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Testimonies of witnesses and a video from a protest action in Tbilisi do not confirm that Moris Machalikashvili attacked law enforcers, Georgian human rights defenders report.

The fact that Ilgar Mamedov and several other former political prisoners were not allowed to take part in the parliamentary elections proves the "increasingly undemocratic nature" of the regime and "creates a legal and political crisis of unprecedented gravity" in the implementation by Azerbaijan of the judgments pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), says Sunna Thorhildur Ævarsdottir, rapporteur on reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In Kiev, the court arrested for two months Igor Redkin, a native of Kaspiysk, who was suspected of killing Amina Okueva.

In Azerbaijan, the overpriced cost of campaigning on radio and TV Channels does not allow opposition parties and independent candidates to participate in the parliamentary campaign along with the ruling party, activists claim.

The practice of public apologies can be an effective correctional measure for violators of the traffic rules, Dagestani drivers believe.

An advocate of Adam Badiev claimed that law enforcers themselves were responsible for clashes with Ingush activists in March 2019. Adam Badiev admitted that he had hit a fighter of the National Guard of Russia with a stone, but stated that he had not done that on purpose.

Today, Georgian law enforcers have detained an armed man who took a border guard hostage.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) demanded from the Georgian authorities to explain their refusal to change a gender record in the passport of Nikolo Gviniashvili.

The authorities and the judicial system of Armenia are responsible for the deterioration of the condition of Manvel Grigoryan, a former member of the Armenian parliament, who is not allowed to be treated abroad, the defence claims.

The German law enforcement authorities conducted a series of searches in a case on preparation of a terror act. According to the preliminary information, three migrants from Chechnya were detained.

Akhmed Nalgiev, a resident of Magas, refused to admit to participating in an unsanctioned rally and rejected the charge with assaulting two law enforcers. The man claims that the criminal proceedings against him deprived him of his job and damaged his reputation.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from machine guns and sniper rifles, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested after disseminating on social networks a video criticizing the policeman. Other two PFPA's activists were fined. In 2019, 98 members were subjected to administrative arrests, the PFPA reports.

Family members of Khasan Zyazikov, an arrested Ingush activist, found themselves in distress, brothers of the activist said.

On the 30th anniversary of the Baku pogroms, residents of Yerevan paid tribute to victims of the tragedy. Refugees from Baku told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent about their relatives who were killed during those tragic events.

The public interest in the case of arrested Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev is quite high, note participants in a series of pickets in Makhachkala. According to them, for sympathizers of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a support campaign on social networks can become an alternative to participating in street actions of protest.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan promised Anar Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the "Criminal.az" website, to find the people who disseminated false information about the journalist on social networks.

The Georgian police suspected Mikhail Saakashvili of involvement in an attempt to overthrow the government on the basis of his statement that it was possible to achieve a "regime fall" in the summer of 2019.

Political crises and frequent presidential elections spoil the tourist image of Abkhazia and prevent it from developing amid high unemployment and low salaries, believe residents of Sukhumi, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Musa Pliev and Eliskhan Azhigov, participants of a rally in Magas, who had not been earlier released from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Stavropol Territory despite the expiration of the sentences, were set free.