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Georgian NGOs offer the authorities to urgently set up a working group on electoral issues, citing the need to improve the Georgia's electoral legislation and bring it to full compliance with international standards.

Nothing is still known about the fate of four residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, detained on September 18. A local said on September 24 that at the moment the situation in the settlement is calm.

Azerbaijan should reform its electoral law, so that the opposition is better represented in the Parliament, while the latter should have more control over the government – such structure being an inherent element of democracy, said Anne Brasseur, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

At the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of the city of Maikop, the advocate Lyudmila Alexandrova is not allowed to meet her client – Zarema Khadjirokova, accused of committing a large-scale fraud. Lyudmila herself told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about it.

Leyla Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), who is kept at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1, was beaten up by an employee of the SIZO, her advocates report in their statement. They demanded an inquiry and punishment of those guilty.

The defence of Evgeny Vitishko decided to appeal, at the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, the refusal of the Krasnodar Territorial Court to release the ecologist.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has ruled to extend the custody of 52 defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik by three more months.

In the morning on Wednesday, September 24, power agents detained Asiyat Patakhova, a resident of Makhachkala, and took her to some unknown place, said Aisha Selimkhanova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

The Sheki Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the complaint lodged by Ilgar Mamedov and Tofig Yagublu, oppositional politicians, convicted on charges of rioting in the city of Ismayilly. At the same time, the sentence to three other figurants in the case was commuted.

The decision of the Moscow City Court (MCC) to award Nikita Tikhonov, convicted to life imprisonment for killing the lawyer Markelov, with additional 18 years in prison on charges of creating the extremist community known as BORN will be appealed against, said his advocate.

Nikita Tikhonov, convicted to life imprisonment for the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov, was found guilty of organizing an extremist community, six murders and two attempted murders and sentenced to 18 years in prison additionally.

The Krasnodar Regional Court has rejected the presentation of the Prosecutor's Office asking to change the punishment of Evgeny Vitishko, a member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch), and upheld the verdict of the Tuapse District Court, said Andrei Rudomakha, the coordinator of the EcoWatch.

The repeated requests of the Muslim community to solve the problem of deficit of mosques in the Krasnodar Territory remain unanswered, believers assert. The attempt to contain the spread of Islam leads to aggravation of inter-religious relations, said the experts questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

The opening of the Gimry Tunnel for motor traffic scheduled for September 23 did not take place. The reason was the deterioration of the situation in the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, said a source from the district administration.

The alleged member of an illegal armed formation (IAF) killed in Ingushetia, in a shootout in the city of Karabulak, was identified as Arthur Murzabekov. Also, two persons suspected of aiding militants were detained, said the Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

An action demanding self-liquidation of the NGO "Free Zone", which is associated with the "United National Movement" Party of ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili, was held in Tbilisi on Tuesday, September 23, by activists of the Youth Movement "Free Generation".

The International Investment Forum in Sochi has presented projects in construction and industry, foodstuff production and tourism, which were submitted by the regions of the Southern and North-Caucasian Federal Districts (SFD and NCFD). Ingushetia and the Krasnodar Territory were leaders by the number of signed contracts.

Elchin Gambarov, an advocate of human rights defender Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), kept at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), has reported on the deterioration of the health state of his client. According to the advocate, on Tuesday, he has not been allowed to visit the human rights defender at the SIZO.

In Baku, the court has started hearings on the merits in the case against Ali, a minor son of oppositionist Oktai Gyulalyev, who is charged with disorderly conduct. In the course of the court hearing, the court has listened to prosecutors, defenders, and the victim.

In the course of the press conference, members of the organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights" have mentioned the cases of Imangazali Magomedov and Marat Nasredinov, two residents of Dagestan, as examples to declare biased actions of investigators against citizens complaining about being beaten by policemen.