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13:00, 30 March 2012

12:00, 30 March 2012

Appeal of the Civil Movement for Democracy "Public Chamber" to the head on the executive power of Baku on intention to hold a nationwide rally on April 8, 2012

11:00, 28 March 2012

Statement of the Council for development of institutions of civil society and human rights with the President of the Russian Federation in connection with a hunger strike of protest against the results of municipal election in Astrakhan

The Council considers it necessary to draw attention of all the branches of government, first of all, Central Election Committee and Prosecutor General’s of the Russian Federation, to flagrant neglect towards legal regulations manifested during municipal election in Astrakhan. Neither moral or legal principles nor reasons of political expedience allow anyone to ignore reports of mass violations of the citizens’ electoral rights which forced the people to resort to such an extreme measure of nonviolent resistance to protect their legal interests as a hunger strike.

14:30, 21 March 2012

Ingushetia. Statement of the "Civil Assistance" Committee: Karabulak trial and glasnost

13:30, 21 March 2012

Statement of the Armenian Civil Initiative "We Are Masters of This City"

On March 14 this year, at about 9:30 p.m., the Police of Armenia made another use of force against a peaceful sit-in protest action in the Mashtots Park in Yerevan. Policemen surrounded our tent, demolished and tore it down by applying violence against one of the participants of the peaceful action who was in the tent, and confiscated the tent and all belongings inside – sleeping bags, blankets, clothes, spectacles, a bag and a jacket of one of the activists. The illegal, cruel punitive actions were undertaken by the police in dark hours and without any warning.

15:00, 9 March 2012

Open letter of Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the human rights organization "Mashr" (Ingushetia)

23:00, 23 February 2012

Proposals and questions of the Regional Public Movement of the Republic of Ingushetia (RPMoRI) "Mekh-Khel" to Evkurov, Yu. B., leader of the Republic of Ingushetia, with the aim to achieve social consensus

23:00, 12 February 2012

Appeal of civil society activists of the Republic of South Ossetia

23:00, 8 February 2012

Appeal to the President of the Russian Federation (accompanied by a list of political prisoners, whose liberation is sought by protesters in Bolotnaya Square, Sakharov Avenue and march on February 4)

23:00, 7 February 2012

Appeal of residents of the village of Khrakh-Uba to President of the Russian federation Dmitry Medvedev and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

23:00, 26 January 2012

Open Appeal to Chairman of the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) Alexander Bastrykin of residents of the Krasnodar Territory

23:00, 25 January 2012

Open letter of residents of Novosasitli village Khasavyurt District of Dagestan

23:00, 6 December 2011

Joint Statement by the Heads of Delegation of the Minsk Group Co-Chair Countries and the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan

08:00, 24 November 2011

DECLARATION OF SELF-DETERMINATION AND NATIONHOOD OF THE AUTONOMUS AUTOCHTHONOUS INDIGENOUS CIRCASSIAN PEOPLES: A NATION IN EXILE

Circassian endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples which was adopted by UN General Assembly Resolution 61/295 on 13 September 2007.

23:00, 11 March 2011

Statement on the Closing of the Human Rights House Azerbaijan

On 10 March 2011, the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan ordered the Human Rights House Azerbaijan, partner of the international Human Rights House Network, to cease all activities immediately. According to the Ministry of Justice, in the future the Human Rights House Azerbaijan will be allowed to carry out activities only upon prior agreement with the State. The Human Rights House Network believes this measure is part of the escalated repression of the civil society in the last few weeks, in connection with the calls for pro-democracy demonstrations in March 2011.

17:00, 3 August 2010

Statement by NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer: "Detention of Article 31 Rally Participants Raises Human Right Concerns"

10:00, 30 July 2010

Statement of Lira Kozaeva - Tskhovrebova

Statement of Director of NGO Resource-centre of South Ossetia, Chairperson of Association of Women of South Ossetia for Democracy and Human Rights, Lira Kozaeva - Tskhovrebova

20:00, 19 July 2010

Appeal to the parties to the Geneva talks

Participants of the Georgian-Ossetian Civil Forum appeal to the parties to the Geneva talks.

10:00, 15 July 2010

Parliamentary Human Rights Group (PHRG) Report, Chechnya Fact-Finding Mission

Following the PHRG Mission to Chechnya from 15 to 19 February, this report will set out the findings of the PHRG delegates, Lord Frank Judd, Labour Peer and former Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Special Envoy on Chechnya 1999-2003, and Jo Swinson MP, Liberal Democrat and former Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, on the current human rights situation in Chechnya under the Presidency of Ramzan Kadyrov, as well as their recommendations for action by the international community.

23:50, 7 July 2010

Russian Federation: Mr. Oleg Orlov charged with criminal offence

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), denounces the ongoing judicial harassment against Mr. Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre “Memorial”.

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