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Female activists from the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) tried to hold a protest action outside the building of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), demanding to release the arrested Mamed Ibragim. The police prevented the action and ousted the activists away from the MIA building.

There is virtually no investigation into the murder of the oppositional politician, Boris Nemtsov, stated the advocate for the Nemtsov family, who took part in a protest rally in Moscow.

The secret witness, who testified in the case of four residents of Buynaksk, was able to identify only Ali Ramazanov among the defendants; he mixed up the names of others.

Elman Guliev, the head of the youth wing of the "Musavat" Party, has sharply dropped blood pressure; and doctors advised him to stop his hunger strike. But he continues it together with Elshad Israfil, another activist.

A ceremony of laying flowers in memory of victims of Sumgait pogroms was held at the Memorial Complex in Stepanakert. Housing problems of about 20 percent of refugee families have not been resolved yet, said Saro Saryan, the head of the NGO "Artsakh Union of Armenian Refugees from Azerbaijan".

On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the battle of the 6th company of the Pskov Airborne Division with militants in Chechnya, mourning events were held with the participation of Ramzan Kadyrov. Local residents have accused the authorities of cynicism and offered to perpetuate the memory of war victims, not of paratroopers.

Mourning events in memory of the victims of riots in Sumgait were held at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan. Eyewitnesses of the Sumgait events told about the killings of Armenians and about how they themselves managed to escape.

He claims a violation of the principle of parties' contentiousness at trial, and a violation of the right to the freedom of assembly. Earlier, Barakh Chemurziev filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), also claiming a violation of his rights, in particular, of the right to personal liberty and immunity.

The believer has reported that some time ago law enforcers wrote down his personal data after the Friday namaz (prayer) in the Makhachkala mosque, and then forced him, by means of threats, to come to the police for "conversation". During the raid this Friday (February 28) at the mosque, law enforcers again stopped the Makhachkala resident.

Commentators in the French-speaking segment of the Facebook have treated the show of the clothing collection of the Chechen "Firdaus" fashion house as "dictatorship's luxury" and a "carnival." The daughter of the assassinated human rights defender, Natalia Estemirova, has claimed the inadmissibility of such events in the country that shelters political refugees from Chechnya.

An assassination attack on blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov is being actively discussed by members of the Chechen Diaspora. The authorities of Chechnya managed to spread an atmosphere of fear among Chechens in Europe, human rights defender Sasha Kulaeva notes.

Shaziya Nukh, an 88-year-old repatriate, who arrived in Nalchik from Syria, appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to grant her Russian citizenship. Knowledge of one of the Russian languages, advanced age, and health state of the repatriate should become determining factors to grant her Russian citizenship under accelerated procedures, believes a human rights defender.

Some of Baku residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" expressed their concern over the threat of the coronavirus decease entering the country, and the booming demand for protective equipment provoked a shortage of medical masks.

Zviad Kuprava, the head of the "Centre for Law Enforcement Reform", who was beaten at his home in Tbilisi on February 27, was hospitalized with injuries. The activist associated the attack on him with his political activities.

In two villages of Chechnya, young people were detained, who put "Likes" to the videos posted by Tumso Abdurakhmanov, local residents report. The police have not confirmed this information.

Residents of the regions of Abkhazia bordering on Georgia claim the absence of earning money, if the authorities finally close the border with Georgia because of the coronavirus. Many will have to move to live in Georgia, they have noted.

The court has excluded any political motives from the case of Rashid Aushev, a participant of the March last year rally in Magas, and sentenced him to one year and 9 months in colony. His advocate treats the judgement as politically motivated.

Ramzan Kadyrov and his close associates openly have pronounced threats addressed to critics of Chechen authorities, rights defenders and residents of Chechnya have reminded in connection with the recent attempt on the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged the Azerbaijani authorities to pay compensation to Khadija Ismayilova for her moral harm caused by keeping her in custody. The ECtHR has found that she had been persecuted for her investigative journalism about corruption in the Azerbaijani government.

The intolerance level towards sexual minorities in Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is lower than in Northern Caucasus as a whole, but domestic homophobia is widespread in the republic, LGBT activists said amid the bullying of Shamil Malkanduev, a transgender singer.