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October 11, 2012 23:00

• Relatives of disappeared head of Tsatanikh village plan protest rally in Makhachkala

  Relatives and compatriot villagers of Shamil Saipulaev, the leader of the village of Tsatanikh of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, who disappeared in Khasavyurt on October 6, plan to hold in Makhachkala a protest rally on October 25. The father of the disappeared man claims police inaction. The Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports that the investigation is underway and refuses to disclose new information.

October 11, 2012 23:00

• At session of Armenian Court of Appeal, prosecutor suggests softer sentence to young oppositionist

  Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal continued consideration of the appeal against to the decision of the court that sentenced four young opposition activists to imprisonment for hooliganism. Prosecutor Akop Martirosyan delivered his speech. The Prosecutor offered to mitigate the sentence for one of the defendants David Kiramidjyan and to replace imprisonment by a conditional sentence.

October 11, 2012 22:50

• Masked men kidnap two in Makhachkala, eyewitnesses assert

  Yesterday, on October 10, in Makhachkala, two young men were kidnapped. According to eyewitnesses and human rights defenders, about ten men in masks forced young men into a car and drove them away to some unknown destination.

October 11, 2012 22:20

• Poti port workers stops striking

  Today, late at night, the protest action of port workers of the city of Poti (Georgia) was stopped after negotiations with leaders of Company "IPM Poti Terminal". The parties reached an agreement, and the administration considered demands of the workers to be reasonable.

October 11, 2012 22:10

• Figurant in Politkovskaya's murder case is against Pavlyuchenkov's deal with justice

  Sergey Khadjikurbanov, former staff member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of the organization of journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder, asks to terminate the agreement, which was concluded with investigators by Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, ex-Chief of the Secret Department of the Chief Department of the Internal Affairs of Moscow.

October 11, 2012 20:00

• The refugees in Tbilisi who occupied a dormitory and a clinic demand from the authorities to set distribution of dwellings right

  Refugees from Abkhazia who occupied the building of a dormitory in Tashkentsky lane of Tbilisi refuse to leave it demanding to put them on the dwelling waiting list. Refugees in the building of a former clinic in Bakinskaya street demand from the officials to determine the persons who really have a right of living in that building, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

October 11, 2012 19:00

• According to more precise data of Committee of Inquiry of Russia, the death of a girl who did not return home from a shop took place not in Dagestan but in Kuzbas

  The incident with a fourteen-year-old girl who went shopping in the evening of October, 10, and was later found dead happened in Kemerovo region, not in Dagestan. This was reported by Committee of Inquiry of the Russian Federation (CIR).

October 11, 2012 18:00

• During the day and night the police of Dagestan received two statements about disappearance of people

  Yesterday, October, 10, residents of Derbent and Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan appealed to the police asking to help them find their relatives.

October 10, 2012 23:40

• In Azerbaijan, convicted human rights defender Talekh Khasmamedov claims being threatened by police

  At the session of the Shirvan Court of Appeal, the staff members of the Udjary District Police Division openly threatened and advised "to behave well and to think about mother and sister." This was reported by convicted human rights defender Talekh Khasmamedov in his appeal to the media, the public and the country's leaders, which was passed through his lawyer.

October 10, 2012 23:10

• In Yerevan, court finds prosecutor's son guilty of beating journalist

  On October 9, in Yerevan, the court has pronounced the decision on the case of beating of journalist Ruben Grdzelyan. The court found Albert Manrikyan, a son of Mesrop Manrikyan, Prosecutor of the Kotaik Region of Armenia, guilty of the incident and fined him 50,000 drams (120 US dollars). The court also decided not to prosecute the journalist because of the absence of elements of crime in his actions.

October 10, 2012 23:00

• Witness at trial against three suspected members of Dagestani IAF claims that the bag was planted on defendant during search

  On October 9, the Supreme Court of Dagestan continued to consider the criminal case against Ramazan Magomedov, Shuaibgadji Magomedov, and Abdulzhapar Labazangadjiev, residents of Dagestan, suspected of committing in the Kizlyar District a number of crimes as members of an illegal armed formation (IAF). Defence witnesses were invited for questioning.

October 10, 2012 22:50

• Beaten Kevork Sunguryan dies in Sochi

  In the morning of October 9, in Sochi, in the resuscitation ward of the Khosta Hospital No. 3, Kevork Sunguryan died from injuries, inflicted to him on October 2. This was reported by hospital physicians.

October 10, 2012 22:50

• At trial on case of attack on Nalchik, four defendants not satisfied with results of examinations on use of torture against them

  Yesterday, on October 9, at the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik in 2005, prosecutors read out materials of examinations, conducted on the complaints of members of the "Shalushka" grouping, who claimed being subjected to physical force during detention and preliminary investigation. The materials denied such pressure on the defendants; however, they claimed the opposite at the trial.

October 10, 2012 22:40

• Constructors of Olympic facility cordon off dwelling house in Sochi, local resident asserts

  Constructors of the Olympic facility form the Research and Industrial Association (RIA) "Mostovik" cordoned off a house, belonging to a Sochi resident, with three-meter monolithic fence with barbed wire and deprived its tenants to leave the house. This was reported by Alexei Kravets, the owner of the house. According to the constructors, they intend to use such a way to achieve eviction of the tenants to be able to demolish the house, which hinder the construction of the Olympic facility, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

October 10, 2012 22:30

• Yerevan Puppet Theatre decides not to show film on protection of rights of sexual minorities

  On October 9, following the protest actions of Armenian residents, Ruben Babayan, Artistic Director of the Yerevan Puppet Theatre, made a decision to cancel the run of the film "Parada", protecting the rights of sexual minorities.

October 10, 2012 22:30

• Court temporarily deprives figurant of incident with shooting at wedding party in Moscow of weapon license

  Today, the judge of magistrate precinct No. 369 of the Tver District Court of Moscow deprived Murat Agalarov, a figurant of the incident with shooting at the centre of Moscow during the Dagestani wedding party of September 30, of the weapon license for a term of one year.

October 10, 2012 21:00

• Death of six persons in Derbent as a result of a flood confirmed

  The personnel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Dagestan established identity of six victims of flooding as a result of showers in Derbent. The information of the seventh person who perished has not been confirmed as of the moment. The investigators are inspecting the officials' activities during the emergency in the town.

October 10, 2012 20:00

• The police of Dagestan received reports of disappearance of two local residents

  Yesterday, October, 9, two persons appealed to the police reporting their relatives' disappearance.

October 10, 2012 20:00

• Residents of the settlement of Rembaza, Makhachkala, came out on a picket

  About 30 residents of the settlement of Rembaza whom the authorities of Makhachkala had been trying to evict from their houses for already over a year came out on a picket in Kaspiysk - Makhachkala highway demanding to reestablish power, gas and water supply in the settlement. The picket started at 10 in the morning. The participants of the action, mostly women with little children, did not block the highway. They are standing at the roadside with posters: "Official, have a heart!", "Give us light!", "We are going on a hunger strike!".

October 10, 2012 18:00

• Workers of the sea-port in Poti, Georgia, went on a strike

  About two hundred workers of the sea-port in Poti went on a strike demanding improvement of working conditions, observance of safety regulations and deserved salary.