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12:27, 25 January 2005

IHF expresses deep concern for safety of abducted human rights lawyer

The International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) expresses its deep concern for the fate and whereabouts of Makhmut Magomadov who was detained by a group of camouflaged gunmen in Grozny on 20 January.

23:54, 24 January 2005

Bust of Stalin to be erected in Dagestani capital

Members of the local branch of the Russian Communist Party along with their supporters unveiled a memorial board with a bas-relief of Stalin on the square in front of the Makhachkala station on January 20.

23:47, 24 January 2005

Political refugee arrested in Azerbaijan

Being already an aged man, Saday Nazarov returned to Azerbaijan on January 11 after he had lived as an emigrant for 10 years in Czechia, where he had refugee status. The professor took on trust the authorities' statements about national reconciliation and resolution of the problem of political prisoners.

23:16, 24 January 2005

Combined Control Commission seeks release of hostages

An extraordinary meeting of the Combined Control Commission for the Resolution of the Georgian-Osetian Conflict is being held in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Osetia. The meeting was arranged because the problem with hostages taken from both sides was to be settled immediately.

23:49, 21 January 2005

IHF expert abducted in Chechnya

In the time of Aslan Maskhadov, Magomed Magomadov headed a group of investigators in the Chechen prosecutor's office engaged in investigations of cases connected with kidnappings.

23:45, 21 January 2005

Beslan residents continue their picket

Beslan residents who suffered in the terror attack have been picketing the Kavkaz federal rout for the second day. "Our children lie in graves, and we'll lie here until Dzasokhov (president of North Osetia - editor's note) goes away," picketers said to a Caucasian Knot correspondent.

23:57, 20 January 2005

Chechen villages become deserted

Russian soldiers purposefully extrude people from mountainous districts of Chechnya.

23:35, 20 January 2005

People in Beslan urge Dzasokhov to resign

People who suffered in the terror attack in Beslan school 1 started a picket at about 10 a.m. on the Rostov-Baku road entering Beslan, North Osetia.

23:06, 20 January 2005

Situation worsens in South Osetia

This morning, South Osetian law enforcers blocked the road Tskhinval-Dzhava going along Georgian villages.

23:59, 19 January 2005

Policemen do not hide implication in assault against journalist

Sarmat Parastayev, a brother of director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies Alan Parastayev taken to the Gudushuari medical center in Tbilisi, Georgia, has reported that Alan was beaten by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry.

23:55, 19 January 2005

Azerbaijan can suffer from US attack against Iran

Some time ago, the Arabian media reported that the United States was going to attack Iran from three directions: from Iraq, Georgia, and Azerbaijan. The Caucasian Knot correspondent has turned to Azerbaijan political scientists for comments on the issue.

23:15, 19 January 2005

IHF, FIDH indignant at kidnappings of Maskhadov's relatives

Today, the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) have addressed an open letter to President Putin on the kidnappings of Aslan Maskhadov's relatives by Chechen enforcement agencies.

23:59, 18 January 2005

Chechen student's sentence to be appealed

Vladimir Suvorov and Zezag Usmanova, the defense of Zara Murtazaliyeva - a resident of Chechnya convicted by the Moscow City Court on January 17, are extremely dissatisfied with the court decision. The court sentenced the 22-year-old student from Chechnya to 9 years' imprisonment.

23:57, 18 January 2005

Journalist sees political motives behind his beating

Director of the Center for Humanitarian Studies Alan Parastayev supposes that political motives are behind his beating by officers of the South Osetian Interior Ministry on December 30, 2004.

23:56, 17 January 2005

Azerbaijan authorities consider HRW report biased

In the latest report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) lays strictures on actions of the Azerbaijan authorities and mentions numerous violations of human rights.

23:54, 17 January 2005

NGO raided, no comments given

The special operation in the office of the Information Center of the Council of NGOs, which is situated in Nazran, Ingushetia, was conducted on January 12. A group of military men in masks armed with automatic rifles and light machine-guns rushed into the flat in the center of Nazran the organization rented as an office.

23:21, 17 January 2005

Two special operations in Dagestan

Private houses, which rebels from the Dzhennet group were supposed to be in, were stormed in two Dagestani towns, Makhachkala and Kaspiysk.

23:45, 14 January 2005

Azerbaijan pilgrims to turn to European Court

A group of believers is staging a rally in front of the Saudi Arabia Embassy to Azerbaijan demanding that visas should be granted to them to participate in the Hajj. The diplomatic mission of Saudi Arabia has delivered an official note of protest to the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry.

23:40, 14 January 2005

Shariat organization succeeds to Dzhennet rebel group

Rebels under the command of Rasul Makasharipov have been killing policemen, judges and prosecutors in Dagestan since 2002. The number of their victims has already reached 30 people.

23:12, 14 January 2005

ICRC employee disappears in Chechnya

Chechen law enforcers are checking information about the happening and searching for the people who went away in a car together with Said Husein Deniyev, said an officer of the Chechen Interior Ministry.

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