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Azerbaijani citizens, Elmar Musaev and Taral Giyasov, have stated that they have been deceived when they signed confessions in the case of protests in the tent camp in Kullar. Seven out of ten accused have been left in custody.

After the conflict in Ekazhevo, claims had been put forward against the former law enforcer shot dead in the Nazran District of Ingushetia. He had provided his car to employees of Centre "E"; and the detained conflict participants were taken away in the car, which caused claims from members of their vird (a sort of praying community), fellow villagers of the casualty believe.

Investigators have put three residents of the Dagestani city of Derbent on the wanted list after they disappeared in Grozny in winter. A criminal case was initiated under the article of "Murder of two or more persons."

In Dagestan, a court mitigated the pre-trial restriction measure to Azerbaijani citizen Anvar Muradov, who was arrested after clashes in a camp on the border. Anvar Muradov insists that he was not throwing stones at law enforcers.

In Austria, the police detained six natives of Chechnya after complaints from their compatriots about beatings for posting photos in swimsuits or dating non-Chechens.

The Sabail District Court of Baku has rejected the petition to transfer Ragim Gaziev, a former head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD), to house arrest. Human rights defenders insist that Gaziev's arrest was unlawful, and that there were political reasons for persecuting him.

Arthur Mkrtchyan, sentenced to life imprisonment, has declared an endless hunger strike in protest against the change of his custody regime, the Armenian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has informed. The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) is creating artificial obstacles in the cases of life-sentenced prisoners, human rights defenders assert.

A 33-year-old resident of the village of Surkhakhi in Ingushetia was killed when his car was shelled from a submachine gun, and his mother and wife were hospitalized with wounds, investigators have informed.

One person was killed and at least two others were wounded when a car was shelled in the Nazran District, sources report.

A court in Dagestan has left the residents of Azerbaijan, Nakhid Agaev, Aziz Ferekzad and Emin Imamaliev, accused of using violence against law enforcers during protests in the tent camp in Kullar, in custody for another month. They refuse to plead guilty.

A soldier from Chechnya was sentenced to eight years of imprisonment in a penal colony after he had shot and killed his colleague in Damascus for quarrelling in the presence of their commander.