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Babek Gasanov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was subjected to inhuman treatment in the colony, his brother has stated today. In its turn, the country's Penitentiary Service treated the actions of the colony staff as legitimate.

Investigators believe that Daud Mamilov, a son of an Ingush MP, was involved in creating a terrorist unit and took oath to the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court. Law enforcers spent many hours searching the house and seized cell phones, a child's tablet and books in the Arabic language, said Daud's wife.

The Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has thanked his supporters, who reacted to his call to block courthouses, and called on them to stop the action.

Elections in Georgia; start of trial of second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan and his release from custody, – read about these and other events in the weekly review of the main events in the Caucasus that happened during the week from May 13 to 19, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the month of Ramadan, authorities of Grozny organized excursions of high school pupils to the graves of saints, the Chechen Ministry of Education has reported. Schoolchildren themselves told that during the excursions they heard lectures about Chechen saints and Ramzan Kadyrov's father.

This morning, supporters of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, gathered at the courthouses and prevented employees from starting work.

In Volgograd, four activists have held solo pickets demanding from Russian authorities to stop putting pressure on Ukraine.

During the week of May 13-19, 2019, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus no casualties or victims were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The oppositional alliance "Strength in Unity" has counted 120 violations at the election of the Mayor in the city of Zugdidi. Based on the voting totals at 14 constituencies, the Georgia's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has opened two criminal cases.

The Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has initiated a criminal case against the blogger and activist, Tural Sadygly, who is in political emigration. The Interpol has announced him wanted.

In response to the release from custody of the second President of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has called on his supporters to block courthouses. Such actions can lead to the liquidation of the independent judiciary in Armenia, Grant Mikaelyan, a political analyst, has noted.

The court has released the second president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, under the guarantee of the incumbent and a former presidents of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). This decision provoked a stormy reaction in hundreds of Kocharyan's supporters and opponents, who gathered outside the courthouse.

The threat of mining a mosque in Makhachkala has not confirmed, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. Instagram users urge to quickly find and punish the author of the bomb report.

Employees of the mining and processing combine in the Georgian city of Chiatura, who are demanding higher wages, have partially blocked the roads to the enterprise.

The head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has offered to apply US sanctions to the entire ministry; and the commander of the "Terek" SOBR (special quick-response regiment) has linked the sanctions with the regiment's successful fight against terrorism. By their statements, law enforcers reconfirmed their loyalty to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, local residents believe.

Investigators have suspected that two women left Ingushetia for Syria and were helping the militants of an international terrorist organization.

The heads of the of New Athos (also known as Novy Afon) Monastery have accused an opponent church grouping of an attempt to seize the monastery and called on the authorities of Abkhazia to prevent believers' clashes. The decision to close one of the most popular tourist sites will seriously harm the industry, Anna Kalyagina, the head of the Abkhaz Tourism Union, has stated.

A court in the city of Nizhny Tagil has satisfied the petition on application of the conditional early relief (CER) to Mustafa Tsoroev, convicted within the case of torture at the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as "E" Centre).

On May 16, Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was summoned to the Baku police, where he received a warning concerning his posts in social networks. Mr Gakhramanly treats the police's actions as illegitimate.

Magomed, a brother of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, was fined for participating in protests in Magas; two other relatives of the activist were released without drawing up protocols.