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In Azerbaijan, suppression of critical voices has a very negative impact on the upcoming elections. This has been announced in the statement made by Isabel Santos, Chair of the Committee on Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Questions of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

In Geneva, human rights defenders and officials from the Russian government have held the presentation of the report on implementation in Russia of the provisions of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women. The report focuses on the situation with women's rights in Northern Caucasus.

A court in Chechnya has violated the rights of citizens of Ukraine Nikolai Karpyuk and Stanislav Klykh by allowing the public prosecutor to read out their testimonies obtained through torture, said their advocates.

The restrictions introduced in the village of Gimry in connection with the counterterrorist operation (CTO), which resulted in killing Abdula Nustafaev, have been lifted.

Today, the court has chosen, in respect of Imam Isa Koitemirov from the village of Novokayakent, the measure of freedom restriction in the form of two-month custody, a source from the Kayakent District Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent. "Koitemirov is arrested until December 25," said the source.

In the course of considering his case, the rights of Kurman-Ali Baichorov, a Kislovodsk Imam, to defence, a fair trial and freedom of conscience had been violated, his advocates, who have sent a complaint today to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), believe.

During detention of a resident of the Volgograd Region, suspected of abducting his three-year-old daughter, a grenade exploded and wounded a policeman and the daughter.

Activists of the civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" have started a sitting picket in front of the Armenian Parliament with the demand of a meeting with Grair Tovmasyan, Chief of the Office of the National Assembly.

Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been cancelled in the territories of Derbent, Kurakh, Magaramkent, Suleiman-Stalsky, Tabasaran, and Khiv Districts of Dagestan. This was reported by an official from the operational headquarters for Dagestan.

On October 26, the oppositional "Amtsakhara" Party issued a statement, in which it offers, in a short time, to reform the executive power in Abkhazia. In particular, they intend to "abolish the posts of Prime Minister and Vice-Prime Ministers, and to create, with this in mind, a single mechanism of executive power," the TASS reports.

The Baku Court of Grave Crimes has completed the trial in the criminal case against Telman Bekirov and Mubariz Tairov, accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs) in the territory of Syria. Each of them was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment.

At the Donetsk City Court, where the criminal case against Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko is being considered, a conflict has occurred because of a drawing made in a sketchbook by a staff member of the French Embassy, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported that the indictment in the criminal case against members of the UNA-UNSO contains factual errors and contradictions.

Imam of Novokayakent Isa Koitemirov is not involved in the crimes incriminated to him, said the congregation of the local mosque. According to parishioners, the persecution of the Imam is explained by the need of policemen to report to their bosses of their anti-extremist work.

At night on October 25, Isa Koitemirov, Imam of the village of Novokayakent, was taken to the Kayakent ROVD (District Interior Division), where his detention was documented, said his advocate.

After a retrial of the case of Zaur Tokhov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), his prison term was increased by two years. His defence that insists on complete Tokhov's innocence has challenged the verdict at the Supreme Court of the KBR.

Abdula Nustafaev, killed in Gimry, had not sworn to "Islamic State" (IS); and his death is a blow to already weak "Imarat Kavkaz", said journalist Orhan Jemal; and Professor Mikhail Roschin believes that power agents use allegations of Nustafaev's involvement in the IS to exaggerate their achievements.

According to the police, during a search in the house of a Novokayakent villager, weapons, ammunition, drugs and extremist literature were found.

Activists of the civil movement "Arise, Armenia!" demand a meeting with the Speaker of the Armenian Parliament in the presence of heads of parliamentary factions to discuss the country's accumulated problems.

The public organization "Nord-Ost", promoting the protection of victims to the terror acts, held the event to pay tribute to the memory of the victims to the siege of Moscow Dubrovka Theatre in 2002.