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A criminal case has been initiated in Stavropol against the district militia officer from the Promyshlenny District Department of Interior, who had severely beaten a suspect.

In Azerbaijan, the arrest term of Novruzali Mamedov, Chairman of the Talysh Cultural Centre and editor-in-chief of the "Tolyshi Sado" newspaper, and Elman Guliev, executive secretary of this public organization, has been prolonged for three months more.

Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, an employee of the representative office of the Human Rights Centre "Memorial" in Ingushetia, speaks on the subject of kidnappings in Dagestan.

The Judicial Collegium of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has rejected the complaint of the victims against amnestying of the militiamen accused of negligence that had entailed the act of terror in Beslan.

Faramaz Allakhverdiev, journalist of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, convicted to 2.5 years of imprisonment for slander, is on his 12th day of hunger strike, and his health condition has worsened.

A resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Rasul Kudaev, who is kept at the investigatory detention facility (SIZO) of the Chief Department for Enforcement of Punishments of the Russian Federation for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) on accusation of taking part in the attack on KBR's law enforcement bodies on October 13, 2005, is sick with infectious hepatitis.

On August 1, President of Dagestan Mukhu Aliev held a meeting on the problem of kidnappings that are frequent in the Republic. The meeting was attended by heads of the Republic's law enforcement bodies and representatives of human rights and public organizations.

The Tverskoj Court of Moscow has recognized lawful the pre-investigatory inspection undertaken in relation to the management of the Foundation "Educated Media" (assignee of the "Internews") on suspicion of illegal entrepreneurship and money laundering.

The Korenovskiy District Court of the Krasnodar Territory is hearing the case of four Kurds who are trying to become Russian citizens.

On July 30, the Octiabrskiy district court in Grozny started a re-trial of the case of senior lieutenant Sergey Lapin, former officer of Nizhnevartovsk district internal affairs department (radio call sign "Cadet"), charged with torturing Zelimkhan Murdalov, resident of the Chechen capital.

Krasnodar garrison military tribunal has passed sentences to two soldiers on the case of non-statutory relations in Krasnodar region.

The South Osetia authorities accuse Georgian MIA officers of killing Felix Ghaghiyev, resident of South Osetia, who died in hospital after beating.

Today, the St-Petersburg jury court has passed a verdict on the case of murder of Timur Kacharava, student and anti-fascist, and assault on his friend Maxim Zghibay in November 2005.

The prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria has responded to the request of Kabardino-Balkarian public human rights center on the issue of a search conducted in the house of Ruslan Karabashev, resident of Nalchik, and his registration as a supporter of radical Islam.

Today, a second medical examination of arrested journalist Mushfig Guseinov has been conducted at Baillovski pre-trial prison.