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Five Ingush students who were detained in Egypt last August and who are being kept in prison, declare hunger strike with the demand to release them. According to Marem Dzeitova, a mother of one of the detained students, they demand to release them, since no charges have been filed against them.

On April 7, in the German city of Hamburg, Ingush natives held a rally in support of activists detained in Ingushetia who protested against the border agreement with Chechnya and who demanded the resignation of Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

Relatives and associates of Bairam Mamedov, an arrested activist of the movement "Nida", reported a rapid deterioration of his health state in the detention centre and demanded to immediately release him.

A speech delivered by transgender Lilit Martirosyan in the Armenian parliament at the hearings on human rights provoked an ambiguous reaction from users of social networks. Some of them criticized the organizers of the public hearings, who allowed Lilit Martirosyan to go to the tribune in the parliament, while others, on the contrary, spoke in defence of the rights of minorities.

During the week from March 31 to April 6, Azerbaijani soldiers fired over 2500 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), its Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Law enforcers from Abkhazia crossed the Inguri River and kidnapped a citizen of Georgia, eyewitnesses assert.

About 400 military policemen, who had served in Syria for several months, are back in Chechnya without losses, the Military Commandant has announced.

On Saturday in Brussels and Helsinki, the Ingush held rallies in solidarity with fellow countrymen protesting at home against the border agreement with Chechnya and demanding the resignation of the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov.

Ismail Nalgiev, an activist, has come out to a solo picket at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the temporary detention centre (known as IVS) in Nalchik in support of the detainees after protests in Ingushetia.

Jens Stoltenberg, the NATO Secretary General, has reiterated the Alliance's support for Georgia and urged Russia not to influence the Georgia's to join it. The NATO is increasing its presence in the Black Sea basin by scaling up its naval forces, and this can accelerate the process of Georgia's accession to the NATO, experts say.

After Nikol Pashinyan's instruction to counter fake news, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia reported on the detention of the author of a group on the Facebook.

The Prosecutor's Office of Ingushetia was asked to check whether law enforcers had the right to send the arrested Ingush activists to serve their terms in Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Djambulat Azdoev, the Ingush Ombudsperson, has stated.

A court in Nalchik has arrested eight activists suspected of using violence against state power officials and for calling to unrests during the recent protests in Ingushetia.

Akhmed Barakhoev, an Ingush elder, arrested after the protest action in Magas, told his advocate that he would stop his hunger strike only after meeting rights defenders.

According to the outcomes of elections in Turkey, Circassians traditionally retained their representation in bodies of power, said Asker Sokht, a deputy head of the "Adyge Khase" organization of the Krasnodar Territory. Most of the Circassian organizations in Turkey are aimed at expanding ties with Northern Caucasus, said Georgy Chochiev, a sociologist. Without an influential lobby, Circassians will not be able to seriously advance their interests, says Aleko Kvakhadze, a researcher at the Rondeli Foundation.

Near Krasnodar, under the guise of a pioneer camp, there is a transit centre for the participants in the Russia's military operations in Syria, an investigation conducted by the "Reuters" asserts.

Bagaudin Khautiev, an activist who took part in protests in Ingushetia, was suspected of using violence against a state official, his advocate, Akhmed Abazov, has reported. According to Bagaudin's father, his son has no complaints about the custody conditions.

Relatives of Anar Djabbarov, extradited to Azerbaijan from Turkey, inform that the charge of drug dealing has been lifted, and he is back at large.

Relatives of Ingush activist Akhmed Barakhoev, who was arrested after a rally in Magas and who went on hunger strike, are seriously concerned over his health state, reports Ilez Barakhoev, a son of the activist. The hunger strike has become for Akhmed Barakhoev a way to fight for the detainees' rights, believes Ruslan Mutsolgov, the head of the local branch of the "Yabloko" Party.

Blogger Minkail Malizaev, who criticizes the authorities of Chechnya, reports his wife was forced to make a video appeal about a divorce because of the pressure on her in Chechnya.