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The acting public prosecutor of the Zavodskoy District of the city of Grozny, who was beaten yesterday in the capital of Chechnya was threatened for his participation in the trial on the case of two former fighters of the special FSB (Federal Security Bureau) detachment named "Gorets" (Mountaineer), which was disbanded in 2006.

At night on July 16, in the Shatoy District of Chechnya, workers of power agencies kidnapped and took away in unknown direction two local residents - close relatives of the well-known Chechen lawyer Ilyas Timishev, who is representing the interests of suffered residents of the Republic both in local courts and in the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg.

The information about release of Betilgireev, Zaur Khizirovich, a resident of Serzhen-Jurt village, Shali District of Chechnya, who was brought delivered to the Shali ROVD, was not confirmed. The local resident is still behind bars.

Arsen Guchapshev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has complained to the Department of Own Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the KBR against pressure on him by certain Chechenov, an operative inspector of the Chegem ROVD, who is a member of the investigatory group in charge of disclosing the murder of entrepreneur Murat Mukov.

On Tuesday, the Nasiminskiy District Court of Baku sentenced Sergey Strekalin to 18 months for attacking Agil Halil on March 13 this year. The international journalists' organization "Reporters Without Borders" made a statement, expressing a regret that the trial in Azerbaijan on the case of attack on Agil Halil resulted in punishing the person who had nothing to do with the incident.

Today, Armen Arutyunyan, Ombudsman of Armenia, made a statement, in which he has expressed expediency of early release of Armand Babadzhanyan, editor-in-chief of the "Zhamanak-Yerevan" newspaper.

The medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (also called Medecins Sans Frontieres - MSF) is shocked by the decision of the Federal Court of Switzerland to share the funds of the ransom paid for release Aryan Erkel, a citizen of the Netherlands and head of the MSF mission who had been kidnapped in Northern Caucasus.

The law enforcement bodies of the Chechen Republic continue to study the circumstances of the incident in Grozny, when as a result of an explosion at the building of the parliament two persons suffered.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman in Chechnya, believes that the investigatory actions on the fact of bombardment on October 29, 1999, of a column of refugees on the highway Petropavlovskaya - Goryacheistochnenskaya village, and detection of a mass burial are being held improperly.

Umakhan Udamanov, father of the Dagestanian, whose execution was filmed and placed in the Internet, has informed today that the Moscow inspector advised Umakhan Udamanov to undertake a search of the criminals and the body of his son.

The international organization in defence of the press named "Reporters without Borders" has again criticized the trial on the case concerning the attack on Agil Halil, a journalist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, having called the trial to be a farce.

On July 10, the criminal case about explosion of a passenger bus in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, as a result of which 27 persons suffered, has been sent to the Stavropol Territorial Court.

The authorities of the USA are disappointed with too long investigation into the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes Magazine Paul Khlebnikov and call on the Russian government to speed up the process.

The authorities of Abkhazia assert that high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia organized the terror act in the city of Gali on July 6, where four persons fell victim.

Today, British press published a statement of Gordon Brown, spokesman of the UK Prime Minister's Office, who criticizes recent utterances made by British counterspies on air of the BBC on involvement of Russian authorities in murdering ex-officer of the FSB Alexander Litvinenko.