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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women has supported Shema Timagova, a victim of domestic violence, in her complaint against the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The Russian authorities are offered to pay compensation to her.

The "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch) is the first organization fined for involvement in the activities of the "Open Russia" (recognized as an undesirable organization in Russia by the General Prosecutor's Office). The City Court of Maikop, the capital of Adygea, considered the case, although activists could not come to the session, the lawyer of the "EcoWatch" has stated.

The demarcation of interregional borders is of little interest for the federal centre, but the actions of the Chechen authorities at the borders with the neighbouring republics create problems for the Kremlin, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev will not stop his hunger strike until his release from temporary detention centre (IVS) on April 13, his son Ilez said today.

The arrest of Ramazan Alibiev, accused of storing firearms, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. His defence has stated today that pressure is exerted on Alibiev to force him to admit his guilt and reject advocates.

Mekhman Guseinov, an Azerbaijani blogger and the chairman of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), has managed to go abroad to participate in international events. Last night, he flew to Europe.

The case of the participation of Abo Dobriev in the armed underground, instituted after they failed to prove his participation in the protest action, has reminded law enforcers' statements about links of the activist Muslim Khashagulgov with militants, Ingush oppositionists have noted.

Forced migrants from Azerbaijan need money, help and suitable housing, activists from the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) assert. They have set up a group "Gone with the Fate" on the Facebook, which, in their opinion, should draw attention to the problems of refugees and allow them to get help from sponsors.

For six years already, Vazir Bazanaev, a resident of the Dagestani village of Chinar, has been suffering from law enforcers' obsessive supervision. He was put under the so-called "police prophylactic control" back in 2013; since then, the law enforcers cannot leave him alone. The history of the Dagestani, who complained about the encroachment of his privacy, is covered by a special project of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

In Baku, the police have disrupted a march in defence of Bairam Mamedov, an activist of the "Nida" movement, and other political prisoners. Three of the marchers were temporarily detained.

Large losses of gas in Chechnya happened during the years of warfare, therefore, the state and the "Gazprom" must write off the republic's debt, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Russia had forgiven debts to many countries, the head of Chechnya has recalled in his comment on the court judgement on the gas indebtedness case.

The Ingush activist Bagaudin Khautiev is the first to be officially accused under the case of using violence against law enforcers. Arrests of oppositionists are conducted in Ingushetia every day; over the past nine days, at least 40 activists were detained.

More than 300 taxi drivers arrived at the Bidzina Ivanishvili's residence in Tbilisi, demanding to cancel the new regulations of the taxi market in the capital of the country.

A resident of the village of Zardiantkar, located on the border with Georgia, was kidnapped right from his garden, the office of the plenipotentiary representative of the President of South Ossetia for post-conflict settlement has reported.

Ramazan Alibiev, accused by the Dagestani law enforcement bodies of storing a pistol and rounds, complained that law enforcers tortured him to force him to confess to a crime, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

Law enforcers began searching for explosive devices in Volgograd schools, hospitals, shopping centres, and office buildings after reports of bombs.

Today, the Armenian Court of Appeal has refused to release on bail Robert Kocharyan, the second president of the country. An advocate has announced the intention to challenge the court's decision at the cassation instance.

Relatives failed to convince 64-year-old Akhmed Barakhoev to stop his hunger strike. It lasts eight days and threatens his health state, reports today Ilez, a son of the Ingush Elder.

The Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the Russian President (known as the Human Rights Council – HRC) has addressed the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory asking to check the legality of the searches conducted at residences of the activists of the Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus (EcoWatch).

It is necessary to analyze the DNA of the remains found in Batumi in the mass burial of those repressed in 1937-1938, the Muslims of Georgia believe. They have demanded to rebury the remains into a neutral cemetery, which does not belong to any religious institution.