to turn to European Court

  A group of believers is staging a rally in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy to Azerbaijan demanding that visas should be granted to them to participate in the Hajj. The diplomatic mission of Saudi Arabia has delivered an official note of protest to the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry.

January 14, 2005 23:40

• Shariat organization succeeds to Dzhennet rebel group

  Rebels under the command of Rasul Makasharipov have been killing policemen, judges and prosecutors in Dagestan since 2002. The number of their victims has already reached 30 people.

January 14, 2005 23:12

• ICRC employee disappears in Chechnya

  Chechen law enforcers are checking information about the happening and searching for the people who went away in a car together with Said Husein Deniyev, said an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry.

January 13, 2005 23:55

• Purge in NGO office

  Head of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs Taisa Isayeva thinks that yesterday's incident showed the lack of professionalism of Ingush special services.

January 13, 2005 23:46

• Azerbaijan opposition may unite

  "It's time for all democratic forces to unite and put an end to authoritarianism in Azerbaijan," said chair of the Azerbaijan Popular Front Party Ali Kerimli.

January 13, 2005 23:37

• Bagapsh wins presidential election

  68,225 people, or 90.1%, voted for Sergey Bagapsh, and 3,467 people, or 4.5%, did for Yakub Lakoba.

January 12, 2005 23:57

• Georgian police units move to villages bordering on Abkhazia

  They will assure the safety of people in the villages of Ganmukhuri and Khurcha in Georgia's Zugdidi district, announced Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania.

January 12, 2005 23:32

• Deaths from torture registered in police departments

  In his interview with the Caucasian Knot correspondent, chairman of the Azerbaijan Committee Against Torture Elchin Bekhbudov said that 7 deaths from torture were registered in Azerbaijan in 2004.

January 12, 2005 23:20

• Armenian, Azerbaijan foreign ministers meet in Prague

  Spokesman for the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry Metin Mirza told the Caucasian Knot correspondent that there were no changes in positions of the sides but there was some approach.

January 11, 2005 23:52

• Yeni Musavat published again

  The publication of one of the main newspapers of the Azerbaijan opposition, Yeni Musavat, was resumed on January 10. It happened due to "the latest financial means", announced editors of the newspaper.

January 11, 2005 23:48

• European Court considers Viktoria Sypchenko's claim

  The European Court of Human Rights is considering a claim of Viktoria Sypchenko, a resident of the town of Bataysk, Rostov Region. Earlier, she was put on probation for three years under the article "Fraud". Viktoria was pregnant, nevertheless she was under arrest in the course of investigation.

January 11, 2005 23:03

• Abkhazian parties, NGOs declare against presidential election

  "The time given for the preparation and holding of the election sufficed only for continuation of the chosen tactics ? to come to power by all means, but not for the holding of the fair election of the head of state," leaders of some Abkhazian parties and non-governmental organizations announced in a joint statement.

January 10, 2005 21:52

• Destiny of Maskhadov's relatives remains unknown

  The Chechen Interior Ministry asserts that there was no abduction of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives. The republican law enforcement agencies know nothing about it anyhow.

January 10, 2005 21:49

• Beaten journalist checked up in Georgia

  The state of Alan Parastayev, director of the Center for Humanitarian Initiatives and Studies beaten by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry, has improved.