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"The Society rates the abduction and murder of Aslan Davletukayev as another act of state terror against people of the Chechen Republic and as another episode in the chain of physical extermination of political and ideological opponents by the regime," reads the statement made by the organization on the occasion of the murder of Aslan Davletukayev.

Witnesses say the abductors bear relation to security structures and Kadyrov's security service.

According to Mr Ilyasov, only 5 thousand displaced persons live in three tent camps and "nobody forces them to return to Chechnya."

The exchange of fire stopped only after an armored carrier with Russian peacekeepers had arrived at the clash site.

We call your attention to the statement by Olivier Dupuis in which he explains the reasons of his hunger strike.

The US Secretary of State also noted the United States hoped that Russia would find a political solution to the problem of terrorism with due account taken for human rights.

In January 2004, an initiative group of Yekaterinburg people is carrying out an action of protest against human rights violations during the war in Chechnya.

In the course of the Migrant operation, administrative proceedings were instituted against 13 thousand people - 6 thousand of them are foreign citizens - for violations of the passport and visa regulations.

In Vladikavkaz, the chairwoman of the Council of Non-Government Organizations, Zuleykhan Bagalova, and members of the Public Council for Refugees had a meeting with a representative of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in the North Caucasus, William Tall.

A constituent meeting of the Committee to Protect Rights of Rauf Arifoglu, editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Yeni Musavat arrested on October 27 in connection with the October 15 and 16 events, was held at the International Press Club on January 22.

"They were detained in the course of investigation of the abduction and robbery of two inhabitants of the Kargalinovskaya Cossack village in the Shelkovskaya district," Chechen Interior Ministry officials said.

Adversaries of the forum lay strictures on the Swedish Government because representatives of the Palestinians, Chechens and Kurds have not been invited to take part in it.

Four servicemen were killed and another four were injured as a result of the explosion.

"The problem of Meskhetian Turks no longer exists in Krasnodar Territory as the Law on Citizenship has been passed," declared Russian Deputy Interior Minister Colonel-General Aleksandr Chekalin.

Aslan Davletukayev was illegally detained by officers of security agencies on January 10 in the village of Avtury, Chechnya's Shali district.

He named the restoration of Georgia's territorial integrity, extermination of poverty and corruption as the priorities in his activity.

Details of the incident near the Chechen village of Gekhi were disclosed at the press center of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasian region on January 23.

Amnesty International urges President Saakashvili to demonstrate his commitment to human rights by promoting respect for the rights of all, regardless of their political opinion, religious belief, ethnic background, or gender.

Georgia's elect President Mikhail Saakashvili received blessing of Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and took an oath on the tomb of King David the Builder in the Gelati monastery.

Chief of the president's staff section to work with law-enforcement agencies Fuad Alekserov told journalists about it.