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A supporter of the “Islamic State”* from Stavropol planned to commit a terror act at a railway station, and elements of an explosive device were seized from his place, the FSB reported.

In its annual report, the US Department of State noted serious human rights problems remained in Azerbaijan.

Alexander Mukhortov, a resident of Sochi, who had complained about threats after his material about torture used in a Saratov colony appeared in media, has been transferred from the isolation cell of a prison hospital in Adygea to a ward with normal living conditions, his wife has informed.

The Parliament of Georgia approved the law "On Amnesty" in the third final reading. It will affect prisoners who had committed their crimes prior to January 1, 2004.

In their homeland, the Azerbaijani volunteers who have left for Ukraine may be criminally prosecuted under the article on mercenarism, the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have pointed out.

During the week of April 4-10, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Alexander Mukhortov, a resident of Sochi, who complained about received threats after he told media about torturing inmates in a Saratov colony, and achieved his transfer to Adygea, is in an isolation ward in inhuman conditions, his wife has stated.

In Krasnodar, Olga Aksyonova, an activist, was charged with discrediting the Russian Armed Forces after she lay down on the ground with her hands roped behind her back near a billboard with the inscription "Za Nashikh" (For Ours) in memory of those killed in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.

Tamara Grodnikova, a pensioner, has held a solo picket in Volgograd calling on the authorities to create a civilian commission to travel to Bucha and make public the findings about the massacres of civilians committed there.

The authorities of France expelled Chechen natives to Russia at the slightest suspicion, and the mass deportation was stopped only with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, says Pascal Chaudot, the head of the “Chechen Committee” in France.

Masked law enforcers broke into the home of Leyla Chemurzieva, a resident of the city of Nazran, and took her away to some unknown place. An improvised explosive device (IED) was planted on Leyla, her sister insists.

The decision of the Baku Court on the case of the oppositionist and athlete, Said Mamedzade, was upheld by the country's Supreme Court (SC). His advocate believes that the complaint was considered formally. Mamedzade himself treats the verdict as politically motivated.

Consideration of a complaint filed by a captain of the State Border Guard Service of Azerbaijan against Ali Aliev, the leader of the “Citizens and Development” Party, has been postponed again. Ali Aliev believes that the trial is being deliberately delayed so that at the end of the first term of punishment he will be given a new sentence.

A Tbilisi court has sentenced each of the five figurants in the case of the attack on Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the "TV-Pirveli" Company, after which he died, to five years in prison. The defendants were found guilty of assaulting the journalist and attempting to hamper his work.

The arrest of Eduard Ataev, an activist suspected of possessing an explosive device, was upheld by the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan.