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23:20, 20 January 2004

Actions of Soviet troops in Baku in 1990 violated human rights

The statement of the Human Rights Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences issued on the eve of the 14th anniversary of the so called Baku Events that "by the military incursion into Baku, the Soviet leadership violated the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights as well as others international documents, including the Convention on the Rights of the Child."

23:17, 20 January 2004

Electricity disconnections in Bart camp

The camp is reportedly supplied with electric power several times a day. All the rest time people spend without electric light.

20:04, 20 January 2004

Problem of supplying electric power to Maysky refugee camp to be settled soon

Camp inhabitants have encountered serious difficulties since 2000 because electricity supply has been constantly cut off in Maysky.

18:54, 20 January 2004

Game "Caucasian Youth Movement Under Conditions of Unresolved Conflicts" to take place in Abkhazia

The number of players will be 40 people, who will form 5 groups. The players will come from Georgia, South Osetia, Abkhazia, North Osetia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, and Chechnya.

18:29, 20 January 2004

Iran concerned with peaceful resolution of Karabakh conflict

Ilkham Aliyev expressed thanks to the Government of Iran for the support it provides on the international level to Azerbaijan's stance on the Karabakh issue.

17:25, 20 January 2004

Azerbaijan opposition plan meetings of protest

"Discharge people arrested during October 15 and 16 events!" - activists of the Musavat Party intend to hold a meeting under such a slogan in front of the Azerbaijan Prosecutor General's Office. They are going to protest against the court decisions to extend detention terms for oppositionists charged with the organization of mass riots on October 15 and 16.

16:57, 20 January 2004

Committee defending arrested oppositionists' rights to send report to PACE on people subjected to torture in investigatory wards

The chairman of the committee, Vagif Gadjibeyli, says that lawyers and human rights defenders have gathered by joint efforts detailed materials about 40 prisoners, 35 of whom are kept in the Bailovskaya prison today.

16:42, 20 January 2004

Press conference devoted to political prisoners at Baku Press Club

The government must declare amnesty for people arrested in connection with the events of October 2003, stated poet Ramiz Rovshan, who is chair of the Committee to Struggle Against Repressions and Election Fraud.

15:46, 20 January 2004

US State Department disappointed that Armenian delegation was absent from conference in Baku

The Azerbaijan authorities impeded the arrival of the Armenian military in Baku last week.

14:56, 20 January 2004

Chechnya's first training and production center for disabled women opens in Achkhoy-Martan

It is a joint project sponsored by the Handicap International organization and the Chechen Labor Ministry.

13:50, 20 January 2004

Oliver Dupuis criticizes term "Chechen network"

Olivier Dupuis, Member of the European Parliament, Radical, asks the Commission: "What does the Commission think of the use of the term "Chechen network" by magistrates from EU member countries - and in particular by the French magistrate Bruguiere - to define a criminal affair in which the only involvement of Chechens seems to be the fact that the EU citizens - and not Chechens - under accusation have referred to Chechens as the possible beneficiaries of financial aid, or Chechnya as a place where they could carry out their plan for a holy war?"

23:36, 19 January 2004

Action of protest against Aslan Abashidze in Gonio village

Over 300 people participated in a meeting in the village of Gonio, not far from Batumi. They demanded that Adjarian leader Aslan Abashidze resign and accused him of establishing a totalitarian regime on the territory of the autonomy.

23:07, 19 January 2004

Representatives of Georgian and Abkhazian sides meet in Gali district of Abkhazia

The main issue on the agenda is a criminogenic situation in the Gali district of Abkhazia, which has worsened recently.

22:22, 19 January 2004

Two people killed during "purge" in Katayama village

On January 17, two locals were killed in the village of Katayama, which is in the Staropromislovsky district of Grozny.

18:20, 19 January 2004

Refugees are ready to go back to Chechnya if they are given security guarantees

A delegation from Chechnya, headed by acting chairman of the Chechen Government Eli Isayev, visited the tent camps of Chechen refugees "Satsita" and "Sputnik" on January 17.

17:36, 19 January 2004

Night air raid in Achkhoy-Martan district

The Achkhoy-Martan district was massively stricken by the federal attack aviation on the night of January 13-14.

15:53, 19 January 2004

Albert Gazarian: no national strategy of diplomacy in Karabakh

"It is not by accident that the world powers persistently present the conflict as the one between Armenia and Azerbaijan and not between Karabakh and Azerbaijan," says the Karabakh politician.

15:00, 19 January 2004

Turks-Meskhetians insist on fulfillment of Georgia's commitments to Council of Europe

"The Turks-Meskhetians are tired of explaining that they require no compensation, no restitution of the villages and territories taken from them before, they are not inclined to declare autonomy in Samtskhe-Javakheti, they just want to come back and start normal life at home," said Chingiz Neyman-Zade, deputy chair of the Association of Akhaltsikhe (Meskhetian) Turks "Vatan" (Motherland) in Azerbaijan.

14:00, 19 January 2004

Memorial's statement devoted to 15th anniversary of rehabilitation of victims of political repressions

Many thousands of people who were executed or sent to camps as well as millions of people who were dispossessed, deported and disfranchised have not been rehabilitated so far.

13:57, 19 January 2004

Raid on Tangi-Chu village

Russian servicemen rushed into houses, robbed and beat locals all night.

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