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Today, 10 Kurmanch nationals have held a picket in Krasnodar against tortures applied to Rashid Gurzhiev, Anatoly Dursunov and Ruslan Kelosmanov. The picketers grouped in the mini-park opposite the administration of the Krasnodar Territory and demanded that law-enforcement and judicial bodies treat the detainees objectively.

On June 24, it became known that on June 19, 2008, the board of jurymen of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Dagestan acquitted Ilyas Abutalibovich Dibirov, born in 1983, on all indictment points and released him right in the courtroom.

Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CE), finds it especially important to investigate into the murders committed on March 1 in Yerevan. Mr Davis made this statement today at a press conference in Strasbourg, while answering the question about his estimates of fulfilment by the authorities of Armenia of PACE's Resolution No. 1609.

Today, Emin Guseinov, head of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), was discharged from the emergency hospital, where he had been taken in the state of unconsciousness as a result of the physical violence exerted on him at the 22nd police station of the Nasiminskiy District Interior Department of Baku.

The report entitled "As though they fell from the sky: counterterrorism, human rights violations and impunity in Ingushetia", presented by human rights activists today in Moscow, runs that dozens of residents of Ingushetia became victims of kidnappings, murders and tortures.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has made a decision to recruit new candidates for the jury, since as a result of duly motivated withdrawals, today only 6 persons remained out of 145 candidates.

In Georgia, on June 28, the women kept at the Tbilisi corrective establishment for women and minors No. 5 are going to renew their hunger strike, which had been interrupted because of the pressure exerted by the prison administration.

The materials of the murder case of Ilyas Shurpaev, reporter of Channel One and a native of Dagestan, have been transferred by inquiry bodies of Tajikistan to the court.

The court session of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria on the trial of the militants' attack on Nalchik accomplished in October 2005 has been postponed till June 24. Advocate Elizabeth Shak has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that the reason of the delay was another fact of beating the defendants by the escort.

People in Chechnya think that the appeal of the Republic's Ombudsman Nurdi Nukhazhiev to Russian president Medvedev with a request to set up an interdepartmental commission in charge of searching those residents of Chechnya who were kidnapped or regarded to be missing will not bring any serious results.

Special OSCE representative in fighting trafficking in humans Eva Biaudet has invited the authorities of Azerbaijan to cooperate with NGOs in combating trafficking in humans.

On June 18, a group of inmates of the general custody No. 10 made a fight with the sentries. There are injured persons among the colony officers and the inmates, several persons were hospitalized with grave traumas.

The human rights organization named "The International Federation of Journalists", based in Brussels, is satisfied with the charges presented to the three journalists suspected of murdering journalist Anna Politkovskaya and demands that they should be properly punished.

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia has rejected the cassation presentation lodged by the General Prosecutor's Office on the murder case of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes Magazine Paul Khlebnikov. The case will go back to the prosecutor's office.

The Investigatory Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office has informed today about the completion of the investigation in relation to the persons accused of murdering the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anna Politkovskaya.