A hunger strike of life prisoners started in Azerbaijan June 26, 2006 14:34 On June 26, 2006, 109 life prisoners in Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan) started another hunger strike demanding that their sentences should be reviewed.
A committee to defend the rights of arrested opposition journalist has been formed in Azerbaijan June 26, 2006 14:29 A committee to defend the rights of arrested Sakit Zakhidov, an opposition satirist journalist, was formed at today's sitting of the Council of Editors and representatives of journalist and human rights organizations of Azerbaijan.
International day of supporting victims of torture is marked in Georgia June 26, 2006 14:13 Yesterday, on June 25, non-government organizations held a silent action in Sharden Street (a street in Tbilisi, close to the embankment, where the most popular cafes in the Georgian capital are open).
A "round table" in support of victims of torture in Kabardino-Balkaria June 26, 2006 14:09 When opening the "round-table" discussion, Valery Khatazhukov, leader of the Kabardino-Balkaria human rights center, stated that, so far, it had been impossible to discuss torture publicly, since the republic's political regime itself used to be source of numerous unlawful actions.
Caucasian NGO network recommends the Caucasian authorities to deal with the refugees' problems June 26, 2006 14:06 Today, the Caucasus still faces the consequences of numerous conflicts which brought about complicated problems of displacement and migration and a destructive socio-economic situation. Several conflicts are in a deadlock.
International organizations come up in protection of Osman Boliev, human rights activist from Dagestan June 23, 2006 17:24 The "Caucasian Knot" editorial office has received a joint open letter of the International Helsinki Federation on Human Rights, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and the Moscow Helsinki Group in protection of Osman Boliev, a well-known human rights activist from Dagestan, addressed to Rashidkhan A. Magomedov, prosecutor of the Republic of Dagestan.
Residents of Pyatigorsk have managed to suspend construction in Komsomolsk park June 23, 2006 17:20 The protests of Pyatigorsk (Stavropol region) residents on the issue of city construction have resulted in the creation of a city duma commission on monitoring the construction development of the resort city, which is going to exercise its powers until the Pyatigorsk general plan has been approved.
Pickets against torture to be held in Dagestan on June 26 June 23, 2006 17:16 On Monday, June 26, pickets in protest against torture applied by the Dagestan law-enforcement agencies with regard to persons under investigation are to be held in Makhachkala.
Rostov court obliges the military to pay 244,000 to the father of a killed soldier June 23, 2006 17:12 Yesterday, June 22, the Lenin district court of Rostov-on-Don considered the law suit on compensating moral and material damage, filed by the "Mother's Rights" foundation on behalf of the father of Alexander Artiushin, a regular army soldier from Moscow who had been killed in the army.
ChSU student beaten in Chechen capital by law enforcement authorities June 22, 2006 17:34 On June 21, a 20-year-old man was beaten in the Staropromyslovsk district of the Chechen capital by officers of law enforcement agencies.
Human rights activist from Azerbaijan demands that Iranian authorities should not violate the rights of Azerbaijanis June 22, 2006 17:30 Novella Jafaroglu, an Azeri human rights activist, has demanded that the government of Iran should not violate the rights of Azerbaijanis who form the majority of the country's population.
Armenia joins the UN Convention against torture June 22, 2006 17:27 Armenia has joined the UN Convention against Torture, reports today Grisha Grigorian, head of information and public relations section of "Human Rights Activist.
Azerbaijan plans to liquidate all tent camps by end of 2007 June 21, 2006 17:58 On June 20, Refugees' Day was marked in Azerbaijan. This Day was marked for the first time on June 20, 2001 upon a decision of the UN General Assembly.
Two refugees from Chechnya kidnapped in Ingushetia June 21, 2006 17:53 Several days ago a group of officers from unknown law enforcement agencies came to the "Malkhaz" temporary camp for forced migrants in Nazran (Ingushetia) to capture and take to an unknown place Khamzat Temirsultanov, a refugee from Chechnya.
Delegation of scholars from USA, China and Canada visited Ingushetia June 21, 2006 17:49 The participants of the conference "The rights of Moslem minorities and threats of Islam extremism" held yesterday in Vladikavkaz, Northern Ossetia, have made a reconnaissance trip to Ingushetia.
Anzor Maskhadov, the son of ex-president of Ichkeria, applies for political asylum in Germany June 21, 2006 17:46 Anzor Maskhadov, the son of Aslan Maskhadov, the diseased president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has left Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for Germany.
Arrest of notary Sadretdinov acquitted on Khlebnikov's case declared legitimate June 21, 2006 17:44 The Moscow city court recognized as legitimate the issue of a sanction for arresting Fail Sadretdinov, Moscow notary acquitted on the case of murder of Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of the Forbes magazine Russian version.
Interrogation of human rights activist Boliev has been postponed June 21, 2006 17:40 The first interrogation of Osman Boliev, leader of the human rights organization "Romashka," in relation to the new criminal case initiated against him, fixed for today at the internal affairs unit of Khasavyurt (Dagestan) has not taken place.
Students of "Independent Azerbaijan" university form a committee to defend their rights June 21, 2006 17:37 Today, the students of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university, who are on hunger strike, have formed a committee to defend their rights.
Residents of a Chechnya village ask assistance from international organizations in setting free their fellow-villager June 20, 2006 18:17 Residents of Roshni-Chu village in Urus-Martan district, Chechnya, ask international human rights organizations for assistance in setting free their fellow-villager.