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Attorneys and relatives of Ahmedkhan Aushev, Zurab Didigov and Bashir Mislaurov in Ingushetia report investigation’s unlawful actions and inaction of Public Prosecutor’s office. The lawyers state impossibility to meet with their clients and the defendants’ relatives fear that they are tortured. Representatives of the investigation decline comment.

Resident of the settlement of Novy Khushet Karimulla Abdulkhalikov reported refusal to allow him take the body of his son Kamil Abdulkhalikov killed on December, 16, in Kaspiysk from the morgue of Makhachkala.

Today witnesses for the prosecution, law enforcement officers Koltsov and Dyatlov who carried out search in defendant Yusup Temerkhanov’s house in Chechnya, evidenced at the trial on the case of ex-colonel Yuri Budanov’s murder.

Committee of Inquiry initiated three criminal cases of newborn babies’ death in the maternity hospital of Pyatigorsk.

After a five-hour interrogation in the Investigation Service of the Ministry of Finance of Georgia, Alexander Khetaguri, ex-Minister of Finance and Energetics, Nika Gvaramia, ex-Minister of Education and Justice, presently Director General of “Rustavi-2”, Kakha Damenia, ex-Deputy Minister of Economy, Devi Kandelaki, Director General of “Telasi” stock-company, and two more high-ranking officials were detained.

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Russia, a large network of manufacturing counterfeit money, part of which was intended to fund extremist organizations in Northern Caucasus, was disclosed.

The Moscow City Court, which today has continued the trial on the murder of Colonel Yuri Budanov, has dismissed the petition of the defence of the accused Yusuf Temerkhanov asking to challenge Judge Andrei Korotkov.

Today, in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), unidentified masked men kidnapped Rezuan Afashagov, a villager Atazhukino, Baksan District, reported his brother Ali Afashagov, who turned to law enforcement bodies and human rights defenders asking to help to find Rezuan.

At least five persons died in Azerbaijan last year as a result of torture, Elchin Bekhbudov, the head of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture, said today.

Young resident of Grozny Aina Habibulaeva disappeared on December, 11, under vague circumstances. On the day of her disappearance the girl was wearing a hijab.

Today the Board of Appeals of Moscow city court acknowledged lawful prolongation of custody term to Rustam Mahmudov, defendant on the case of murder of “Novaya Gazeta” political observer Anna Politkovskaya.

Defendant Yusup Temerkhanov’s defense on the case of colonel Budanov’s murder in Moscow city court entered a motion to submit him to examination on the polygraph detector, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Two men, Mikail Dautov and Imam Arkhimirzoev, were kidnapped by unknown people in the settlement of Valerik, Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya, after the evening prayer on December, 16, Ruslan Kutaev, President of Assembly of Peoples of the Caucasus and Head of international Committee for problems of Northern Caucasus, reported. Law enforcement officers are sure that there is no question of kidnapping.

Collapse of building in construction in Taganrog killing five and injuring over ten persons; first meeting of special representatives for settling Georgian-Russian relations; verdict to one of the figurants in the Anna Politkovskaya's murder case; announcement of suspects of murdering Gekkiev, a journalist of the GTRK "Kabardino-Balkaria"; earthquake in several regions of South of Russia; dispersal of another action of opposition in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of December 10-16, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

At the trial of the attack on Nalchik, the defendant Amur Khakulov gave his testimony; according to the investigation, he was a member of the grouping, which attacked the OMON (riot police) base in Kabardino-Balkaria. According to Khakulov, he did not know about the attack and did not make a single shot.