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On January 15, in the capital of Azerbaijan, a protest rally was held in front of the Supreme Court (SC) building. In the course of the rally, relatives of the defendants in the "Ganja case" demanded the release of the arrested persons and blocked a road. The police pushed the protesters back.

Under the murder case of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush “E Centre”, law enforcers detained two residents of the republic, sources have reported.

Azerbaijani authorities must lift the ban on foreign travels of investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, who has been awarded several international rewards. Three British human rights organizations made such an appeal on January 15.

In Germany, law enforcers blew up the door to the apartment where migrants from Chechnya live, and didn’t allow a mother to be with her small kids during the search, although there were no claims to the detainees, human rights defenders have reported.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial” has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the interests of fourteen Chechen residents convicted to long sentences for terrorism. Rights defenders assert that law enforcers had forced the convicts to confess by torture and threats.

The court took into account the findings of the medical board on the state of health of Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP, and set him free under recognizance not to leave.

Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Muslim Khuchiev, the chairman of the Chechen Government, to be the acting head of the republic for the period of his disability.

Recent public apologies prove the desire of the law enforcement bodies to stop even the most general criticism, residents of Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot".

The Elista City Court imposed a fine of 5000 roubles on activist Semyon Ateev, who sought holding a rally against Dmitry Trapeznikov. The rally was not sanctioned by the authorities and did not take place, but Semyon Ateev should have notified the authorities concerning changing his mind about holding the event, the court decided. The activist says he intends to appeal against the court's decision.

Natives of Chechnya could not prepare a terror act in the country which granted asylum to them, and the German law enforcement authorities did not provide any objective reasons for their detention, note commentators on Instagram. Germany is a rule-of-law state, and fabrication of criminal cases by the law enforcement authorities is excluded there, other social network users argue.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia were shelled 21 times within 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

Testimonies of witnesses and a video from a protest action in Tbilisi do not confirm that Moris Machalikashvili attacked law enforcers, Georgian human rights defenders report.

The fact that Ilgar Mamedov and several other former political prisoners were not allowed to take part in the parliamentary elections proves the "increasingly undemocratic nature" of the regime and "creates a legal and political crisis of unprecedented gravity" in the implementation by Azerbaijan of the judgments pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), says Sunna Thorhildur Ævarsdottir, rapporteur on reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

In Kiev, the court arrested for two months Igor Redkin, a native of Kaspiysk, who was suspected of killing Amina Okueva.

In Azerbaijan, the overpriced cost of campaigning on radio and TV Channels does not allow opposition parties and independent candidates to participate in the parliamentary campaign along with the ruling party, activists claim.

The practice of public apologies can be an effective correctional measure for violators of the traffic rules, Dagestani drivers believe.

An advocate of Adam Badiev claimed that law enforcers themselves were responsible for clashes with Ingush activists in March 2019. Adam Badiev admitted that he had hit a fighter of the National Guard of Russia with a stone, but stated that he had not done that on purpose.

Today, Georgian law enforcers have detained an armed man who took a border guard hostage.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) demanded from the Georgian authorities to explain their refusal to change a gender record in the passport of Nikolo Gviniashvili.

The authorities and the judicial system of Armenia are responsible for the deterioration of the condition of Manvel Grigoryan, a former member of the Armenian parliament, who is not allowed to be treated abroad, the defence claims.