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The Department for Chechnya of the Ministry of Justice has succeeded in pressure on the local bar association to withdraw the status of three of its former members working in Crimea. The disqualified lawyers associated the decision with political persecution and plan to appeal against it, human rights defenders report.

The man, who, according to the FSB (Russian Federal Security Bureau), was preparing a terror act in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained. Law enforcers treat him as a supporter of the "Right-Wing Sector"*.

The police did not conduct an examination of a drink, after which Azerbaijani oppositionist Samir Ashurov, who was kept in a temporary detention facility, felt ill, and the Ombudsperson did not provide verification of the reasons for the oppositionist’s deterioration in health, a spouse of the arrested activist states.

The spouses Darya Andreeva and Ilya Nikonorov from Georgievsk, fined under the article on discrediting the Russian Army, had to leave Russia due to law enforcers' pressure. The pressure was caused by the spouses' posting leaflets with pacifist statements, Darya Andreeva said.

A complaint has been lodged to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about Azerbaijan's actions in the villages of Parukh and Khramort in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenia's official at the ECtHR and the International Court of Justice has stated.

Mutallim Orudjev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was arrested after his extradition from Germany, is kept in an overcrowded cell, where detainees lack beds, human rights defenders and his advocate have stated.

Kirill Skripin, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, accused within a graffiti case critical of the Russian president, is seriously ill. However, he was released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) not because of his illness, but because the investigator did not insist on his further custody, Irina Gak, his advocate, has noted.

Appeal complaints have been sent to the courts against the sentences passed to Vadim Cheldiev, Arsen Besolov and Ramis Chirkinov, convicted for organizing riots at a rally in Vladikavkaz, their advocates have announced.

A court sentenced a resident of Vladikavkaz to a fine of 30,000 roubles, recognizing his posts on a social media outlet as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, the police reported.

The Tskhinvali City Court returned the case on the death of Inal Djabiev to the Prosecutor’s Office and demanded to eliminate the violations in it. Part of the information indicated in the case file was not confirmed in the indictment, a lawyer of the Inal Djabiev’s widow explained.

The trial in a case on the murder of four persons in the village of Shamiram has been going on for more than four years, relatives of the victims have stated at a protest action. The protestors called on the authorities of Armenia to intervene in the case and expedite the investigation. The relatives of the victims warn that if a guilty person is not convicted, blood feud is not ruled out.

Alexander Nemov, an advocate, was again denied a visit to his client, Salekh Magamadov, a native of Chechnya, convicted of assisting a militant. The advocate was told that Magamadov was not in the colony.

Russian officials have offered to include Vadim Krasikov, convicted in Germany for assassinating Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a former Chechen field commander, in negotiations with Americans on prisoners' exchange.