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The name of the detained man is not disclosed in the interests of investigation. He is being held in the investigatory isolation ward of the Abkhazian State Security Service.

"All the efforts we have made to learn anything about the destiny of meeting participants being held by the police have been unsuccessful," reads the statement by the opposition party Anrapetutiun (Republic).

"In case of an inadequate reaction from Tbilisi, the peace march may have any ending," Tsotne Bakuriya, a member of the Revival Party, emphasized. "We don't want to have common people suffer from that," he added.

It was devoted to the violations of human rights in the Krimsk district.

The factions Justice and National Unity demanded that the parliament should adopt the amendments and supplements to the Law on the Referendum that the opposition need to conduct a referendum on the vote of confidence to President Robert Kocharian.

Residents of Duba-Yurt are convinced their killed fellow-villages were taken away by officers of Russian security structures.

Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Security Council Secretary Vano Merabishvili will arrive in Batumi for a new round of talks on April 13.

The press service for the Combined Federal Forces in Chechnya reported on April 11 that the man was Magomed Kazayev, who was a member of the rebel group led by Shaa Turlayev, chief of Maskhadov's security.

Non-governmental organizations in Dagestan arranged many actions to second the demand to release Arjan. It may be that they contributed to his release.

The Armenian opposition held a meeting on April 9. Among the slogans were "Robert Kocharian, leave," "The illegitimate president must leave."

The director of the center, Valery Khatazhukov, called the actions of the regional department of justice "hysterics" and said it had no formal legal grounds for not registering his organization.

On April 9, the Stavropol Regional Court made a decision to liquidate the humanitarian aid agency Danish Refugee Council.

A Georgian armed group captured a serviceman of the Abkhazian Armed Forces, Valery Morokhia, on April 6.

Human rights defenders mention arbitrary bans on meetings, bans on citizens' free movement in the country, illegal detentions, and attacks against media representatives.

A cameraman for Chechen State TV and Radio Company was abducted by gunmen in masks and camouflage in Grozny on April 9.

"The authors of such statements really impede the process of political settlement in Chechnya," Akhmad Kadyrov said on Friday, April 9.

Two residents of Shelkovskaya in Chechnya will be paid 300,000 rubles each within a few days for having alerted special services to the presence of a notorious separatist field commander and mastermind of terror attacks, Abubakar Visimbayev, in their village.

Fifteen years ago, elements of the Soviet Army dispersed thousands of activists of the national movement who had gathered for a peaceful meeting on Rustaveli Avenue in the heart of Tbilisi.

According to the military, the operation to destroy Saidov, who was Shamil Basayev's subordinate, was conducted by the special operations battalion Vostok under the command of Sulim Yamadayev.

Two other officers received wounds of different severity.