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Vladimir Putin said that he had requested additional information on the liquidation case of the "Memorial"*, and expressed hope for the objectivity of the trial, but has reproached the human rights organization for "demonstrative violations."

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), law enforcers have detained Insa Lander, a blogger. According to her acquaintances, the court has placed the girl under house arrest on suspicion of aiding terrorist activities.

Turkish doctors diagnosed Salekh Rustamov with the brain cell regression, but the prisoner refused to end his hunger strike, which he has been continuing for 34 days already, an advocate of the prisoner reported. The Azerbaijani authorities have ignored numerous requests to release Salekh Rustamov, human rights defender Rufat Safarov notes.

On December 8, about two thousand supporters of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party held a protest action near the residence of Salome Zurabishvili, the President of Georgia, demanding to set Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili free. Failing to achieve a meeting with her, they threatened to switchover to tougher protest forms.

A man accused of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili deserves life imprisonment, but members of the Chechen Diaspora fear that even in case of such a sentence, the convict may be extradited to Russia.

Video blogger Yury Dud should visit residents of Chechnya and ask them about torture, YouTube users suggest. Chechnya has become a testing ground for the spread of torture throughout Russia, notes Lyudmila Kukhnina, a coordinator of the database compiled by the “Committee against Torture”.

A detainee committed suicide at the police department in the Belokalitvinsky District. He was in solitary confinement, the police of the Rostov Region reports today.

As revenge for the fine imposed by the state inspector, the Georgia's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has applied disciplinary sanctions, Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has stated and refused from medical care at the prison hospital.

Yuri Dud, a popular Russian video blogger, has posted a documentary, in which torture victims shared their stories; and human rights activists told about their practice of inquiring into torture cases in Russia.

A man who is kept under arrest at SIZO-4 (pre-trial prison) in Volgograd has cut his forearm. He is registered as a person prone to suicide and self-mutilation, the press service of the local branch of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) has informed today.

The Strasbourg Court found the Russian authorities responsible for the unlawful detention and death of 17-year-old Magomed Gorchkhanov and obliged them to pay 70,000 euros in compensation to Dibikhan Pugoeva, a resident of Ingushetia.

Members of the “Sasna Tsrer” (Daredevils of Sassoun) detachment were convicted groundlessly, said participants of a protest action held in front of the court building in Yerevan, where the appeal against the convicted person’s sentences was considered.

Today, relatives of the people convicted in the “Terter case” have tried to hold a protest action in front of the administration of the President of Azerbaijan. They demanded to review the charges against the convicts. However, the police stopped the protest action.

In his video appeal, the head of the Chechen community in Norilsk has announced serious inconsistencies in a case against Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, accused of plotting a terror act in Norilsk.