Police Beat Peaceful Protesters in Yerevan March 02, 2008 21:49 Armenian police on March 1 used excessive force and violence to disperse demonstrators protesting peacefully against recent election results, Human Rights Watch said today.
Civilians Die as Police Suppress Demonstrations and Riots March 02, 2008 21:32 The Armenian government should launch a prompt and independent investigation into the use of lethal force by security forces to quell demonstrations and rioting overnight on March 1, 2008, Human Rights Watch said today.
Georgian journalists detained in Abkhazia deny their beating March 01, 2008 13:28 Today, Svetlin Sergeyenkov, an employee of the Sukhumi UN Office for Human Rights, has addressed the Service of the State Security of Abkhazia with a request to have a meeting with detained journalists from Georgia Malkhaz Basilaya and David Tsotsoriya.
Source in MIA of Ingushetia: FSB officers shot peaceful citizens dead March 01, 2008 13:21 On February 28, employees of the FSB could have shot dead two men and a woman who had been kidnapped earlier, having simulated a skirmish and planting the weapons.
Oppositional rally and clashes with police continue in the capital of Armenia March 01, 2008 13:16 As of 11:30 p.m. local time, the rally in the centre of Yerevan continues, despite the state of emergency introduced by President of Armenia, according to official information, because of disorders in the capital.
OSCE condemns violent dispersal of rally in Armenia March 01, 2008 13:13 The Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Ilkka Kanerva has condemned the use of force against peaceful demonstrators in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
Famous journalist beaten in the capital of Dagestan March 01, 2008 13:05 On February 29, in Makhachkala, well-known Dagestan journalist and publicist Zaur Gaziev was beaten by unknown persons.
Meboniya: visit to Georgia of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had formal character February 29, 2008 12:25 Advocate Onise Meboniya asserts that the visit to Georgia of Louise Arbor, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, had an absolutely formal character and brought no essential results.
In Ingushetia, court session on ChCNS' complaint postponed till April 1 February 29, 2008 12:20 On February 28, the court continued the proceeding on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.
Relatives of a detainee during mass disorders in Ingushetia appeal to HRC "Memorial" February 29, 2008 12:10 The relatives of Batyr Moshkhoev, who was arrested on charges of taking part in mass disorders in Nazran on January 26, assert that the young man had nothing to do with the above events and is kept behind the bars without a slightest reason.
Picket against arbitrariness of law enforcement bodies held in the capital of Dagestan February 29, 2008 12:02 Today in Makhachkala, journalists of the "Chernovik" (Blueprint) newspaper held a picket against voluntary actions of the UBOP employees who have launched a series of targeted audits of non-state mass media.
People of Kabardino-Balkaria ask Putin to be more active in cutting short anti-Caucasian propaganda February 29, 2008 11:56 In the context of recent attacks on natives of Kabardino-Balkaria in Moscow, public organizations and political parties of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic sent a letter to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin.
Iranian authorities forbade Azerbaijanis to commemorate victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the mosque "Nur" February 28, 2008 19:55 On February 26, the Iranian authorities stopped the service in memory of the victims of Khodzhaly tragedy in the Teheran mosque "Nur".
Results of the action "I did not vote!" in Ingushetia are still unknown February 28, 2008 19:47 The outcomes of the action "I did not vote!", held in Ingushetia by the initiative group as an act of disagreement with the official results of elections to State Duma on December 2, 2007, have not been delivered to the court.
Public organization of prisoners of war and hostages to be created in Nagorno-Karabakh February 28, 2008 19:42 Today, in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Centre of Civil Initiatives has convoked a roundtable on the problem of social rehabilitation of former prisoners of war and hostages, where it was decided to create their public organization, which could lobby the rights of this social group.
High UN Commissioner notes Georgian progress with human rights February 28, 2008 19:33 Georgia has reached an essential progress in the sphere of defence of human rights, for example, by having ratified the basic human rights conventions, in particular, the Protocol on the struggle against torture.
Explosion in South Ossetia can be related to Russian presidential election February 28, 2008 19:23 The today's explosion in the Dmenisi Unit of the Tskhinval District Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of South Ossetia can be related to the forthcoming election of the president of Russia.
Supreme Court of Dagestan acquits a suspect accused of murdering Imam February 28, 2008 19:15 The Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan has acquitted Sultan Arslangereev, who was accused of murdering Dagir Kachaev, Imam of the mosque, on February 22, 2007, in Makhachkala.
ChCNS: off-schedule audit was initiated by Department of FSB for Ingushetia February 28, 2008 18:56 On February 27, the Nazran District Court, Ingushetia started litigation on the claim of the Regional Public Movement "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" against the Department of the Federal Registration Service for the Republic of Ingushetia.
Advocate Gevorkov: IWPR works in Northern Caucasus under Russian laws February 27, 2008 10:50 The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) works in Northern Caucasus in strict conformity with the Russian legislation, thinks Professor Vladimir Gevorkov, Merited Lawyer of the Russian Federation, President of the Bar of the Stavropol Territory on the Caucasian Mineral Waters and Doctor of Jurisprudence.