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In Baku, activists have finished a rally held against the Mekhriban Alieva's appointment as Vice-President of Azerbaijan. The protesters have adopted a resolution condemning the establishment of a "family power" in the country.

According to human rights defender Igor Kochetkov, an LGBT activist, the situation with the persecution of gays in Chechnya should be investigated by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, since it is a crime against humanity.

Two inspectors of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) were killed after a police patrol car was shelled from automatic weapons in Malgobek. This was reported by the Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Turpal-Ali Muskiev, a resident of the village of Tsotsi-Yurt of the Kurchaloi District, who was exiled from his village in January 2017, died in Dagestan several ago and was buried in Chechnya. The funeral took place in the native village of Turpal-Ali Muskiev under the control of law enforcers, local residents report.

Members of many religious movements express their conviction of the uniqueness of their doctrines. This opinion was voiced by members of human rights organizations and religious scholars questioned by the "Caucasian Knot".

After the dispersal of the protest action in the village of Tukhchar, Dagestani truck drivers in 20 vehicles have moved to the town of Krasnoarmeysk.

Andrei Bazhutin, the leader of the Association of Russian Carriers, came to meet the heavy truck drivers, who hold their protesting in Dagestan, who told him that during 12 days of their strike Federal TV Channels had not dared to truthfully cover the protests, while local authorities failed to start dialogue.

Aleksei Shtaba, a resident of Sochi, arrested on March 26, the day of anti-corruption rallies, claims that he was sentenced to seven days for organizing two actions, which he had nothing to do with. He filed to the Territorial Court a complaint against the district policeman officer and the judge.

The truckers, who held their protest in the vicinity of the dwelling settlement of Prokhladny, have left the venue, and gathered today to discuss how to continue the strike. So far, the truckers of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have not refused to participate in the action demanding to abolish the "Platon" system.

Today, the court in Baku has decided to extend the custody of Alexander Lapshin, extradited from Belarus to Azerbaijan, by other three months.

Having monopolized the power at the Parliament, the MPs of the "Georgian Dream" practically rejected a dialogue with other political forces. Besides, the dynamics of reforms, headed by them, is not impressive, said President Giorgi Margvelashvili.

Alexander Dolzhenko, a former manager of the “Dalnaya Step” Company, who was sentenced on April 6 to two years in colony and hospitalized after sentencing, has been placed today into a SIZO (pre-trial prison) cell. Prison doctors found no reason for hospitalizing him into the SIZO medical unit, said his wife Irina.

The Russia’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is trying to attract the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses in its local communities in Russia to responsibility for the sanctions imposed by the courts not on them. Their defence has stated it at the Russian Supreme Court (SC) and insisted that accusations of extremism remain unproved and the evidence was planted.

The complaint, sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the verdict passed to Igor Stenin, the leader of the movement "Russians of Astrakhan", has been registered by the Court.

The advocate and the wife of Alexander Dolzhenko, the former arbitration manager of the “Dalnaya Step” Company, have condemned the guilty verdict passed by the Elista City Court (ECC) and stated Alexander’s innocence. The defence has appealed against the verdict, since it believes that Dolzhenko's rights to defence had been violated at the trial.

Investigators have added to Aram Manukyan, accused in the case of capturing the building of the police patrol-and-post service (PPS) regiment in Yerevan, a charge under another article of the Armenian Criminal Code.

After the liquidation of the Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses, the believers may get under criminal cases for violating the anti-extremist legislation, the spokeswoman of the Russia’s Ministry of Justice (MoJ) told the Supreme Court (SC) on April 6.

It is unlikely that political forces in Armenia will organize protests against the outcomes of parliamentary elections, as they will not be able to ensure the mass character thereof; and it will quickly bring the protest movement to nothing, local political analysts believe.

More than 20 people from Chechnya have appealed for help in connection with persecutions for their non-traditional sexual orientation; five of them have already left the republic, the "Russian LGBT-network" has reported.

Today, over 200 passenger cars took part in the motor rally in support of the truckers, who are on a strike against the "Platon" system, held near the village of Manas. The participants of the motor rally and truckers complained about provocations and pressure of power agents.