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The "Solidarity" Stavropol organization for rendering help to refugees and forced migrants has won a grant instituted by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, thanks to which they plan to develop the legal aid system to migrants residing in the Stavropol Territory.

Today, the "Equality Institute" and members of youth oppositional organizations have held a rally in the Riket Square of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, in memory of dispersal of the meeting on November 7.

Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia, has informed today that he demands to initiate a criminal case on the fact of pogrom of the oppositional "Imedi" TV Company.

In the city of Nakhichevan (Azerbaijan), the police have searched the office of the Resource Centre for Human Rights and confiscated computers and documents.

Tomorrow, on December 8, the website "Ingushetia.Ru" will restart its broadcasting in full scope, including reopening of the sections "Forum", "Guest Book" and "Announcements".

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the jailing today of yet another journalist in Azerbaijan, making him the tenth currently behind bars in the country.

At the trial of Evgeniy Khudyakov and Sergey Arakcheev, accused of murdering peaceful residents of Chechnya, Dmitri Agranovskiy, one of Arakcheev's three advocates, has spoken at the parties' debate and asserted that the witnesses had testified under pressure.

Ivan Kirillov, 40, a citizen of Russia, asserts that he managed to run away from Georgian slavery. He was violently taken away to the Mestiyskiy District, Upper Svanetia, where he was forced to work during four years.

It became known yesterday that on December 5, on the second day after the rally in Nazran (Ingushetia), Svetlana Izotyeva, journalist of the weekly "Argumenty i Facty" was severely beaten.

The city court of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, has lifted the arrest on the property of the "Imedi" TV Company under the petition of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia.

The trial on liquidation of the public organization named "The Board of Elders of Balkar People", initiated by the public prosecutor of Kabardino-Balkaria, has been reappointed on December 11.

The Committee for Protection of Human Rights of the United Nations has made a number of remarks on inefficient protection of civil and political human rights in Georgia. They were stated during presentation of the Committee's conclusions on the 3rd Periodic Report on legal defence at the office of Sozar Subari, Ombudsman of Georgia.

In the Volgograd Region, prosecutor's inspections undertaken at five investigatory isolation facilities and eight premises that function as SIZOs have revealed numerous violations of the rights of suspects and defendants.

The Union of Right-Wing Forces Party in North Ossetia has stated that all the ballot papers were taken away to the districts of the Republic, and the votes were tabulated there, not at the Central Electoral Commission.

The authorities of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan have released Ilgar Nasibov, a reporter of Radio Liberty.

The Elborus District Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has sentenced employees of District Interior Unit M. Mashezov and M. Baichekuev, accused of tortures, to three years of imprisonment with serving the punishment at the general custody colony.

Relatives of Aishat Pogorova who was knocked down to death by an armoured troop-carrier of federal troops in the Prigorodny District of North Ossetia have stated that the Prosecutor's Office is reluctantly investigating the death of the woman.

The operation of the Internet site "Ingushetia.Ru" has been temporarily suspended. The owner of site Magomed Evloev has fulfilled his father's will and closed the website.

Today, the Supreme Court of North Ossetia has again postponed making decision on re-registration of the committee named "Voice of Beslan" - this time because of the absence of the new chairperson of the committee.

Representatives of the public of Ingushetia are going to visit Yakhya Evloev, father of Magomed Evloev, and ask him not to stop the web portal Ingushetia.Ru.