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Dunja Miyatovic, the Commissioner of the Council of Europe for Human Rights has asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg to consider the case of depriving Emin Guseinov, a journalist and rights defender, of his Azerbaijani citizenship in the context of persecution of dissidents in the country.

The Georgian resident, who was arrested in South Ossetia, has stated that she had not been subjected to physical violence after detention. She was arrested for one month, the court has stated.

The appeal of the Chechen leader to Chechens and Ingushes that it "suits them to fight" was perceived by some residents of Ingushetia as a threat of using force against opponents of the land exchange. In Chechnya, these words were interpreted differently, without an emphasis on power actions.

At the today's session, members of the Chechen parliament have approved the agreement on the Chechen-Ingush border.

The parliament has approved by a majority of votes the law on change in the border with Chechnya, reports Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov. He did not respond to the statement about the breakdown of the voting voiced by several MPs.

Out of 25 MPs who attended a session of the Ingush parliament, 17 voted in favour of ratifying the agreement on the administrative border with Chechnya, reported the press service of the Ingush leader.

Participants of a protest action went to the centre of Magas, reported Ingush activists. Law enforcement forces are accumulated in the capital of Ingushetia, reported Magomed Mutsolgov, a blogger of the "Caucasian Knot".

The velvet revolution will end if earlier parliamentary elections are held in the coming months, believes journalist Boris Navasardyan. The early elections will end in victory for supporters of the Prime Minister, suggests political strategist Armen Badalyan.

According to sources, a 26-year-old resident of the Atazhukino village was put on the wanted list on suspicion of killing a policeman in Kabardino-Balkaria.

In Ingushetia, law enforcers warned activists against launching new protests in connection with the change in the Chechen-Ingush border. However, social networks disseminated a call to gather on the day of the Ingush parliament session.

The Syrian Democratic Army has announced the capture in Syria of six militants of the "Islamic State" (IS) (a terrorist grouping banned in Russia by the court). Among them, there are two natives of Dagestan, including a woman, and a native of Azerbaijan.

The body of a policeman with traces of violent death was found in the Baksan District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

On October 2, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 74,500 euros to relatives of Rasul Tsakoev, a resident of the village of Khasanya in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), having found law enforcers guilty of his torture and death.

The death case of Ivan Geliev, a resident of Anapa, after his detention by law enforcers has been resumed by decision of the Prosecutor's Office, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has stated.

Maya Otinashvili, a resident of the Georgian village of Khurvaleti, was arrested in South Ossetia for ten days, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) has reported. After being detained, the woman was beaten up, the Georgian Ombudsperson has stated.

No Azerbaijani-Armenian operative communication line on the truce observance in the Karabakh conflict zone has been created; however, an agreement about it has already affected the situation in the conflict zone. This was stated by Nikol Pashinyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has noted a decline in the shelling intensity in the conflict zone.

One of the Nikol Pashinyan's supporters who suffered at a rally experienced head failure.

Under the agreement on the border change, Chechnya handed over to Ingushetia the agricultural lands of the former "Goragorsky" state-owned farm in the Nadterechny District. The lands handed over to the neighbouring republic are good for farming, local residents complain.

Pavel Manukyan, accused of seizing a police regiment in Yerevan, has declared an indefinite hunger strike with the demand to change the pre-trial restriction measure to him. Armen Bilyan, accused of killing a policeman during the seizure of the regiment building, has joined the demand voiced by Pavel Manukyan.

In Azerbaijan, Emin Shagiev, a relative of Turkel Azerturk, a reporter of the opposition "TuranTV" TV Channel, was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment on the charge of drug trafficking. Turkel Azerturk has associated the prosecution of his relative with his opposition activities.