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Today at 5:30 p.m., in the Novopushkinskiy Mini-Park in the centre of Moscow, a picket against the war in Chechnya was organized by the Committee of Antiwar Actions and Antiwar Club.

On July 11 and 12, 2006, the "Renaissance-Moscow" hotel hosted an All-Russian Conference "The Other Russia," convoked by the Action Committee of the All-Russian Civil Congress.

On July 6, 2006, in the settlement of Chernorechye of the Zavodskoj District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, when conducting targeted special actions, the employees of the district department of internal affairs detained one of local citizens.

The legislative norms prohibiting the bodies to be handed over to relatives, adopted recently in Russia, run contrary to the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms and other international norms on human rights, and to the Constitution of Russia, said Alexander Grebelskiy.

Jacob Kellenberg, head of International Red Cross Committee, expressed his deep concern in connection with violation of prisoners' rights in the prisons of Northern Caucasus and, in particular, in Chechnya.

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a decision not to compile a report on human rights situation in Chechnya.

Today, the Caucasus still faces the consequences of numerous conflicts which brought about complicated problems of displacement and migration and a destructive socio-economic situation. Several conflicts are in a deadlock.

On June 21, a 20-year-old man was beaten in the Staropromyslovsk district of the Chechen capital by officers of law enforcement agencies.

Several days ago a group of officers from unknown law enforcement agencies came to the "Malkhaz" temporary camp for forced migrants in Nazran (Ingushetia) to capture and take to an unknown place Khamzat Temirsultanov, a refugee from Chechnya.

Anzor Maskhadov, the son of Aslan Maskhadov, the diseased president of the unrecognized Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, has left Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for Germany.

The Moscow city court recognized as legitimate the issue of a sanction for arresting Fail Sadretdinov, Moscow notary acquitted on the case of murder of Paul Khlebnikov, chief editor of the Forbes magazine Russian version.

Residents of Roshni-Chu village in Urus-Martan district, Chechnya, ask international human rights organizations for assistance in setting free their fellow-villager.

On June 20, Georgiy Kheviashvili, the Georgian Minister on Refugees and Resettlement, and Navid Hussein, representative of the UN High Commissar on Refugees in Georgia, visited the Pankisi Gorge (Eastern Georgia).

On Friday June 16, more than three hundred residents of Sergen-Yurt village in Shalinsk district of Chechnya held a meeting which lasted several hours, with a demand to set free their detained fellow-villagers.

The "Civil Assistance" committee and the "Memorial" human rights centre express their deep concern about the situation of Zaurbek Talkhigov who serves 8.5 years of prison for an attempt to set free the hostages from the Theatre Centre on Dubrovka in October 2002.