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The Service of State Security of Abkhazia has stated that evidences of the people, who had been subjected to forced labour for some years in Georgia, should become a weighty proof for international organizations of the fact that slavery is flourishing in the territory of this country.

The human rights website The Caucasus Times, which was attacked by hackers on December 22, will be able to restore about 80 percent of the information, which was considered lost.

The DEVAMM has issued an appeal to the leadership of Azerbaijan, stating that the law draft "On Education", now brought for consideration to Milli Medjlis, derogates from the right of the believers.

The relatives of the militants who fell victim in Nalchik on October 13, 2005, have lodged a petition to with a demand to bring Alexei Savrulin, head of the investigatory group of the RF's General Prosecutor's Office for the SFD, and Nikolai Shepel, former Deputy General Public Prosecutor for the SFD, to criminal responsibility.

For two years already, the Prosecutor's Office of the Kikvidzenskiy District, Volgograd Region, is trying to put things in order at the Macheshanskiy boarding house for aged people and invalids. The latest inspection has shown that the rights of the people who are living in the boarding house are still violently broken.

A preparatory session on the case of Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the "Azadlyg" newspaper who was arrested in Azerbaijan, is planned for December 26.

On December 23, a total of 57,898 applications from residents of Ingushetia have already been gathered who reject their participation in elections on December 2. But according to the official data of the Electoral Commission of Ingushetia, over 98 percent of enlisted voters took part in the voting on December 2.

Six skinheads were presented charges of attacking two Dagestan residents in an electric train in a Moscow suburb, as a result of which one of the victims died.

In Ingushetia, uncle of Rakhim Amriev, a boy of six murdered on November 9, 2007, in Chemulga village by members of power agencies, was fired from his post after a telephone call from the prosecutor's office.

The organizing committee of the nationwide rally informs about preparation of a new mass national protest action against corruption and arbitrariness of the authorities, and against violations of human rights in Ingushetia.

The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has expressed its concern with the situation in the area of freedom of mass media in Armenia.

The massive migration of young people from Chechnya to European has acquired a scale of a real national disaster.

The relatives of the victims of the accident with the Anapa - St-Petersburg flight of the Tu-154 aircraft, which crashed down in August 2006 near the city of Donetsk, have addressed President of Russia Vladimir Putin with a demand to hold a repeated objective criminal investigation.

On December 22 the police have detained political scientist Eldar Namazov, head of the Forum "In the Name of Azerbaijan", and several other members of the Committee in Defence of the Freedom of Speech.

On December 20, a press conference was held in the Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre, where Valery Khatazhukov announced the open letter addressed to President of Kabardino-Balkaria Arsen Kanokov and telling about violations of the rights of Moslems in the Republic.

Teo Tlashadze, an activist of the movement "For United Georgia", has addressed Nino Burdzhanadze, today's acting President Georgia, with a demand of protection and safety for all those who have differing political views.

The number of kidnappings and extrajudicial executions has essentially decreased in Chechnya, but fabrication of criminal cases is on the rise.

On December 11, 2007, the European Court for Human Rights in Strasbourg recognized the complaint of the resident of Chechnya "Umaeva versus Russia" to be eligible.

The NGO "Dagestan Mothers for Human Rights" has addressed the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan with a petition stating that detainee Ilyas Dibirov is exposed to tortures at the Pre-Trial Detention Facility of Makhachkala.

From today's morning, Ella Kesaeva and other members of the "Voice of Beslan" Committee are standing at the building of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia - they are not let inside, and the supervisory complaint has been accepted by nobody so far.