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We call your attention to the statement issued by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF) and the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG) on September 2, 2004.

So far the rebels have rejected suggestions to provide the hostages with water, food and medicines and exchange a group of hostages.

About 400 students, parents, and teachers are reported to be among the hostages in the school captured by rebels in North Osetia.

The capacity of the explosive device that went off near the Rizhskaya station is preliminary estimated at about 2 kilograms of trotyl equivalent with damaging elements, the public relations center of the Federal Security Service has reported.

According to available information, four people arrived at the village of Paraboch in two Zhiguli cars without number plates, smashed the front door and rushed into the house on Terskaya Street which Dzhayruddin Nazhuyev lived in.

The battalions Zapad, Vostok and others are to be withdrawn from the town. They all are interested in appropriating as much money as possible, but we will not let them do it," Ramzan Kadyrov said.

The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office has finished an investigation into the criminal case against Colonel Imamudin Temirbulatov and Major Ayvar Akhmedov. The investigators' version is that they are involved in abductions of people in Dagestan.

Two unknown people attacked Eynulla Fatullayev, a reporter for the Monitor weekly yesterday, July 26.

Four strangers abducted and beat Aidyn Guliev, editor-in-chief of a newspaper, which other journalists believe "contracted for" by the government.

Abkhazia's leadership intends to pass over to South Ossetia lists of people having committed grave crimes against the people of Abkhazia during the 1992-93 conflict and 10 years after the end of it.

A public activist in Kabardino-Balkaria has sustained serious wounds and is now in a grave condition.

A Qatari court has found two Russians guilty of masterminding the assassination of former Chechen separatist president Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev and sentenced them to life on Wednesday.

David Mirtskhulava reportedly survived an apparent death on June 24, but the prison administration did not even have analgesics.

Chief of the Department of the Federal Security Service in Ingushetia Sergey Koryakov refused to concretize what the arrestees were suspected of specifically - either of assisting rebels or taking part in clashes and other acts.

Among the dead, there are 23 civilians, 29 police officers, 10 Federal Security Service officials, 5 prosecutors, 19 servicemen, 2 Chechen Interior Ministry officials and 7 border guards.