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Tonight the Georgian police has dispersed scores of representatives of non-government organizations and political parties holding an action of protest on the Rustaveli avenue in front of the Georgian parliament.

The prosecutor's office of Khasavyurt has appealed in the Supreme Court of Dagestan the ruling of the Khasavyurt town court of May 17 of this year on invalidating the November 16, 2005 award of the magistrate of section No 35 on the arrest of Osman Boliev, the local human rights activist, for two days for defying the orders of militia officers.

The "Amnesty International" human rights organization in its new report expresses concern with the growth of xenophobia in Russia and violations of human rights in the Chechen conflict.

Today, a group of women are picketing the entrance to the territory of the Chechen Government building in Grozny.

Ombudsmen from nine subject provinces of SFD will discuss problems connected with observance of human rights in the course of the international scientific and practical conference "Public relations and human rights in the south of Russia: History, modern times, perspectives" which is to be held in Volgograd.

This morning, rubbles have started to be removed on the place of the operation in Khasavyurt on the liquidation of militants.

Two meetings were held on May 21 in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, in front of the memorial to the victims of the Russian-Caucasian war.

According to Frumkin, Stomakhin is still held in the prison hospital of the Moscow pre-trial prison "Matrosskaya Tishina."

Vardan Oskanian, head of the Armenian MFA, has signed the 13th Protocol to the Convention on Human Rights abolishing the death penalty under any circumstances.

The OSCE Baky office has resolutely condemned the "brutal attack" on Bakhaddin Khaziev, the chief editor of the opposition newspaper "Bizim Yol" ("Our way") and deputy chairman of the Party of the Popular Front of Azerbaijan (PPFA).

Yesterday, on May 19, a group of residents of the village of Mekhtiabad in Azerbaijan held an action of protest in front of the mosque "Teze Pir" in which the Directorate of Caucasian Moslems (DCM) is located.

Connections of the well-known American political scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski with the members of the youth organization "Eni Fikir" ("New Thought") active in Azerbaijan have not been proved.

At the 30th anniversary of the Moscow Helsinki Group that was marked in Moscow on May, Vadim Karastelyov, expert of the NGO "Novorossisk Human Rights Committee," offered the participants of the jubilee conference to address the FGR Chancellor Ms. Merkel not to grant an entry visa to Germany for the period of three years to Alexander Tkachov, governor of the Krasnodar Territory.

The human rights organization "Committee Against Tortures" (CAT) reported that the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic initiated a case of application of tortures against Mikhail Vladovskiy, a citizen of Chechnya who suffered from illegal actions of the workers of law enforcement bodies.

On May 12, 2006, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.

In the Volgograd Region, thousands of heavy chronic patients in need of permanent use of expensive drugs applied for refusal from social services for 2006.

The public commission for investigating the meeting dispersal in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25 this year arrived to the conclusion that human rights were severely breached in the Republic.

On Friday, May 12, Biriev, Amir Abdul-Vakhidovich, commandant of MTF-1 of the town of Karabulak of the Republic of Ingushetia, born in 1959, was kidnapped.

The International Helsinki Federation for human rights called the Council of Europe to hold an investigation into the messages about secret prisons in Chechnya.

Zamoskvoretskiy Court of Moscow issued a sanction to arrest Moscow notary Fail Sadretdinov, who was acquitted earlier on the case of the murder of Paul Khlebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the Forbes magazine.