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January 27, 2004 22:16

• Regional branch leader of Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship fears of his abduction

  Since the moment of the Society's creation in April 2000, Imran Ezhiev has been arbitrary detained and held in custody by Russian security agencies many times.

January 27, 2004 17:48

• Statement by Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship on murder of Society's volunteer in Chechnya

  "The Society rates the abduction and murder of Aslan Davletukayev as another act of state terror against people of the Chechen Republic and as another episode in the chain of physical extermination of political and ideological opponents by the regime," reads the statement made by the organization on the occasion of the murder of Aslan Davletukayev.

January 27, 2004 15:54

• Resident of Chechen village of Gekhi abducted

  Witnesses say the abductors bear relation to security structures and Kadyrov's security service.

January 27, 2004 15:06

• Stanislav Ilyasov: "Refugees from Chechnya who want to stay in Ingushetia will get money for settling from the Russian Government"

  According to Mr Ilyasov, only 5 thousand displaced persons live in three tent camps and "nobody forces them to return to Chechnya."

January 27, 2004 14:38

• Four Georgian policemen killed in Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone

  The exchange of fire stopped only after an armored carrier with Russian peacekeepers had arrived at the clash site.

January 27, 2004 13:59

• European Parliament member continues hunger strike in defense of Chechnya

  We call your attention to the statement by Olivier Dupuis in which he explains the reasons of his hunger strike.

January 27, 2004 12:32

• Colin Powell: fight against terror in Chechnya is Russia's internal affair

  The US Secretary of State also noted the United States hoped that Russia would find a political solution to the problem of terrorism with due account taken for human rights.

January 27, 2004 11:21

• Actions of protest against human rights violations in Chechnya take place in Yekaterinburg

  In January 2004, an initiative group of Yekaterinburg people is carrying out an action of protest against human rights violations during the war in Chechnya.

January 27, 2004 10:57

• 322 illegal migrants expelled from Astrakhan Region

  In the course of the Migrant operation, administrative proceedings were instituted against 13 thousand people - 6 thousand of them are foreign citizens - for violations of the passport and visa regulations.

January 26, 2004 18:16

• Vladikavkaz: human rights activists meet UN official

  In Vladikavkaz, the chairwoman of the Council of Non-Government Organizations, Zuleykhan Bagalova, and members of the Public Council for Refugees had a meeting with a representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the North Caucasus, William Tall.

January 26, 2004 18:10

• Constituent meeting of Committee to Protect Rights of Rauf Arifoglu

  A constituent meeting of the Committee to Protect Rights of Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat arrested on October 27 in connection with the October 15 and 16 events, was held at the International Press Club on January 22.

January 26, 2004 17:54

• Four policemen detained in Chechnya on suspicion of kidnapping

  "They were detained in the course of investigation of the abduction and robbery of two inhabitants of the Kargalinovskaya Cossack village in the Shelkovskaya district," Chechen Interior Ministry officials said.

January 26, 2004 17:23

• International forum on prevention of genocide opens in Stockholm

  Adversaries of the forum lay strictures on the Swedish Government because representatives of the Palestinians, Chechens and Kurds have not been invited to take part in it.

January 26, 2004 16:47

• Military convoy of federal forces hits landmine in Chechnya

  Four servicemen were killed and another four were injured as a result of the explosion.

January 26, 2004 15:37

• Human rights activists criticize Interior Ministry's stance concerning state of Meskhetian Turks

  "The problem of Meskhetian Turks no longer exists in Krasnodar Territory as the Law on Citizenship has been passed," declared Russian Deputy Interior Minister Colonel-General Aleksandr Chekalin.

January 26, 2004 14:31

• Volunteer of Society for Russian-Chechen Friendship killed

  Aslan Davletukayev was illegally detained by officers of security agencies on January 10 in the village of Avtury, Chechnya's Shali district.

January 26, 2004 13:05

• Mikhail Saakashvili officially assumes office of Georgian President

  He named the restoration of Georgia's territorial integrity, extermination of poverty and corruption as the priorities in his activity.

January 26, 2004 12:48

• Incident near Gekhi village - details

  Details of the incident near the Chechen village of Gekhi were disclosed at the press center of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasian region on January 23.

January 26, 2004 11:03

• Amnesty International: President Saakashvili should put human rights at heart of his policies

  Amnesty International urges President Saakashvili to demonstrate his commitment to human rights by promoting respect for the rights of all, regardless of their political opinion, religious belief, ethnic background, or gender.

January 24, 2004 17:41

• Saakashvili takes oath on tomb of King David the Builder

  Georgia's elect President Mikhail Saakashvili received blessing of Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and took an oath on the tomb of King David the Builder in the Gelati monastery.