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16:59, 23 October 2003

Movement "For Human Rights" made request to Moscow prosecutor's office to bring criminal actions in connection with operation for liberation of hostages on Dubrovka

According to the head of the movement, Lev Ponomaryov, punishment must be borne by officials, security services' chiefs, as well as high-ranked medical personnel.

15:52, 23 October 2003

Human Rights Watch demands to end repressions in Azerbaijan

On October 22, the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" published a statement in which it roundly denounced the massive arrests of opposition activists and frauds in the course of the presidential elections of October 15.

15:49, 23 October 2003

Disappearance of people is still central problem in Chechnya

Moscow Helsinki Group Chairwoman Lyudmila Alekseyeva holds such an opinion. On October 22, the MHG presented a report on the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic.

14:36, 23 October 2003

Azerbaijan journalist has been concealed by police for seven days

Missing Azer Garachenli was kept in a ward of one of the police stations in Baku's Banagadinsky district.

14:34, 23 October 2003

OSCE Chairman-in-Office met with activists of human rights organizations of Azerbaijan

Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus told a press conference, the activists informed the guest about numerous violations in the course of the election campaign and the voting of October 15 itself.

13:05, 23 October 2003

Georgia deported three Chechen refugees detained in Pankissi Gorge to Russia

Chechen human rights activist Aslambek Abdurzakov has said that the detainees, Vakha Bukeyev, Adam Makalov and Musa Islamov, are Chechen refugees who did not have refugee cards on them.

13:02, 23 October 2003

Demonstration of solidarity with Azerbaijan journalists

Some thirty Georgian journalists demonstrated outside the embassy of Azerbaijan on October 20 in solidarity with Azerbaijan journalists and opposition members.

13:01, 23 October 2003

"Yalta Initiative for Peace in Chechnya" announces new deadline for "Peace Prize" competition applications

Not all those who wanted to send in their applications and nominate themselves for getting the prize had time to do. The new deadline for applications is December 15.

19:19, 22 October 2003

IDEE's observers about presidential elections in Azerbaijan

After familiarizing themselves with the OSCE/ODHIR preliminary report of October 16, 2003, all 188 observers from the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE) are declaring a votum separatum, a dissenting opinion.

19:03, 22 October 2003

Pressure on Azerbaijan human rights defenders raised in post-election time

The Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan urges the foreign diplomats, intergovernmental organizations and foreign human rights defenders to express concern to the government about the new wave of pressure on human rights defenders in Azerbaijan.

14:23, 22 October 2003

Azerbaijan in atmosphere of terror and torture

The appeal of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan and list of people who were severely beaten, arrested and who disappeared in Azerbaijan after the presidential elections of October 15, 2003.

19:57, 21 October 2003

Journalists to be and NGO activists conducted round table discussion in Krasnodar

The round table discussion "Non-Profit Non-Government Organizations as Independent Source of Information" was held at the faculty of journalism of the Kuban State University on October 16. Experts in the field of development of civil society institutions and well-known journalists participated in the discussion.

19:53, 21 October 2003

Azerbaijan: protest actions of opposition are going on

Democratic Party of Azerbaijan Secretary General Sardar Jalaloglu came out at the press conference that was held at the party headquarters on October 18. According to his words, the party will continue its struggle and achieve that the totally falsified results of presidential elections be abolished.

14:28, 21 October 2003

Ilkham Aliyev makes Musavat party leaders responsible for disorders in Baku

"We did not start the disorders, but Musavat leader Isa Gambar and his companions did start them," Aliyev declared in his interview to the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

14:26, 21 October 2003

Germany allots another sum of about one million euro as aid to Chechen refugees

Thus, the total sum that the German Foreign Ministry has allotted in 2003 to help Chechen refugees exceeds 1,800,000 euro.

13:33, 21 October 2003

Murad Petrosian: "Karabakh settlement will be speeded up right after elections in Azerbaijan"

Murad Petrosian, an independent expert and editor of the author newspaper "What To Do" published in Nagorny Karabakh expressed such an opinion in his interview to the Karabakh "Azat Artsakh" newspaper.

11:03, 21 October 2003

Experts from Northern Caucasus took active part in seminar on conflict prevention

An annual seminar of the Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Network (EAWARN) was held in the town of Kumbor (Chernogoria) from October 4 to October 11, 2003.

11:01, 21 October 2003

Over 380 people have disappeared without trace in Chechnya since beginning of year

The republican interior ministry has reported it.

10:59, 21 October 2003

Delegation of International Charitable Foundation named after Dmitry Likhachev visited Makhachkala

Ekaterina Geniyeva told a press conference for Dagestani journalists the Foundation had many prospective plans in Dagestan.

10:57, 21 October 2003

Central Election Commission announced final election results and confirmed Ilkham Aliyev's victory

A source at the Chechen presidential staff told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the inauguration ceremony was planned to be held on October 22.

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