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The journalist Khadija Ismayilova, now under arrest in Azerbaijan, has won the Swedish National Press Club’s Freedom of Speech Award for 2015 named after Anna Politkovskaya.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) has left the complaint lodged by Rasul Jafarov, a rights defender, convicted in Azerbaijan, against the rejection of his civil lawsuit against the Bank Respublika, without satisfaction.

Builder Mardiros Demerchyan is accused of stealing a cable from the Olympic construction site in Sochi. The accused man signed a recognizance not to leave.

The US Department of State and the British Foreign Office have expressed their concern over the fact that in Azerbaijan, Intigam Aliev was sentenced to imprisonment and urged to release him. Baku officials reject criticism in connection with the verdict of guilty against the human rights defender.

The international human rights organizations have condemned the imposition of the verdict of guilty against Intigam Aliev in Azerbaijan and urged the authorities to release him immediately and unconditionally.

In Baku, the court has found human rights defender Intigam Aliev guilty on all the charges and sentenced him to 7.5 years of imprisonment in a common-security penal colony.

Sapiyat Magomedova, an advocate from Dagestan, has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to start communication in her complaint against the law enforcement bodies for delaying the investigation into the case of her beating in 2010.

Azerbaijani journalist, author of the series of journalist reports dealing with state-level corruption in Azerbaijan. On October 24, 2012, she was awarded the Courage of Journalism Award founded by the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF).

The advocate Yalcin Imanov has failed to visit in the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) journalist Khadija Ismayilova, who is under arrest starting from December 5, 2014.

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court has upheld the appeal complaint lodged by the builder Mardiros Demerchyan against his conviction and returned the case to the Sochi Prosecutor's Office.

The Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova has been put on the list of nine arrested media professionals, whose names will be engraved on bracelets within the campaign "Press without Handcuffs", organized by the journalist Dana Priest and American students.

For the first time after her detention in Azerbaijan, journalist Khadija Ismayilova had a chance to meet her family members: a sister visited Khadija Ismayilova at the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

On March 18, Nils Muižnieks, the Council of Europe (CoE) Commissioner for Human Rights, disseminated the text of his appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerning the case against Intigam Aliev and continuing harassment of human rights defenders in Azerbaijan.

The advocate of the Azerbaijani human rights activist Intigam Aliev, accused of illegal entrepreneurship, has presented to the court the screenshots of the pages, deleted from the website of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). They show that the grants, which were implemented by the Aliev's organization, had been duly registered by the MoJ.

The "Caucasian Knot" correspondents Svetlana Kravchenko, Fayik Medjid and Magomed Tuaev have been awarded with special diplomas of the contest held in honour of the Dagestani journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev.