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Detainees kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Pyatigorsk are oppressed based on their ethnicity and religion. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by relatives of the residents of Ingushetia kept there.

The 2010 report of the Amnesty International (AI) on Georgia for 2010 emphasizes the consequences of the military conflict in August 2008; violations of the rights of internally displaced persons (IDPs); actions of the police and security bodies; and violation of children's rights in refugees villages. The report was prepared within the general annual report on human rights situation in the world and was disseminated on May 12.

Gurban Aliev, a resident of the city of Baku, went on a hunger strike in front of the State Committee for State Property Management (SCSPM) of Azerbaijan. He demands to restore his ownership rights.

Elnur Israfilov, an arrested participant of the rally on April 2 in Azerbaijan, was presented another accusation, this time of "intentional destruction or damage of other people's property." This was reported by his advocate Yalcin Imanov.

The most wide-spread reason to refuse political asylum in Norway to residents of Chechnya is the use of general situation in the republic as an argument by the claimants without specifying the particular threats, Guri Norstrom, official of PR Department of the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI), told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on May, 24.

Taganrog city court of Rostov region granted the motion of Public prosecutor's office by blocking access to the web-site where Sergey Mavrodi's information of his new project "MMM-2011" was posted, a representative of Public prosecutor's office of the region reported on May, 25.

The Georgian sailors who had been unable to leave India for almost two months have returned home from Turkey.

On May, 24, Sabail district court of Baku decided to prolong the term of arrest of Arif Gajili, Head of Executive Committee of "Musavat" party, Tural Abbasli, Chairman of the youth branch of "Musavat", and Muhammed Medjidli, member of the Azerbaijani Popular Front Party (APFP).

On May 18, in the course of the roundtable with delegates of the European Parliament, activists of environmental and social initiatives of the city of Sochi spoke about the problems associated with the construction of Olympic objects.

The Association of Chechen Public and Cultural Associations of Russia and the Union of Chechen Student Youth have announced their accession to the All-Russian People's Front. The former includes the organizations registered in Moscow and other Russian regions; the latter unites students and postgraduates studying in Russia's major cities.

The Georgian lawyers, who stopped on May 21 their hunger strike in front of the Parliament of Georgia, claim that the authorities failed to satisfy any of their demands.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Russia should pay a fine of 122,724 euros for two lawsuits of Chechen residents.

The location of the leader of the armed underground of North Caucasus Dokku Umarov is known to the Russia's secret services, Alexander Bortnikov, Director of the FSB, has announced today.

The citizen of the Republic of Belarus, who had earlier evidenced in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", has disappeared somewhere outside Russia.

On Tuesday night a group of oppositionists who arrived from Batumi joined the action of protest going on in Tbilisi, in front of the building of the Public TV.

State prosecution disagreed with the judgment of Stavropol territorial court concerning ex-Mayor of Georgievsk Victor Gubanov fined for bribery. The public prosecutor appealed against the judgment insisting on imprisonment for the convict.

A verdict concerning Igor Chetvertukhin, senior operative officer of Uriupinsk Inter-regional department of Federal Service of Drug Control, came into effect. He was acknowledged guilty of an attempt of illegal drug traffic and abuse of authority.

Two illegal pipelines for pumping inflammable lubricant materials from Russia to Ukraine were found in the city of Donetsk, Rostov region. Smugglers built a three kilometer long pipe under the earthroad between the settlements of Tsof and Shevyrev and fit out an area for pumping in one of the garages of Donetsk.

Two mortar shells were found in 800 meters distance from Metsamor nuclear power plant in a field neighbouring to the settlement of Akhnalich, Armavir district of Armenia.

Today in The Hague, the Norwegian Helsinki Committee (NHC) will publish a report on Georgia entitled "Unable or Unwilling?" In the opinion of the NHC, for various reasons the Georgian authorities are "braking" efficient inquiry of the crimes that fall into jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC).