The time and place are of crucial significance : it was at exactly 1 o’clock on 3 September 2004 that the storm of the school in Beslan began, and it was precisely the FSB, the human rights activists believe, which incompetently planned this storm.

The Uzbek community, supported by AI in Ukraine, registered their protest against Karimov’s regime and mentioned that it was extremely difficult for Uzbeks in Ukraine to legalize their position

The Director of the human rights organization “Civic Assistance Committee” believes the Moscow authorities don’t want attention drawn to the anniversary since those really responsible for the tragedy have not been named

The human rights organization “Memorial” stated recently that in Chechnya the most pressing problems are “abductions, extrajudicial executions and killings”

On this day human rights groups join the UN Working Group in calling on all countries to put an end to enforced disappearances and secret detention

"Reporters without Frontiers" have labelled as "absurd, unjust and shameful" the sentences of 6 and 7 years passed on journalist Ogulsapar Muradova and two human rights activists

Human rights organizations appeal for help in finding Elina Ersenova , abducted on 17 August after informing a human rights organization of threats against her by Kadyrov’s security service

No explanation has been given for Ogulsapar Muradova’s arrest and she has not been allowed to see a lawyer

One of the activists of the Belarusian civic initiative “Partnerstvo”, imprisoned for wanting to monitor the elections, released yesterday describes her experiences and her inability to do nothing when “such things are happening in the country”

The Supreme Court has used a feeble pretext to get rid of the "Belarusian Factory of Thought”

The appellants are calling on the Supreme Court to declare the results invalid and to ensure new elections are held

Two young Belarusians – Nikolai Astreiko and Timofei Dranchuk – face penal colony for seeking to ensure free and fair elections in Belarus

The Ivanovo Uzbeks threatened with deportation have been given a temporary reprieve since the European Court of Human Rights is considering their case

The Prosecutor General has decided to extradite the men despite the fact that all have been given mandate refugee status by the UHHCR

Russia’s Supreme Court has upheld the sentence passed on the murderers of 9-year-old Khursheda Sultonova

As reported already, these young people were trying to organize observers to monitor the Belarusian presidential elections

Prominent human rights activists in Moscow fear that the tax demands made on the "International Protection Centre" are a sign of a new offensive by the authorities on NGOs now that the G8 Summit is over