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Mirtagi Asadov, the head of the Supreme Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Georgia, has linked his arrest in Azerbaijan with his public activeness in Georgia. The protest vote of ethnic Azerbaijanis at the presidential election in Georgia could be the direct reason for Asadov 's arrest, activists believe.

Today, the "Legal Initiative" has published its report "Killed by Gossip. Honour Killings of Women in Northern Caucasus". It contains real stories of women who fell victim to honour killings in Northern Caucasus in 2008-2017.

The case of Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the oppositional website "Bastainfo.com", accused of anti-state appeals, has been separated into individual proceedings. Mr Gadjibeili believes that his detention is being prepared.

Mirtagi Asadov, the head of the Supreme Spiritual Administration of Muslims, released by the court from custody in Baku, has returned to Georgia. He said that the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs failed to react to his detention in Azerbaijan.

Three witnesses from among inmates of Colony No. 16 who were attracted as search witnesses, failed to appear at the trial of Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. The defence insisted on interrogation of them; and the court has adjourned the session.

The "Legal Initiative" has drafted a report on women, who in 2013-2017 fell victim to the so-called "honour killings". The report, which is scheduled to be published on December 6, is based on the studies conducted in the three republics of Northern Caucasus – Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan.

The European Court of Human Rights has issued its decision on cases of 16 residents of Chechnya and one resident of Ingushetia, who were detained by militaries in 2002-2004 and then disappeared. The Russian authorities should pay compensations to their relatives amounting more than one million euros.

The six citizens of Ukraine and a citizen of Georgia, detained in Tbilisi during a special operation, have gone on a hunger strike in protest against the charges of illegal acquisition and possession of weapons, their advocate has announced.

A Tbilisi court has ruled to arrest six citizens of Ukraine and one citizen of Georgia, detained during a special operation in Tbilisi and suspected of illegally acquiring and storing weapons.

On December 3, the "Islamic State", a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, posted an expanded version of a video with threats pronounced by the teenagers who attacked law enforcers in Chechnya on August 20 this year.

The Krasnodar branch of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) has complained to the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory about the custody conditions at the local SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the wheelchair-bound Alexander Kiba, his advocate said on December 3.

The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are convinced that the circumstances of the murder of Ismail Barkhanoev, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, fail to meet the customs of the blood feud killing.

Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, has stated today that the Prosecutor's Office should be involved in checking the complaint of Maxim Lapunov about the refusal to initiate a case on his arrest and beating up by law enforcers in Chechnya.

During the week from November 26 to December 2, 2018, at least three people perished in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; no information was received about the wounded people. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.