Latest press releases on human rights in Chechnya

Latest Press Releases on Human Rights in Chechnya

Note: The following press releases are a selection form different sources. The webauthor simply "copies and pastes" them (mainly from the Chechnya Yahoo Group) and is not responsible for its content.

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31 Mar 2003	Kadyrov suggest Russian forces behind death squads
29 Mar 2003	Bandits commited crimes in guise of Russian soldiers - prosecutor
28 Mar 2003	Secret police caught red-handed
28 Mar 2003	Official outcome of referendum in Chechnya conducted on March 23
27 Mar 2003	Memorial’s poll shows only 12% of Chechens had intended taking part in referendum
27 Mar 2003	High referendum turnout achieved thanks to "additional voter lists," declare human rights defenders
25 Mar 2003	Human rights defenders cast doubt on referendum results
25 Mar 2003	Short comment of Oleg Orlov from Memorial about referendum
21 Mar 2003	Official answers questions about the intention of PACE to create International Tribunal for Chechnya
20 Mar 2003	Protests against referendum underway in Chechnya
19 Mar 2003	Amnesty International. Fight against racism essential to end climate of impunity
19 Mar 2003	Amnesty International. Russian Federation: Discrimination on grounds of race
19 Mar 2003	OSCE to send its monitors to Chechen referendum
19 Mar 2003	Refugees intimidated by cutting off supply of gas
19 Mar 2003	Authorities blame Basayev for Grozny bombing
19 Mar 2003	Imran beaten, but alive
19 Mar 2003	Chechen Human Rights Activist Imran Ezhiyev Released
18 Mar 2003	Everyday life in Chechnya: university professor beaten, his sons abducted
18 Mar 2003	Professor U.Ezhiev's sons kidnapped
18 Mar 2003	Memorial - URGENT! - Imran Ezhiev Kidnapped!
18 Mar 2003	Civil Georgia/CT: Chechen extradition to be appealed at the Supreme Court
17 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: Press release No. 374 (various reports)
17 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: Press release No. 373 (attack on Russian APC, kidnappings)
17 Mar 2003	Another HR coordinator was kidnapped in Chechnya
17 Mar 2003	Suspect in Grozny bombing arrested and HR activists detained
17 Mar 2003	Invaders detained Chechen human rights activists
16 Mar 2003	The committers of war crimes in Chechnya should be brought to trial (R.Badalov)
14 Mar 2003	Kremlin seeks to tighten control over Chechen media.
14 Mar 2003	The terrorist act staged at the government headquarters in Groznywas organized by Chechen rebel leaders.
14 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: Even in private houses Chechen refugees are illegally deprived of electricity
14 Mar 2003	Medecins sans Frontieres accuses Russians
14 Mar 2003	RIAN: A part of Chechen diaspora ( S. Khadzhiyev) supports the referendum
14 Mar 2003	Chechen extremists threaten death penalty
14 Mar 2003	Referendum to decide Budanov's fate
14 Mar 2003	A Czech charity employee went missing in Chechnya: the details.
14 Mar 2003	I. Akhmadov calls on democratic governments to condemn "referendum"
14 Mar 2003	Ibragim Zyazikov of People in Need goes missing in Chechnya
14 Mar 2003	Tbilisi court rules to extradite 2 of 3 detained Chechens
13 Mar 2003	Chronicle of Russian genocide in Chechnya
13 Mar 2003	Harvesting of organs from Chechen hostages
13 Mar 2003	Ibragim Zyazikov of People in Need goes missing in Chechnya
13 Mar 2003	Russians Blow Up Chechen Corpses
13 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: Press release No. 370 (old people die after shelling and looting)
13 Mar 2003	Chechens vent anger at attack on village
13 Mar 2003	Twenty-four Chechen refugees join hunger strike against referendum
13 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: Press release No. 369 (various reports)
13 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: (Press release No. 368) Civilian houses burnt by Russian military
13 Mar 2003	The so-called referendum is completely invalid and void ab initio as a matter of international law an practice.
12 Mar 2003	Abduction in the Chechen village of Goiskoye
12 Mar 2003	Dagestani police say abducted Aryan Erkel of MSF still alive
12 Mar 2003	Appeal of the President of the ChRI H.E. Aslan Maskhadov to the Chechen People
12 Mar 2003	Refugees Feel Pressure Over Chechnya Vote
12 Mar 2003	Judges seated as world war crimes court inaugurated
12 Mar 2003	Payments in bread for referendum
12 Mar 2003	A new stream of "special operations" in the Chechen Republic
11 Mar 2003	Congress of European Chechen Public Organizations prepare legal actions against war crimes
11 Mar 2003	Russian minister surprised by PACE's decision not to send observers to Chechen referendum
11 Mar 2003	Council of Europe won't send observers to Chechen referendum
11 Mar 2003	Russian HR official denies coercion of Chechen refugees
11 Mar 2003	Permanent world war crimes court set to open
11 Mar 2003	Chechen mothers rally in Grozny demanding return of their sons
10 Mar 2003	Badalov: Refugees in Ingushetia coerced to take part in referendum under threat of relief aid withdrawal
10 Mar 2003	ChCNS on "compensation for destroyed property"
10 Mar 2003	"Memorial" does not want to soil its hands with "referendum"
10 Mar 2003	Meeting of protest in Grozny
10 Mar 2003	ChCNS/CP: Two unidentified bodies found near Chechen refugees camp in Ingushetia (Press release # 286)
10 Mar 2003	Resident of Kotar-Yurt captured
10 Mar 2003	CP: A new stream of "special operations" in the Chechen Republic
8 Mar 2003	Kadyrov against setting up int'n tribunal for Chechnya
7 Mar 2003	PACE commission wishes to send observers to Chechen referendum
7 Mar 2003	More [Russian] officials criticize proposed Chechen war-crimes tribunal.
7 Mar 2003	Fifty soldiers convicted in whole 2nd Chechen war
6 Mar 2003	Prima/CT: Houses burnt and rights activists chased after in Chechnya
5 Mar 2003	PW: Chechen human rights defenders request President Putin to postpone referendum
5 Mar 2003	PW: Two human rights activists go on hunger strike in protest against referendum
5 Mar 2003	GT:12 countries ready to receive Chechen refugees from Georgia
5 Mar 2003	Russian Foreign Ministry: Western experts certify improvement in Chechen issue settlement
5 Mar 2003	PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Draft proposal: "An international ad hoc tribunal to try war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Chechen Republic". Russian & Chechen reactions.
4 Mar 2003	PRIMA: Russian troops abduct two villagers of Serzhen-Yurt
4 Mar 2003	CP: Russian terror is worse than that of Stalin
4 Mar 2003	Pravda: Dutch worried about the fate of Ajan Erkel in Dagestan
4 Mar 2003	AP: OSCE and CofE concerned over Chechen vote
3 Mar 2003	AFP: Human rights groups slam Chechen referendum
2 Mar 2003	BBC: End of run for Kremlin critic
2 Mar 2003	Experts from Council of Europe inspect human rights situation in Chechnya prior to referendum
2 Mar 2003	SRChF/CP: Press releas e No. 366 (various reports)
28 Feb 2003	TRP/O.Dupuis: Question to the EU Parliament Council about abductions in Chechnya
28 Feb 2003	RChFS/CP: Humanitarian supplies sent to Dachu-Borzoy
28 Feb 2003	ChCNS/CP: Press Release # 283 (house blown up, kidnappings)
28 Feb 2003	Russia using fear to swing Chechen vote-activists
28 Feb 2003	SRChF/CP: Press release No. 365 (various reports)
28 Feb 2003	Interfax-South: Deputy Prosecutor skeptical about Basayev's claim
28 Feb 2003	Yesterday's Paper? Russian Daily's Future in Doubt
28 Feb 2003	Head of the Moscow Helsinki Group: There are more defeats than victories
28 Feb 2003	Chechens Will Have to Wait Up to 6 Years for New Homes
28 Feb 2003	Memorial Sees More Terror in Chechnya
28 Feb 2003	CJES/PW: Violations of journalists' rights in Chechnya
27 Feb 2003	Interfax: 1660 people go missing during Chechen zachistki
27 Feb 2003	Photos support Basayev's part in Grozny blast
27 Feb 2003	Grani ru: S. Kovalev questions Berezovsky and Zakayev in London
27 Feb 2003	Attempt to blow up arrested Chechen
27 Feb 2003	Chechnya is turned into ghetto
27 Feb 2003	Russian servicemen killed two young men in Chechnya
27 Feb 2003	AP: Putin: Army must obey the law
27 Feb 2003	RIAN: Putin wants to see prosecutors during zachistki in Chechnya
26 Feb 2003	Memorial and War Victims Society report of collection of signatures for termination of "counter-terrorist operation"
26 Feb 2003	Victims of Nauri Mass Burial Identified
23 Feb 2003	Pro-Moscow Chechen official accuses federals of kidnapping and murdering Chechen civilians
23 Feb 2003	SRChF/CP: Press release No. 362 (various reports)
23 Feb 2003	Kidnappings, beheading, mass burial
23 Feb 2003	Blackmail: People threatened by shelling if they refuse to vote
20 Feb 2003	Chechens staying in republic can’t seek compensation for destroyed home
20 Feb 2003	Federal troops shell Vedeno village in Chechnya
19 Feb 2003	High Commissioner of Council of Europe on Human Rights testifies to aggravation of situation in Chechnya
19 Feb 2003	Serious human rights violations occurred during Russian operation in Goiskoye village
19 Feb 2003	In Chechnya people continue to disappear
19 Feb 2003	Forced disappearances in Chechnya
19 Feb 2003	Collection of signatures petitioning Russian President Putin launched in Chechnya
18 Feb 2003	Kovalyov Takes Grim Message to U.S.
14 Feb 2003	Federal troops kidnapping women in Chechnya
14 Feb 2003	Open appeal of Russian National Committee: Referndum
14 Feb 2003	RFE/RL Caucasus Report: Russian Liberals question referendum in Chechnya
14 Feb 2003	Moscow changes its attitude to foreign observers in Chechnya
14 Feb 2003	Refugee killed by police in Chechnya
13 Feb 2003	ICSRCF: Press releases
13 Feb 2003	Refugees Call for More Security in Chechnya
13 Feb 2003	ICSRCF: Press releases
13 Feb 2003	Mass burial found in Nauri Ddistrict
13 Feb 2003	Top charity slams Russian inaction in kidnap case
12 Feb 2003	Recommendations of Commissioner for Human Rights Must Be Implemented
12 Feb 2003	Ivanov insults the GfbV - Zülch demands that Berlin returns to a policy based on human rights
12 Feb 2003	Human rights defender: Kremlin admits deficiencies in its migration policy in Ingushetia
11 Feb 2003	ChCNS/CP:Retaliations & kidnappings
9 Feb 2003	Bodies of Mutilated Chechens Unearthed in Grozny
9 Feb 2003	Chechnya's status can't be determined without de Gaulle
9 Feb 2003	ICSRCF: Refugees are still being illegally excluded from official registration lists of Migration Service of Ingushetia.
8 Feb 2003	Prominent human rights activist challenges the Russian delegation on Chechnya's referendum
8 Feb 2003	Refugees disappeared like dead souls
8 Feb 2003	Relatives of Resistance fighters taken hostages by Russian military
8 Feb 2003	Z.Jabrailov, murdered in Ingushetia, was employee of Austrian humanitarian organization "Hilswerk"
8 Feb 2003	Lawlessness, shelling, bombardment and refugees
7 Feb 2003	The mental scars of Chechnya's children
7 Feb 2003	Chechens from Alkan-kala report beating, torture during detention
7 Feb 2003	OSCE to send mission to Chechnya
6 Feb 2003	Human tights activist demnads investigation into deaths of Moscow theater hostages
6 Feb 2003	ICSRCF: Fights, assassinations, disappearances
6 Feb 2003	Forced disappearance in Shali
5 Feb 2003	EU Presidency on the kidnapping of the Dutch humanitarian aid worker Arjan Erkel
5 Feb 2003	HELP feeds Chechen children in Ingushetia
5 Feb 2003	Ingush migration authorities artificially reduce number of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia
5 Feb 2003	Russian Soldiers Allowed to Vote in Chechnya Referendum
5 Feb 2003	OSCE to Send Observers to Chechnya
5 Feb 2003	ChCNS/CP: A series of murders
5 Feb 2003	Civilians captured in Goi-Chu
5 Feb 2003	Russian court rules against Kovalyov in1999 bomb inquiry
5 Feb 2003	CE Commissionoer to visit Chechnya and Ingushetia next week
4 Feb 2003	ICSRCF: disappearance, shelling, kidnapping
4 Feb 2003	Judd: PACE Won't Send Observers to Chechen Vote
3 Feb 2003	Chechen refugees fear promises of help mask drive to force them back to violent homeland
3 Feb 2003	ICSRCF: disappearances, murder, detentions
3 Feb 2003	Extradition To Take Two Years. Proceedings on Handover of Akhmed Zakayev Have Begun
1 Feb 2003	Chechen refugees in Georgia are picketing

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