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15:53, 30 October 2003

The protest demonstration ensued from the recent abduction of two locals, Dudurkayev brothers, by unknown enforcement agents.

15:10, 30 October 2003

Media Rights Institute condemns arrest of "Yeni Musavat" editor-in-chief

"Rauf Arifoglu is known as one of the most fervent critics of the Azeri government. In light of his position and activities, it is very difficult to interpret his arrest unambiguously. It may be that the main reason for his arrest was to silence another strong critic of the Azeri government," reads the statement of Internews' Media Rights Institute on the arrest of "Yeni Musavat" editor-in-chief Rauf Arifoglu.

16:36, 29 October 2003

Crisis Center of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan on lasting persecution of dissenters

The information and analytical Internet agency "Caucasian Knot" publishes extracts from the letter of Leyla Yunus, director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy.

16:34, 29 October 2003

Vaan Badasian: "Armenia should be a guarantor of Nagorny Karabakh"

The proposal of Armen Rustamian, Chairman of the Armenian National Assembly's Foreign Relations Committee, to change a modus of negotiations for the Karabakh settlement is under discussion in Nagorny Karabakh.

15:18, 29 October 2003

Paruyr Ayrikian is skeptical about introduction of ombudsman institution in Armenia

"At the conjuncture that is in Armenia now, when laws do not work, the institution of the ombudsman can function only if it is supported by independent press; but there is no independent press in Armenia today," said chairman of the Union "National Self-Determination" Paruyr Ayrikian.

15:15, 29 October 2003

About 3,500 people have disappeared in Chechnya since beginning of the second Chechen war

Such data were published yesterday by Kheda Saratova, director of the independent press center in Grozny, and journalist Aleksandr Mnatsakanian.

13:43, 29 October 2003

International Helsinki Federation on problem of Chechnya

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers should pay attention to the human rights situation in the Chechen Republic.

12:49, 29 October 2003

"Yeni Musavat" can address Ilkham Aliyev

Baku's executive power head Gajibala Abutalybov addressed the letter to Musavat party leader Isa Gambar in which he demanded that the party left its headquarters at the address: 3 Prospect Azerbaijan before November 1, 2003.

12:47, 29 October 2003

Opposition party blocked railway line

The participants of the action protested against inaccurate voter lists and claimed these very lists provided a basis for the elections to be falsified.

11:41, 29 October 2003

Russian NGOs "express concern" about federalization of Georgia

The Russian non-government analytical center "Council for National Strategy" has prepared a document concerning future aspects of Georgia's federalization. The Georgian State Security Council considers this document to be another unofficial work, which does not present a stance of the Russian government.

10:59, 29 October 2003

80 participators of mass disorders were set free in Azerbaijan

110 people were set free earlier, after negotiations of human rights activists with the Interior Minister Ramil Usubov and Prosecutor General Zakir Garalov.

10:57, 29 October 2003

Aleksandr Nikitin: "About 2 thousand people are considered to be missing in Chechnya, according to official data"

Deputy prosecutor of the republic Aleksandr Nikitin denied information that Russian security agencies were involved in the abductions.

23:52, 28 October 2003

50 thousand Chechen refugees stay in Ingushetia

Ingush President Murad Zyazikov reported it to Vladimir Putin.

23:51, 28 October 2003

Information about detention of "brigade general Mukhayev" does not represent facts

According to a source closely connected with the entourage of Aslan Maskhadov, there is no and has never been such a general in the Ichkerian Armed Forces.

22:29, 28 October 2003

Amnesty International in Pyatigorsk

Students of the Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University met members of the independent nonpolitical international organization "Amnesty International" last Thursday.

22:27, 28 October 2003

Seminar "Classic University as Center of Social and Cultural Development in Polyethnic Region"

It was arranged by the Stavropol State University jointly with the Russian Ministry of Education and the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation).

21:05, 28 October 2003

Czech, Austrian, and German police cracked down on gang smuggling Chechens into Western Europe

Officials of the Austrian, Czech, and German police announced at a news conference in Prague on October 24 they have jointly cracked down on an international gang smuggling people into Western Europe, mostly immigrants from Chechnya, the Middle East and Central Asia.

20:20, 28 October 2003

Civil society leaders criticize pre-election situation in Ajaria

Yesterday, October 27, Georgian NGO representatives expressed their protest regarding the situation arisen in the Ajarian Autonomous Republic on the eve of the Georgian parliamentary elections scheduled for November 2.

16:16, 28 October 2003

Rauf Arifoglu, opposition Musavat party deputy head, has been arrested

The authorities consider him to be one of the organizers of the disorders in Baku that broke out just after the presidential elections of October 15.

16:14, 28 October 2003

Akhmad Kadyrov is prepared to create agency for cooperation with human rights organizations

He told it upon his return from Geneva, where he had attended the 79th session of the UN Human Rights Committee.

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