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During the war in Nagorno-Karabakh, the commander of a detachment of the Armenian Army and his acquaintance conveyed information about the armament and deployment of Armenian troops to Azerbaijani special services, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia has informed today.

The employees of the Agency for Regulation of Medical Activities have removed six children from the Saint Nino orphanage boarding school. Ten more children expressed their desire to leave.

A prosecution witness questioned in court positively described Abdulmumin Gadjiev and his posts, an advocate reported. Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), is involved as a defendant in a case on financing of terrorism.

Law enforcers have detained the activists who demanded an efficient inquiry into reports of violence at a boarding school in Ninotsminda. Human rights defenders will demand in court to take all the children out of the boarding school, an activist of the NGO "Partnership for Human Rights", has stated.

At present, there is a chance that a wife of Salman Tepsurkaev will be granted the status of a victim due to the established practice of recognizing religious marriages in the republic.

Timur Tumgoev, a native of Vladikavkaz, is serving a sentence in the Saratov Region on the charge of involvement with Syrian militant groupings. He faces regular provocations because of his faith and wearing a beard. The prisoner requested an advocate to ensure a visit to the correctional institution by human rights defenders from Moscow, the Timur Tumgoev’s defender reported.

Two activists of the "Antilyrica" public movement were fired upon by drug dealers in Malgobek, relatives of the wounded persons have stated. The activists were hospitalized; the shooter was detained, the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported.

The court refused to take into account the statements of five residents of the Agul District that their confessions were obtained under duress, the advocates have stated. The defence of the four convicts will appeal against the verdict, while the advocate of the acquitted Ali Aliev intends to achieve his rehabilitation.

The law enforcement bodies treat a young man from the Derbent District of Dagestan as an organizer of the financing of terrorism. According to investigators, the suspect is caught in plans to join militants in Syria.

Magomed-Bashir Ozdoev, a participant in a rally in Magas, has been sentenced to eight months in prison. With account of the time he spent at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the term of his house arrest, he should be back at large in 10 days.

The Southern District Military Court has received materials of the case of Turpal-Ali Dzeitov, a native of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in the terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz"* and recruiting relatives into the ranks of militants.

Dagestani journalists have held three solo pickets in Makhachkala, condemning the practice of unjustified arrests and treating the persecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, as a part of a campaign to put pressure on the editorial policy of the independent edition.

In Moscow, a court has refused to pronounce a sentence to Chechen native Said-Mukhammad Djumaev and resumed the investigation to clarify the circumstances of the case, the defence reports.