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At a protest rally in support of Robert Kocharyan, held in front of the German Embassy in Yerevan, activists handed over to the ambassador a letter to the country's Chancellor Angela Merkel, in which they spoke about the political motives for the prosecution of the second president of Armenia.

Information about the arrest of Rafael Guseinzade, detained after an action in support of political prisoners, became known to his relatives only on the fifth day after detention, his father, Fizuli Guseinov, an oppositionist, has stated.

Rauf Arashukov, a Senator (Member of the Russia's Federation Council) from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who was detained on suspicion of involvement in resonant murders, is also suspected of attacking Ruslan Kardanov, a deputy of the City Duma of Cherkessk, in October 2018, a source said.

Afghan Mukhtarly has asked his wife to voice out his appeal to Fikret Mamedov, the Azerbaijani Minister of Justice, inviting him to visit the colony, where the journalist is serving his sentence, and personally ask about the quality of prisoners' food.

The mobile police post was located in the outskirt of the village of Sernovodskaya, local residents report, noting that an attack of one person on law enforcers raises many questions.

Rauf Arashukov, Senator (Member of the Russia's Federation Council) from the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), has been detained today during a plenary session of the Council. He is accused of involvement in two murders, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

Eldar Iraziev, who was beaten up in Makhachkala and received a trauma, has left the republic to undergo treatment outside it, Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the coordination council of non-commercial organizations of Dagestan, has informed.

Twelve persons accused of being involved in the Aslan Gagiev's grouping have been taken to Moscow, where the trial was moved for the sake of the safety of the litigation parties.

Investigators explain the decision to suspend the case on torture of Rustam Kuchmenov, a resident of Nalchik, by the fact that a suspected law enforcers cannot participate in a criminal case. Representatives of Rustam Kuchmenov found the above decision "strange" and challenged it in court, the Committee against Torture (CaT) reports today.

Today, the state prosecutor has asked to give him time to prepare a response to Oyub Titiev's advocates, who demanded to exclude the package with drugs from the list of proofs, which, according to investigators, was seized from rights defender's car.

The attack on the mobile police post in the Sunzha District of Chechnya, as a result of which two law enforcers were wounded and one attacker killed, was the first armed incident in Chechnya in 2019 and the fifth since August 2018

The Gasanguseinov brothers were not intentionally killed by law enforcers, but fell victim to a tragic mistake, the head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, believes. Such an assessment of the shepherds' death has caused a negative reaction in social networks.

The judge has rejected the defence's request for re-creating the circumstances of the inspection of Oyub Titiev's car anew. The advocate's petition to summon two experts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to the court was also rejected.

The four residents of Ingushetia, killed during the attack on the DPS (road-and-patrol service) post patrol in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, were buried in their native village of Sagopshi. Their relatives said they did not know anything about the reasons of the attack.