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Paruir Sargsyan, the headman of the Armenian village of Zartonk, is accused of embezzling money intended for participants in the combat actions in Nagorno-Karabakh in April 2016.

Six participants of a fight in the Orta-Tyube village in the Nogai District of Dagestan, provoked by the land conflict, are still being kept at a detention centre in Kizlyar. Three detainees, whose terms of arrest expired, are released.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan refused to tighten the sentence to Karim Kasumov, who was punished with suspended sentence in the case on an attack on Patimat Makhmudova, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The armistice regime in the Karabakh conflict zone was broken; a village bordering on Armenia came under fire, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

The statement of Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Prime Minister of Georgia, about cooperation with Azerbaijan in the case of the kidnapping of journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, is not confirmed by Georgia's actions, the Mukhtarly's defence has stated.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced new challenges for the republic. According to his version, journalists should stop "the liars who are spreading gossips." In this regard, Kadyrov announced a reorganization of mass media.

After his hunger strike, the Ingush elder, Akhmed Barakhoev has sharply aggravated stomach pains; he needs a medical examination and a special diet, his advocate, Fatima Urusova, has stated. The hunger strike has made the disease acute, but it's difficult to ensure a strict diet in custody, Akhmed's son, Ilez Barakhoev, has noted.

The Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov has called the statements of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and pro-government theologians to be answers to his video about Akhmat Kadyrov. Residents of Chechnya treat the authorities' statements as attempts to smooth the consequences of unsuccessful discussions with the blogger.

After a conflict with shooting in the village of Zartonk, six people turned for help to doctors; one of them remains in hospital.

A resident of Baksan was accused of throwing a stone at a fighter of the National Guard of Russia during a march near the village of Zayukovo in Kabardino-Balkaria in September 2018.

The North-Caucasian Military Court found that Shamil Gabzaev, a resident of Chechnya, recruited his acquaintances to participate in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants, and sentenced him to seven years of imprisonment. The defendant pleaded not guilty.

Out of 30 political prisoners, whose conditional early relief (CER) is being sought by activists of the campaign "Free All!", four filed appropriate motions to the courts of Azerbaijan. Other political prisoners are also preparing requests for the CER.

Detained participants of a protest action against Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan are accused of disturbing public order.

During the week of April 8-14, 2019, no victims to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus 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.

Today, law enforcers have come to Ingush human rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov and the office of the NGO "Mashr" led by him.

In the course of the campaign "Free all!", Azerbaijani activists sent petitions to the Prosecutor's Office with a call to assist in the early release of more than 30 political prisoners.

Criminal prosecution against activists detained in Ingushetia; cancellation of the decision to write off debts for gas in Chechnya; arrest of the head of the Derbent District in Dagestan; mass protest action of taxi drivers in Tbilisi; criminal case against a Krasnodar activist for participating in an undesirable organization; evacuation of people in Volgograd, Astrakhan, and Bataisk after reports of bombs, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 8-14, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the period from April 7 to April 13, Azerbaijan 230 times violated the ceasefire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

Public employees and students were obliged to attend a match of the "Akhmat" FC in Grozny, and they were to express their active support to the football club, residents of Chechnya reported.

The court arrested for two months Akhmed Barakhoev and Musa Malsagov, leaders of the protests in Ingushetia.