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Sources from the Election Office of Levon Ter-Petrosyan assert that 12 activists of Armenian opposition have been exposed to tortures at the penitentiary establishments of Yerevan.

In Krasnodar, a sergeant suspected of beating soldier Alexander Ivanov, was placed on March 18 into the temporary insulation facility.

Today, representatives of the OSCE Mission and engineers from the United Nations Mission have arrived to Tskhinvali for preparation to implementation of one of the projects. According to the news item of the Georgian TV Company "Rustavi-2", the work of the members of international organizations was disrupted by the KGB of South Ossetia.

The Nalchik City Court has rejected the complaint of advocate Larissa Dorogova claiming to recognize illegitimate the actions of the employees of the Nalchik SIZO in Kabardino-Balkaria who refused to let her in to her client Zaur Tokhov for rendering legal assistance to him.

The NGO Board under the Ombudsman and the Public Chamber of Chechnya ask Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov to investigate the activities of Ahmed Khasambekov who headed the ORB-2 (Operations and Search Bureau) in 2000-2007.

Well-known workers of culture have joined the appeal of the participants of the movement against the war in Northern Caucasus to Patriarch Alexis II with an appeal to assist in handing the remains of Aslan Maskhadov, second President of Chechnya and leader of separatists, out to his relatives.

On March 18, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliev signed a Decree to pardon 59 prisoners. The convicted journalists and well-known political prisoners are not in the list.

The ban on mass events has found the force of a law in Armenia until the end of the criminal case on the disorders in Yerevan at night on March 1 and early on March 2.

The "Echo Moskvy" Radio has reported that the Russian Supreme Court has rejected the suit on closing the "Ingushetia.Ru" website, accused by the Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia of publishing materials directed at excitation of national hatred and enmity in the society.

After having dismissed Andrei Melamedov, editor-in-chief of the paper, Rizvan Rizvanov, founder of the "Nastoyascheye Vremya" (Present Time) newspaper, now makes attempts to get rid of others unwanted employees.

For the first time the citizens of Azerbaijan will be able to study the cases in proceedings and decisions of the European Court for Human Rights in the Azerbaijani language.

The RF Council of Federation cannot stop broadcasting of the Ren-TV in the territory of Ingushetia, as it was demanded today by Republic's MPs.

The "Gazeta.Ru" reports that today the Judicial Panel on Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has satisfied the cassation of the Board of Elders of the Balkar People and cancelled the decision of the Kabardino-Balkarian SC to ban the activity of the Board, having ruled to send the case to re-consideration.

Today, the "Voice of Beslan" All-Russian NGO has lodged a cassation complaint to the Promyshlenny Court of North Ossetia against the decision of this Court upholding the legality of victims' bodies' examination.

In Tbilisi, the number of Georgian opposition members put to hospital in the course of the hunger strike has reached 12 people. About 70 people continue the strike.

Pensioners in Kislovodsk (Stavropol Krai) demand that the fight with corruption in the city should be accomplished. They put their demand into an appeal submitted to the prosecutor's offices of SFD, Stavropol Krai and the city of Kislovodsk, to the Krai Duma and administration, administration of Kislovodsk and chair of the city Council of Deputies.

In Krasnodar Krai, Anatoli Malyshev, resident of Tuapse, tried to burn himself in protest against his family eviction from the dormitory.

Today, the North Caucasus military district tribunal declined the cassation appeal of General Vasili Fomin, deputy commander of the North Caucasus military district internal troops of RF MoI, against the judgment of Rostov military garrison tribunal.

Mustafa Pogorov, uncle of Pogovorova Aishat who was run over by an APC in the Prigorodny district of North Ossetia, claims that the incident was a premeditated murder.

Thomas Hammerberg, Council of Europe High Commissioner on Human Rights, who came to Armenia on a three-day visit, stated in an interview to the radio "Liberty" that he was concerned with the human rights situation in Armenia.