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The rights defender Leyla Yunus and her husband Arif Yunus are in need of high quality medical care, said their advocates. They insist that the ban to leave Azerbaijan imposed on the spouses is illegal and must be cancelled.

During two and a half years since the assassination of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, a correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" and deputy editor-in-chief of the "Novoe Delo", investigators have failed to identify any suspects; and the inquiry as such was neither prompt, nor thorough and nor independent, said the advocate Tumas Misakyan.

Mukhammad Magomedov, an activist of the public organization "Union of the Just", who was under house arrest, has been placed in custody under demand of the FSB. His relatives find the decision unjustified.

The Salafi community in Dagestan feels a constant threat from law enforcement bodies, the parishioners of Salafi mosques told the edition named "Meduza". In their opinion, putting Salafis on police records allows power agents to extort bribes, while regular special operations in mosques – to have career promotions.

Azerbaijan continues crackdown on the civil society and persecution of the political dissent: human rights organizations were unable to resume their work; and at least 18 "prisoners of conscience" are in custody. These are the conclusions of the Amnesty International (AI).

Today, the Sovietsky District Court of Astrakhan has dismissed the petition to grant the conditional early relief (CER) to Khaiser Djemilev. The petition was lodged by his advocate Nikolai Polozov.

Lawyers of the Inter-Regional Public Organization "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT) have sent to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) a complaint against unlawful physical violence against Zaur Dadaev, a figurant in Boris Nemtsov's murder case.

The consideration of the advocate's complaint on Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev's murder case, which had been scheduled for today at the Sovietsky Court of Makhachkala, has failed, because of the absence of the prosecutor.

The deportation of three Syrian refugees from Russia, scheduled for today, will be a violation of the international law, said representatives of the "Civil Assistance" Committee.

On February 25, 110 workers of the "Sedin" Factory in Krasnodar will lose their jobs; and the enterprise has no funds for their dismissal payments, said Alexei Kuznetsov, Deputy Chief Designer. Maxim Mukhanov, the head of the trade union organization said that the full settlement with the workers "exists only on paper."

On February 24, at the 63rd meeting within the Mechanisms for Preventing and Responding to Incidents (MPRI), which took place in the village of Ergneti, representatives of South Ossetia stated eight violations of the border with Georgia. The Georgian party claimed detention of 10 persons; two of them remain in SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Tskhinvali.

On February 24, Djambulat Khatuov was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Russia; earlier, for more than six years, he was First Vice-Governor of the Krasnodar Territory in the team of Alexander Tkachov.

The advocates of Varvara Karaulova (Alexandra Ivanova), a student of the Moscow State University (MSU), accused of an attempt to join the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organizations, banned in Russia, ask the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to consider the complaint in the priority order.

The calls of the opposition to dismiss Ramzan Kadyrov increase the likelihood that the Kremlin will leave him in the post of the head of Chechnya, the political analysts Alexei Makarkin and Mikhail Remizov believe. The probability of Kadyrov's resignation is extremely low, said the Forbes journalist Orkhan Jemal.

The activists detained at the rally in support of Vardges Gaspari have been taken to the Kentron police station.

The main rivals to Vyacheslav Bitarov are representatives of power agencies, said the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to their version, the President of Russia will have to decide who will govern the republic – a power agents or a manager.

For the second day, Vardges Gaspari is being subjected to physical and psychological pressure, and he has refused to take food and water. This was reported by advocate Tigran Egoryan. Officials from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) have reported that the arrested man has stopped his hunger strike.

The question concerning the further term of Ramzan Kadyrov at the post of the leader of the Chechen Republic is premature, since his current term of office has not expired yet. This was stated by Dmitry Peskov, the press spokesman for the President of Russia.

The examination of the remains of the suicide bomber, who committed the explosion at the GIBBD (traffic police) post, is not yet finalized, said the spokesman of the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On February 23, actions, dedicated to anniversary of deportation of Chechens and Ingushes in 1944, were held in Helsinki, Oslo, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Istanbul, Paris, Vienna, Antwerp and Kiev. The events, organized by Chechen Diasporas, were also held in the capital of Jordan, and in Georgia – in Tbilisi and Pankisi Gorge.