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North Ossetia is now investigating a criminal case against a 61-year old resident of Vladikavkaz, suspected of a threat to commit a terror act.

Information about 150 citizens of Tajikistan exploited as slaves in the Semikarakorsk District of the Rostov Region has failed to find its confirmation. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it at the regional prosecutor's Office; however, no procedural decision on the complaint had been made yet.

The special operation in the village of Bylym, Elbrus District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), resulted in liquidation of five suspected militants and loss of two policemen; one law enforcer was wounded, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the Investigatory Department for the KBR of the ICRF (Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation).

Law enforcement agents in Chechnya threaten to parents and close friends of the young man and young woman who were earlier detained in the city of Grozny. This was reported by the human rights activists.

A resident of the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya came to the police station to confess to the murder of his close female relative for "immoral behaviour".

Strikes of metallurgists in Georgia and dispersal by the police of a protest action against violations of their rights; decision of the Russian Supreme Court to uphold the verdict to the persons accused of killing lawyer Markelov in Moscow; Jubilee Investment Forum in Sochi, which brought together more than 6500 participants; celebration of Unity Day of the Republic Dagestan and new resonant crimes, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of September 12-18, 2011, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the town of Mozdok, an investigation against two policemen from the police regiment of the private security department of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is under process. The police officers are suspected of arms trafficking in the territory of North Ossetia. This was reported by the Investigatory Department of the Investigatory Committee (IC) of North Ossetia.

Today, after a three-month break, the hearings were resumed at the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik on October 13, 2005. The representative of the public prosecution has demanded to keep the accused under the custody and arrest those defendants who were earlier released on recognizance not to leave.

An officer of the Prosecutor's Office was detained in Ingushetia on suspicion of organizing illegal armed formation (IAF). This was reported today by the Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

At night on September 19 Abakarkidi Magomedov, ex-Chairman of the Dagestani Diaspora in Yaroslavl, was killed in the city.

A rally was held in the village of Duisi of the Pankisi Gorge of Georgia, at which participants demanded to stop criminal process against teacher Asmat Khangoshvili, the employee of the "Robin Scott" Foundation. She is suspected of drug storage.

It is suspected that one of the farms of the Semikarakorsk District of the Rostov Region may use slaves' labour. According to Anna Udyarova, a lawyer of the Anti-Discrimination Centre "Memorial", this information arrived to the "hotline" of the Centre in Moscow. Then, rights defenders addressed the Prosecutor's Office of the Rostov Region, where they were promised to report results of the check on September 19.

In Azerbaijan, Idrak Abbasov, an employee of the newspapers "Aina" (Mirror) and the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), whose relatives were attacked on September 9, is accused of violating the law. The journalist asserts that he committed no offences.

The public supervisory commission over prisons and jails in Kabardino-Balkaria met Murat Bizhev, who is kept in SIZO (pre-trial prison) and accused of storing firearms.