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Criminal proceedings against Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, were unlawful, and the court pronounced an unfair decision. This was stated on September 13 by Svetlana Gannushkina, Chair of the Committee "Civil Assistance", during the press conference "Fabrication of criminal charges. Yesterday, today, tomorrow". The experts, participating in the event, apart from the situation with Zara Murtazalieva, mentioned several more examples of, according to them, fabricated criminal cases.

Candidates for the Presidential Council for Civil Society Development and Human Rights, in the group No. 12 "Protection of human rights in Northern Caucasus, promotion of civil peace formation and elimination of terrorism in North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD)" treat the normalization of situation in Northern Caucasus, the search for system solutions in the organization of law enforcement authorities in the territory of the NCFD, the integration of civil society and the protection of women's rights as priority tasks.

In the case of riots in the village of Demyanovo, prosecution witnesses are being pressured by the law enforcement agencies. This was stated by Vasily Dravert, the lawyer of defendant Vladimir Burakov. According to investigator Ivan Ugryumov, all witnesses were questioned in accordance with the law.

Today, the magistrate court of the Adler District of Sochi fined 1000 roubles each of two activists of the youth branch of the "Yabloko" Party and the project "Occupy Kuban", who were earlier detained in Kudepsta on charges of disobeying police officers.

The initiative group of Tbilisi residents appeals to the authorities of Georgia, asking to find and punish the persons, responsible for desecrating the church in the centre of the capital of the republic.

On September 13, in the Charoda District of Dagestan, unidentified armed men in masks and camouflage tried to stop the car with the money, intended for the payment of pensions.

During eight months of this year, Chechen drugs police officers seized from illegal trafficking 22 kilograms and 244 grams of narcotic and potent substances. During the last year, in the territory of the republic, about 17 kilograms of narcotic substances were seized.

Today, in Sochi, Anatoly Makhnovskiy, a 64-year-old chairman of the territorial public self-administration (TPS) "Kudepsta", was buried. More than 300 city residents came to say goodbye to the civil activist.

Investigators consider robbery as the main version of kidnapping of a law enforcement officer in Dagestan. The purpose of the kidnappers was a car of the police officer. This was reported by a source in the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

During operational search actions in Dagestan the police personnel found a policeman kidnapped on September, 13.

A trial on the case of murder of a military doctor in "Arsankar" restaurant that started in Armenia on September, 13, was deferred till September, 24, because of the absence of the defendant's attorney Aram Khachatryan, representatives of the court of general jurisdiction Avan and Nor Nork reported.

On September, 13, policemen in the settlement of Remontnoye prevented a collision among several tens people who gathered in the square near the market in order to stick up for their friends.

At a plenary session on September, 13, European Parliament adopted a resolution "on Safarov's case" expressing regret about President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev's decision of pardon to Ramil Safarov who killed Armenian officer Gurgen Margaryan in 2004 in Budapest.

In process of shelling carried out within the framework of a special operation on search of gunmen in Buinaksk district an error occurred and the shells got into the territory of boarding school No 3, Press Service of Chief Military Investigative Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia reported.

Corruption in Northern Caucasus differs from the all-Russian one: the south of the country is indulged in so-called "clan corruption" when some groups of citizen promote their relatives and often neglect the more experienced and trained personnel. This was reported by participants of the press conference "Corruption and Human Rights in Contemporary Russia".

Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that military men were not involved in two explosions, which occurred in the territory of the boarding school in Buinaksk.

The Investigatory Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) in Dagestan has completed the investigation into the criminal case against law enforcement agents of the OVD (Interior Division) of the Kazbek District on shelling in 2006 of Sapiyat Magomedova and Gasan Baisultanov. The notification about that was received by Mamatkhan Baisultanov, the father of Gasan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt.

In Sochi, two participants of the protest action against forest cutting in Kudepsta were detained for resisting the police. The activists have occupied the territory, where the Termal Power Plant (TPP) is under construction.

In the city of Novocherkassk of the Rostov Region, on the eve of the "March of Millions", which is to be held on September 15 in Rostov-on-Don, Oleg Prudnikov, an activist of the "Left-Wing Front", has been arrested for five days. Oppositionists of the city of Taganrog also claim that they are being visited by police officers at their houses, who warn them of the illegality of the meeting of September 15.

Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin appealed to the court authorities to expedite consideration of the cases, related to payments to victims of the flooding in Krymsk. Compensation was not paid to 5913 citizens, who at the time of the disaster had no permanent residence. This was stated by Vladimir Putin at the meeting in Sochi, dedicated to elimination of consequences of the flooding in the Krasnodar Territory.