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European Committee against tortures and inhuman or humiliating treatment (ECAT) welcomes the drastic steps taken by Georgian authorities for avoidance of cruel treatment, as it is emphasized in the report of ECAT.

As reported by Svetlana Danelyan, leader of the initiative group of Vardane villagers, the participants of the protest action, which was dispersed by OMON (special militia) fighters on September 3, are still persecuted by militia and judicial instances.

Three persons perished and ten were taken to hospital in Kalmykia as a result of a head-on collision of a bus with a "VAZ-2114" car. The bus was following from Makhachkala to Moscow.

Personnel of State Communications Inspection of Abkhazia have removed the transmitters broadcasting the programs of Georgian TV from the territory of Inguri hydro power, Gali district of the republic.

Press service of the republican Ministry of Interior Affairs reported an explosion on the way of a militia car in Kizyl-Yurt.

On September, 21, Doku Umarov, head of Chechen gunmen, deprived Aslanbek Vadalov, Khusein Gakaev and Tarkhan Gaziev, leaders of Chechen sector of "Caucasus" Imarat, of their ranks and titles for having disobeyed him. On Umarov's decision the degraded commanders had to be brought before shariat court.

Today, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia has published the names of the officer and two soldiers - heroes of the video "True Face of Our Army" placed on the Internet. According to the statement of the Ministry, Major Sasun Galstyan was arrested and is accused of abusing his official duties. The regular service sergeant and a private have been recognized as victims.

On September, 21, the Appellate Court of Tbilisi delivered a standing judgment on the verdict of the court of first instance concerning Gamsakhurdia, the first Georgian President's son according to which the convict had to stay in prison nine years and six months.

Journalists from Ingushetia and South Ossetia have adopted a joint address to the nations of both republics calling them to dialogue. Reaction followed from the youth and Internet community; however, the authorities remain indifferent, said Maria Pilon, a journalist from the South-Ossetian newspapers "21st Century".

On September 21, a court session took place in Rostov-on-Don on case dealing with the challenge of the decision of the prosecutor's office of the Rostov Region, which made a warning about inadmissibility of extremist earlier this February to Konstantin Baranov, head of the Rostov branch of the public organization "Young Europe".

Rescuers have stopped searching the tourist from Germany, who disappeared two weeks ago in the vicinity of the settlement of Dombai in Karachai-Circassia, Andrei Mozgov, deputy head of the search-and-rescue detachment of the local Ministry for Emergencies (MfE), has reported.

On September 21, Tamara Novikova, mother of Dmitri Novikov, a judge from Sochi, spent several hours in a solo picket in front of the territorial administration and the old and new buildings of the territorial court, trying to draw attention of journalists, public, authorities and Russian President to corruption problems within local authorities.

The wide-scale subbotnik aimed to clean the streets of the capital of Chechnya from garbage and improve their appearance, which was suspended because of the month of Ramadan, will restart within the next few days.

On September 21, Alexander Khloponin, Plenipotentiary of Russian President in the NCFD (North-Caucasian Federal District), and Magomedsalam Magomedov, head of Dagestan, discussed, at the meeting with representatives of the Muslim, Christian and Judaic faiths, the problems of religious extremism and the reason, forcing the youth to "go to the forest."

A road accident caused a fire of the gas main; a nearby house burnt down; and there are casualties.

Lawyer Dzhamilya Tagirova, who was beaten by Kerim Mazaev, an inspector of the Sovietskiy ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, in his study, has revealed that certain militiamen appeared in the criminal case, who had allegedly been eyewitnesses of the incident and evidenced that it was the lawyer who had attacked the inspector.

Today at night in the cemetery, located in the Digomi District between the territory of the former car market and US embassy in Tbilisi, an explosion was triggered; it has harmed nobody, and the circumstances are now studied.

Today in Makhachkala, in front of the Avar Theatre, a protest rally against kidnappings and arbitrariness of power agencies was organized by human rights activists, lawyers and journalists of Dagestan.

Armed guards did not admit the women who had come bareheaded to a festive concert devoted to the Day of Chechen Woman.

An attempt at Deputy chief of Inner security department of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Kabardino-Balkaria took place on September, 20, in Nalchik, capital of the Republic. The officer got wounded.