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The detainee is suspected that, together with David Kirkitadze, the leader of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, he attacked law enforcers in the Gurdjaani District, the Georgian police have stated.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has left Gusein Melik, an activist of the "Movement for Democracy and Prosperity", who had been sentenced to 25 days in jail, in custody. The oppositionist himself said he had been arrested for his posts on the Facebook.

The first in the last five years action of members of the LGBT community in Volgograd was disrupted shortly after the start. In the presence of policemen, Cossacks took away posters from solo picketers, tore them up and threw into a garbage bin, activists have reported.

The lawsuit lodged by the opposition with a demand to annul the totals of the second round of presidential election in Georgia was dismissed by the Court of Appeal. The opposition intends to file a complaint on CoA's decision to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The Naur District Court of Chechnya has dismissed the petition of the advocate of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, about his conditional early relief (CER) from the colony.

The dormitory building in Ingushskaya Street in Nalchik has fallen into disrepair: dampness and fungus provoke diseases, and the deficit of shared sanitary facilities deprives residents of household amenities, the tenants have stated.

The appellate instance of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) – the Grand Chamber – has reviewed the case of a Chechen native, Zara Murtazalieva, on her initiative, but refused to recognize the violation of her right to a fair trial.

Investigators have put a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) on the international wanted list on suspicion of his participation in the warfare in Syria on the side of militants.

Cases of shelling of the Azerbaijani positions in the Karabakh conflict zone were registered from the direction of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijani reports today.

The State Duma of Russia was asked to introduce fines for public agitation and propaganda in order to prevent the rehabilitation of repressed peoples. An appropriate bill was initiated by Ruslan Balbek, Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Nationalities.

Giorgi Pasiashvili, a prisoner of the Gldani Prison, who was seeking to be released, died after a 40-day hunger strike.

Russian musician Boris Grebenschikov, who collaborates with the NGO "Amnesty International" (AI), has voiced his support for Oyub Titiev, involved as a defendant in a criminal case in Chechnya, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports today.

On December 17, the Georgian NGO "Centre for Human Rights Study and Monitoring" called on the Prosecutor's Office to investigate a clash between the opposition and the police on December 16.

Elita Aidamirova, a sister of Zargan and Satsita Aidamirov, who disappeared in the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya, has told about the circumstances of the incident that occurred in 2013. According to her story, the investigation into her sisters' disappearance was repeatedly suspended; and family members were under pressure.

Russian authorities create bureaucratic obstacles for Circassian repatriates from Syria and Turkey; and foreign Circassians have no chance to obtain citizenship under a simplified procedure, activists from Adygea and Kabardino-Balkaria have stated.

David Kirkitadze, a detained member of the political council of the parliamentary oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, has refused to plead guilty and went on a hunger strike in protest against his detention.

The oppositional "European Georgia" Party has called on the authorities not to deprive the detained activist David Kirkitadze of his freedom, treating the violation of the right to assembly as one of the evidences of a deep political crisis.

The Azerbaijani student, who doubted the feat of Mubariz Ibragimov, who perished in Nagorno-Karabakh, was blamed as a traitor in her homeland.

The Armenian Civil Court of Appeal dismissed the lawsuit filed by Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, with a request to recognize the statements voiced by Nikol Pashinyan as defamation.

Today, Georgian law enforcers have detained David Kirkitadze, a member of the "United National Movement" Party, as part of measures in an investigation into clashes between the opposition and the police on December 16.