Director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy Leyla Yunus told a press conference, the activists informed the guest about numerous violations in the course of the election campaign and the voting of October 15 itself.

Chechen human rights activist Aslambek Abdurzakov has said that the detainees, Vakha Bukeyev, Adam Makalov and Musa Islamov, are Chechen refugees who did not have refugee cards on them.

Some thirty Georgian journalists demonstrated outside the embassy of Azerbaijan on October 20 in solidarity with Azerbaijan journalists and opposition members.

Not all those who wanted to send in their applications and nominate themselves for getting the prize had time to do. The new deadline for applications is December 15.

After familiarizing themselves with the OSCE/ODHIR preliminary report of October 16, 2003, all 188 observers from the Institute for Democracy in Eastern Europe (IDEE) are declaring a votum separatum, a dissenting opinion.

The Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan urges the foreign diplomats, intergovernmental organizations and foreign human rights defenders to express concern to the government about the new wave of pressure on human rights defenders in Azerbaijan.

The appeal of the Federation of Human Rights Organizations of Azerbaijan and list of people who were severely beaten, arrested and who disappeared in Azerbaijan after the presidential elections of October 15, 2003.

The round table discussion "Non-Profit Non-Government Organizations as Independent Source of Information" was held at the faculty of journalism of the Kuban State University on October 16. Experts in the field of development of civil society institutions and well-known journalists participated in the discussion.

Democratic Party of Azerbaijan Secretary General Sardar Jalaloglu came out at the press conference that was held at the party headquarters on October 18. According to his words, the party will continue its struggle and achieve that the totally falsified results of presidential elections be abolished.

"We did not start the disorders, but Musavat leader Isa Gambar and his companions did start them," Aliyev declared in his interview to the "Rossiyskaya Gazeta".

Thus, the total sum that the German Foreign Ministry has allotted in 2003 to help Chechen refugees exceeds 1,800,000 euro.

Murad Petrosian, an independent expert and editor of the author newspaper "What To Do" published in Nagorny Karabakh expressed such an opinion in his interview to the Karabakh "Azat Artsakh" newspaper.

An annual seminar of the Early Warning and Conflict Prevention Network (EAWARN) was held in the town of Kumbor (Chernogoria) from October 4 to October 11, 2003.

The republican interior ministry has reported it.

Ekaterina Geniyeva told a press conference for Dagestani journalists the Foundation had many prospective plans in Dagestan.

A source at the Chechen presidential staff told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent the inauguration ceremony was planned to be held on October 22.

One of them is editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Rauf Arif-oglu. He has been declared wanted on suspicion of arranging disorders in Baku during presidential elections.

This was discussed at the seminar on UN methods for protection of human rights and economic, social and cultural rights that was held by the World Organization Against Torture in Ingushetia on October 17 and 18.

"This seminar is a continuation of the program to assist with making the institution of the ombudsman in the South Federal District, which is one of the most problem districts in Russia," said chairwoman of the presidential commission on human rights Ella Pamfilova.

Hoj-Akhmed Nukhayev is an author of a number of books, in which he proposed the ways of the Russian-Chechen military conflict settlement. His proposals caused an ambiguous critical reaction of the Chechen politicians and leadership.