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The Georgian authorities have withdrawn from their own inquiry into the conflict in South Ossetia, and even failed to compile a list of victims, human rights defenders assert.

Three men abducted a 22-year-old girl, took her to Derbent and kept her in an apartment for 24 hours, demanding her consent to marry one of them, investigators have suggested.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint against the arrest of Mamed Ibragim, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). He was brought to criminal responsibility in connection with the July 15 unsanctioned rally in Baku. According to Ibragim, he did not take part in the rally and did not send anyone there.

Members of the Ingush sports community would not believe in the involvement of Muslim Evloev, a freestyle wrestler, in the armed underground, a source from the republic's Ministry of Sports said. Law enforcers' official versions of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) inspire no confidence, Izabella Evloeva, a journalist, has noted.

The decision to arrest Anvar Muradov, a resident of Azerbaijan, accused of using violence against a policeman during the protests in Kullar, has been cancelled and sent for a new consideration, Murad Velikhanov, an advocate, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Muslim Yevloev, an Asian freestyle wrestling champion, was not killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) in Ingushetia, while he managed to escape, sources reported. The CTO took place after a fighter of the National Guard of Russia had been killed near the village of Yandare.

One of the suspects killed during a special operation in Nazran was identified as Muslim Yevloev, a winner of the Asian Wrestling Championship. This was reported by sources from the sports circles of Ingushetia.

Polad Aslanov, an Azerbaijani journalist accused of treason, declared a hunger strike at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) to protest against the violation of his rights and a biased trial, as he treated it.

In a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Nazran and the village of Sagopshi, two militants were killed; one more person was detained, the Russian National Antiterrorism Committee (NAC) has informed.

Fuad Gakhramanly, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), said that he refused to plead guilty in the case of activists' clashes with the police, but decided not to appeal against his arrest and refused from the services of the advocate hired by his party colleagues. Gakhramanly made such decisions under pressure, the PFPA has suggested.

In Ingushetia, a battle with alleged militants is over; one of them was killed. There are no casualties among law enforcers; the killed militant was pre-identified.

The four criminal articles in Vadim Cheldiev's case have been supplemented by the article on organizing mass riots in Vladikavkaz.

The defence succeeded in seeking the release of Ruslan Dzeitov, who was sentenced for attacking a law enforcer during a rally in Magas. The court of Stavropol counted the months spent by the activist under arrest as his imprisonment term.