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Three Azerbaijani residents have been taken into custody; according to investigators, they were preparing a terrorist attack on a foreign embassy in Baku.

The wording of the law on insulting public morality and obvious disrespect for society is not clearly defined, which opens up space for arbitrary interpretation by law enforcement and regulatory authorities.

Two activists from the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan have been arrested under administrative law. The party called the arrests for social media comments politically motivated.

In a statement about 11 displaced persons, Armenia's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs referred to Nagorno-Karabakh as Azerbaijani territory. Karabakh refugees called the official's language unacceptable to the forcibly displaced persons.

The Khazar District Court in Baku sentenced activist Kenul Akhmedova to 20 days in jail for disseminating prohibited information on social media.

Ahead of the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, the human rights campaign "End Repression in Azerbaijan" called on Council of Europe structures to launch a "Joint Response Procedure" against Baku, stating that Azerbaijan is failing to comply with its human rights obligations to the organization.

The health of journalist Nurlan Gahramanli, arrested in the Meydan TV case, has seriously deteriorated on the seventh day of his hunger strike. Despite the entreaties of his family, Gahramanli refused to end his protest.

Blogger Rashad Ramazanov, convicted in a drug case in Azerbaijan, claimed he was beaten in the prison colony where he is serving his sentence. He also accused the prison director of making death threats.

Nagorno-Karabakh resident Vagif Khachatryan, who returned to Armenia from imprisonment in Azerbaijan, underwent surgery in Yerevan. Doctors described his condition as stable.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced Ingushetia natives Batukhan Tochiyev and Ramazan Padiev to 22 and 18 years, respectively, and Baku native Robert Safaryan to 25 years. Akhmadzhon Kurbonov, the perpetrator of the terrorist attack that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant, was sentenced to life in prison.

In Baku, the pretrial detention of six women accused of hooliganism and disturbing the peace for distributing food to believers on the day of mourning has been extended. Human rights activists noted that the court imposed an excessively harsh pretrial detention measure and ignored arguments regarding the defendants' children.

A Baku court extended the pretrial detention of lawyer Zabil Gahramanov for another two months. The defense considers the decision unfounded and has filed an appeal.

Direct imports of Azerbaijani petroleum products to Armenia have led to lower gasoline prices at gas stations, due to lower transportation costs than those associated with fuel delivered from Russia. However, the volumes of gasoline supplied by Azerbaijan are still insignificant. These deliveries can be seen primarily as a political gesture in the context of a peace settlement.