News

November 19, 2004 22:58

• Council of Europe rates Azerbaijan opposition leaders as political prisoners

  During its regular meeting in Paris, the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) considered the situation with political prisoners in Azerbaijan, human rights activist Murad Sadaddinov told the Caucasian Knot correspondent.

November 19, 2004 22:00

• Armenian pilots sentenced to 26 years' imprisonment

  Representatives of the Armenian Foreign Ministry will stay in Malibu, Equatorial Guinea awhile, the ministry claimed in its statement issued today.

November 18, 2004 23:31

• Bolat vs. Russia case to be considered by European Court

  Hajji Bayram Bolat arrived at Nalchik from Istanbul and was detained right in the Nalchik airport on August 25, in spite of the fact that he had a Russian residential permit. After three days of arrest, he was expelled back.

November 18, 2004 22:54

• Karabakh leaders win confidence of Armenian diaspora in US

  The Armenian Assembly of America is a lobbying organization, due to the activity of which the United States has become the only country giving direct help to Nagorny Karabakh.

November 18, 2004 22:53

• 'No coup d'etat' on November 12

  Abkhazian parliamentarians believe that the authorities and government "are able to work according to their usual regime" and call upon all citizens of the Republic of Abkhazia "to keep law and order in the state".

November 17, 2004 23:43

• Nakhichevan oppositionists press for cancellation of municipal elections

  The Center for Democratic Development (CDD), uniting organizations of Azerbaijan opposition parties and the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, made an appeal to international organizations to do their best to put off municipal elections in the autonomy and create conditions for the opposition's participation in them.

November 17, 2004 23:13

• Abkhazian Council of Elders declares for second round of elections

  A meeting of the Abkhazian Council of Elders was held in Sukhum, Prime Minter Nodar Khashba and two presidential candidates, Sergey Bagapsh and Raul Khadzhimba, attending it.

November 17, 2004 23:04

• International Working Group to search for Azerbaijan war prisoners

  Deputy of the Azerbaijan parliament Rabiat Aslanova stated recently that 4 thousand Azerbaijanians were held captive in Armenia.

November 16, 2004 23:58

• AGO Monitoring Group visits Armenia, Azerbaijan

  "I highly appreciate the Armenian authorities' readiness to honor the commitments undertaken to the Council of Europe," head of the Committee of Ministers' Monitoring Group (GT-SUIVI.AGO) Roland Wegener said.

November 16, 2004 23:05

• Sheikh Allakhshukyur Pasha-zade to meet with Pope John Paul II

  Bishop Aleksandr of Baku and the Caspian Region and head of the community of Mountain Jews of Azerbaijan Boris Ikhiilov will accompany the head of the Spiritual Administration of Moslems of the Caucasus in his trip.

November 16, 2004 23:04

• Publication of opposition newspaper suspended

  The suspension is caused by financial problems, newspaper editors told the Caucasian Knot correspondent. Azerbaijan printing houses refused to publish the newspaper because of its debts.

November 15, 2004 23:57

• Demilitarization 'is demonstrative by nature', South Osetian authorities hold

  "The Georgian side doesn't take measures to withdraw illegal armed unites, which have no right to stay in the zone of responsibility of the Peacekeeping Forces," announced the United Press Center of South Osetia.

November 15, 2004 23:56

• Public Anti-crisis Council created in Abkhazia

  Today, the newly created council called on the people of Abkhazia to hold their peace and on the heads of election headquarters not to exceed the limits of legality.

November 15, 2004 23:19

• Azerbaijan citizen sues Interior Ministry

  Makhira Muradova demands that the damage to her health done by Azerbaijan policemen should be compensated.

November 12, 2004 23:01

• Council of Europe dissatisfied with process of creating public television

  The Council of Europe finds it necessary that public television and radio should be created on the basis of both Azerbaijan national channels.

November 12, 2004 22:21

• Bagapsh's supporters occupy presidential administration building

  Some two thousand people supporting Sergey Bagapsh went from Freedom Square, where they held an unauthorized meeting, to the government building, broke through the cordon, and entered Prime Minister Nadar Khashba's private office by force.

November 11, 2004 23:59

• Authorities expel seven Adygs from Kabardino-Balkaria

  Commenting on the situation, head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Center Valery Khatazhukov said the Supreme Court let the Kabardino-Balkarian Interior Ministry push itself around. The ministry imitates a struggle against terrorism expelling the repatriates, he holds.

November 11, 2004 23:01

• Azerbaijan human rights activists propose Aland Model

  Helsinki Citizens' Assembly National Committee of Azerbaijan Chairwoman Arzu Abdullayeva stated her organization has prepared a new project, under the name Aland Model, for the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

November 11, 2004 22:41

• Three young men abducted, found dead

  Aslan Usmayev, and Vakhit and Abubakar Abuyevs were captured by rebels from Akhmed Avdorkhanov's group, who assaulted the Alleroy village on the night of May 1.

November 10, 2004 23:54

• Azerbaijan public television 'will depend on authorities'

  The Law on Public Broadcasting was published by the official Azerbaijan press and thus came into force yesterday, November 9.