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Svetlana Reiter, a correspondent for the "Esquire" magazine, claims that she was summoned for questioning to the FSB (Federal Security Bureau of Russia) in the context of her article concerning disappearances in Chechnya and the inaction of the authorities, where the statement of Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Committee Against Torture, was mentioned.

Iran has freed from prison two young Azerbaijani poets - Farid Gusein and Shakhriyar Gadjizade, said Mail Gadjizade, Shakhriyar's father.

In North Ossetia, the Lenin District Court of Vladikavkaz has dismissed today the motion lodged by the advocates of Igor Bestuzhy, the former head of the administration of the city of Stavropol, suspected of bribery, to initiate a criminal investigation on the application of their client about the use of torture against him at the temporary detention centre (known as IVS).

On September, 3, a cameraman in Volgograd who was filming an action against extermination of head of pig livestock in the region because of an infective episode of pig African plague was released from administrative arrest.

The wounded Sirazhuddin Khasaev who survived after adduction in Buinaksk underwent torture together with Khizri Pirmagomedov who later was found killed, kidnapped Zair Khasaev's wife reported.

Members of the top brass were searching the Khazbievs' house in Nazran for about an hour, Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev reported. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior Affairs informed that the incident really took place but they were not aware of the details yet.

Deputy Director of Energetics college in the town of Kaspiysk Rabadan Kadiev who disappeared in July was found dead in his homestead in Makhachkala, the Ministry of Interior Affairs of the republic reported.

Doctors of the ambulance, called again to the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Nazran, insists hospitalization of Ali Khazbiev, brother of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush oppositionist and activist of the party "Parnas", who was arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct. Doctors fear for his health.

Protocols on administrative offence were drawn up against the participants of the action "Three Piglets" held on August 31 in the building of the Government of the Volgograd Region. Six people have been fined, and one more is still in detention.

In North Ossetia, today on the final of the memory days of the victims of the terror act of September 1-3, 2004, in Secondary School No. 1 in Beslan, residents of the city and republic's leaders took part in the mourning ceremony at the Memorial Cemetery and laid flowers at the monument named "Tree of Sorrow".

Today, Sirajuddin Khasaev, a resident of Buinaksk, who disappeared on September 2, was found in the Central Makhachkala Hospital with burns of his legs and a gunshot wound in his shoulder, a source from the Dagestani regional public organization "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Abdurakhman Kurskiev, Ilez Merzhoev and Ibragim Bekbuzarov, who were shot dead in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, rendered no resistance and were armless, said their relatives-eyewitnesses of the incident. They turned to the police, the head of Ingushetia and human rights activists asking to investigate the killings. The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Ingushetia said that the casualties were militants and resisted detention.

Today, on September 3, on the solidarity day against terrorism, Dagestan hosts a youth action "We need peaceful Dagestan", said the republic's committee for youth policy.

Today, Zara Murtazalieva, a native of Chechnya, who was convicted for preparing a terror acts in Moscow in the mall "Okhotny Ryad", has been released.

The advocates of Adam Osmaev, who is under arrest in Ukraine as the main suspect in the case on preparing a terror act against the President of the Russian Federation, is, cannot meet their client after July 18, Amina Okueva, Osmaev's common-law wife, said today.

Today, the Odintsovo Court of the Moscow Region has dismissed in full the lawsuit on protection of honour and dignity lodged by Oleg Shein, a former candidate for the Mayor of Astrakhan, against Andrei Vorobyov, the leader of the faction of the "Edinaya Rossiya" (United Russia).

On September, 2, Zholt Nemet, State Secretary of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Hungary, lodged a note of protest to the Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Budapest expressing dissatisfaction with the judgment of pardon to Ramil Safarov who killed an Armenian officer in 2004.

Two local residents in Pyatigorsk were hospitalized with wounding as a result of a mass scuffle with the use of a traumatic gun.

The Ministry of Interior Affairs of Georgia identified seven out of 11 persons killed in a special operation in the Lopota Gorge, near the Georgian-Russian border. According to the Ministry, two of them are citizens of Georgia.

In the city of Poti, at the monument to Niko Nikoladze, Georgian fishermen held a protest action, claiming that the sale of fishing licenses and subsequent delivery of them into lease to residents of Turkey has resulted in the death of the Georgian fishing fleet. The protesters demanded to solve the issue with a permit to Georgian fishermen to go out to sea.