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On February 1, the Baku City Prosecutor's Office refused to open a criminal case about the torture of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov during his custody at the police. His advocate intends to challenge the refusal.

Since the start of the year, at least five persons were killed in Azerbaijan, whom power agents declared to be religious extremists. The level of terror threat in the country is on the rise, believe the political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The investigation of the case of torture of Magomed Aushev is unreasonably protracted, while the demand to hold a confrontation with the suspects is rejected, said the relatives and the advocate of the resident of Ingushetia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint filed after the death of Tarkhan Kartoev, a convict for blowing up the "Neva Express" train, who died in one of the establishment of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary System).

The forced migrants, who live in the Zugdidi district hospital disagree with the assessment of their living conditions and demand from the Government of Georgia to provide them with housing. In protest, five of them have sewn up their mouths.

One Azerbaijani soldier was captured and another one was wounded in the action of a sabotage group, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the unrecognized republic.

On January 31, the Freedom House published a report "Freedom in the World-2017" on the situation of human rights in independent and partially recognized countries, which are treated by rights defenders as "disputed territories". According to the report, no country or disputed territory of the Caucasian region has a relatively high rating to recognize it as a free country.

The advocates of Giyas Ibragimov and Bairam Mamedov, convicted in Azerbaijan for applying graffiti on the monument to Geidar Aliev, have turned to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asking to consider their complaints in the priority order.

Over 20 persons stood in support of Leonid Tibilov, the head of South Ossetia, at the meeting of the initiative group to nominate him as a republic’s president candidate.

Due to the positive doping assay of the Volgograd athlete Antonina Krivoshapka, Russia has been deprived of the silver medal of the Olympic Games 2012 in London in the women's 4x400 track-and-field relay, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reported.

The oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party has organized a protest action in front of the government building in Tbilisi. Its participants demand from Georgian authorities to make the new contract with the "Gazprom" public.

Four persons were killed and one person detained after giving an armed resistence to law enforcers, the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

The Georgian commando Giorgi Tsertsvadze, who was detained in Kiev at the request of Russia, and then released under the decision of the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office, has appealed to the Ukrainian authorities for political asylum for himself and his family.

In the Shelkovsky District of Chechnya, power agents detained seven local residents who were about to go to Syria to join the militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, law enforcers have reported.

The 36-year-old Nadezhda Degtyaryova, who committed suicide after the judgement to evict her out into the street, has been buried in Sochi. Nadezhda's mother blames the persons involved in the alienation of their apartment of her daughter's death.

An appeal to the Turkish Federation of Caucasian Associations (KAFFED) to resume contacts with the International Circassian Association (ICA) was addressed by Asker Sokht, the deputy head of "Adyge Khase" of the KrasnodarTerritory. His appeal was supported by Khauti Sokhrokov, the President of the ICA, and Ali Aslanov, its member.

Today, Azer Gasymly and Erkin Gadirli, activists of the "Real Alternative" (ReAl) movement, were interrogated at the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan. Members of the ReAl have treated the interrogations as pressure on the movement.

The activist Andrias Gukasyan, accused of organizing mass disorders in the Yerevan district of Sari Tag, in fact held demonstrators from clashing with the police, the international organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW) has stated.

The placement of the mobile exhibition "The Holocaust: Destruction, Liberation, Salvation" in the premises of the Regional Duma was denied by local MPs.

As reported by Batyr Boromangnaev, the chairman of the Kalmyk branch of the "Yabloko" Party, policemen have detained the activist, who held in Elista a solo picket against the socio-economic policy of the republic's authorities.