• Reinfeldt Invites Suspected War Criminal to Sweden

    April 26, 2011 | admin

    Taking into account the presumptive individual responsibility of Vladimir Putin concerning thousands of war crimes in Chechnya, it is remarkable that Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has invited him to Sweden.

  • First Year After Natalya

    July 15, 2010 | admin

    The well-known human rights defender, independent journalist and a member of Russian-Chechen Friendship Society Oksana Chelysheva send our editors a commemoration message for Natalya Estemirova and react to unfairness.

  • One More Death in Detention

    July 4, 2010 | admin

    Moldy Lomalievich Kaimov, b. 1976, was diagnosed with tuberculosis and began treatment for it in 2005. In 2006 he was arrested in the Achkoy-Martan district of Chechnya, on suspicion of involvement with illegal armed groups. Moldy claimed he was tortured into writing a false confession by the Achkoy-Martan and Staropromyslovsky district [Waynakh Online: puppet] police departments. Although the evidences of torture were confirmed and registered by a medical expert, Kaimov was convicted.

  • Conference for Justice in Torino

    May 20, 2010 | admin

    Oksana Chelysheva informed our editorial staffes that on May 17, a conference was held in Torino about the presentation of “International Tribunal for Chechnya” named research.

  • Graffiti: “Poland for the Poles!”

    April 27, 2010 | admin

    Europe is not safe for everyone. Neo-Nazi attacks took away a Chechen asylum seeker family from Poland to Finland, but now the family has to leave from Finland. Oksana Chelysheva wrote about the rising xenophobia, escape and long journey of Ruslan and Petimat Suleymanova and their children.

  • Open Letter in Support of the Gataev Family

    April 23, 2010 | admin

    A group of human rights activists, journalists and artists wrote an open letter to protest further denial of free communication between Khadizhat and Malik Gataev and their foster children.

  • In Lithuania, House of Gataev Couple’s Relatives Searched

    April 19, 2010 | admin

    Kavkaz-Uzel reported that in the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, the house of relatives of Malik and Khadizhat Gataev was searched; human rights activists find it to be illegal.

  • Attack on Novorossiysk Human Rights Defender

    February 28, 2010 | admin

    On 27 February 2010 Vadim Karasteleyov (aged 44), an expert with Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee, was assaulted by two people armed with clubs. He has suffered serious head injuries and was taken to hospital where he was operated the same day. Doctors find his condition as serious.

  • Finland is Leading a New Course in Human Rights

    January 27, 2010 | admin

    On January 25, 2009, the municipal court of Helsinki made an unprecedented decision to postopone consideration of the European arrest warrant issued by the prosecutor’s office of Kaunas on Khadizhat and Malik Gataevs until the asylum seeking process is over.

  • They Need Our Help!

    December 16, 2009 | admin

    One of the official organizers of the Peace March of the asylum seekers in Poland, an ethnic Ingush, Janetta Magomed-Nadievna Baysurkaeva (aged 30) fears possible extradition from Poland as punishment for her involvement into organizing peaceful rallies of asylum-seekers in Warsaw in autumn 2009 as well as the disrupted attempt of some 200 asylum-seekers to participate in the World Freedom Day march in Strasbourg. They were prevented leaving the territory of Poland as they had neither valid documents nor train tickets.

  • Conferences for Chechnya in Sweden

    November 18, 2009 | admin

    Sweden has become the base of human rights defenders before the summit between European Union (EU) and Russia in Stockholm. The raising voice was on “Justice for Chechnya”!

  • Impunity for War Crimes in Chechnya?

    November 17, 2009 | admin

    Upsala Nya Tiding, a daily Swedish newspaper, has published a letter of Oksana Chelysheva and Martin Uggla about many of human rights violations which can classified as war crimes and crimes against international law rules, have been committed systematically by Russian forces in Chechnya.

  • Deportee Asylum Seeker Beaten up and His Brother was Kidnapped

    October 30, 2009 | admin

    A refugee from Ingushetia was deported from Finland to Russia, and ended up being beaten up by law enforcement agents in Ingushetia.

  • Reality in Chechnya by Oksana Chelysheva (Video)

    June 25, 2009 | admin

    The well known human rights activist Oksana Chelysheva gives a short report about the real situation of Chechnya.

  • Chechen refugees in Finland meet Chechen delegation with protest action

    May 22, 2009 | admin

    Chechen authorities have paid a visit to Finland with the aim to study the European experience of organizing local self-management. When they were visiting the municipality of Helsinki, Chechen refugees held a protest action in the adjacent street in May 13, 2009.