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The Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre has received five applications from the relatives of the persons accused of attacking the power agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, asking to help in defending their rights.

The Kurmukh St George church located in the Gakh District of Azerbaijan (adjoining Georgia with partially Georgian population) is still closed.

In Georgia the opposition demands that the authorities release five activists of opposition parties arrested on October 26 in the Tsalendzhikh District (region of Samegrelo, Western Georgia).

The international human rights organizations Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Penal Reform International are recommending in their report to the government of Georgia to take urgent measures to stop tortures and cruel treatment in the places of detention and custody.

Near the Solovki Boulder in the Lubyanka Square in Moscow, a meeting was held in memory of the victims of the 1992 Ossetian-Ingush conflict in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia.

In Armenia, editors-in-chief of oppositional newspapers "Aikakan Zhamanak" (Armenian Time) and "Chorord Ishkhanutyun" (Fourth Power) Nikol Pashinyan and Shoger Matevosyan are suspected under the articles of hooliganism and rendering resistance to the police. Ten persons in total, have also been attracted as suspects under the above articles.

At today's trial of journalist Einullah Fatullaev, the state prosecutor Chingiz Shukyurov made his statement. He has asked the court to sentence the journalist to 10 years of imprisonment.

Because of construction of a new building of the US Embassy in the capital of Azerbaijan, the authorities of the city made a decision to evict a group of refugees from the territory of the former trolleybus depot.

On the day of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train, the residents of Ingushetia arrested on suspicion of having attitude to the terror act, probably, were near to the place of the accident, a spokesman of the Malaya Vishera District Court of the Novgorod Region has told today.

After the mourning ceremony held in memory of the victims of the terror act at the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre in Moscow, about five hundred persons took part in a peaceful meeting.

The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia has confirmed the life imprisonment verdict to Nurpashi Kulaev, who took part in seizure of hostages at School No. 1 of the city of Beslan in North Ossetia.

Since 21 October 2007, the website Human Rights in Russia at www.hro.org, the largest Russian-language Internet resource on human rights in the Russian Federation, has been subjected to a relentless and concentrated computer attack with access to the site blocked.

The largest Russian language human rights website is facing a major and clearly deliberate DDoS attack.

The Amnesty International has expressed its concern of the rapid aggravation of the situation in Ingushetia, caused by the growing number of violent disappearances, kidnappings and other violations of human rights.

The European Union should use the summit Russia-EU to be held on October 26 in Portugal for a resolute dialogue with the Kremlin on the aggravating situation with human rights and justice, including Chechnya.

Yesterday, the Moscow City Court found the arrest of Shamil Buraev, former head of the Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, accused of conspiracy in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta", to be legitimate.

Today, the Basmanny Court of Moscow has refused to oblige the Investigatory Committee of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia to admit the victim party to participation in the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya.

The preliminary hearing on the criminal case about the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, committed on October 13, 2005, scheduled on today is postponed till November 15.

The participants of the meetings held on October 24 in Chechnya in support of the incumbent President of Russia Vladimir Putin were forced to participate in the action.

Relatives of the residents of Ingushetia detained on suspicion of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train and local human rights activists do not believe in Khidriev brothers' involvement in the incident.