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In Baku, the court sentenced Anar Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the website "Criminalaz", to 5.5 years of conditional imprisonment. The journalist and his defence insisted on acquittal.

The Armenian Court of Appeal dismissed the claim of Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, to recognize him as a victim in a criminal case on wiretapping of phone conversations between the heads of the two law enforcement bodies. The defence announced appeals to the cassation instance and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The testimonies of the defence witnesses positively characterize Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Chechnya, but do not acquit him in possession of drugs, the court has decided. The human rights defender has been sentenced to four years of imprisonment.

During the week of March 11-17, 2019, two persons were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded 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.

Major pardonings in Azerbaijan; special operation in the Stavropol Territory; death of a Georgian citizen after his detention on the border with Abkhazia; court's decision on a claim filed by Vremenny villagers and meeting of Salafi mosque's delegates with the Prosecutor in Dagestan; hunger strike of Gukovo miners, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 11-17, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On March 18, in Chechnya, a court will pronounce the verdict to Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Grozny. The defence has managed to draw attention to the trial, and that fact will positively affect the Oyub Titiev's reputation and security, his advocate believes. The HRC "Memorial" presented 10 facts proving the falsification of the Oyub Titiev's case.

On March 16, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev signed a decree to pardon 431 convicts, including more than a dozen political prisoners.

Residents of Makhachkala and Kizilyurt District are suspected of having transferred more than 10 million roubles to members of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

The international Human Rights Watch (HRW) has demanded to immediately release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The court has ruled to fine David Gaag and Cole Brodovsky, American missionaries, and deport them from Russia. They refused to plead guilty of handing out leaflets in the streets in Novorossiysk, but refused to appeal against the judgement.

The Federation Council is engaged in a check initiated by Valery Rashkin, a State Duma member from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), concerning verification of the information stating that when Rauf Arashukov got his senator's mandate in 2016, he had a residence permit in the UAE, the "Kommersant" reports.

The Leninsky District Court of Rostov-on-Don extended until June 17 the term of house arrest to activist Anastasia Shevchenko, accused of involvement in an undesirable organization. The defence's request to let Anastasia Shevchenko take her children to school and go for walks was dismissed.

Azerbaijani authorities fail to persecute and punish those who violate human rights; and this creates an atmosphere of impunity, says the report of the US State Department about the state of human rights in the world in 2018. Azerbaijani activists agree with the criticism and believe that sanctions should be imposed on the country's authorities.