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Mass detentions of opposition leaders and activists during a rally in Baku are a violation of the freedom of peaceful assembly, declares the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI). The NGO has called on to release the arrested demonstrators.

Marat Dinaev, the head of the "Putin's Detachments", was taken to hospital with injuries after an attack on the organization's headquarters in Krasnodar, reported activist Alexander Saveliev.

On November 20, the authorities of Chechnya celebrated the birthday of Prophet Muhammad with charity events and fireworks, and each family of the boys born on that day got 100,000 roubles. Some local residents believe the large-scale celebration of the date organized by the authorities was unreasonable.

The man killed on the flight strip at the Sheremetyevo Airport has been identified as Albert Epremyan, a 25-year-old citizen of Armenia, reports the spokesperson for the Armenian diplomatic mission in Moscow.

On November 20, law enforcers restricted visitors' entry to the concert of rapper Husky in Rostov-on-Don, and the performance itself had to be conducted without musical accompaniment, reported agents of rapper Husky.

On November 20, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan found the idea of exchanging Armenian citizens caught in the Azerbaijani captivity inappropriate and holding protest actions with the demand to release prisoners ‑ senseless.

Over the past day, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled 27 times, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports.

At the Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow, while accelerating, an airplane to fly from Moscow to Athens collided with a man who was killed as a result. The remains of his body were found on the flight strip. Earlier, the citizen of Armenia had been deported from Spain to his homeland with a change in Moscow.

The Strasbourg Court has supported a minor girl from Dagestan, who complained about the ineffective investigation into the case on her repeated gang rape.

The entrance to the village of Dattykh, which the authorities of Ingushetia have decided to restore, is blocked by law enforcers, report residents of the republic.

Egyptian law enforcers could detain five residents of Ingushetia for studying in the country without getting permissions for a long stay, suggested the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

The statement of the Chechen authorities about the involvement of a female suicide bomber in the "Islamic State"* (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the "Caucasian Knot") has no substantial grounds. This opinion was voiced by the analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

At the court hearing on November 20, advocates of Oyub Titiev stated that the questioning of witness had been completed and public prosecutors had lost their arguments concerning possible pressure on the witnesses from the defendant. The advocates of the rights defender have again requested to release him from custody.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has removed from journalist Elchin Ismayilli the charges of taking a bribe and abuse of office and mitigated his imprisonment term by two years.

In Moscow, law enforcers have detained Khazvakha Cherkhigov, suspected of involvement in the militant attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995.

A charity action in support of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", was held in the Sakharov Centre in Moscow. The raised money in the amount of 130,000 roubles will be spent on tickets for rights defenders and journalists who want to go to Chechnya and support Titiev, the organizers of the action have stated.

Today, the court continued interrogating Oyub Titiev; and his lawyer Ilya Novikov asked him to tell about cases of threats and pressure on employees of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". "For 18 years, there have been many cases; I don't remember all of them," said Titiev.

The mosque, opened on November 19 in the abandoned village of Charmakh, was the second mosque in eight days reconstructed in the Galanchozh District of Chechnya bordering on Ingushetia. Residents of Chechnya said that with the opening of the new mosque, they had faith appeared in the revival of villages in this territory.

Positions of Azerbaijani militaries in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 30 times during the last 24 hours, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Members of the oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) have stated that the Georgian Government announced debt amnesty, since "it is in despair and goes for broke."