Latest Press Releases on Human Rights in Chechnya

Note: The following press releases are a selection coming form very different sources. The webauthor simply "copies and pastes" them and is not responsible for its content and the opinions expressed therein do not necessarily reflect my views and opinions.

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Increased Security Measures in Chechnya
Light Shed On Ingush Militants' Motives
House of Chechen village headman attacked

22 July 2004
Chechen refugees driven out of Ingushetia
Saidullayev removed from the election

Chechen archives destroyed by war
Local leader of pro-Putin party killed in Chechnya by attackers who invaded her home

Lawyer abducted in Chechnya
Village Administrative Leaders Kidnapped
UN says foreign staff still unable to return to Russian republic of Ingushetia

Protest Action in Chechnya
Protest meeting dispersed in Sunzha district
Missing Slovak HR Worker Kidnapped for Ransom

Seven people kidnapped in Chechnya
Chechen officials discuss ways to combat kidnapping
Chechnya Leader Escapes Bombing
12 July 2004 OSCE return to Chechnya senseless

Human rights advocates indicate mass refugee departure from Ingushetia
FSB abducts people
American latest media professional killed in nation
To Committee on Conscience of Holocaust Memorial Museum

'Clean-up' in refugee camp
Chechen Women Prepared for Civil Disobedience
Families meet wall of silence in seeking Ingushetia's missing men
Oil Company Executive, His Son Kidnapped in Chechen Capital

Karabulak experienced punitive raids and robberies
Car Blast Kills 2 in North Ossetia
"Mopping-up" operation in Urus-Martan Region
Russian combat-engineers blown up in Johar

Zyazikov Frets Over Ingush Abductions
Situation in Chechnya worsens
Rebel raid the last straw for Chechen refugees in Ingushetia


Protest rally in Shali
Up to 13,000 Killed in Chechen War — Soldiers' Mothers
Search for missing Agence France Presse correspondent continues in North Caucasus
Compensation program broken in Chechnya
Chechen refugees leaving Ingushetia
Five people detained in special operations in Sunzha district

Authorities refuse to return dead fighters for burial
Nazran police extract confessions from prisoners
Eighty-two Chechen residents disappear this year

Military Admit Killing Chechen Family
Several Ingush teyps announced a blood vengeance on Dokka Umarov
Over 80 Civilians Missing in Chechnya in 2004
Abducted Dagestanis forced to confess terrorist acts


Ten refugees still kept in custody
In Shali, Protest Against Military Impunity
Court Acquits Officers Charged With Murdering Chechen Civilians
A Qatari court convicted two Russian intelligence officers
Moscow Court Turns Down U.S. Citizen's Dubrovka Claim
Russian rights campaigners to monitor Chechen elections

29 June 2004
Chechen refugees return home
Mass arrests in Chechen refugee camps
1 Killed, 3 Wounded as Blast Hits Cafe in Chechen Capital

IDPs, locals guard refugee camp in Ingush village
IDPs flee to Chechnya
All abductions in Chechnya under investigation
Human rights activists critical of security operations in Ingushetia

Purges in refugee camps
Arrests of Chechen Refugees Continue
Supply of electricity, gas to refugee centers cut off
Refugees from Russia's Chechnya Flee Police Raids


Chechen Refugee Camps Raided
Locals threaten Chechen refugees with pogroms in Ingushetia
Ingushetia Denies Reports of Refugee Camp Abuses
In Ingushetia, Russian troops search door-to-door for rebels
Former Chechen Vice PM Murdered in Moscow
Council of Europe commissioner denounces Ingushetia attack




Defenders of human rights merge with activists
Refugees undergo purges in Ingushetia
Russian Repression Triggers Backlash In Ingushetia
Women's meeting in Chechnya suspended
Meeting broken up in Grozny and “Kadyrovtsy” cause chaos
Russian senator says Amnesty International report biased
International Helsinki Federation concerned about attacks in Ingushetia
Chechen official dismisses human rights advocates' concerns
Chechen leadership does not want OSCE mission
Unknown people wearing masks with dogs carried out zachistki in the camps of refugees in Ingushetia
Ingush Refugee Camps Raided, Refugees Beaten


AI: Russian Federation/Chechen Republic: The "normalization" of a human rights crisis
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Russian Federation: The case of Kheda Kungaeva
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Russian Federation: Coordinated attacks in Ingushetia – life far from normal
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Russian Federation: Brutal killing of human rights defender Nikolai Girenko

Human rights activists establish Chechen Civil Society Forum (2nd version)

UN official hopes for successful cooperation on Chechen refugees
PACE office declines the idea of urgent debates on situation in Chechnya


Freed hostages are taken away by the local FSB
Russian Soldiers' Mothers Ask U.S. Congress for Help
Human rights groups file proposals for Chechnya to Administration
Chechen refugees fight for survival
European Court to hear six complaints from Chechnya



Human Rights Center Memorial to receive Nansen Refugee Award
Civilian population suffer from hostilities in Chechnya
Dutch Will Sue MSF for Ransom
Iingushetia: last camp closed, but many refugees reamain
Ramzan Kadyrov embraces collective punishment
"Death squads" active following Kadyrov's assassination
Compensation fro Stalin's deportation
Two abducted [persons] were taken from a GRU's unit and placed in the Sunzha ROVD


Embassy has no info on Slovak woman missing near Chechnya
Moscow regrets that Oslo did not oppose to Chechen terrorists' accomplice arrival
Human rights activists establish Chechen Civil Society Forum
Israeli Ambassador concerned over recent instances of xenophobia in Russia
Strasbourg Court to Hear Chechen Complaints



Samara's Chechens, Ingush demand equal rights
Aid Worker Believed Missing in Ingushetia
Four detained in Ingushetia for protesting Duma election fraud
Criticizing system of paying off compensations is deadly dangerous in Chechnya
Murder attempt on Chechen policemen might be revenge
Medecins Sans Frontieres Says Russia Responsible for Erkel
Netherlands threatens suit against aid group

740 died in landmine explosions in Chechnya for 9 years
Top Chechen police officer killed in car-bomb blast



NGOs Say Rights Situation Worsening in Russia
Young Slovak reported missing in Northern Caucasus
Last refugees leave Satsita camp
Chechnya: kidnappings continue
Cleaning-up operations in Chechnya
Russian artillery strikes village outskirts
Chechen-Ingush Diaspora in Samara protests against mass detentions
Chechens suspected in the Samara explosion
11 June 2004 Slovak woman aid worker missing near Chechnya


Family shot dead in Chechnya's Shelkovsky district
Extremism, xenophobia on the rise in Russia
Officially closed refugee camp still functions
Grozny Returnees Remain Penniless
Killings on the Increase
Slovak aid worker goes missing in Chechnya


PACE: No Way to Check Aug. 29 Poll
Georgian authorities unwilling to investigate terrorist act
Russian Officials Meet Chechen Refugees in Georgia
Noncombat military deaths up in first monthes of 2004
For Independence of Chechnya
Artillery, aviation bomb vicinity of mountain Chechen village



Chechen refugees under relentless pressure
Zachistka in the [Ingushetian] village of Sagopshi
Last refugee camp in Ingushetia closed
Russian Delegation to Discuss Chechens’ Repatriation
Georgia Pushes ‘New_Approach’ over Russian Military Bases
Court declares authorities' actions against rights activists illegal
Chechnya human rights situation 'dismal'
Dispersal of women's meeting in Grozny - details


Explosions, attacks and abductions still ongoing in Chechnya
Protest rally forcibly broken up in Grozny
Russian TV channel sacks anchor
NGOs Counter Putin's "Campaign Against Democracy"
Deaths on highway
Visit of PACE delegation to Chechnya


Ingushetia Closes Last Refugee Camp

Helsinki Commission Leaders Urge President Bush to Raise Russian Rights Concerns; Putin Visit Opportunity to Press for Progress
Lawyer Khamzaev accuses the General Procuracy of the Russian Federation of hiding especially grave crimes
Maskhadov's Emissary Poisoned in Georgia
Zyazikov: No Wave of Kidnappings
PACE rapporteurs to fly to N. Caucasus

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