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23:41, 13 April 2004

Svetlana Gannushkina: "The closure of the Danish Refugee Council is a real disgrace"

"What explanation can be provided for it except the aspiration to remove from Russia all those who, occupied with humanitarian activity, cannot but see the violations of international standards that accompany the return of IDPs to Chechnya?" reads the statement by Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of the Presidential Human Rights Commission.

23:39, 13 April 2004

Police disperse opposition meeting in Yerevan

Meeting participants put up desperate resistance, but it was crushed, mainly due to the water jets. Then policemen started to beat people, including women and aged people, and to displace them from the avenue.

21:26, 13 April 2004

11 Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya in one day

A source at the republican administration reported it.

20:50, 13 April 2004

Chechen TV cameraman released

The criminals drove him to the region of the Chechen-Aul village, which is several tens of kilometers far from Grozny, and threw him out of the car without stopping.

20:15, 13 April 2004

Search at Boris Stomakhin's apartment

On 12 April, agents for the Moscow's public prosecutor seized a computer, books, newspapers and other documents during a search of the apartment of the editor of the Radikalnaya Gazeta newspaper. The public prosecutor is investigating Stomakhin for "incitement of national, racial or religious hatred."

19:53, 13 April 2004

Criminal proceedings in connection with violent actions against media representatives instituted

Criminal proceedings have been instituted by the article on hooliganism of the Armenian Criminal Code in connection with the violent actions against media representatives during the opposition meeting in Yerevan on April 5.

19:17, 13 April 2004

Chechen Prosecutor's Office denies information about attack on column in Shali district

Meanwhile, the rebel website Kavkaz Center confirms the information about the attack.

19:01, 13 April 2004

Duba-Yurt residents abducted, held at Russian base in Khankala, then found dead

Unidentified soldiers of federal forces, moving in several armored personnel carriers and UAZ cars without number plates, detained and took away in an unknown direction 8 civilians (men between the ages of 30 and 40) in the village of Duba-Yurt on March 27. It was established in the course of a check that the above-mentioned people were held at the military base in Khankala.

18:09, 13 April 2004

Novaya Gazeta: 72 rebels were destroyed out of court after giving themselves up in Komsomolskoye in 2000

Earlier they were considered to be missing. As the Novaya Gazeta newspaper reports, this fact has become known due to a video record made by an officer of the Ministry of Justice.

18:07, 13 April 2004

Georgian president ready to buy arms from residents of Adjaria

"If Aslan Abashidze cannot disarm these people, I am ready to open stations and buy arms from the population," Mikhail Saakashvili said to journalists.

18:04, 13 April 2004

Shamil Basayev sentences Ingush president to death

The letter signed by Basayev reads: "We warn everybody not to come near to Zyazikov, to beware of his presence since we will use any chance to attack him, no matter who will be near."

21:22, 12 April 2004

Over 200 refugees left Satsita camp in April

212 people left the Satsita tent camp, which is in Ingushetia's Sunzha district, for places of their permanent residence on the territory of Chechnya from 5 to 11 April 2004.

20:01, 12 April 2004

Five Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya's Shali district

A column of Russian soldiers was attacked in the Shali district of Chechnya in the morning of April 12.

19:56, 12 April 2004

Armed clash in vicinity of Avtury village in Chechnya

On the night of April 9-10, an armed clash between a rebel group and officers of Akhmad Kadyrov's security service took place on the outskirts of the Avtury village, Chechnya's Shali district.

19:54, 12 April 2004

Deputy head of republican veterinary station abducted in Grozny

Doctor Vakhab Vatsayev, deputy head of the republican veterinary station, was abducted by unknown criminals in Grozny on April 10.

18:03, 12 April 2004

Second festival of documentary films about Chechnya to be held in Estonia

The round table discussion "Intercontinental and Ethnic Conflicts in the Context of Globalization" will follow the demonstration. Representatives of Estonian Moslems, the Chechen Diaspora in Estonia, and the clergy are expected to be its participants.

17:19, 12 April 2004

Terrorist act against leaders of breakaway republic averted in Abkhazia

The name of the detained man is not disclosed in the interests of investigation. He is being held in the investigatory isolation ward of the Abkhazian State Security Service.

16:22, 12 April 2004

Armenian opposition reports on abductions of its activists by police

"All the efforts we have made to learn anything about the destiny of meeting participants being held by the police have been unsuccessful," reads the statement by the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic).

16:05, 12 April 2004

Revival Party postpones peace march to Tbilisi

"In case of an inadequate reaction from Tbilisi, the peace march may have any ending," Tsotne Bakuriya, a member of the Revival Party, emphasized. "We don't want to have common people suffer from that," he added.

15:40, 12 April 2004

Krasnodar Club of Civil Education arranges round table in Krimsk

It was devoted to the violations of human rights in the Krimsk district.

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