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The case of Robert Kocharyan has been handed over to David Grigoryan, who had claimed self-disqualification, when freedom restriction measure of the second Armenian President was discussed.

Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sentenced to 15 days of administrative arrest on charges of disobedience to the police. The party treats his arrest as politically motivated.

The report of an attack on military servicemen in Chechnya on April 22, widespread by the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, is aimed at maintaining its image and strengthening its influence on militants, experts assert. At the same time, they noted that Chechen authorities failed to provide any evidence refuting this information.

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, a court refused to recognize that placing Aslan Cherkesov, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, into the dungeon (a punishment cell, also known as ShIZO) for many times in a row was a violation, the inmate's advocate has informed.

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has allowed trips abroad for three journalists and a writer, who had been prohibited from leaving the country in connection with the criminal case against the "Meydan TV".

In the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, during the week from April 29 to May 5, 2019, no victims 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.

Emin Babaev, a member of the "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) Party, was detained on charges of disobeying the police and was kept in custody for more than 24 hours, although the judge has postponed the trial and released him, said Natig Djafarli, the Secretary of the Party.

Law enforcers have announced a federal search for Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, who figures as a witness in the case of clashes at a rally in Ingushetia. Mr Pogorov could face an arrest, his advocates say.

Shafag Agabalaeva, the editor-in-chief of the website "Bakupress.az" has gone on a hunger strike after her arrest within a drug dealing case. Her supporters have suggested that she was slandered for her publications about the sale of psychotropic drugs at pharmacies. Her website had written a lot about the problem of drug addiction, human rights defenders have stated.

Participants of the Cossack gathering and a meeting of the Council of Atamans in the Kalachyovsky District of the Volgograd Region have drawn attention of the authorities to the cruel beating of the farmer Evgeny Sychov, a Cossack. His son told about his father's years-long conflict with the natives of Chechnya, but the police believe that it was just a domestic incident.

On May 3, relatives of Giorgi Mamaladze, a priest, who was found guilty of trying to poison the patriarch's secretary, launched an action demanding from the Georgian Church to submit a petition asking to pardon the convict.

On May 1, a court in Baku refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Fuad Akhmedli, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), because of a negative opinion of the colony boss. The defence intends to appeal against this second CER denial.