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The Ingush students detained in Egypt have complained to their relatives about the inhuman custody conditions in the Cairo prison. The young people are chained to beds and left without water, their relatives have stated.

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has supported Shema Timagova, a victim of domestic violence, in her complaint against the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The Russian authorities are offered to pay compensation to her.

The "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) is the first organization fined for involvement in the activities of the "Open Russia" (recognized as an undesirable organization in Russia by the General Prosecutor's Office). The City Court of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, considered the case, although activists could not come to the session, the lawyer of the "EcoWatch" has stated.

The Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev will not stop his hunger strike until his release from temporary detention centre (IVS) on April 13, his son Ilez said today.

The arrest of Ramazan Alibiev, accused of storing firearms, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. His defence has stated today that pressure is exerted on Alibiev to force him to admit his guilt and reject advocates.

Mekhman Guseinov, an Azerbaijani blogger and the chairman of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), has managed to go abroad to participate in international events. Last night, he flew to Europe.

The case of the participation of Abo Dobriev in the armed underground, instituted after they failed to prove his participation in the protest action, has reminded law enforcers' statements about links of the activist Muslim Khashagulgov with militants, Ingush oppositionists have noted.

The Ingush activist Bagaudin Khautiev is the first to be officially accused under the case of using violence against law enforcers. Arrests of oppositionists are conducted in Ingushetia every day; over the past nine days, at least 40 activists were detained.

Ramazan Alibiev, accused by the Dagestani law enforcement bodies of storing a pistol and rounds, complained that law enforcers tortured him to force him to confess to a crime, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal has refused to release on bail Robert Kocharyan, the second president of the country. An advocate has announced the intention to challenge the court's decision at the cassation instance.

Relatives failed to convince 64-year-old Akhmed Barakhoev to stop his hunger strike. It lasts eight days and threatens his health state, reports today Ilez, a son of the Ingush Elder.

The Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the Russian President (known as the Human Rights Council – HRC) has addressed the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory asking to check the legality of the searches conducted at residences of the activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus (EcoWatch).

Svetlana Gannushkina, the head of the Civil Assistance Committee, talked on the phone with the activist Barakhoev, who has been holding his hunger strike for a week already at the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison); Svetlana is ready to come to Ingushetia.

The first court session on the case of Ingush students was held behind closed doors; so far, investigators have not presented any proofs of their guilt. Russian diplomats and the father of one of the detainees were not allowed to the courtroom, Yusup Abakarov, the head of the consular division of the Russian Embassy to Egypt in Cairo, has explained.