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The Tbilisi City Court has pronounced a decision to take into custody four persons detained on the charge of involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS).

In the criminal case against Karpyuk and Klykh, the Supreme Court of Chechnya used video communication means to question parents of soldiers killed in Chechnya. Two victims were not questioned. The next court session is scheduled for December 3.

The main part of the property seized during the search held on November 6 at the office of the human rights organization "Mashr" has been returned. Two system blocks and a hard drive have been sent to the Investigating Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

In Azerbaijan, in the village of Nardaran, 19 local residents were detained in the course of the special operation, their villagers report. An access control regime has been introduced in the village for the period of the special operation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

Investigators have opened a criminal case against two residents of the Krasnodar Territory. According to law enforcers, the suspects had an intention to join illegal armed formations (IAFs) operating in the territory of Syria.

In Dagestan, Suleiman Kokreksky, Imam of the mosque at the city hospital in Khasavyurt, was one when he was killed, and his father was not wounded. This was reported by relatives of the Imam.

In Yerevan, members of the opposition march have returned to Freedom Square and announced the start of an indefinite sitting picket. The activists asked the authorities for permission to install tents on Freedom Square. However, their request was dismissed.

A police squad was shelled near the village of Kulzeb of the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan.

In Dagestan, unidentified men have shot and killed the Imam of the mosque at the city hospital of Khasavyurt. His father was wounded.

The estimate of 17,000 striking truckers in Dagestan is quite realistic, believe local journalists and Valery Voitko, the chairman of the trade union, "Dalnoboischik" (Trucker). However, Alexander Brod, a member of the Public Council of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) has treated the number as strongly exaggerated.

Power agents take away residents of the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran to some unknown place, eyewitnesses reported.

The figurants in the case of recruiting people for fighting for the "Islamic State" (IS) have been sentenced today to imprisonment from 5 to 7 years – the guilty verdict was handed down today by the North-Caucasian District Military Court.

Any motor traffic is banned in the Azerbaijani village of Nardaran; and power agents ask local residents not to leave their houses. The village is densely cordoned off by power agents.

A column of heavy-duty trucks, which planned to enter the Russian capital on December 21, was stopped today on a narrow road near Moscow.

A militant has been killed in a forest of the Buynaksk District of Dagestan during a shootout, said a local law enforcement source.

The administration of the colony-settlement in the Tambov Region ignores the official notification of the Krasnodar environmental activist Evgeny Vitishko about his hunger strike and sends him to hard work, said Elena Shmakova, his civil wife.

In Azerbaijan, the entire population of the village of Nardaran should not suffer from preventive measures aimed to prevent religious radicalism, local rights defenders have stated. They believe that citizens may be influenced on by solution of a number of social problems.

Georgian public organizations and the Bar Association have stood against the amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure of Georgia, involving the introduction of a new system of questioning. They believe that these amendments violate a number of procedural principles and will open room for torture.

In Makhachkala, the mosque in Kotrov Street was cordoned off by law enforcers in connection with the information about a bomb. This was reported by members of the mosque community. The information about the explosive device has not been confirmed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

The Armenian police have warned organizers of protest actions about the inadmissibility of violating the law.