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Rosa Malsagova: Maksharip Aushev was irritator for Ingush authorities
Rosa Malsagova, former editor-in-chief of the website Ingushetia.Org", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that Maksharip Aushev's relations with President Yunus-Bek Evkurov were not cloudless. After execution of Aushev's nephew earlier this April, Maksharip Aushev has repeatedly accused the republic's leadership of inability to stop extrajudicial executions.
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Gannushkina: Kadyrov made Chechen authorities incapable to perceive human rights activists
With advent of Ramzan Kadyrov to power in Chechnya, words of human rights activists, even void of criticism, are rejected. This was stated by Svetlana Gannushkina, chair of the Committee for Civil Assistance, speaking as witness on September 25 at the Tver Court of Moscow at the court session on Ramzan Kadyrov's claim against head of the HRC "Memorial" Oleg Orlov.
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Lokshina: residents of Chechnya fear complaining of arsons of their houses
Since this July, in Chechnya, human rights activists have registered about 30 arsons of houses of relatives of those, who were blamed as militants' helpers. It is more and more difficult to register such arsons as victims are too frightened to complain, as Tatiana Lokshina, deputy head of the Moscow bureau of the Human Rights Watch (HRW), said in her conversation with the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
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Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan checks disappearance of Nariman Mamedyarov
The Prosecutor's Office of the Leninskiy District of Makhachkala is holding a pre-inquiry check of the application filed by relatives of Nariman Mamedyarov, in which they report that on September 10, Mamedyarov, who had been earlier kidnapped by power agents and released from custody under recognizance not to leave after interference of human rights activists, disappeared again.
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Roza Malsagova: militants accuse "Ingushetia.Org" of fighting Mujahidins
Roza Malsagova, chief editor of the site "Ingishetia. Org", who has been living in Paris from 2008, says that she resigns in connection with threats coming from militants to her address.
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Editor-in-Chief of "Chernovik": Aliev detained in Dagestan was tortured
An advocate is still not admitted to Ahmed Aliev, detained on February 21 in the course of a special operation conducted in the capital of Dagestan. Nadira Isaeva, editor-in-chief of the weekly named "Chernovik" (Blueprint), asserts that it is done deliberately, to hide the fact of torturing him.
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Human rights activists speak about torturing Chechens in Russian prisons
At a press conference in Moscow on February 10, human rights activists reported that natives from Chechnya, who had been tortured with the aim to knock out evidences and then sentenced to long imprisonment terms, are still tortured in prisons out of hatred.
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Advocate tries to stop criminal case against Mamedyarov tortured in Dagestan
Bakanai Guseinova, advocate of Nariman Mamedyarov, plans to strain her efforts to completely stop criminal prosecution of her client. Mr Mamedyarov himself will have to undergo surgery on his arm broken by power agents. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Ms Guseinova.
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St-Petersburg residents to invite children from Novye Aldy to excursions
On February 5, 2009, the Scientific-Information Centre "Memorial" in St-Petersburg hosted a meeting in memory of victims of the tragedy in Novye Aldy village - of the "zachistka" (clean-up) conducted on February 10, 2000, by the Petersburg OMON. To correct the opinion of Chechen residents about St-Petersburg, the organizers of the action offered to invite children from the village to their city.
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Mutsolgov: Congress of Ingush People will be democratic
On January 31, Nazran will host the Congress of Ingush People, which will be the first for the last 6 years. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by Magomed Mutsolgov, head of the Human Rights Organization "MAShR" and a delegate of the Congress.
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Khazbiev: Uzhakhovs were not militants
Brothers Ruslan and Murad Uzhakhov, shot dead on January 24 in the centre of Nazran, were not militants and did not open any response fire; this can be evidenced by eyewitnesses. This was reported to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Magomed Khazbiev, head of the Organizing Committee of the Ingush Nationwide Rally, and Maksharip Aushev, a member of the Committee.
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Musayev claims that defendants' complaint was sent to the officer investigating case of Politkovskaya murder
The complaint about torture and beatings of Ibraghim and Dzhabrail Makhmudovs, defendants accused of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, was considered by investigating officer Petros Garibian who was investigating the case itself. Garibian found no facts of violence or humiliation with regard to Makhmudovs.
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Mitrokhin claims difficulty of appealing against the court ruling on the murder of Babaev in Dagestan due to threats to witness
Sergei Mitrokhin, leader of the party " Yabloko", claims that not all persons guilty of murdering Farid Babaev, leader of Dagestan " Yabloko", have been brought to justice. However, it is difficult to appeal against the court ruling because the key witness for the prosecution was threatened in the court room.
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Advocate Musaev presents new proofs in support of innocence of persons suspected of murdering Politkovskaya
The interrogation of the defendants in Anna Politkovskaya's murder case - Ibragim and Dzhabrail Makhmudov - is over. Both brothers refuse to admit their guilt and cannot recollect what they were doing on the murder day. Advocate Murad Musaev tried to prove insufficiency of one of important evidences of the guilt of his clients - the detailed printout of Makhmudovs' telephone conversations on the day of murder. Mr Musaev told about it to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
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ATC's accident in Ingushetia: eyewitness' comment
A driver who happened to be an eyewitness of the collision of an armoured troop-carrier (ATC) with two VAZ passenger cars in Ingushetia told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by telephone that a slippery road and inaccurate ATC's driving were the causes of the accident.
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