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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31 May 2004
Unknown people kill two and kidnap another two in Chechnya
Major refugee group gets back to Chechnya from Ingushetia
Four abducted, one killed in Chechnya

Police open fire in central Grozny, killing three people, witnesses say
Refugees ordered to leave tent camp Satsita



Alarming news about the Chechen refugees in Czechia
Chechen women are targets of kidnapping
2,500 Chechen residents declared abducted, missing
After five years living in Georgia, worried Chechen refugees look to the West for salvation
Dutch want charity to repay ransom for aid worker
Thyroid gland epidemic hits Chechnya
Explosition Hits Russian Train Near Chechnya
Local detained, then released in Urus-Martan

Video documenting Russian atrocities (download)




Dagestan bans sale of Russian translation of the Qur'an
Chechen children increasingly targets of kidnapping
Amnesty Critical on Chechnya -  AI Annual Report 2004, Russian Federation
Russian Foreign Ministry criticizes activities on NGO's in Chechnya
Last Chechen refugee tent camp in Ingushetia to be closed
Putin, Gil-Robles presented with book in Chechen language
Gil Robels notes Russian authorities' openness in his reports on human rights in Russia


Antiwar campaign continues in Ryazan
NGOs Warned They May Be Next
Chechen prosecutor rejects data on abductions.
Over two dozen arrested in special operation in Chernorechye
Rights activists respond to president's statement
Trumped-up case press conference


Many Chechen children live below poverty line
Human rights leader denies political process in Chechnya
Chechnya to improve reporting of murder, abduction statistics
Almost 600 people have been kidnapped last year in Chechnya
Prisoners tortured in Georgia, rights group says

Practice of large-scale purges resumed in Chechnya


Hearing-impaired children still lack boarding school
Rashid Ozdoyev and other kidnapped people are killed - describes FSB's employee.
Chechen woman charged with recruiting suicide bombers
Russian republic hit by wave of abductions
Demonstrations in Chechnya
Chechens clash with Akhmad Kadyrov’s security service

22 May 2004
Chechen residents resist illegal actions of security service officers
UAE Red Crescent Society suggests building orphanage for Chechen kids

Watchdog Calls On EU To Press Russia On Human Rights
Azerbaijan rights activists deliver Chechen refugees' complaints to PACE rapporteur
Migration service denies chemical contamination of refugee center



Activist sues Moscow government
Lawyer Investigating Apartment Bombings Sentenced to 4 Years
FSB Critic Trepashkin Jailed for 4 Years
Russian officer convicted for murder in Chechnya recalls appeal
Ulman case: shooting six may be unpunished in Russia
Captain Ulman: Send the Prosecutors into Battle
Who stands behind abduction of schoolboys?


Intl. aid bodies to stay in Chechnya - security official
Chechen Republic of Ichkeria: Russia and the Council of Europe resume discussing Chechnya
European Commission to spend EUR16.5m on Chechnya
Authorities blackmail refugees in Ingushetia
Situation in Ingushetia looks like prewar developments in Chechnya
Abducted schoolboys released in Chechnya


Chechen Warlord Says He Killed Pro-Moscow Leader
Russia and PACE resume discussing Chechnya
Murderer of a Chechen Girl Appeals for Pardon
Chechen Refugees Ponder Their Next Move
Mutilated bodies of four locals found in Chechnya


Sale of newborns being investigated in Grozny
Chechnya Bomb fragment, not bullet killed journalist Adlan Khasanov, medics say
Chemical storage facilities serve as refugee center
Memorial, Caucasian Knot conduct PR-campaign in Ryazan devoted to problems of Chechen war
Dyshne-Vedeno residents accuse Vostok special operations soldiers of abducting schoolboys
Council of Europe set to monitor Chechen presidential elections

14 May 2004
Attackers abduct Chechen pupils
Residents of Chechen village hold protest rally
Police Commander Shot Dead in Chechnya


13 May 2004
Rights group reports on kidnappings
Kremlin in pressure human rights advocates
Statement by Chechen National Salvation Committee
Lyudmila Alekseyeva: state of servicemen injured in Chechnya 'is tragic'
Svetlana Gannushkina convinced any Chechen can be given refugee status rightfully


ACPC Condemns Qadyrov Assassination
Federal Migration Service seeks pretext to close Satsita camp
Chechen refugees in Georgia go on hunger strike
Search in Independent Psychiatric Association of Russia
Punitive psychiatry knocks on our doors

11 May 2004
Two children in critical condition after Chechnya bombing
Russian journalist says slain Chechen president`s son "extremely cruel"
Chechen spokesman says appointment of late leader`s son good for war on terror

EU condemns Chechnya attack
Statement by President of the ChRI Aslan Maskhadov



Bomb kills Chechen president
Almost the entire puppet top killed at the "Dynamo" stadium. 35 occupiers killed or injured in the Sharoi district

Human rights abuses: Russian military comes under fire
Russian pilots likely to go unpunished
Russian offcers found not guilty for civilian murders
Moscow rights group recognized for work with refugees
8 May 2004 German peace prize goes to women in Turkey, Russia
Amnesty International: family of Chechen health minister Omar Khambiev threatened, tortured
Justice Ministry Says Criminal Groups Financing Russian HR Organizations

25 thousand Russian soldiers have been killed in Chechnya
Chechen intellectuals express stern protest against court decision in 'case of Ulman'
Dagestan Terror Suspects ‘Tortured’
5 May 2004 Mine victims not officially recognized in Chechnya




Some 1,500 refugees remain in Ingushetia's last tent city
Chechen Leaders and HR Activists Condemn Acquittal of Russian Troops
Russian Rights Group Wins U.N. Refugee Award
Former Chechen Minister's whereabouts a mystery
Russian soldiers cleared of Chechen murders
Prosecutor to appeal acquittal of servicemen charged with killing civilians in Chechnya
“Inner Slave” Restricting Press Freedom
Moscow court revokes right to demonstrate
Marsho Newspaper Threatened
Stavropol district court denies registration to youth charitable organization
Russia signals readiness to allow Council of Europe visit to Chechnya



Protestors clamor against Russian soldiers arbitrary behaviour in Starye Atagi
Germany earmarks 475,000 euros for aid to refugees in the North Caucasus but....
Some German states deporting Chechen refugees
Reports question death of Chechen prisoner
New houses for refugees to be built in Ingushetia
Some 1,500 refugees remain in Ingushetia's last tent city
United Nations to continue its activities in Chechnya
Chechnya: Beware of mines!


26 Apr. 2004
3 Chechen Boys Killed in Abandoned Ammo Explosions
Fear of deportation: Chechen refugees informing about their fate
Chechens detained on Ukrainian border
Akhmad Kadyrov's forces set resistance fighter’s house ablaze
Red Cross to continue land mine education in Chechnya
Chechnya’s reservoir threatened with water pollution
Chechen Society newspaper receives warning
Russian Justice Ministry against outlawing Wahhabism
Infanticides

Chechen refugee disappears
Doctors Without Borders alarmed at attacks on its employees in North Caucasus
Lawyer Beaten in Moscow
Pressure on Igushetian President mounts
Svetlana Gannushkina: Kadyrov wants dissension among Chechens, Ingushetians

Parts of human body found at combat site in Ordzhonikidzevskaya
UN Corrects Chechnya Report On Moscow's Insistence
Act of intimidation
Russian Military Charged with Manslaughter in Chechnya
Authorities keep on 'extruding' refugees out of Ingushetia to Chechnya
Family receive compensation, then die
Those suspected of terror are sentenced to destruction
Chechnya accounts for most of abductions
Moscow Court Rejects Dubrovka Claim Filed by Dutch Citizen
Chechnya Blames Russia for Civilian Deaths Ahead of UN Visit
UN delegation visiting Chechnya

Activists Say Chechnya Still Unsafe
About 600 Russian servicemen still missing in Chechnya
Rights groups angry at blocking tactics in UN
Statement by Ahmed Zakayev [on the rejection of the EU resolution in the UN Human Rights Commission]
Chechen Rebels Slam U.N. Refusal to Condemn Russia
Chechen NGO denies functionaries' statements on situation in Satsita refugee camp
UN Commission Rejects Resolution on Chechnya
"Death squads"  heads Ossetin Taymuraz Kaloyev
Silence on Erkel Speaks Volumes
Interior Ministry Says Over 600 Abducted in Chechnya in 2003
Video images suggest Russian atrocities in Chechnya
Svetlana Gannushkina: "The closure of the Danish Refugee Council is a real disgrace"
Danish Refugee Council to continue humanitarian activity in Ingushetia
Details of bombing in Rigakhoy village
Extrajudicial executions in Chechnya
Around 2,000 on police files as kidnapped in Chechnya
Zyazikov attacked by 'Riyadus Salihiin' fighters
Mystery Shrouds Erkel's Release
Sergei Ivanov Ordered Qatar Killing
Nine Civilians Extrajudicially Executed in Chechnya
Woman, 5 Children Killed in Chechnya Air Attack
Kidnapped Dutch aid worker in Dagestan released
Dutch Aid Worker Freed in Dagestan
9 Bodies in Chechnya
Russian invaders take hostages and plunder villages
Some more new details of murder by the occupiers of innocent civilians of the village of Duba-Yurt
Nine bodies of civilians found in Chechnya
Mass poisoning of children in Grozny
A young woman kidnapped in the Grozny region
Anna Neistat expects no UN sanctions against Russia for policy in Chechnya
Russia said the EU was encouraging terrorism by asking the United Nations to condemn human rights abuses in Chechnya
Russia Objects to EU Chechnya Rights Draft

HRW: The Situation in Chechnya and Ingushetia Deteriorates

Tortures in Chechnya - What has happened with 72 amnestied fighters?

Chechen Woman Convicted of Terrorism
No students sent down, university officials say
Assassination attempt on Zyazikov
Chechen Human Rights Defender receives Martin Ennals Award
Satsita tent camp to be dismantled by end of April
Amnesty International: Situation worsens in Ingushetia
20 Ingush students sent down for taking part in rally
Chechen government asks Red Cross for help
Passenger bus fired on in Grozny
Chechen refugee camp closes
Russia: Authorities Close Ingush Camp, But Call Returns To Chechnya Voluntary
Payment of lost-housing compensations in Chechnya not satisfactory
Family Shot in Chechnya’s Urus-Martanov District
Khanbiev speaks at the United Nations Commission forHuman Rights
Attack on antiwar picket in Saint Petersburg
Sputnik refugee camp dismantled in Ingushetia
Mass meeting in Grozny
Chechnya war sees rise of Russian ultranationalism
Crime in a camp for Chechen refugees
Large scale cleansing operation underway in Chechen villages
Seventy-eight Chechen residents have been kidnapped in the republic since the beginning of the year...
One of the "death squads" has been accurately identified - this is OKU FSB RF for the North Caucasus
A brutal murder in «MTF-2» refugee camp
Almost three dozen people killed in Chechnya last week
SNO needs help
Chechens stage protest over abductions
Chechen president protests at Russian media portrayal of his nation
One dead, three wounded as helicopter fires on jeep in Ingushetia
One Ingush teenager killed, two wounded by Russian chopper
Russia categorically opposed to Chechnya debate at UN
Military helicopters attack teenagers in Ingushetia
Four-year boy hit by APC in Grozny
US Urges Russia to Consider «Dire» Situation of Chechen refugees
Forcible liquidation of refugee camps in Ingushetia
Five bodies with signs of torture found in Chechen capital
Budanov Loses Appeal
Arrests reported in Arjan kidnap case
Suspects in Arjan Erkel's abduction have been detained
Students organize rally in front of Ingush government building
A mother has been searching for her son abducted in Grozny for four years
Chechnya villagers block highway to protest abductions
Fate of those kidnapped persons still unknown
MVD attempts to intimidate organizers of the rally
Rally's organizing committee to employees of law-enforcement agencies
US Urges Russia to Consider «Dire» Situation of Chechen refugees
Is Russia acting to halt migration from Chechnya?
Chechnya suffers infromation blockade
Kidnapping are highlited
New infromation about hostage siege
Stalinist Purge Victims’ Names Released
Policeman kidnapped in Chechnya
Lyudmila Alekseyeva: displaced persons return to Chechnya from Ingushetia under pressure
An assault at the house of former refugees in Katayama settlement
Citizen of Ingushetia kidnapped, whereabouts still unknown
Complaint lodged by Movement for Human Rights, lost by Moscow City Court
New victim of arbitrariness in Grozny streets
Russian soldier shoots two hapless residents in Chechen village
Soldiers and civilians alike keep dying in Chechnya
Adjarian leadership to hire mercenaries in Ukraine and Chechnya
New «mop-ups» in Achkhoy-Martan and Sunzha districts
Russian soldiers fired at a group of Chechen women
Chechen refugees expunged from Ingushetia
Appeal: Chechen student in need of scholarship support

Russia-Chechnya-landmine Teenager killed by landmine in Chechnya
People protest relatives “disappearance“ in Ingushetia
Mass action of protest in Ingushetia
Shepherd dies from mine near Chechen village
A woman from Urus-Martan is killed at a checkpoint
50 collaborators disappear in Chechnya
Memorial brings accusations against Kadyrov's gang formations
Ingushetia: Russian invaders kidnap student

Audit Chamber Targets Chechnya
Russia: Police believe abducted relief worker still in Dagestan
Ingush Deputy Interior Minister Kotiyev attempted to disperse rally. Policemen refused to carry out his order.
Kyrgyzstan: Chechens Rail Against Police
Audit chamber reveals major abuses of federal funds allocated for Chechnya's reconstruction
Calls made to Russian security from phone of kidnapped Dutch aid worker
HR activists want to create computerized data base on all those who have disappeared
3,000 Said Missing in Chechnya
Fewer people kidnapped in Chechnya
Kidnappings in Chechnya done by law enforcers

Russia: Police believe abducted relief worker still in Dagestan

Putin landslide raises eyebrows
Russia Shuts Down Red Crescent in Chechnya
Kidnappings continue in Ingushetia
Masked people kidnapped 3 persons in Malgobek
Moscow warns against politically charging UN commission on human rights
Police seize 5-thousand circulation of the «Pravozaschita» newspaper
Pace deputy speaker against UN consideration of Chechen issue
Elena Batenkova: authorities want to ban antiwar picket
Vote for Putin in Chechnya is highest in Russia
Chechnya breaks "all records"
OSCE, PACE Say Russian Election Fell Shy Of Standards
Chechen Officials Fill Out Ballots Themselves
Explosions at two elecoral districts in Chechnya
High voter turnout in Chechen Republic achieved by added ballots
Chechens deported by Stalin still waiting to return to Dagestani homes
In Chechnya people continue to disappear
Memorial: Magomed Khambiyev compelled to surrender by taking hostages
Arab militant vows attacks on Russia
Georgia tackles Chechen conundrum
Georgian special services abducted Chechens who had been acquitted by court

Kadyrovites continue to seize hostages
Anti-War Protesters Arrested in Moscow
Statement of Chechen government on the occasion of Madrid bombings
Chechen displaced persons under pressure to return
Medical students protest another classmate‘s abduction in Grozny
Qatar bombers 'were Russian special forces'
Chechen National Rescue Committee accuses Russian authorities of forcing Chechen refugees out
Refugees from Sputnik flatly refuse returning to Chechnya
Unknown assailants abduct Chechen refugee in Ingushetia
The Case of the Disappearing Chechens Continues to Stir Controversy in Georgia
Raids at Mosques Condemned
Aid agency accuses Russia of complicity in kidnapping
Journalists, rights campaigners under threat from the Kremlin
Inside Hurricane-4
URGENT PRESS RELEASE: Oumar Khanbiev will hold a press conference in Strasbourg.

The relatives of Umar Khanbiev have been arrested by the russian forces and the Kadyrov Militia - more details
Medical student released; others remain under arrest
Three locals shot in Chechnya

CRIMFA: Russians kidnapped 16 relatives of Chechen Minister of health Dr. Oumar Khanbiev.


Raid on Satsita refugee camp
A terrible murder of a resident of Roshni-Tchu village
Chechen Refugees Stay Away From Russia
"Zachistka" - in Daghstani style

Information Center of the Council of Chechen NGOs faces threat of closure
Special operation” imposed on refugee camp Satsita
Grozny: university student abducted
Grozny High School Robbed
"Putin has turned the country into a torture chamber"
Chechens in Georgia are worried
Drunken contract soldier shot down policeman and local resident in Chechnya
Frequency of special operations is increasing in Ingushetia
Caucasus Jewish leader murdered
Another organization claims responsibility for Moscow metro blast
Detained Qatari nationals unaccounted for in Russia
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience

Missing Chechens found in Russian Prison
Human rights official says 43 people abducted in Chechnya this year
Serviceman kills three troops in Chechnya
Secret execution of Chechens in prisons of Russia
Chechen intellectuals say media coverage is biased
Refugee camp Bart dismantled in Ingushetia
U.S. Reporter's Guide Missing
Number of people falling victims to landmines in Chechnya increases
Nord-Ost victims take Putin to court

Russia slams US human rights report, says claims on Chechnya unsubstantiated

Pressure intensifies to close Ingush refugee camps
Human rights group speaks out on kidnappings
Chechen diplomat foresees growing hatred of Russians
Helsinki group calls election annulment
Unknown Chechen group issues statement to claim responsibility for Moscow metro blast
Council of Nongovernmental Organizations site reports kidnappings in Chechnya

Unknown Chechen Group Claims Moscow Metro Blast
German Official Slams Russia Violations In Chechnya
Chechen refugees in Ingushetia are being “liquidated
Officer of Chechen Interior Ministry disappears in Urus-Martan
Killings, bombings leave lasting scars, counselors say

As more Chechens go missing, critics blame president's son
Number of victims of the truck blast near the village of Bamut grew up by five peple.
Chechens in Georgia Fear of `Secret Extraditions'



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