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The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled 22 times in the conflict zone within 24 hours, and a village in the area bordering Armenia fell under fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Jehovah's Witnesses* from Sochi plead not guilty of participating in an extremist organization, and their arrests are an act of intimidation of believers, notes advocate Anton Bogdanov.

On October 20, in central Baku, about fifty people held, despite policemen's counteraction, a rally in protest against using violence to women, and agreed to end it only after the detainees were released.

The Georgian party has accused Russian border guards of installing barbed wire near the village of Atotsi, bordering on South Ossetia; and observers and policemen arrived at the venue. Oppositionists staged a protest at the "Shakshaketi" checkpoint, demanding to let them into the village.

The use of alcohol and psychotropic drugs became the reason for a "prophylactic talk" of law enforcers with the men detained in Chechnya. Local residents and Instagram users have treated the public warning of the detainees as excessive.

Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has stated that after he was detained at a rally, he was beaten up several times.

The picket of Dagestani Afghan War veterans in Makhachkala ended after they managed to get promises from the authorities to solve their problems, Gasaini Gasainiev, the head of the initiative group of veterans, has informed.

Elena Milashina, a journalist, refused to discuss the proposal for marriage instead of human rights violations in Chechnya. Social network users' opinions about the appropriateness of such humour on the part of Kadyrov diverged; some commentators have treated it as a veiled threat.

60 people were detained at an oppositional rally in Baku; 42 were released after warning; materials on the remaining 18 will be sent to courts, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed. Oppositionists claim that there were "much more" detainees.

Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer of the Committee against Torture (CaT), has filed a complaint to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, demanding to punish Ibrahim Aliev, a former police chief of the Shamil District.

The stands at the match of the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) were again filled with the use of administrative resources. Fans of the club are disappointed with the game of the team.

Only two out of nine members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan are included into its new membership. Shamil Khadulaev is sure that he was not invited there for his active human rights activities.

Chingiz Akhmadov, a journalist of the "Grozny" TV Channel, has been appointed director of the "Chechnya Today" Agency. Akhmadov is regularly posting video replies to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, in social networks in defence of Chechen authorities.

Border guards have stopped an attempt of Georgian intelligence agents to get into South Ossetia's territory, the official Tskhinvali has stated.

Northern Caucasus preserves early marital relations; however, these traditions violate the laws of the Russian Federation, lawyers believe.

Volunteers of the Russian LGBT Network have evacuated almost 160 people from Chechnya and continue helping local homosexuals. According to the complaint filed by the Network in the interests of the murdered Chechen resident, Arbi Altemirov, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg may oblige Russia to investigate the case.

Ramzan Shaikhaev, who was visiting Chechnya as a guest, was detained for a month by law enforcers without explanations; and on September 9, he disappeared, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has informed. His acquaintances believe that Shaikhaev had drawn law enforcers' attention because of his "suspicious" beard.

A Moscow court has refused to cancel the fine imposed on Alexander Cherkasov, a human rights defender, for the action held on the anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

Today, a check of documents of the visitors of the Makhachkala "Tangim" Mosque was held before the collective Friday namaz (prayer), not after as before. The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated that there were no detainees.

During a search, law enforcers presented a search warrant with another address, said a father of Khasan Katsiev, a participant of a March rally in Magas. Magomed Katsiev appealed to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" with a request to protect his family members from persecution of law enforcers.