News Digest
FORMER WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION MIKE TYSON IN CHECHNYA
By empty (9/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Former World Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson arrived in Gudermes on Thursday. Thousands of people - local residents and visitors from other parts of Chechnya - have gathered on the city stadium to greet the celebrity. Chechnya\'s First Deputy Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov is among them.AZERBAIJANI POLICE RAID OPPOSITION OFFICE, SEIZING GRENADES AND EXPLOSIVES
By empty (9/15/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijani police raided a Baku office of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party on 15 September and seized three grenades and an undisclosed amount of explosives. Police allege that the grenades and explosives were seized from a room in the office being used by the opposition Yeni Fikir youth movement, leading to speculation that the authorities are attempting to bolster their treason charges against the jailed leaders of the youth group. (Turan).KYRGYZSTAN PLACES ELEVEN UZBEK CITIZENS UNDER UN JURISDICTION
By empty (9/14/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kyrgyzstan has placed eleven Uzbek citizens, held in a detention facility in Osh in southern Kyrgyzstan, under the jurisdiction of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry\'s Migration Department Director Zafar Khakimov told a news conference on Wednesday that, \"Kyrgyzstan\'s Prosecutor General\'s Office on Tuesday evening made the decision to transfer eleven Uzbek citizens who have the status of mandate refugees, under the jurisdiction of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees,\" and that \"the refugees will be moved to third countries in Western Europe in a couple of days.\" Khakimov also said that the other four Uzbek citizens will so far remain in Osh.CHECHEN INTERIOR MINISTRY ATTACKED, TEN WOUNDED – SOURCE
By empty (9/13/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Ten people were wounded in a gunfire attack on the Chechen Interior Ministry in Grozny , a local law enforcement source told Interfax on Tuesday. Those wounded were taken to the hospital and got medical aid, and their lives are out of danger, the source said. Unidentified attackers fired about ten times from automatic grenade launchers on the ministry\'s territory, the source said.Visit also
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