News

May 20, 2004 14:29

• Azerbaijan rights activists deliver Chechen refugees' complaints to PACE rapporteur

  Members of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan met with the delegation of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly (PACE).

May 20, 2004 13:33

• Former FSB colonel sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment

  Before the sentence was pronounced, Mr Trepashkin had told journalists he was in the pessimistic mood. Asked whether he considered his case to be a political one, the former FSB colonel said, "Yes, absolutely."

May 20, 2004 12:44

• 11 die in combat in Chechnya - details

  The police believe the servicemen and policemen were lured into a trap thoroughly prepared by rebels.

May 20, 2004 11:44

• Azerbaijan Army positions attacked from Armenian side

  The fire was opened form the Armenian territory from the direction of the village of Vazashen, Armenia's Idzhevansky district.

May 20, 2004 11:27

• Detained residents of Chechnya released

  One of the released men told that the Russian military had abducted him from his house without any explanations three months ago and held him in a basement for all this time.

May 20, 2004 11:00

• MHG, Memorial present book about Chechnya

  A press conference to present the book "Chechnya 2003: Political Process in Zazerkalye" will be held at the Independent Press Center in Moscow on May 20.

May 20, 2004 10:57

• NGO collected new signatures under appeal for interim UN administration in Chechnya

  The signatures were collected mainly in the Achkhoy-Martan, Urus-Martan, and Shali districts of Chechnya, Grozny, and the tent camps Satsita and Rassvet in Ingushetia.

May 19, 2004 19:26

• Another Sernovodsk resident abducted, then found dead

  On May 15, a local herder reportedly found the mutilated body of a man near the village of Shami-Yurt, Chechnya's Achkhoy-Martan district.

May 19, 2004 19:00

• Azerbaijan asks European Commission to observe situation in Nagorny Karabakh

  The Azerbaijan leadership addressed a request to the European Union on May 18 to help settle the conflict situation in Nagorny Karabakh.

May 19, 2004 18:44

• Who stands behind abduction of schoolboys?

  "Abductors demanded that the boys indicate who is a rebel in their village and asked other questions. They beat the teenagers and threatened to kill them. The boys are still in state of shock," a Chechen police officer said.

May 19, 2004 17:44

• Azerbaijan human rights activist inform of new wave of persecution

  We call your attention to a statement by Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Leila Yunus.

May 19, 2004 16:36

• Krasnodar region governor declares against rights activists

  "God, deliver us from such human rights activists, and we will find a way to get rid of offenders," Aleksandr Tkachyov said.

May 19, 2004 14:30

• Azerbaijan rights activist: political prisoners' evidence tortured out, untrustworthy

  Eldar Zeinalov, Director of the Human Rights Center of Azerbaijan, makes a statement urging the nation's leadership to release political prisoners.

May 19, 2004 14:21

• Activist sues Moscow government

  Lev Ponomariov, leader of the Movement for Human Rights, has applied to a court of law questioning the legality of the Moscow government's banning a meeting scheduled for February 23 this year.

May 19, 2004 13:59

• Ulman case: shooting six may be unpunished in Russia

  A news conference devoted to the court verdict in the so-called Ulman case tried to give it a valuation. The verdict left servicemen accused of killing six civilians in Chechnya unpunished.

May 19, 2004 13:44

• PACE rapporteur on Karabakh conflict makes statement

  Terry Davis touched on his closed meeting with the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia and emphasized one more time it was essential that the conflict be resolved in a peaceful way.

May 19, 2004 13:10

• Turncoats from Armenia go on hunger strike in Baku

  Their action is caused by the indifference of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees towards them.

May 19, 2004 13:03

• Round table on fight against corruption arranged in Baku

  Many participants underlined that the ruling regime in Azerbaijan would not fight corruption as it itself is completely corrupted and the new leader of the county has no political will to launch the fight against corruption.

May 19, 2004 12:57

• Only economic growth can stop war in Chechnya, former Maskhadov's envoy says

  The young men simply don't see prospects of peaceful life, it means workplaces for them haven't been created," Salambek Maigov said.

May 19, 2004 12:00

• 13th dialogue workshop on the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict takes place in Berlin

  Participants explored the commitment of the two sides to their stated positions ? that of territorial integrity on the part of Georgia and that of recognition of independence on the part of the Abkhazians ? and whether they can articulate their positions in a way that better incorporates the aspirations of the other party.