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The continuation of the trial on the case of Sergey Lapin, former senior lieutenant of Nizhnevartovsk District Interior Department, that was appointed for September 3 at the Oktiabrskiy Court of Grozny did not take place because of non-appearance of the defendant's advocate.

In the Square of Heroes in Tbilisi activists and leaders of the parties and public associations united into the Movement "Forward, Georgia!" have announced the start of a series of actions against violations of civil rights of the Azerbaijanis living in Georgia.

The health condition of satirist Sakit Zakhidov, journalist of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, convicted in Azerbaijan, has seriously aggravated.

In the centre of Moscow, at the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation, the militia has dispersed an action held by a dozen of anarchists in defence of Andrei Kalyonov and Denis Zelenyuk.

The advocate of one of the defendants in the murder case of Anna Politkovskaya has lodged another complaint to the Russian General Prosecutor's Office about application of tortures to his client.

Resident of city Karabulak Iles Dolgiev, born in 1984, detained as a suspect of committing the murder of the family of the school teacher Vera Draganchuk, is now under arrest.

On September 5 the newspapers "Sanat" ("Arts") and "Baky Khabar" will restart their publications.

From September 1 in Strasbourg, Said-Emin Ibragimov, a refugee from Chechnya and President of the International Association "World and Human Rights" is holding a hunger strike.

Teimuraz Chedzhemov, advocate for the Committee of Victims "Beslan Mothers," has announced his resignation from the process on the main criminal case about the Beslan terror act, having explained his decision by the murder threats that he had received.

Mourning meetings in memory of the victims of Beslan (North Ossetia) terror act took place today in Moscow and St-Petersburg.

Today, September 1, 2007, is the third anniversary of Beslan tragic events. Terrorists began taking hostages at 9:15 a.m. in the yard of Secondary School No. 1, where pupils and parents had rallied to solemnly mark the "Day of Knowledge" (start of school year).

The World Adyg Brotherhood (WAB) has set an aim to translate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights into the Adyg language.

Sources in South Ossetia do not exclude that servicemen from the Ossetian peacemaking battalion, who were interned by Georgian power agents on August 29 in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, are exposed to tortures.

In the city of Karabulak (Ingushetia), unknown persons have murdered the husband and two sons of local teacher Draganchuk, Vera Borisovna.

Andrei Nalyotov, organizer of the meeting in memory of Anna Politkovskaya held on August 30 in the centre of Moscow, will face trial on charges on breaching the established order of organizing actions.

Ex-Colonel of the FSB (Federal Security Bureau) Mikhail Trepashkin has sent an application to Mr Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, with a request to demand from the Russian law enforcement bodies to release him and revise his criminal case.

Ilyas Timishev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria and a forced migrant from the Chechen Republic, has appealed to the court against the refusal of the Migration Service of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) to issue a regular passport to his daughter with a reference to the fact that she was not registered in the city of Nalchik.

One of the eyewitnesses of the murder of the young man named Islam Garakoev committed on August 30 in Nazran (Ingushetia) asserts that the killers threatened the witnesses of the incident with their sub-machine guns and shot atop of their heads.

The "Gazeta.Ru" reports with a reference to its high-ranking source in the investigatory bodies of Ingushetia that the main version of the explosion is an act of terror dated to September 1.

The health condition of Azerbaijani prisoner Faramaz Allakhverdiev, an employee of the "Nota Bene" newspaper, continues to aggravate.