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Warsaw, the capital of Poland, has hosted the First International Conference of the Society "Caucasian House" with participation of prominent specialists from the countries of South Caucasus and representatives of youth organizations from Georgia and Armenia.

Mikhail Trepashkin, ex-FSB colonel, who was convicted for disclosure of state secrets and got his liberty today, is going to appeal against his verdict.

On November 29, an announcement appeared in the Internet website Ingushetia.Ru, which had been oppositional to the authorities of Ingushetia, that it would be terminated in the nearest two-three days.

On November 29, the European Court for Human Rights passed its final decision on the complaint of political emigrant, leader of Talysh separatists Alikram Gumbatov versus Azerbaijan.

The European Court for Human Rights has recognized the guilt of the Russian authorities of murdering three residents of Chechnya, having passed today a decision on the case "Tangieva versus Russia".

The Supreme Court of Russia has rejected the cassation complaint asking to cancel the verdict to special troop's officer Eduard Ulman and members of his scout group, convicted for wilful murder of six peaceful residents of Chechnya.

Yuri Tomchak, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic, has stated today that tortures were not applied to Zeitun Gaev who had committed suicide in Building 1 of the Interior Department of the city of Nalchik.

In Ingushetia, human rights activists have undertaken to investigate the beating of the filming crew of the "Ren-TV" Channel. The human rights activists think that the Articles, on which the criminal case was initiated, were too lenient, since they do not treat kidnapping and beating.

Faina Kungurova's death in custody on November 18, the only woman recognized by the Council of Europe to be political prisoner in 2001, is a vivid evidence of the arbitrariness and violence reigning over not only the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also the Penitentiary System of Azerbaijan.

Today, the European Court of Human Rights found Russia responsible for killing Zaynap Tangiyeva's elderly father, mother and uncle on the night of 10-11 January 2000 in violation of Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

On December 9, Baku will host the international conference "Human Rights Policies of the European Union and Council of Europe: Prospects of Azerbaijan in the European Integration Process".

Today, in the city of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, activists of the "Dalga" (Wave) youth oppositional movement were holding a protest action, which was stopped by the police.

Human rights activist are concerned with the end on October 1, 2007, of the US resettlement programme for Meskhetian Turks who live in the Krasnodar Territory.

Leader of the Dagestan regional branch of the "Yabloko" Party Farid Babaev, who died on November 24 from gunshot wounds, had stated, not long before the attempt on his life, that the pre-election campaign of the party in power in Dagestan reposes only on the use of the so-called "administrative resource".

Today, a session of the Board of the South Transport Prosecutor's Office on the issues of legislation observance by marine transport and operation of port complexes took place in Rostov-on-Don.

The "Berliner Zeitung" has reported today about the arrest in Berlin of one of the leaders of Georgian opposition, ex-Minister of Defence Irakliy Okruashvili, accused by Georgian authorities of a number of crimes.

In the evening on November 25, employees of the Babek Police Unit of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijan detained Tavakkyul Aliev and Gaim Dzhafaroglu in the Nekhram settlement.

The members of the filming crew of the "Ren-TV" Company who were kidnapped and beaten in Ingushetia at night of Saturday, January 24, are confident that they were attacked by employees of local special agencies.

For several days already, the Temporary Accommodation Centre for forced migrants, located in Michurin settlement of the Oktiabrskiy District of the city of Grozny, has been cut off from heat and electricity supplies.

The "Musavat" opposition party has appealed to the oppositional forces of Azerbaijan with a proposal to set up the Resistance Movement for fighting against repressions of the authorities.