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Problems of domestic violence victims have aggravated after the decriminalization of this violence; moreover, rapists very often manipulate victims of family conflicts, employees of shelters for domestic violence victims have stated in their comments on the incident that happened at the Makhachkala centre for the protection of motherhood and childhood. According to their version, the legislation on the protection of mothers' and fathers' rights in Russia is defective.

The complaints on the cases of the journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, and the oppositional politician, Nemat Panakhly, sent by mail to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg, failed to leave Azerbaijan within a month, Elchin Sadygov, an advocate, has stated. He believes that the sending of letters is delayed intentionally.

Aslan Cherkesov, who is challenging the legality of the ban on administering namaz (prayer) in colony, received no rights defenders' reaction within six days, said his advocate. In Chechnya, the court earlier passed a positive decision on a similar convict's complaint.

The police dispersed the protest actions in March 2008, since the special services reported that protestors were taking up arms, reported Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia.

Sergey Goncharov, the president of the Alpha Anti-Terrorism Unit Veterans' Association, and Gennady Gudkov, the retired FSB Colonel, doubt the credibility of the reports about the detention of militants in Chechnya. Political analyst Alexander Perendjiev suggests that people undesired by the Chechen authorities could be declared militants.

The court has arrested in absentia the Ingush activist, Ismail Nalgiev, for two months, his advocate Andrei Sabinin and law enforcement sources inform.

Members of a militant grouping have been detained in Chechnya with their weapons and grenades, the "Interfax" has reported, citing its source.