Azerbaijanis in Iran prepare mass actions May 24, 2006 14:32 A meeting in Tabriz is going to be held on May 28, Independence Day of Azerbaijan, as a continuation of the actions of protest of Azerbaijanis residing in Iran.
Georgian NGO action against arbitrariness of police dispersed in Tbilisi May 24, 2006 14:29 Tonight the Georgian police has dispersed scores of representatives of non-government organizations and political parties holding an action of protest on the Rustaveli avenue in front of the Georgian parliament.
Prosecutor's office of Dagestan appealed against the Khasavyurt court judgment on unlawfulness of arrest of Boliev, human rights activist May 23, 2006 14:19 The prosecutor's office of Khasavyurt has appealed in the Supreme Court of Dagestan the ruling of the Khasavyurt town court of May 17 of this year on invalidating the November 16, 2005 award of the magistrate of section No 35 on the arrest of Osman Boliev, the local human rights activist, for two days for defying the orders of militia officers.
"Amnesty International": hostility towards foreigners, Chechens and human rights activists grows in Russia May 23, 2006 14:16 The "Amnesty International" human rights organization in its new report expresses concern with the growth of xenophobia in Russia and violations of human rights in the Chechen conflict.
Women picket the Government building in the capital of Chechnya May 23, 2006 14:12 Today, a group of women are picketing the entrance to the territory of the Chechen Government building in Grozny.
SFD ombudsmen to gather in Volgograd May 23, 2006 14:10 Ombudsmen from nine subject provinces of SFD will discuss problems connected with observance of human rights in the course of the international scientific and practical conference "Public relations and human rights in the south of Russia: History, modern times, perspectives" which is to be held in Volgograd.
Alexander Cherkasov: "Disproportionate and unselective use of force takes place in North Caucasus" May 22, 2006 14:06 This morning, rubbles have started to be removed on the place of the operation in Khasavyurt on the liquidation of militants.
Memory Day of Adygeis perished during the Russian-Caucasian war marked in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria May 22, 2006 14:03 Two meetings were held on May 21 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in front of the memorial to the victims of the Russian-Caucasian war.
The term of arrest of Stomakhin, author of the "Caucasus-centre" Chechen separatists' site, extended May 22, 2006 13:52 According to Frumkin, Stomakhin is still held in the prison hospital of the Moscow pre-trial prison "Matrosskaya Tishina."
Armenia signs Protocol 13 to the Convention on Human Rights on abolishing the death penalty May 20, 2006 13:47 Vardan Oskanian, head of the Armenian MFA, has signed the 13th Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights abolishing the death penalty under any circumstances.
International organizations condemn the attack on journalist in Azerbaijan May 20, 2006 13:39 The OSCE Baky office has resolutely condemned the "brutal attack" on Bakhaddin Khaziev, the chief editor of the opposition newspaper "Bizim Yol" ("Our way") and deputy chairman of the Party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA).
Residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan are against harassment of believers May 20, 2006 13:33 Yesterday, on May 19, a group of residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan held an action of protest in front of the mosque "Teze Pir" in which the Directorate of Caucasian Moslems (DCM) is located.
General prosecutor's office of Azerbaijan failed to prove links of Zbigniew Brzezinski with organization "Eni Fikir" May 16, 2006 00:39 Connections of the well-known American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski with the members of the youth organization "Eni Fikir" ("New Thought") active in Azerbaijan have not been proved.
Human rights activists ask Merkel to ban the governor of the Krasnodar Territory to enter Germany May 16, 2006 00:27 At the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group that was marked in Moscow on May, Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the NGO "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee," offered the participants of the jubilee conference to address the FGR Chancellor Ms. Merkel not to grant an entry visa to Germany for the period of three years to Alexander Tkachov, governor of the Krasnodar Territory.
Chechen prosecutor's office initiated a torture case on materials of human rights activists May 16, 2006 00:19 The human rights organization "Committee Against Tortures" (CAT) reported that the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic initiated a case of application of tortures against Mikhail Vladovskiy, a citizen of Chechnya who suffered from illegal actions of the workers of law enforcement bodies.
In Ingushetia, they continue kidnapping refugees from Chechnya May 15, 2006 22:52 On May 12, 2006, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.
Patients refuse to take social services in the Volgograd Region May 15, 2006 22:50 In the Volgograd Region, thousands of heavy chronic patients in need of permanent use of expensive drugs applied for refusal from social services for 2006.
Report of human rights activists about shooting of the meeting in Dagestan published May 15, 2006 22:47 The public commission for investigating the meeting dispersal in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25 this year arrived to the conclusion that human rights were severely breached in the Republic.
Commandant of refugees' camp kidnapped in Ingushetia May 15, 2006 22:45 On Friday, May 12, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.
Human rights activists ask Council of Europe to investigate messages on secret prisons in Chechnya May 15, 2006 22:41 The International Helsinki Federation for human rights called the Council of Europe to hold an investigation into the messages about secret prisons in Chechnya.