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On the results of a meeting between the Association of scientists of Ahliu-Sunna in Dagestan and Religious Board of Muslims of Dagestan the following joint actions were worked out:

The Council considers it necessary to draw attention of all the branches of government, first of all, Central Election Committee and Prosecutor General’s of the Russian Federation, to flagrant neglect towards legal regulations manifested during municipal election in Astrakhan. Neither moral or legal principles nor reasons of political expedience allow anyone to ignore reports of mass violations of the citizens’ electoral rights which forced the people to resort to such an extreme measure of nonviolent resistance to protect their legal interests as a hunger strike.

On March 14 this year, at about 9:30 p.m., the Police of Armenia made another use of force against a peaceful sit-in protest action in the Mashtots Park in Yerevan. Policemen surrounded our tent, demolished and tore it down by applying violence against one of the participants of the peaceful action who was in the tent, and confiscated the tent and all belongings inside – sleeping bags, blankets, clothes, spectacles, a bag and a jacket of one of the activists. The illegal, cruel punitive actions were undertaken by the police in dark hours and without any warning.