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Chechen prosecutor's office employees are conducting an additional check on the criminal cases initiated in the past against officers of Khanty-Mansijsk riot squad, suspected of illegal detentions of citizens and the use of torture with regard to them.

On June 8, 2006, Khamzat Shamsuldinovich Tushaev, born in 1959, was lost in Grozny on the territory of the Government Complex of Chechnya.

Intense rumours have been circulating in the republic during the recent days that traces of mass burials have been discovered in the village of Vesioloye of Mozdok district, North Ossetia, where the body of Uvais Dolakov, resident of Ingushetia kidnapped earlier, was found one of these days.

According to reports of human rights activists, on June 9, 2006, a picket near the monument to Pushkin in Krasnodar (Krasnaya Street) was dispersed by almost one hundred militiamen.

A study conducted in the Moscow metro shows that the number persons who are visually perceived as originating from the Caucasus or Middle Asia amounts to 50.9 % of persons stopped by militia, although the share of such people does not exceed 4.6% in the total passenger flow.

Officers of the riot squad combined unit from Khanty-Mansijsk autonomous okrug are suspected of arranging in Grozny, the Chechen capital, a secret prison where detainees were tortured.

Recently, a campaign to liquidate temporary shelters (TS) has been under way in Chechnya.

Leo Platvoet, a Dutch MP, rapporteur of the Commission on migration, refugees and population issues of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has come to Azerbaijan.

"A temporary detention facility of the TDIA was located on this territory, it functioned normally and was not a secret site," yesterday, June 7, Valery Kuznetsov, prosecutor of Chechnya, stated before journalists.

On June 6, officers of the local power authorities carried out wide-scale checks of passports in the October district of the Chechen capital.

500 citizens of Georgia annually become victims of human trafficking. Such information is contained in the report on human trafficking (illegal trade in human beings) prepared by the US State Department.

Alu Alkhanov, President of Chechnya, has welcomed the ruling of the RF Supreme Court presidium to the effect that the "Ulman's case" will be considered by a panel of three professional judges and not by a jury.

Armenia, like Georgia and Azerbaijan, is listed among the second category countries where women, children and men become victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and forced labour.

Yesterday, June 6, the Staropromyslovski district administration in the Chechen capital tried to move internally displaced persons (IDP) from the temporary shelter (TS) in Derzhavin Street of Grozny.

Nurdi Nukhazhiev, Chechen ombudsman, has refuted information of certain human rights activists on the discovery in the centre of Grozny of a secret prison in which people were tortured and killed.

The today's issue of the newspaper "Kabardino-Balkarskaya Pravda" carries an article titled "Wanted!" with photographs of 24 individuals listed as wanted on the suspicion of taking part in the attack on Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, last October.

The authorities of Dagestan delay the compensation for the damage inflicted on civilians as a result of secret operations on liquidation of militants.

"Quite possibly, the complaint may be recognized as a priority and will be considered by an accelerated procedure," said Dina Vedernikova.

Yesterday, June 5, the Kabardino-Balkaria MIA published the lists of militants wanted in connection with the attack on Nalchik last October.

"Go to your villages!" declared Khozhbaudi Estamirov, head of Staropromyslovski district administration of the capital of Chechnya, to the residents of the temporary shelter for refugees (TS) located at 289, Derzhavin Street in Grozny.