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Nobody is going to prosecute the family of Aslan Maskhadov, "there were no claims to the members of his family," therefore, it is not clear, what there motives are for applying for political asylum in Finland, Ahmar Zavgaev, State Duma deputy from Chechnya and member of the commission for problems of North Caucasus told.

Aslan Bezrukov, an entrepreneur and activist, well-known in Adygea, is kept in custody.

Organization "World Chechen Congress" is trying to obtain political shelter in one of western countries for the family of Aslan Maskhadov, former leader of Chechen separatists.

The family of Aslan Maskhadov, leader of separatists, killed in Chechnya, has applied for political asylum in Finland.

The public organization "Voice of Beslan" voices up against arrest of the property of the "Podmoskovny" Lyceum-Boarding School, founded by Mikhail Khodorkovskiy in the Koralovo manor.

Members of the special commission for improving the conditions in Temporary Residence Centres (TRCs) of forced migrants continue, together with the members of law enforcement bodies, to examine refugee camps in the territory of Chechnya.

Residents of the village of Yagublu of the Dmanisskiy District of Region Kvemo Kartli-Borchaly of Georgia, where Azerbaijanis are compactly residing, in protest against unfair land allocation, held an action in front of the building of the State Chancellery of Georgia.

On May 3, 2006 the major human rights organization "Amnesty International" presented its report "Russian Federation: Racial-Motivated Violence Orgy."

It became known to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" that the prosecutor's office of the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria city of Nalchik lodged a cassation petition to the Supreme Court.

Today, the exhibition hall of the Museum of Modern History of Russia hosted, within the exhibition "Human rights in Russia," a press conference of the Fund "Mother's Right" on the topic "Violations of Parents' Rights of Perished Soldiers. War in Chechnya."

Today, Azerbaijan's application for membership in the UN Council for Human Rights was rejected.

Rustam Mikailov, correspondent of the "Zerkalo" paper, lodged a complaint on the Police Administration of the Surakhanskiy District of Azerbaijan in the context of beating him during the yesterday's football match.

As the "Caucasian Knot" reported earlier, on May 1, 2006, a serious international incident happened in Chechnya. A delegation of the European Committee Against Tortures (ECAT) that was visiting the region was not let into the settlement of Tsentoroj.

The Human Rights Centre "Memorial" and "Caucasian Knot" already reported that in Chechnya about 12:00 a.m. at the federal highway "Kavkaz" in the crossroads Sernovodsk-Assinovskaya, unknown armed persons kidnapped and took to unknown place two young persons: Chilaev Bulat and Israilov Aslan.

Yesterday, on May 3, the Kizilyurt District Court released by its decision made under Article 79 of the CCRF on conditional early relief terms from the colony-settlement Gazimagomed Gairbekov, who was sentenced on August 9, 2005, by the Leninskiy District Court of the capital of Chechnya Grozny under Part 2 of Article 222 of the CCRF to 2.5 years of deprivation of freedom.

A new journalists' organization named "Reporters' Freedom and Safety Institute" has been founded in Azerbaijan.

In Dagestan, another participant of mass disorders that took place on April 25 in the Dokuzparinskiy District of the Republic died, Tagir Tagirov, physician on duty of the Akhtyn district hospital, where those wounded were taken.

Illegal custodies in Chechnya, according to mass media and human rights activists, are located also in the territory of the Operations and Search Bureau of the North-Caucasian Operations Department of the Chief Administration of the MIA of Russia in the South Federal District ("OSB-2") in Grozny and Russian Military Base in Khankala, and in some other places where power units are deployed.

Today, at the press conference in Moscow, human rights activists demonstrated video materials evidencing the shooting by the authorities of a peaceful demonstration in the Dokuzparinskiy District of Dagestan on April 25.

The deputies of the parliament of the Chechen Republic addressed the leadership of the MIA of Russia with a letter, in which they recommend to close the temporary isolator custody (TIC) at the Operations and Searching Bureau (OSB-2).