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Zhora Sapeyan, a member of the "Republic" Party and an activist of the opposition, who was released today after 2.5 years of imprisonment, said that he would continue his struggle against the ruling clique of Armenia.

On July 27, the court session on the fact of Vaan Khalafyan's death held at the court of general jurisdiction of the Kotaik Region grew up into a fight between relatives of the casualty and of the defendants. The session was postponed till August 18.

The fact of kidnapping of Anzor Shadov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Urvan District, is under preliminary check, as envisioned by the law, said advocate Zhamal Mokaev, who represents the interests of the Shadov family.

About a dozen of human rights organizations of Armenia have disseminated a joint statement with a concern about the state of things in Criminal Corrective Establishments (CCEs) of the country, in particular, that they are overcrowded.

In the evening on July 27, three armed persons set a restaurant on fire in Makhachkala and shot dead a visitor who tried to interfere. This was reported by the press service of the MIA of Dagestan.

The Georgian Human Rights Centre has moved accusations against President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, who, in opinion of human rights activists, makes racist statements.

The court's refusal to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to blogger Adnan Gadjizade, imprisoned in Azerbaijan, has no lawful grounds, as Isakhan Ashurov, Adnan's advocate, told today the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Lieutenant Colonel Kamil Dzhabrailov, deputy head of the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala, died from received wounds in hospital.

In Tbilisi, the refugees from Abkhazia who were evicted from the publishing house "Samshoblo" held a protest action at the building of the Ministry for Refugees' Matters and Accommodation, demanding housing. Should the authorities fail to solve their housing problems, they plan to refuse from their Georgian citizenship.

As reported by Khamid Tambiev, Chairman of the Magas Court, they have no statement of claim demanding to close the Internet edition "Ingushetia.Ru" (ingushetiyaru.org).

Relatives and advocate of Alaudin Nalgiev, who was detained on July 14, continue insisting that the young man is illegally kept in custody and was exposed to torture. Employees of the Ingush branch of the Human Rights Society "Memorial" sent an inquiry to prosecutor's office.

The Moscow City Court has sentenced Rasul Akhmaev, accused of complicity in the murder of Nazim Kaziakhmedov, an inspector of the General Prosecutor's Office, to 12 years of high security colony. He was found guilty of buying the firearm that was used for the murder and of participating in organization of the murder.

Mikhail Kulumbegov, a resident of Gvirgvina village, Znaur District of South Ossetia, who was kidnapped today by unidentified persons and released two hours later, asserts that "his kidnappers wanted to exchange him for a citizen of Georgia, allegedly kept by the South-Ossetian party."

The Supreme Court of the Russia Federation has satisfied the cassation complaint lodged by the Board of Elders of the Balkar People (BEBP) with a request to cancel the decision of the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria prescribing to ban the Board. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the BEBP that the Russian Supreme Court decided to stop the case.

Different sources give different versions of the night incident in Astrakhan, where a militiaman was killed, and a girl-his colleague was wounded.

The participants of the ethnographic expedition, which started from Moscow to the Caucasus on July 15 and organized by the well-known Russian designer and blogger Artemiy Lebedev, have already visited the south of Russia and are now getting acquainted with Southern Caucasus. After the North-Caucasian republics, the crews have visited Azerbaijan and Georgia.

At night on July 21 Anzor Shadov, a resident of the city of Nartkala, Kabardino-Balkaria, was kidnapped. As reported by a reader of the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the witnesses of the incident, armed persons in masks forced him into a Gazel van and took away into some unknown location.

Today, in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons wounded an employee of the local OVD (Interior Division), who stood in the street, and a passer-by.

The Public Prosecutor of Ingushetia has addressed the Magas City Court asking to oblige the provider to stop the website "Ingushetia.Org", Magomed Khazbiev, the owner of the resource, reports.

The "Karvasla" exhibition centre in Tbilisi hosts an exhibition of photo works by the Russian journalist and photographer of Victoria Ivleva "Apotheosis of War". The exposition includes 42 photos made in 1992-2005 and dedicated to victims of armed conflicts in different corners of the planet.