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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.

The Nalchik City Court has recognized the decision of Nalchik prosecutor's office to reject initiation of a criminal case on the fact of application of violence in relation to Rasul Kudaev to be illegal and unreasonable and has obliged the prosecutor's office to eliminate the admitted violations.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Ombudsman for Chechnya, has called on the law enforcement bodies of North Ossetia to bring all those involved in the attack on pilgrims from Chechnya - both performers and organizers - to responsibility.

In the opinion of Ombudsman of Georgia Sozar Subari, there are "prisoners of conscience" in Georgia.

Today, Ganimat Zakhidov, editor-in-chief of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg" (Freedom), who is in custody, has begun his termless hunger strike with a demand to stop suppression of the freedom of press in Azerbaijan.

Terry Davis, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, has addressed the Azerbaijani authorities in connection with the arrest in Nakhichevan of Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist of Radio Liberty.

Pilgrims from Chechnya who were making their way to Saudi Arabia were beaten in North Ossetia.

The "Solidarity" Stavropol organization for rendering help to refugees and forced migrants has won a grant instituted by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, thanks to which they plan to develop the legal aid system to migrants residing in the Stavropol Territory.

Today, the "Equality Institute" and members of youth oppositional organizations have held a rally in the Riket Square of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in memory of dispersal of the meeting on November 7.