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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.

Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia, has informed today that he demands to initiate a criminal case on the fact of pogrom of the oppositional "Imedi" TV Company.

In the city of Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan), the police have searched the office of the Resource Centre for Human Rights and confiscated computers and documents.

Tomorrow, on December 8, the website "Ingushetia.Ru" will restart its broadcasting in full scope, including reopening of the sections "Forum", "Guest Book" and "Announcements".

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the jailing today of yet another journalist in Azerbaijan, making him the tenth currently behind bars in the country.

At the trial of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, Dmitri Agranovskiy, one of Arakcheev's three advocates, has spoken at the parties' debate and asserted that the witnesses had testified under pressure.

Ivan Kirillov, 40, a citizen of Russia, asserts that he managed to run away from Georgian slavery. He was violently taken away to the Mestiyskiy District, Upper Svanetia, where he was forced to work during four years.

It became known yesterday that on December 5, on the second day after the rally in Nazran (Ingushetia), Svetlana Izotyeva, journalist of the weekly "Argumenty i Facty" was severely beaten.

The city court of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, has lifted the arrest on the property of the "Imedi" TV Company under the petition of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.

The trial on liquidation of the public organization named "The Board of Elders of Balkar People", initiated by the public prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria, has been reappointed on December 11.

The Committee for Protection of Human Rights of the United Nations has made a number of remarks on inefficient protection of civil and political human rights in Georgia. They were stated during presentation of the Committee's conclusions on the 3rd Periodic Report on legal defence at the office of Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia.

In the Volgograd Region, prosecutor's inspections undertaken at five investigatory isolation facilities and eight premises that function as SIZOs have revealed numerous violations of the rights of suspects and defendants.