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In Tbilisi, the court refused to grant the victim status to the activists who suffered during the dispersal of a rally in front of the parliament building. The authorities do not want the protesters to gain access to the case file, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) states.

The film "Daimokhk" about Chechen choreographer Ramzan Akhmadov will not be shown during the screenings of the Artdocfest festival in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, since "that will be safer for its heroes," film director Masha Novikova says.

Video records showing the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny confirm the statement of Tumso Abdurakhmanov about his conflict with Islam Kadyrov, YouTube users note.

Seimour Khazi, the deputy chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), claims the charges of disorderly conduct and of failure to obey to the police brought against him are false. He associates his arrest with his participation in the preparation of an opposition rally.

The footage about the visit of the ABC's filming crew and the confession of the journalist, James Longman, to homosexuality has led to the appearance of a large number of homophobic comments in the popular Chechen publics. However, some users have called for tolerance. The story of persecutions of LGBT people in Chechnya has not been forgotten, said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network.

The Committee against Repressions and Torture has announced the start of a 10-day-long public campaign in Azerbaijan under the slogan "End to torture!"

A series of solo pickets in support of Aslan Iritov, the head of the organization "Volny Aul" (Free Village), will be held on October 31. The action is timed to the second anniversary of the clashes with law enforcers in the yard of Iritovs' house.

Salikh Ibn Baz, a descendant of the former Mufti of Saudi Arabia, has accused the head of Chechnya of lying about Wahhabis and oppressions of Muslims. The religious advisor to Ramzan Kadyrov has invited him to Chechnya, but Ibn Baz expressed his contempt for Kadyrov.

Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, publicly exposed for his cruelty, demonstrates the absence of problems in his life, as it follows from the videos posted in social networks.

In the capital of Dagestan, activists have held a series of pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft).

The Chechen authorities have shown their dominance in a dispute with Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who criticizes the Ramzan Kadyrov's regime, by providing him with full versions of videos about the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov, the former mayor of Grozny. The blogger regarded the scandalous TV report about Islam Kadyrov as an attempt to get ahead of his posts.

A former official from the Kizlyar District was beaten at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Khasavyurt, reports his brother Ismail Magomedsharipov, a member of the parliament of Dagestan. Facebook users note that officials also began to suffer from the "legal arbitrariness" in the republic and reproached the Magomedsharipov brothers for the indifference to cases of human rights violations.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were subjected to shelling attacks, including from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Shootout between Chechen farmers in the Rostov Region; Magomed Daudov's removal from the supervision of the territorial sector in Chechnya and information on checking a video about the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny; railway workers' strike in Armenia; unusual personnel decisions made by President of Azerbaijan; mass protest rally in Elista, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of October 21-27, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A book by historian Khadjimurad Donogo published in Makhachkala contains the documents about the life of an eldest son of Imam Shamil, never published earlier. Serious studies on the topic of the Caucasian war are in demand in modern society, historians note.

In Georgia, law enforcers detained a father of a minor girl. The man is suspected of forcing his minor daughter to get married.

After the coming out of James Longman, a reporter of the "ABC Chanel", who visited the Chechen republic, Chechen police chief Apti Alaudinov has assured him that in Chechnya, gays are not afraid of persecution by the authorities, but of their relatives' reaction to their sexual orientation.

In Armenia, officials and ordinary residents paid tribute to victims of the shooting of the Armenian parliament on October 27, 1999. The possibility of resumption of the investigation into the terror act was discussed.

Law enforcers are on duty at the exit from the only hypermarket in the Chechen capital where alcoholic beverages are sold. The law enforcers inspect the people who entered the wine and vodka department and detain them if alcoholic beverages are found, local residents report.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint against the administrative arrest of Ilham Gusein, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Majlis of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence treats the arrest as unjustified.