MINELRES: "Human Rights in Georgia" newsletter No.6-7 (52-53): excerpts

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Dear All,
  
Human Rights Information and Documentation  Center (HRIDC) presents
monthly newsletter "Human Rights in Georgia." 
  
The newsletter contains the following issues:  

  HRIDC Campaign against Torture

  Training for NGOs
  HRIDC for the Protection of the Child's Rights

  Kmara Youth Movement Rallies against AES-UES Deal
  Georgian Trafficking Victims Appear in Jail in Turkey
  High Official of the Security Ministry Committed Suicide
  Person Detained for the Abuse of a Policeman
  60% of the Crimes Committed Against Foreigners are not Reported
  116 Adults Committed 79 Crimes in 2003
  Labour Leader Urges Support for Georgian Minority in Azerbaijan
  Constitutional Court Denies Dismissing Armenian Judges
  Attack on Parliamentary Deputy
  Search in Colony #1
  Heroine Taken into the Prison
       

Best wishes,
  
Ucha Nanuashvili
Executive Director
  
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(HRIDC) - Working to make a difference
  
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Labour Leader Urges Support for Georgian Minority in Azerbaijan

Speaking at a press conference in Tbilisi on 30 May, Labor Party leader
Shalva Natelashvili deplored the harassment of the Georgian minority
living in the Zakatala, Belokany, and Kakhi districts of neighbouring
Azerbaijan, Caucasus Press reported. He said those Georgians are
pressured into converting to Islam and adopting Azerbaijani surnames,
and that Georgian schools in those districts are being closed.
Natelashvili said local officials are ignoring orders by Azerbaijan's
President Aliev to improve conditions for the op-pressed Georgian 
minority. 

(RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 102, Part I, 2 June 2003)

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Constitutional Court Denies Dismissing Armenian Judges

In an e-mail to RFE/RL's Georgian Service, a Georgian Constitutional
Court official denied on 30 May that the court has dismissed three
ethnic Armenian judges. He said the court is not empowered to make such
decisions. On 28 May, Caucasus Press reported that the three judges were
dismissed because of their inade-quate knowledge of the Georgian
language (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 29 May 2003). Meanwhile, the Geor-gian
Supreme Court on 30 May alerted parliament to the fact that although
legislation was passed two years ago under which, as of 1 June 2003,
only those barristers who have successfully passed a qualifying
exami-nation may continue to practice law, no such examinations have
ever been held, Caucasus Press reported. Also on 30 May, that news
agency quoted a representative of the Young Barristers of Georgia as
saying her organization might appeal that incipient ban on its
professional activities to the European Court of Human Rights. 

(RFE/RL NEWSLINE Vol. 7, No. 102, Part I, 2 June 2003)

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"HUMAN RIGHTS IN GEORGIA"  # 6-7( 52-53), June-July, 2003

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