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The exchange of prisoners on the principle of "all for all" is being hindered by the Armenia's demand to involve the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh in the negotiations, which is unacceptable for Azerbaijan, Baku political analysts believe.

Muhammad Imanly and Ramid Nagiev, the arrested members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), are not allowed to call their relatives and to be visited by advocates, their defenders claim. Rufat Safarov, the director of the NGO "Line of Defence", suggests that the prisoners were tortured.

Azerbaijan forced Armenian officer Gurgen Alaverdyan to read out a video appeal with repentance, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Armenia claimed. The Armenian diplomats treat the Baku's actions as a violation of the war prisoner's rights.

In Chechnya, in the new academic year, schoolchildren will be required to come to classes wearing masks, the authorities of the republic report. Meanwhile, the Russian authorities did not require imposing the mask regime in schools. Some Instagram users and local residents note they would prefer distance learning for their children.

In the Ingush village of Troitskoye, where three persons were killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO), no houses were damaged, except for the house in which the special operation took place. So far, residents have not applied for compensation for damage, the village administration noted.

Bagaudin Myakiev, an activist, convicted of attacking law enforcers at a rally in Magas, has served his sentence in a colony.

In the video appeal released by the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan, a man, presented as the detained Armenian military serviceman, says that he had been sent to commit a diversion. The officer read out the prepared text under pressure, experts in Yerevan believe.

Law enforcers have detained two activists who staged a protest after shooting of stray dogs in Baku.

A court in Saint Petersburg has dismissed the complaint against the arrest of Mansur Abdylkhaisiev, a native of Chechnya, accused of violence against a migration inspector. Mansur's acquaintances, who witnessed the incident, said that the inspector herself grabbed Mansur's hand when he tried to avoid a conflict with the law enforcer.

Agil Magerramov, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is under quarantine in a prison hospital, was placed into dungeon (punishment cell) for 10 days. He was punished for his protests against the hospital staff's actions against his detained party comrades, the "Turan" News Agency has informed.

The village of Labra will be opened only after a two-week-long isolation, the Minister of Public Health of Abkhazia told the rally audience. People's health is more important than villagers' economic interests, who are now unable to sell their vegetables and fruits in marketplaces, the head of the district administration has stated.

Law enforcement bodies should deal with solving serious crimes, and not prosecute a pensioner for a hemp bush growing in his garden, Instagram users have commented on the news of the suicide of a resident of the village of Nartkala.

Lasha Sakaniya decided to leave the post of the advisor to the President of Abkhazia, since he organized a visit to the Gali District of Irma Inashvili, Vice-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament, and that visit provoked discontent in the Abkhazian society. The organization "Aruaa" raised the question of the resignation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia and the Secretary of the Security Council.

Law enforcers planted improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to Bagaudin Yevloev, a cousin of the Asian freestyle wrestling champion, tortured him, and forced him to sign a confession. This was reported to the "Memorial" by the mother of the detainee.

Participants of a spontaneous rally claimed that the village of Labra was placed under quarantine, while local residents were not provided with food stuffs and medicines.

In the Ivanovo Region, law enforcers, engaged in conducting an investigation into a case on fraud, detained Isa Edilsultanov, the representative of the leader of Chechnya in Crimea, a source reported.

The court has upheld the arrest of Vadim Cheldiev, accused of organizing riots at a rally in Vladikavkaz. The activist said that he had been kept in a solitary cell for five months and had been restricted in receiving parcels from relatives.

Vafa Nagi, an activist, removed from work at the municipal council of the village of Khol Garagashly, intends to challenge this decision, treating it as biased and illegal. The Azerbaijani Central Election Commission (CEC) has pointed out the illegality of depriving members of the municipal council of their powers in the extrajudicial order.

After the murder in the counter-terrorist operation (CTO) held in Ingushetia of Khusen Gadamauri, a native of Chechnya, who had been extradited from Germany, it is necessary to reconsider the practice of extraditing Chechens to Russia, said Ekkehard Maas, the head of the German-Caucasian Society. The death of Gadamauri raises concern for the fate of other Chechens who have been extradited or are awaiting it, said Pascal Chaudot, the head of the Chechnya Committee in France.

During a search conducted in the yard of Nikolai Zakharchenko, a resident of the village of Nartkala, law enforcers deliberately walked to the place where the hemp bush was found; while at the police station, they persuaded him to sign empty protocols, the wife of the 85-year-old pensioner who had committed suicide asserts. The widow intends to rehabilitate him, the "Mediazona" reports.