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The Georgian "Imedi" TV Company, which restarted its broadcasting after a month-long forced break in the evening on December 12, is broadcasts to the regions of Georgia with strong jams.

The problem of trafficking in humans remains unaddressed in Azerbaijan, as stated by Myatanyat Azizova, leader of the Women's Crisis Centre.

The editor-in-chief of the "Chorord Ishkhanutyun" (Fourth Power) newspaper, the office of which was blown up this night, thinks that members of the authorities are behind the explosion.

Ganimat Zakhidov, arrested editor of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, who is on hunger strike since December 8, is under medical control. His health condition is estimated to be grave.

Relatives of Gamlet Parastaev, a citizen of the Republic of South Ossetia who was detained on November 27 by the Georgian police, have addressed Terry Hakala, head of the OSCE Mission in Georgia, with a request to render them any possible assistance.

15 illegal migrants from Russia were detained in the north of France; the majority of them have told that they are residents of Chechnya.

On December 8 the "Ingushetia.Ru" website resumed its full-scale operation. Lawyer Magomed Evloev is no longer editing the "Ingushetia.Ru" website but remains its owner.

The number of journalists who take part in the hunger strike, started on December 8 by Ganimat Zakhidov, arrested editor of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, is growing.

The Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan (FHROA) has made a statement with a request to appoint a Special Rapporteur on Political Prisoners in connection with the facts of application of torture in the country.

The press club named "Asparez" located in the city of Gyumri, Armenia, has founded a committee for defence of the rights of the "GALA" TV Company.

During 2007, over 100 court trials took place in Azerbaijan on defamation charges initiated by personal accusation or in the civil order of litigations.

More and more Azerbaijani journalists join the hunger strike of inmate Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper.

At first, the news programs of the "Imedi" TV Channel will be broadcast in Georgia not on the hourly basis but once every three hours.

At the process on the case Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering three residents of Chechnya in 2003, which is held by the North-Caucasian Regional Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the debate of the parties has ended.

Today in Nakhichevan, representatives of the US embassy to Azerbaijan have met Ilgar Nasibov, Radio Liberty correspondent, who was released yesterday, on December 10.

The problems of family violence were discussed at the roundtable held by the Association of Abkhazian Women (AAW) under the UN action "16 days of active actions against violence on women".

Muzafar Gaev, father of Zeitun Gaev from the village of Gerpegezh, Kabardino-Balkaria, has filed application to different instances asserting that Zeitun Gaev could not have committed suicide.

Today, the Nakhichevan City Court of Azerbaijan has passed a decision to release Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist of Radio Liberty, from under arrest.

On December 9 a route "Ikarus" model bus that performed a trip Pyatigorsk-Stavropol arrived to the bus station of the city of Nevinnomyssk. Most of its passengers went out of the bus, and an explosion thundered in the rear section of the bus that killed two passengers.

The law enforcement bodies of Chechnya are searching the persons who kidnapped at night of December 8 a local resident right from his own house in the city of Grozny.