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Egyptian human rights activists beat an alarm. Under their information, Ibragim Mankiev, 32, a citizen of the Russian Federation, who is kept by the State Security Body of the Arab Republic of Egypt, is exposed to torture. This was reported by the bureau of the Amnesty International (AI) in Alexandria.

The Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan has launched a check of observance of the pricing legislation in the pharmaceutical market of the republic. Numerous cases when drugs were sold too expensive have been revealed.

The Prosecutor's Office of Karachai-Circassia had revealed a number of violations in the work of the Republic's Social and Rehabilitation Children's Centre named "Nadezhda" (Hope). Prosecutors believe that certain provisions of the Centre's charter contradict the legislation.

Russia should strain harder towards stability in Northern Caucasus. This was stated by Thomas Hammarberg, Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights, in his report published on November 24 on the outcomes of his visit to Chechnya and Ingushetia in September 2009.

The Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs demands from Georgian authorities to stop unprovoked, according to the MFA's statement, detentions of citizens of the Russian Federation.

The health condition of Tsotne, son of the first president of Georgia Zviad Gamsakhurdia, who is in pre-trial custody under the charge of a deliberate murder attempt, where he went on hunger strike, continues to aggravate.

David Bakradze, head of the Georgian parliament, has accused, in his comments on the murder in the evening on November 23 in Moscow of Eduard Gurtskaya, 19, a native of Abkhazia, Russia of ethnically-motivated persecution of people.

The Supreme Court (SC) has refused to cancel the verdict passed to Ingush oppositionists, including Maksharip Aushev, assassinated a month ago, on the case about organization of mass disorders in Ingushetia.

The persons detained today at an attempt to hold a picket in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria were illegally kept at the OVD (Interior Unit) No. 1 of Nalchik, where a protocol on administrative offence was drawn up; then, they were transported to the court. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent learnt about it from Elena Bairamkulova, an advocate and a colleague of Magomed Abubakarov, who is defending the interests of those accused under the case about the 2005 events in Nalchik.

Russia is preparing an answer to the interstate complaint submitted by Georgia on the events in South Ossetia and received by Russia from the European Court on Human Rights (ECtHR) on February 11, 2009. This was stated today by Andrei Nesterenko, official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Russian Federation.

In the first 9 months of this year Armenia registered 383 crimes committed by minors. As compared with the same period of 2008, the count of such crimes went up by 4.9 percent. This was reported by Colonel Ovanes Tamamyan, head of the Chief Criminal Search Department of the Police of Armenia.

The local prosecutor's office made another audit of the chemist's network and revealed facts of deliberate overpricing of drugs in Karachai-Circassia.

On November 23, at 6 p.m., near the building of the Georgian parliament, three activists of the social movement "November 7" - Dzhaba Dzhishkariani, Dagi Tsoguriya and Irakli Kordzaya - were detained. They were found guilty of breaking the law on rallies.

Inspectors consider several versions of the death of two law enforcers in the city of Chegem, Kabardino-Balkaria, whose decapitated bodies were found yesterday in the luggage compartment of the car left in the roadside. Among the versions - an answer of the militants to an article published in a local newspapers about liquidation of the leaders of the republic's extremist underground - Shura.

Today in the morning, in Barsuki village, Nazran District of Ingushetia, unidentified persons shelled the car of Hadjibikar Buzurtanov, an employee of the convoy service of the MIA. The militiaman and his small daughter, who was with him in the car, were shot dead.

In the afternoon on November 23, the Chechen capital hosted a many-thousand-strong protest action, where participants demanded prompt measures to demine the territory of the republic.

Georgia has sent the three citizens detained in the border with South Ossetia back to Russia.

In Azerbaijan, health condition of imprisoned Mushvig Guseinov, journalist of the "Bizim Yol" (Our Way) newspaper, continues to worsen. In spite of his placement in mid-October from the colony to the specialized medical establishment of the Penitentiary Service for TB patients, his disease is progressing to the worse.

Today, Svetlana Isaeva, chair of the human rights organization "Mothers of Dagestan for Human Rights", a figurant in the so-called "execution list" disseminated in the form of leaflets in early September in Dagestan, was summoned to the local prosecutor's office for interrogation.

At the process on the events on October 13, 2005, one of today's witnesses has petitioned to the court about his interrogation at a closed judicial session. He said that he is a working militiaman. The prosecution party has supported his petition referring to the law on state protection of witnesses. The defence was against.