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The Criminal Court of Appeal did not reveal any reasonable suspicions of the involvement of Ara Sagatelyan, the former chair of the Armenian parliamentary administration, in a case on fakes. After his release, Ara Sagatelyan announced his intention to continue a political struggle against those who ordered his criminal prosecution.

In Makhachkala, relatives of three residents of Derbent, arrested in a case on terrorism, held a series of pickets with the demand to punish law enforcers for the use of torture. Passers-by expressed their support to the protesters.

Yesterday, the Sumgait Court of Appeal (CoA) upheld the ruling to arrest Elmir Abbasov, a member of the "Nida" movement, accused of illegal storage and use of drug. Oppositionists have linked his arrest with his criticism of the country's president.

Overall 45 militants were killed by law enforcers in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) in 2020; other 113 members armed groupings were detained, Yuri Chaika, the Russian President's envoy to the NCFD, has reported.

A series of investigations conducted by the "Bellingcat" jointly with other media partners have established that the person accused of Khangoshvili's murder had passports on two different names. This suggests that he had collaborated with Russian special services, a classified witness said in court.

After the Kremlin's restrained reaction to the inquiry by the "Mediazona" and "Scanner Project" into the murder of Boris Nemtsov, Ramzan Kadyrov has sharply criticized the journalists for their conclusions, suggesting them to "work out" not the Chechen, but the Ukrainian trace in the murder of the oppositionist.

The prosecutor's office demanded conditional imprisonment for Martin Kochesoko, because the charge has collapsed; but the court fulfilled a political order and refused to acquit the Circassian activist, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* believes.

On March 3, the Supreme Court of Chechnya upheld the verdict in a case on drug possession against Instagram blogger Malika Djikaeva from North Ossetia, her advocate reports today.

Based on a teenager's testimony and a PC desktop, the law enforcement bodies accused a Volgograd schoolboy of plotting a murder, and in the absence of real evidence, they secured that the boy had been declared insane. This was reported in a new article prepared by Ilya Azar and posted by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

The Investigative Committee of Armenia charged Vazgen Manukyan, a candidate for prime minister from the Armenian opposition, for calling to overthrow the government and then obliged him to sign recognizance not to leave. The oppositionist denied the accusations brought against him by the investigators.

The court refused to stop the criminal prosecution and place under house arrest Niyameddin Akhmedov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, accused of financing terrorism. The oppositionist denied the accusations and called them politically motivated.

The detention of Akhmed Pogorov is unlikely to change the accusations against the other defendants in the "Ingush case". This opinion was voiced by the advocates interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". The defenders also ruled out the merger of the Akhmed Pogorov's case with the cases of other defendants, since there would be a need to start the entire investigation from the beginning.

The Committee against Repressions and Torture sees political motives in the cases of the Azerbaijani journalists, Polad Aslanov and Afghan Sadygov, and demanded to stop prosecuting them.