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Part of the property belonging to relatives of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) outlet, Abubakar Rizvanov, the head of the "Ansar" Charity Fund, and Kemal Tambiev is still under arrest, as investigators believes that this property had been bought for criminal money.

The President of Azerbaijan has pardoned 213 people. Human rights defenders have treated his decision as a "half-way one", since only a small part of the country's political prisoners have been pardoned.

The Baku Court of Appeal dismissed a complaint against the arrest of blogger Rashad Ramazanov. The defendant pleaded not guilty and stated that law enforcers tortured him to force him to confess to a crime he never committed.

According to local customs, relatives of the Ingush resident, who was killed after the abducting the bride, can declare blood feud against the killer. Besides, the bride's fate is alarming, since earlier her relatives were against this marriage, and now they can kill her for disobedience, Svetlana Anokhina, a journalist, has stressed.

An action held by parents of the perished soldiers near the building of the Supreme Judicial Council of Armenia was caused by a court’s decision to consider behind closed doors a complaint about the refusal to institute a criminal case on high treason and involve Nikol Pashinyan as a defendant.

Today, in Baku, a court has started a trial against Pyunkhan Kerimli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, who was arrested on a drug case after being deported from Germany.

Agil Magerramov, a member of the presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, has been released from prison after spending four years in custody. The activist has promised to continue his political struggle for democratic changes in Azerbaijan.

Chechen authorities have failed to focus on the beating up of the former head of the police division in Turkey; only Chengiz Akhmadov, the head of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company) reacted to the video and stated that there had been "enmity" between the attackers and republic's authorities. Recently, the latter have diverted their attention from the persecution of opponents' relatives, focusing on the events in Ukraine, Ruslan Kutaev has noted.

The mother of Ali Dzeitov, an Ingush student, who was acquitted within the case of extremism, is waiting for her son to return, but it is not yet known how he will be sent home from Cairo.

Soldiers of the “Azov” regiment, who surrendered to the Russian troops, have the status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention, and their prosecution for war crimes against Russian militaries or civilians is not ruled out. This opinion has been voiced by lawyers interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The Institute for Reporters’ Freedom and Safety condemned the authorities of Azerbaijan for the “politically motivated” arrest of blogger Rashad Ramazanov and called on for his immediate release. The Rashad Ramazanov’s defence filed an appeal against his arrest.

In Makhachkala, during two solo pickets, Dagestani journalists demanded to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and release political prisoners.

A resident of Ingushetia shot dead a man after the latter kidnapped his sister to marry her. The suspect has been taken into custody, investigators report.