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The Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev issued a decree on 3 September pardoning 264 prisoners. This is the fourth amnesty decree signed by Ilham Aliyev during his presidency. (07-SEP-2004)

A detailed, revised manual describing how to establish a Human Rights House is now  available in PDF. The purpose is to assist NGO´s wanting to join forces and share knowledge and resources through co-location.(07-SEP-04) 
  

Wails of grief reverberated through the streets of Beslan on Sunday as its residents began burying the more than 300 people slaughtered in a 52-hour hostage crisis last week (6-SEP-04).
 

On the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attack in Moscow, the Polish Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights and other NGO´s and cultural institutions worldwide have prepared screenings of Andrej Niekrasow´s film “Disbelief”, combined with public debates on the topic of the attack´s influence on the war in the Chechen Republic. (03-SEP-04)
 

Media in the Republic of Azerbaijan released a statement protesting visit of Armenian officers to Baku to attend training to be held within NATO Partnership for Peace Program on September 12, 2004. The statement considers visit of Armenian officers who occupied Azerbaijan’s almost 20 per cent of territory as a stab against independence of Republic of Azerbaijan. (03 Sep 2004)

A woman released from the school in North Ossetia where militants are holding hundreds of children hostage for a third day said there could be over 1000 hostages, instead of the officially announced 320. This came as federal authorities resumed talks with the rebels Friday morning. (03-SEP-04)
 

As the hostage crisis at a school in southern the Russian Federation entered its second day, authorities in North Ossetia revealed that the death toll stands at seven. Offers of help and condemnation of the school seizure have come from around the world. (02-SEP-04)
 

A group of about 30 gunmen has seized a school in North Ossetia with up to 400 children, Russia’s internal republic bordering war-torn the Chechen Republic and the breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia. (01-SEP-04)
 

On Monday the court found the Garabagh Liberation Organization (GLO) chairman Akif Naghi and five members of the organization guilty of violating public order and resisting police. The six GLO activists were arrested on June 22 while protesting against the participation of Armenian officers in a NATO conference held in Baku on June 21-23, Assa-Irada reported. (03-SEP-04)