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The ceremony of reburial of the remains of Khadji Murad, held in the village of Khunzakh on June 2, was not in line with the Sharia law, Khadjimurad Donogo, a historian, and Ziyavudin Uvaisov, a lawyer, have stated. Good grounds are needed for such a ceremony, said Imam Akhmad Anchikhsky.

Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya gave no reaction to the statement by Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who reported that a resident of the village of Novye Atagi was seriously wounded by law enforcers. The video about this incident aroused great interest among YouTube users. Investigators must check the information about the crime, Musa Pliev, an advocate, has stated.

Mikhail Kalandiya was accused of killing a schoolboy in Tbilisi after new evidence of his involvement in the crime appeared, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated. Kalandiya refuses to plead guilty.

The meeting of Azerbaijani officials with the Rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), who is preparing a report on political prisoners, has been postponed for three months. By taking advantage of the fact that the lady's visit had been scheduled for the holiday, the authorities have disrupted her speech, human rights defenders assert.

The Nalchik court has extended the arrest of the Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev by 3.5 months and rejected the defence's motion for the disqualification of the judge.

The courthouse in Nalchik, where a session is underway on extending the arrest of the Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev, was surrounded by armed law enforcers. Relatives were not allowed into the courtroom, Fatima Urusova, an advocate, has stated.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russian authorities to pay compensation to relatives of 20 persons, who disappeared during special operations in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

On 4 June, the Armenian MPs have approved the bill prescribing to pay compensations to those who suffered during the dispersal of demonstrators on March 1-2, 2008. The amount of compensation will be defined by the government.

Opponents hinder the placement of campaigning materials in the Mtatsminda District, where the second round of parliamentary elections will take place on June 9, activist of the "European Georgia" Party report, asserting that the authorities are even using released prisoners to exert pressure on voters.

In the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, Chechen republic's mass media are constantly reporting about the charity events held by the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund. This is a typical activeness of the Fund during Ramadan, although such a scale is not typical for charitable funds in other Muslim regions of Russia.

Despite the softening of his sentence, the advocates of Orkhan Bakhyshly, a young activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), intends to appeal against it to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Muslims in Chechnya celebrate the Uraza Bayram with granting Zakat, collective prayers and visiting relatives' graves.

There is not a single operating mosque in Krasnodar; the nearest ones are in Adygea; and they are always overcrowded on holidays, local Imams have stated.

A Nalchik court has ruled to detain Zelimkhan Bopkhoev, a participant of the March rally in Magas, accused of attacking law enforcers, for two months, his advocate Kaloi Akhilgov has informed.

The prison term of Orkhan Bakhyshly, a young activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been halved by the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan.

A suspect in the case of the murder of schoolboys has been detained while trying to leave Tbilisi, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed today.

The Krasnodar Territorial Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has launched a check of the video, in which Vadim Kharchenko, a local blogger, told about an attack on him. YouTube users have supported the blogger and his activities.

Today, at least 200,000 Muslims, who live and came to the Volgograd Region to visit their relatives or get seasonal work, took part in celebrating the Uraza Bayram holiday, Andrei Kirilenko, the executive officer of the regional Muftiate has stated.

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, has ordered to inspect, by June 20, the places of compact residence of forced migrants and to update the lists of those who claim to get the state support. There is no plan to urgently resettle the barracks in Nazran, said Timur Akiev, a representative of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The law enforcers, who conducted a search of the apartment of Arsen Abdullaev, a Jehovah's Witness (the organization, recognized as extremist and banned in Russia by the court), who was arrested in Dagestan, used threats and intimidation, Suat, Arsen's wife, has stated.