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The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) condemns and treats as unacceptable the politicization of the verdict in the case of Leyla and Arif Yunus, said Khikmet Gadjiev, the head of the press service of the MFA. In their turn, officials of the United Kingdom and the United States link the verdict with human rights activities of the Yunus spouses.

The preliminary investigation into the case of three natives of Chechnya, accused of attacking employees of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) in the Moscow village of Vnukovo, is over. According to the advocate Tatiana Okushko, she refused to get acquainted with the case files, because the defence witnesses were not questioned.

The General Public Prosecutors of Armenia and Russia will have to find a compromise solution on the military prisons where Valery Permyakov will serve his term, said the Armenian lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They consider it possible that the convict will serve his sentence in the Russian territory.

The Azerbaijani rights defender Leyla Yunus has been sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment; her husband Arif Yunus has received 7 years in prison from the court. The guilty verdict was handed down despite the appeals of international human rights organizations, which demanded to release the spouses.

During a search, power agents planted narcotic drugs on her son, said a woman from the Ingush village of Troitskaya. The advocate said that in the autumn of 2014, Alikhan Bokov voluntarily surrendered to the authorities and figured in the case of helping militants; but that case is already closed.

In the near future, the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS) intends to move the recruiting of its new members from the Arab region to the Caucasus, Central Asia and Indonesia. This is stated in the report of the Chief Department for Religious Precepts of Egypt.

Today, the judge of the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has interrupted the session on the case of rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus after Arif Yunus felt bad.

In Astrakhan, a criminal case was opened against three employees of the Federal Service for Drug Control (known as FSKN). According to investigators, they broke by force into the apartment of a local resident and conducted an illegal search.

After the murder of Magomed Suleimanov, the "Imarat Kavkaz" (IK) will suffer a split, while the positions of the "Islamic State" (IS) in Northern Caucasus will strengthen, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot"; they suggested that the strengthening of the IS may be beneficial for power agents.

The start of a two-day sit-in picket was announced in Gyumri today by activists of the group "In Defence of Volodya Avetisyan".