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On the eleventh day of the hunger-strike, started in Azerbaijan by life-sentenced inmates of the Gobustan prison, the health condition of some of them - Giorgiy Geladze, Shakir Rzakhanov, Ali Guliev and Bakhtiyar Dzhafarov who sewed up his mouth - got rapidly aggravated.

Public defenders of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov (Mirza Sakit), arrested in Azerbaijan, continue to inform the diplomatic corps on the events around the criminal case in relation to the journalist.

Some time ago the parents of the militants who had perished in Kabardino-Balkaria on October 13, 2005, addressed president of Russia V. Putin with a request to exhibit an act of humanism and give out the bodies for burial.

On July 6, 2006, in the settlement of Chernorechye of the Zavodskoj District of Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, when conducting targeted special actions, the employees of the district department of internal affairs detained one of local citizens.

The inmates of Colony No. 6 of the city of Rustavi (Georgia) announced a hunger-strike, as their relatives have explained, because of "lack of elementary conditions."

It has become known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the parents of the militants who have been killed in Kabardino-Balkaria militants have sent today an appeal to the summit of the "Great Eight," in which they ask to affect the issue of giving out the bodies of their sons for burial.

The Committee for defence of the rights of satirical journalist Sakit Zakhidov adopted today an appeal to the name of the head of Azerbaijan Ilkham Aliev.

"Recently, the bureaus of medical-social examination of Volgograd have transformed into an efficient instrument of eugenics that is reviving in Russia and is aggressively trying to penetrate the fundamental dogmata of state policy of Russia," Andrey Bachman, an activist of antifascist movement of Volgograd told in his interview to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot".

Victoria Webb and Frieda Vike, representatives of the international human rights organization "Amnesty International", have visited Kabardino-Balkaria.

The legislative norms prohibiting the bodies to be handed over to relatives, adopted recently in Russia, run contrary to the European convention on human rights and fundamental freedoms and other international norms on human rights, and to the Constitution of Russia, said Alexander Grebelskiy.

Yesterday, June 26, pickets were held in Makhachkala against torture used by the law-enforcement agencies of Dagestan.

The "Reporter without Borders" human rights organization suspect that the arrest of Sakit Zakhidov, Azeri opposition journalist, is politically motivated, reports the Center of Extreme Journalism.

Yesterday, on June 26, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PАСЕ) discussed the issue of the mandate of the Azeri parliamentary delegation.

"It seems that we are protecting the population of Volgograd region from social protection agencies and military commissariats," stated Victoria Podkhvatilova.

Jacob Kellenberg, head of International Red Cross Committee, expressed his deep concern in connection with violation of prisoners' rights in the prisons of Northern Caucasus and, in particular, in Chechnya.

On Friday 23 June, the Khasavyurt town court of Dagestan considered the issue of the legitimacy of initiation by Khasavyurt department of internal affairs of a new criminal case against Osman Boliev, leader of the local human rights organization "Romashka" charged with acquisition, storage and carrying of fire arms and participation in an illegal armed unit.

Sakit Zakhidov, journalist of the "Azadlyg" opposition newspaper, was detained on June 23 night and brought to the Azeri MIA Department on Fighting Drug Business.

The Bureau of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe adopted a decision not to compile a report on human rights situation in Chechnya.

The Khasaviurt town court of Dagestan adopted a decision on the legitimacy of initiation of new criminal proceedings against Osman Boliev, leader of the local human rights organization "Romashka", charged with acquisition, storage and carrying of fire arms and participation in an illegal armed unit.

On June 26, 2006, 109 life prisoners in Gobustan prison (Azerbaijan) started another hunger strike demanding that their sentences should be reviewed.