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In Baku, the prosecutor has asked to sentence Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) to 10 years in prison. Gumbatov has protested to the state prosecutor and announced the falsification of his criminal case.

After an incident in New Moscow, the Chechen parliament prepared for submission to the State Duma of Russia a bill banning the mention in the media and social media of information on the ethnic and religious affiliation of criminals.

Mikhail Saakashvili has decided to stop his hunger strike, his advocate Nika Gvaramiya reports today.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has denied the petition lodged by representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, that asked to oblige the authorities to transfer him to a civil clinic. Saakashvili's personal doctor, Nikoloz Kipshidze, has recorded injuries on his patient's body.

At doctors' insistence, due to deteriorating of her tests, on the eighth day of her hunger strike, Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, was made a blood transfusion.

The prison terms demanded by the Prosecutor's Office (PO) for the figurants in the Ingush case are excessive and undermine ordinary people's trust in the authorities, the defendants have stated.

Relatives of Gasan Galibekov, a Dagestani accused of beating up a passenger in Moscow metro, have apologized to the victim, Roman Kovalyov and his mother, offering to help him with rehabilitation.

The video proofs of torture of residents of Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 in Saratov gives hope that the perpetrators will be punished; however, in other Russian institutions the situation is similar, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

Despite a court’s request to bring Mikhail Saakashvili to the trial, the special penitentiary service refused to do that, fearing an attack by the opposition on a convoy car.

A Moscow court ruled to detain Salman Zhamaldaev, a former winner of the World Fighting Championship Akhmat, until January 6. The athlete faces 10 years of imprisonment under the article on drug trafficking.

At least ten activists were detained even before the start of the rally in front of the building of the State Security Service of Georgia. Two more protest actions against the transfer of Mikhail Saakashvili to a prison hospital are taking place near the buildings of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Public Health.

About a dozen doctors have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Government in Tbilisi, where they demanded to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, to a multifunctional private clinic.

Well prior the scandal with the detained Russians, the Turkish-Russian relations were unstable, and reports about the preparations for an assassination attempt on representatives of the Chechen Diaspora will not improve these relations, the Russian Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

On November 9, during the parties' debate at the trial held in the city of Yessentuki, the advocates of the Ingush activists, accused of creating an extremist community, delivered their speeches. They asked the Kislovodsk City Court, which is considering the case, to pass an acquittal, since, in their opinion, the crimes imputed to their clients have not been proved in any way.