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The Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Dagestan has analysed the results of the work of the law enforcement bodies of the Republic after 10 months of 2008 in fighting against kidnappings. Under the Office's information, in 2008, the law enforcement bodies of the Republic received 158 messages on kidnappings, of them the majority - 106 applications related to kidnapping of girls with the aim of forced marriage.

Eight members of the "Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners" have stated that they join the protest action of 28 political prisoners who had announced a one-day hunger strike as a protest action against the "hypocritical and inconsistent policy of the Council of Europe."

On November 24, at 12:15 a.m., the Independent Press Centre will host a press conference of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial": "Safety and Human Rights in Dagestan".

Today, the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Department for Dagestan continued interrogating Gyulnara Rustamova, one of the leaders of the human rights public organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights". This was announced by Svetlana Isaeva, chairperson of the organization.

In Sochi, jurymen are hearing the case of the so-called "black realtors". Seven persons are in the prisoners' dock, including three militiamen and a notary. The information that arrived from the Centre for Defence of Citizens' Constitutional Rights and Freedoms to the "Caucasian Knot" runs that although the court sitting passes in the open regime, judge Klimov is by all ways preventing the public from being present in the courtroom.

About 24 thousand Georgians who earlier lived in South Ossetia and pre-border territories and who had been forced out of their houses as a result of the recent warfare, cannot return to their residences.

The Military Investigatory Department for the Circassian Garrison has initiated a criminal case on the fact of the death of Anton Shalamov, a soldier at mandatory service in the military unit of the city of Nevinnomyssk (Stavropol Territory), who was recruited from the Saratov Region.

Today, the Moscow Regional Military Court has formed the board of jurymen on the murder case of the observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper Anna Politkovskaya; the consideration of the case began on November 17. In total, 12 main and 8 reserve jurymen have been chosen.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has recognized as illegal the refusal of the district court of the republic to re-qualify the criminal case on the fact of the death of Magomed Evloev, owner of the website "Ingushetia.Ru" from the Article "Causing of death by imprudence" into Article "Murder". Despite this decision, the case will not be re-qualified.

Today in the morning in Makhachkala, where an explosive has operated along the route of a VAZ-2110 service car and wounded Sultanvakil Sultanmagomedov, deputy mufti of the Spiritual Department of Moslems of Dagestan, his driver and bodyguard Gazimagomed Kurakhmaev.

Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sarkisyan, who has visited in the Yerevan hospital of Nork-Nork District journalist Edik Bagdasaryan who was beaten yesterday, has expressed his concern with the incident and condemned the attack on the journalist. Prime Minister has assured that the guilty persons would be found.

The Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) had categorically refuted its any involvement in the incident with a pilotless plane (drone), which fell down and exploded in the vicinity of the village of Plavi, Gori District of Georgia.

Out of 713 complaints that have arrived within the year to the Ombudsperson on children's rights of the Rostov Region, a great share (21 percent) was on adoptive families, registration of trusteeship and adoption. In the opinion of Ombudsperson Alla Vasilieva, frequently these complaints result from drawbacks in the work of trusteeship and guardianship bodies.

Einullah Fatullaev, founder and editor-in-chief of the newspapers "Real Azerbaijan" and "Gyundelik Azerbaijan", who is in prison, went to law against Elmar Mamedyarov, head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan. The journalist's complaint was caused by the latter's refusal to answer his request.

Military observers of the European Union have been noticed among the persons who tried to penetrate on Saturday, November 15, at about 3:30 p.m. Moscow time from the territory of Georgia into the territory of the Gali District of Abkhazia.

The advocate who acts in the interests of the family of Anna Politkovskaya, observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, in her murder case is trying to attract President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov as a witness.

On November 17, two policemen were lost and eight wounded as a result of explosion of a Russian drone (pilotless aircraft) in the village of Plavi, Gori District (East Georgia), runs the statement of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, published in the Ministry's website.

Sozar Subari, Georgian Ombudsman, has reported in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that situation with human rights in his country has worsened. In his opinion, Georgia still has political prisoners; and the absence of guarantees of the freedom of speech is causing concern.

The appeal sent by Dagestan lawyers to the President of the Russian Federation (RF), federal law enforcement bodies and Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" states that criminal prosecution of lawyers on far-fetched grounds is inadmissible and can give rise to a dangerous tendency with political context and a threat to citizens' access to justice.

Today, frontier guards of Abkhazia have entered a skirmish with a Georgian armed group, which tried to get into the pre-border Gali District of Abkhazia.