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Situation in Northern Caucasus is key point in Russia's chapter of HRW's global human rights report
The chapter on Russia of the report of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) on human rights situation in the world highlights - along with concerns about the last December's parliamentary elections - a worry about the continuing human rights violations in Northern Caucasus. According to Tatiana Lokshina, the deputy head of the Moscow HRW office, the report point to the fact that little has changed here since early 1990s.
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Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 16-22
Hackers' attacks on websites of Azerbaijan state agencies; resignation of Anatoly Brovko, Governor of Volgograd Region; termination of criminal case against human rights defender Oleg Orlov accused of slandering Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov; first nominations for re-election of President of South Ossetia; start of election campaign for Abkhazian parliament; investigation into deaths of several babies at the Republic's Hospital in Nalchik, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of January 16-22, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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Committee "Civil Assistance" launches project in defence of imprisoned residents of Chechnya and Ingushetia
On Monday, December 26, the Committee "Civil Assistance" presented its new project "Protection of rights of residents of the Chechen Republic and the Republic of Ingushetia, serving their sentences in penitentiary institutions or kept under investigation in SIZOs (pre-trial prisons)".
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Film "A Bitter Taste of Freedom" screened in Moscow is based on unique materials, shot during Anna Politkovskaya's life
On December 8, in Moscow, the conference hall of the office of "Memorial" at No. 5 Karetny Lane made a show of the film by the well-known documentary filmmaker Marina Goldovskaya "A Bitter Taste of Freedom", dedicated to Anna Politkovskaya, the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta". The film contains unique documentary footage shot during several years of the journalist's life.
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Human rights activists demand from Prosecutor General's to close the case "Kadyrov vs. Orlov"
A group of international and Russian human rights organizations called for Prosecutor General's of Russia to exculpate Head of "Memorial" Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov accused of slander on Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov.
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New issue of magazine "Dosh" focuses on human rights violations
On November 1, the regular, namely, the third in this year, issue of the independent Caucasian magazine "Dosh" has been released. It contains materials on human rights violations in the North-Caucasian republics, interviews with famous people, photographs, cultural and historical sketches.
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Oleg Orlov: Kadyrov's advocate protracts consideration of the appeal
Representatives of Ramzan Kadyrov are protracting the process of reviewing the appeal complaint against the acquittal on the case of slander in connection of statements about responsibility of the head of Chechnya for the murder of Natalia Estemirova, said Oleg Orlov, the head of the HRC "Memorial".
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Cherkasov: inspectors dealing with Estemirova's murder check possible complicity of Chechen power agents in the crime
The investigators engaged in the murder of the Chechen rights defender Natalia Estemirova check possible involvement of local power agents in the crime, Alexander Cherkasov, a board member of the Human Rights Society "Memorial", said at the press conference, "North Caucasus: Journalists and Rights Defenders in Danger", which was held on September 14 in the Independent Press Centre in Moscow.
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Rights defenders complain to the ECtHR about poor inquiry of Estemirova's murder
Human rights activists have complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of their colleague, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny Natalia Estemirova.
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GPO believes Natalia Estemirova's murder solved
Within the investigation into the murder of the human rights defender Natalia Estemirova, inspectors check all the versions, including involvement of power agents. They already have a suspect, as stated today by Alexei Vasilkov, Deputy Head of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).
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International Prize "Witnesses of Peace" to be given to Shakman Akbulatov
This year the Prize "Witnesses of Peace", established by the Italian city of Ovada, will be awarded to human rights activist from Chechnya Shakman Akbulatov.
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Human rights activists demand investigation of their colleagues’ murders
The human rights activists who organized a memory action in Grozny timed to the second anniversary of the murder of Zarema Sadullaeva and her husband Alik Jabraiilov declared that they would appeal to the management of Investigative Department of Chechnya demanding investigation of the murders of members of the organization “Save the Generation” and human rights activist Natalia Estemirova.
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The trial on cassational appeal on the case “Kadyrov vs. Orlov” deferred till October, 4
Khamovnichesky court of Moscow deferred hearing on the cassational appeal against the verdict of acquittal to Head of “Memorial” Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov submitted by Andrey Krasnenkov, attorney of Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, till October, 4, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports from the courthouse.
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Bastrykin commissioned the investigation with verification of all the versions of Natalia Estemirova’s murder
Chairman of Committee of Inquiry (CI) of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin ordered to verify all possible versions of the murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, including the ones offered by “Memorial” Human Rights Center, official representative of CI Vladimir Markin reported today.
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Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 11 to 17
International Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in Yerevan saw a record number of applications; two years after the murder of Chechen human rights defender Natalia Estemirova her colleagues present results of their own inquiry; Victor Dvorakovskiy, "Russian Wahhabi" suspected of preparing terrorist attack arrest in the Stavropol region, – look these and other events in the review of the week of July 11-17, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
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