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Today, in the Georgian town of Samtredia, Avtandil Tevzadze, the head of the pre-election office of Kakha Kaladze, a candidate to the Parliament from the coalition "Georgian Dream", was detained. Representatives of the coalition treated detention of Avtandil Tevzadze as "politically motivated".

The Astrakhan Garrison Military Court found Captain Roman Ryazantsev guilty in the case of the death of soldiers when unloading shells at the training ground "Ashuluk" in Astrakhan and sentenced him to 3.5 years of imprisonment in a penal settlement colony.

About one hundred Americans who are natives of Georgia gathered on September, 25, opposite the building of United Nations Headquarters in New York at a demonstration demanding Mikhail Saakashvili's Government resignation.

The journalists held an action of protest near the building of Central Election Committee of Adzharia in Batumi demanding to secure work of the press without limitations on the election day.

Alihan Gardanov aged 30 killed on September, 18, in the stanitsa of Orjonikidzevskaya was a self-employed taxi-driver, had neither wanted notices nor problems with the law, his mother Aishat Gardanova states asking to initiate a criminal case on his murder.

Anatoly Zakurdaev, who was fined for taking part in an unsanctioned protest action in Rostov-on-Don within the "March of Millions", filed an appeal. According to the UVD (Interior Department), the court issued an objective decision based on the video of the incident.

In the case on non-human treatment of prisoners, Mamuka Chkhitunidze, an inspector of the Gldani Prison No. 8, was detained. He is charged under Article "torture". This was reported by the press service of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.

Russia and Azerbaijan are countries that are only partially free on the Internet. Georgia is free on the Internet. This was stated by authors of the report on the freedom of the Internet for 2012, which was disseminated by the human rights organization "Freedom House" on September 24.

The Tbilisi City Court fined 2000 laris (about 1140 US dollars) the "Free Georgia" Party for xenophobic appeals in pre-election video clip.

Azamat Abazov, a resident of the town of Baksan in Kabardino-Balkaria, was invited to law enforcement agencies for a conversation and then disappeared. This was claimed by his wife Raisa Abazova, who contacted the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Alexei Tsukanov, Chief of the Department of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), urged the Russian Ministry of Justice to check, how non-commercial organizations (NCOs) in Chechnya and Ingushetia spent money received from abroad. Representatives of the NCOs in Chechnya and Ingushetia state that they do not fear of inspections of supervisory agencies.

The session the Committee of Ministers of Council of Europe, which was opened on September 24 in Strasbourg, will consider the issue on returning to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) the case of the mass deaths of people during the bombing of the village of Katyr-Yurt (Chechen Republic) in February 2000.

Last week, on September 17-23, 2012, at least 35 persons suffered in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of these, 23 persons were killed and 12 wounded. These are the results of calculations of the "Caucasian Knot" based on own materials of the edition and information from other open sources.

Within the framework of settling the question of demarcation of the administrative border of Chechnya 15 hectares land were included into the territory of the republic, among them five thousand hectares in Sunzha district arguable with Ingushetia, the Ministry of Property and Land Relations of Chechnya reported.

Resident of the settlement of Khasanai, Babayurt district of Dagestan, Ziyarat Arabova reports disappearance of her daughter Salihat Arabova.

About 200 renters of trade pavilions in the market of "Dagelectromash" limited company held an action of protest against rental tariff escalation. The action was not authorized by the authorities, Press Service of the Ministry of Interior Affairs of Russia in Dagestan reported.

Thousands of students in Tbilisi gathered near the building of the University and moved in the direction of the Ministry of Defense protesting against torture in the prisons. The protesters demanded resignation of the Minister of Defense of Georgia.

On September, 24, residents of Khasavyurt Zainudin and Sapiat Alibekova went on an open-ended hunger strike in this way trying to return their son who joined the gunmen to peaceful life, Press Service of the municipal Administration reports.

On September, 24, residents of the settlement of Dugulubey, Baksan district of Kabardino-Balkaria, blocked the "Caucasus" federal highway in the direction from Nalchik to Pyatigorsk expressing protest against poor quality of the roads.

In Tbilisi, today is the third day of the protest action, demanding to release four prisoners Lasha Meskhiya, David Patsatsiya, Dachi Tsaguriya, and Bekar Aladashvili. In the capital of Georgia, protest actions and hunger strikes in connection with the facts of torture in prisons are underway.