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Irakliy Okruashvili was going to take part in the meeting on November 2, but under a threat of arrest he was forced to leave Georgia by subordinates of Bacho Akhalaya, head of the Department for Enforcing Punishments under the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

On October 30, about two hundred Moscow residents who rallied near the Solovki Boulder in Moscow demanded that the Kremlin immediate release political prisoners and paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the repressions during the totalitarian Soviet regime.

On October 30, the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society (RChFS) was officially registered in Finland. The RChFS registered in Finland is in fact completely reproducing the RChFS that was forbidden in Russia.

Entrepreneur Badri Patarkatsishvili has sold his controlling stake in the "Imedi" Georgian TV Company to American media magnate Rupert Murdock. The businessman has explained that he did it to protect the TV Company from pressure.

The 157-strong committee in defence of Einullah Fatullaev's rights has adopted a statement condemning the verdict of the Court for Grave Crimes to the journalist.

The problems created by Russian authorities for entering Russia and the ones connected with the freedom of travel inside the country are depriving the western public figures of a chance to render their help to residents of Northern Caucasus.

Today all the employees of the US Embassy in Azerbaijan are at work, and all the divisions operate to the full scale.

All the victims of the explosion of the passenger bus in Tolyatti have been identified. The majority of them were students of the Tolyatti State University.

Today, citizens of Russia mark the Memory Day of the victims of political repressions of 1937, instituted by the Decree of the RSFSR Supreme Soviet of 18.10.1991 No. 1763/1-I "On Instituting the Memory Day of Victims of Political Repressions".

National Defender (Ombudsman) of Georgia Sozar Subari has named the decision of Zugdidi Court on the events in Zugdidi during the oppositional meeting on October 28 to be another shameful fact in the history of Georgian justice.

In Azerbaijan, because of terrorist threats, Embassies of the USA and Great Britain, as well as offices of western companies are still closed.

The Centre of Civil Initiatives (CCI) in Nagorno-Karabakh has hosted a roundtable on psychological rehabilitation of prisoners, their problems during the arrest and post-prison social adaptation.

The student from Adygea, who had placed in the Internet a video record showing execution of Dagestan and Tajikistan natives, has asked the court to stop his case because of his repentance.

Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", has been sentenced to eight and a half years of imprisonment.

The action "Return of the Names" in memory of the victims of political repressions has started in the Lubyanka Square of Moscow.

The public committee in defence of political prisoner advocate Mikhail Trepashkin has called inhuman the numerous refusals of the administration of SIZO (pre-trial detention facility) No. 1 of Ekaterinburg to hand over to the convicted ex-FSB officer Trepashkin the asthma medicines vitally wanted by him.

According to Mikhail Machavariani, Vice-Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia, the yesterday's events in the district capital of Tsalendzhikha showed that the country is governed not by President-politician, but by President - head of "death squadrons".

The employees of the Internet portal "Human Rights in Russia" (HRO.org), which was attacked by malefactors and disabled for the time being, have launched a special temporary site for information support. Its address is http://hro1.org.

As a result of the investigation, the law enforcement bodies of Dagestan have found out that Sidrat Gasankhadzhieva, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, who died on October 23 in a shuttle-taxi, had nothing to do with the explosion.

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.