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Today, a court has resumed the consideration of a case against cartographers Natalia Ilyichyova and Iveri Melashvili, accused of transferring part of the lands of Georgia, including the David Gareja monastery, to Azerbaijan. According to an official from the Prosecutor’s Office, Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, will be questioned in the case.

Members of the “European Georgia”, “Lelo”, and “Girchi” Parties urged their colleagues to focus on the second round of municipal elections, and not on the release of Mikhail Saakashvili. The oppositionists announced that they would not take part in the action planned by the “United National Movement” (UNM) Party.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has appointed 18,700 euros of compensation to Lyudmila Selipetova, whose son, according to investigators, committed suicide while serving in the army in North Ossetia.

In the evening on October 12, activists of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party held a protest action near Rustavi Prison, demanding to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former president, to hospital for treatment after his hunger strike.

The preliminary hearing of the criminal case initiated against the brothers, Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev was held at the Achkhoi-Martan District Court, the "SK SOS" Crisis Group has reported. The advocates lodged a motion asking to transfer the trial to a court of another region, because no objective consideration of the case is possible in Chechnya.

The ninth-grader suspected of fatally stabbing his peer at a Makhachkala school has been placed in custody for two months.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has begun communication on complaints filed by nine persons sentenced in the “Nardaran case” who complained about ill-treatment and lack of effective remedies.

An incident, when two Moscow residents were deceived, brought to Dagestan, and forced to work in a greenhouse there, became the first case of labour slavery of tourists in the republic, the leader of the “Alternative” movement stated.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former Georgian President, who has gone on a hunger strike to protest against his arrest, is trying to look healthy and cheerful, but looks worse than usual, his mother, Giuli Alasaniya, said after visiting her son in jail.

The extradition of Mikhail Saakashvili to Ukraine, of which he is a citizen, is excluded; he will be able to leave Georgia after serving his sentence, Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister, has stated.

The verdict to Niyameddin Akhmedov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is not based on reliable proofs; and the defence will seek to cancel it, Zibeida Sadygova, his advocate, has stated.

Pyotr Pelekhanov and Olga Lifanova, tourists from Moscow, hitchhiked trying to get to Crimea, but they were taken to Dagestan by deceit and sold for 50,000 roubles to a greenhouse farm, from where they managed to escape only a month later, Pelekhanov himself said.

Khasan Khalitov, a critic of Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed that natives of Chechnya detained in Turkey were planning to kill him. According to the Turkish investigators’ version, six citizens of Russia were engaged in espionage for political and military purposes.

Schoolchildren of the school where a ninth-grader has been killed today have attacked a camera man, and he is hospitalized, the “Dagestan” TV Company reports.