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The Georgian Association "For Advocacy of Media" sent a statement to the Minister of Interior Affairs of Georgia Vano Merebishvili asking for investigation of all the cases of beating and detention of journalists and destroying there devices during dispersal of the oppositional meeting in Rustaveli avenue on May, 26.

On May, 31, human rights activist Sergey Basmanov held a one-person picket in Sochi within the framework of the action "Strategy-31" in protection of clause 31 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. According to him, the action passed off without incidents.

The State Duma has adopted amendments to the Criminal-Executive Code of the Russian Federation, under which those convicted for involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) and extremism may be sent to serve their terms to any region of Russia, regardless of where the crime was committed. Human rights defenders were against the amendments.

On May 30, several dozens of protesters rallied in Yerevan in front of the courthouse against the trial of Tigran Postanjyan.

On May 30, during a quarrel in a cafe in the city of Karabulak, a policeman accidentally wounded a woman, the owner of the entity from his pistol.

The son of first Georgian president Zviad Gamsakhurdia - Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, who is serving his sentence on charges of a premeditated murder attempt, has gone on hunger strike after the prison authorities did not allow him to receive medication from his relatives. This was reported by Keti Bekauri, his advocate.

The relatives of Shamil Omarov, a resident of the village of Sultanyangiyurt, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, who was kidnapped on May 28, who have organized today a spontaneous rally, had a meeting with a representative of the administration of the head of Dagestan. He received the relatives' application to the name of Magomedsalam Magomedov, where they ask to clarify Shamil's whereabouts and give him out to his family. Sergey Trofimov, Deputy Interior Minister of Dagestan, instructed his subordinates to inform him about the results of searching Omarov.

Parishioners cannot pray in the mosque of the village of Sovietskoe, Magaramkent District, because it was closed at the insistence of Shakir Omarov, head of the ROVD (District Interior Division). This was reported by the mosque imam Said Gereikhanov.

Today, at 6:20 p.m. Moscow time, in Freedom Square a several thousand strong rally of the oppositional Armenian National Congress (ANC) began.

In the course of a special operation in Vladikavkaz, the supposed killer of the Ossetian national poet Shamil Dzhigkaev was liquidated. In the shootout a SWAT officer was wounded.

The Meschansky District Court of Moscow has decided to deport the Georgian journalist from the First Information Caucasian Channel (PIK-Channel) Natiya Poladashvili.

According to the judgment of Central district court, Administration of Volgograd must provide additional places in kindergartens and totally eliminate the existing waiting list by September, 1, 2012.

The Office has reported that its employees are checking whether the suspension of the work of the "Krestianin" Printing House, located in the Myasnikov District, was legitimate.

Skirmishes at the contact line and cases of people's death in the zone of Karabakh confrontation cause a serious concern of the European Union, EU National report of development of the "The European Neighbourhood Policy" in Armenia upon the results of 2010 runs.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia has not received a single statement of disappearance of citizens after dispersal of the action of "People's Assembly" at night of May, 26, in Rustaveli avenue, Press service of the Ministry reports.

The court in Denmark sentenced a twenty-five-year-old Russian citizen, native of Chechnya, Lors Dukaev to 12 years of custody for blasting a bomb in one of the hotels of Copenhagen. The City court of Copenhagen passed a judgment according to which Dukaev had to serve his custody term in Denmark and then be deported to Russia.

Rustam Makhmudov whom the investigation considers executor of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of "Novaya Gazeta", was detained in Chechnya. This was reported by attorney Murad Musaev who represents the interests of Makhmudov's brother Jabrail.

The court in Batumi, which considers the case of espionage in favour of Russian secret services, would not admit defence witnesses, said lawyer Gocha Sagrishvili, who is defending four accused persons at the trial. According to his story, he does not consider the case "through the political prism", but believes that the investigation is conducted with violations of law and human rights. Another lawyer - Gela Nikoleishvili - supports this opinion.

The oppositional movement "People's Assembly" has spread an appeal running that dozens of people detained after the dispersal of the protest action on May 26 are kept in custody in most severe conditions. In this regard, the movement asks human rights and other nongovernmental organizations, as well as lawyers, to provide assistance to detainees.

Seventeen human rights organizations of Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia state that the dispersal of the protest rally in Tbilisi on May 26 was followed by political repressions in Georgia. They addressed the US State Department, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the European Union, the OSCE/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) and the diplomatic missions accredited in Georgia, urging them to urgently set up a group for monitoring the current events and related trials, and to publicly condemn the excessive use of force by the police at the dispersal.