July 10, 2010 | admin

Human Rights Center “Memorial” reported that on July 8, 2010, at 12 a.m. in the Independent press-center at Moscow a press-conference which names “Questions to Investigation of Natalya Estemirova’s murder” took place.

February 19, 2010 | admin

Russia urged the U.N.’s top human rights body on 18 February to suppress a report on secret detention centers that includes interviews with unnamed Chechens alleging they were tortured in covert prisons operated by Kremlin.

February 15, 2010 | admin

On February 11-12, 2010 a special operation was held at the border of the Chechenya and Ingushetia in the outskirts of the village of Arshty and Dattykh in a woodland. As a result Russian occupying forces reported on destruction of the large Chechen mujahedeen unit, denying any victims among civilians. Meanwhile as early as in the morning February 12, there appeared information on large civilian casualties during the special operation.

December 2, 2009 | admin

Russian Prosecutors in Chechnya say the slaying of Zarema Sadulayeva, a prominent human rights activist in this August was not connected to her work, RFE/RL’s Russian service reports.

September 18, 2009 | admin

Chechnya sees more and more kidnappings, as reported by the Human Rights Center “Memorial“. The “Mashr” human rights organization, in its turn, reports that the count of kidnappings has decreased, but the number of murders is on the rise. This is the conclusion of experts, based on the data as of end of August 2009.

August 21, 2009 | admin

Akhmed Gisaev, a Chechen human rights activist, and his family have left Chechnya because they fear for their lives.

August 10, 2009 | admin

On the afternoon of August 10, 2009, Zarema Sadulayeva, the leader of “Let’s Save the Generation” which is a local non-governmental youth organization, and Umar (Alik) Lechayevich Dzhabrailov, her husband were arrested and kidnapped in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya by the bandits of national traitor Kadirov.