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On July 2 the first hearing took place at the Court of Istanbul of Hrant Dink's murder case. The trial of 18 defendants lasted for about 12 hours. For 12 of them, the custody was chosen to be the freedom restriction measure.

The conflict of the Azerbaijani officer with the top managers of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) started two years ago after inspection at the Peace-Making Battalion of Azerbaijan in Iraq, where numerous violations had been revealed.

Today, President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh has met Ivo Petrov, deputy special representative of the UN Secretary General in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone, and chief military observer of the UN Mission General Khan-Khattak.

The judicial system of the European Court for Human Rights is far from being perfect, since it resorts to forcing a respondent-state to pay out compensation. Oleg Orlov, Chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial," called this practice the "impunity tax."

In February 2006, at anonymous polling on the problem of hazing in the army, held in the military unit No. 22292 of the 85th Motor Rifle Division, a number of servicemen pointed to private Ruslan Velkhiev as an infringer of statutory relations.

On July 4, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow made a decision to extend till October 8 the arrest term of three Chechnya natives (Umar Batukaev, Ruslan Musaev and Lors Khamiev), accused of preparing a terror act in the Russian capital on the Victory Day.

On July 4, hundreds of local residents rallied in Manaskent village (Dagestan) with the demand to hold an objective investigation and punish those guilty of murdering local resident Kamil Chamsudinov.

The relatives of the victims of the Beslan terror act have applied for help to the European Court. The applications were signed by 89 victims.

The Swiss Zurich canton court has cut the prison term for Vitaly Kaloev, a Russian citizen and resident of North Ossetia, down to 5 years and three months.

Roman Belan, advocate of Andrei Keilin, a native of Cherkessk, 20, detained on suspicion of murdering two Stavropol students, has addressed the Ombudsman for the Stavropol Territory Alexei Selyukov with a complaint against illegal, in the opinion of the defence, arrest and detention of his client.

The Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria passed a verdict of guilty to three employees of the Elborus District Interior Department (ROVD) for abuse of their official powers.

The first instance court of communities Center and Nork-Marash, Yerevan, has extended for two months the arrest of Alexander Arzumanian, former head of the Armenian MFA, accused of money laundering.

The arrest of Rizvan Talybov, chair of the committee to protect the rights of Ali Insanov, former minister of health, has been extended for yet one more month.

Today morning, Nizami Ghuliyev, resident of Balakian and head of the local unit of the Democratic Party of Azerbaijan, has opened fire from a hunting rifle at police officers who came to his house. Nizami Ghuliyev, father of six children, has been unable to find a job due to political reasons.

13 detainees kept in the Nalchik pre-trial facility (SIZO) refused from their further participation in investigatory actions in protest against cremation of the bodies of the victims of the events on October 13, 2005.