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10:50, 9 June 2006

Check of information on torture in secret prisons is under way in Chechnya

Officers of the riot squad combined unit from Khanty-Mansijsk autonomous okrug are suspected of arranging in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a secret prison where detainees were tortured.

12:09, 8 June 2006

Residents of temporary shelters in Chechnya want to move into permanent dwelling only

Recently, a campaign to liquidate temporary shelters (TS) has been under way in Chechnya.

12:06, 8 June 2006

PACE prepares a report on disappearances in South Caucasus

Leo Platvoet, a Dutch MP, rapporteur of the Commission on migration, refugees and population issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has come to Azerbaijan.

12:03, 8 June 2006

"Memorial" insists that an illegal prison existed in Chechnya

"A temporary detention facility of the TDIA was located on this territory, it functioned normally and was not a secret site," yesterday, June 7, Valery Kuznetsov, prosecutor of Chechnya, stated before journalists.

21:42, 7 June 2006

Power authorities held mass checks in the capital of Chechnya

On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.

21:40, 7 June 2006

US State Department: 500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking

500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking. Such information is contained in the report on human trafficking (illegal trade in human beings) prepared by the US State Department.

21:38, 7 June 2006

President of Chechnya is satisfied with SC ruling on "Ulman's case"

Alu Alkhanov, President of Chechnya, has welcomed the ruling of the RF Supreme Court presidium to the effect that the "Ulman's case" will be considered by a panel of three professional judges and not by a jury.

21:34, 7 June 2006

Armenia listed in the second category of countries in trafficking

Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan, is listed among the second category countries where women, children and men become victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced labour.

21:31, 7 June 2006

Authorities fail to move refugees from TS in the Chechen capital

Yesterday, June 6, the Staropromyslovski district administration in the Chechen capital tried to move internally displaced persons (IDP) from the temporary shelter (TS) in Derzhavin Street of Grozny.

21:14, 7 June 2006

Chechen ombudsman refutes information on the secret prison in Grozny

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has refuted information of certain human rights activists on the discovery in the centre of Grozny of a secret prison in which people were tortured and killed.

21:08, 7 June 2006

Nakhushev's sister in Kabardino-Balkaria is indignant with the fact that her brother is in the list of militants

The today's issue of the newspaper "Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda" carries an article titled "Wanted!" with photographs of 24 individuals listed as wanted on the suspicion of taking part in the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, last October.

21:00, 7 June 2006

Urazaev: payment of compensations for lost dwelling delayed in Dagestan

The authorities of Dagestan delay the compensation for the damage inflicted on civilians as a result of secret operations on liquidation of militants.

12:13, 7 June 2006

Dina Vedernikova: Strasburg Court may consider Ulman's complaint

"Quite possibly, the complaint may be recognized as a priority and will be considered by an accelerated procedure," said Dina Vedernikova.

21:55, 6 June 2006

Kabardino-Balkaria MIA prepared a list of wanted in connection with attack on Nalchik

Yesterday, June 5, the Kabardino-Balkaria MIA published the lists of militants wanted in connection with the attack on Nalchik last October.

21:45, 6 June 2006

Authorities try to move refugees out of TS in Chechnya capital

"Go to your villages!" declared Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of Staropromyslovski district administration of the capital of Chechnya, to the residents of the temporary shelter for refugees (TS) located at 289, Derzhavin Street in Grozny.

21:30, 6 June 2006

Seminar for human rights activists from Chechnya and Ingushetia held in Nazran

On June 3-4, 2006, a two-day seminar "Counteracting violations in North Caucasus" was held, which was organized by the regional human rights organization "Chechen Committee of National Salvation" headed by Ruslan Badalov, with the financial support of the European Commission office in the RF.

20:50, 6 June 2006

A secret prison existed in Chechnya

On May 29, 30 and 31, employees of the "Memorial" human rights centre examined and made video and photo records of vacant buildings in the Chechen capital where prior to May 27 the RF MIA Operational Group in October district of Grozny had been dislocated, and previously the Temporary department of internal affairs (TDIA) of the district, reports Dmitri Grushkin, employee of the "Memorial" HRC to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

22:10, 5 June 2006

Students' hunger strike continues in Azerbaijan

The hunger strike of the "Independent Azerbaijan" university (IAU) students in which about 60 persons take part has been lasting for 5 days.

22:06, 5 June 2006

Refugees are moved out of TS in Chechnya

Upon the instruction of Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of Staropromyslovski district administration of the capital of Chechnya, 47 families of forced migrants are to be moved out from the TS at 289, Derzhavin Street located on the territory of the former kindergarten.

22:36, 3 June 2006

Azeri deputies submitted a report on the situation in South Azerbaijan to the NATO PA

Gudrat Gasanguliev, member of the Azeri delegation who has taken part in the spring session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Paris, reports to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that a document on the situation in South Azerbaijan has been submitted to the political committee of the NATO PA.

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