News Digest
SOUTH OSSETIA ASKS INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS TO INTERVENE FOR DETAINEES IN GEORGIA
By empty (8/11/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The representative for human rights representatives to the president of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia has asked for UN, OSCE, and nongovernmental groups\' assistance to determine the local whereabouts of 15 men from South Ossetia who are being held in Georgian prisons. David Sanakoev made the request in a letter to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Novak, to Roy Reeve, head of the OSCE office in Tbilisi, and to Amnesty International and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The detainees reportedly include two men suspected of involvement in the 1 February car bombing in Gori that killed three people.U.S. EMBASSY CALLS FOR IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION INTO AZERBAIJANI COUP ALLEGATIONS
By empty (8/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The U.S. Embassy in Baku released a statement on 10 August stressing the need for \"a fair and impartial investigation\" into the accusations brought by the Prosecutor-General\'s Office against Bashirli.REGIONAL BRANCHES OF AZERBAIJANI OPPOSITION PARTY ATTACKED
By empty (8/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Protesters stormed the regional offices of the opposition Azerbaijan Popular Front Party in Lenkoran, Sumgait, and Nakhichevan on 10 August, shouting derogatory slogans. But thanks to the agreement reached on 9 August between leading AHCP activists and Interior Minister Ramil Usubov, police prevented a further attack on the AHCP headquarters in Baku. The protesters, whom the AHCP suspects have been mobilized by the Azerbaijani authorities, accuse the AHCP and its chairman, Ali Kerimli, of collusion with opposition youth activist Ruslan Bashirli, who was arrested on 3 August on charges of plotting to overthrow the Azerbaijani leadership with financial help from Armenian intelligence.TRIAL OF ARRESTED TURKISH SCHOLAR OPENS IN YEREVAN
By empty (8/10/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A Turkish scholar who researched Ottoman history in Armenia’s state archives went on trial in Yerevan on Tuesday nearly two months after his controversial arrest on smuggling charges which caused an uproar in U.S. and Turkish academic circles.Visit also
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