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Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has extended for other two months – until May 24 – the detention of the journalist Khadija Ismayilova. Her defence treats this decision illegal and intends to appeal against it.

Forty persons, who claimed at different times of being harassed by power agents, have signed an open letter in support of the Committee against Torture (CaT); there are nine residents of Chechnya among them.

Today, in Azerbaijan, at the trial of Siraj Kerimli, recognized by the international human rights organization Amnesty International as "prisoner of conscience", the court listened to testimonies of two defence witnesses.

The Security Council of Ingushetia is checking, jointly with the Ministry of Public Health (MPH), the information that teachers of the medical college in Nazran prohibit female students to wear hijabs. According to preliminary data of the head of the MPH, none of the questioned students confirmed the presence of any conflicts.

The total number of citizens of Ukraine staying now in the Volgograd Region is not more than 20,000; of them about a half has have applied for legal status in the territory Russia. Despite the escalation of conflict in Donbas in late 2014, in early 2015, there was no mass inflow of citizens from Ukraine, said the local department of the Russian Federal Migration Service (FMS).

On March 5, at the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon in April 2013, 11 witnesses for prosecution were questioned. Two of them said that they had never seen him before; and one recollected his brother Tamerlan.

Six women-villagers of Shushiya, Novolak District of Dagestan, have suspended their hunger strike, which was launched with a demand to allocate land plots to them. They agreed to define their further actions after a new decision of the Kumtorkalin Court on the lawsuit of the village administration, asking to cancel the registration of the lease contract on the disputed land plots.

The blood donor action "Blood remembers everything!" in memory of victims of deportation of Balkar nationals was held today in the cities of Karachaevsk and Cherkessk in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). 85 people gave their blood.

The lawyer Alexander Popkov has appealed against the arrest of the Krasnodar activist Leonid Martynyuk to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

A militant-participant in the hostage-taking in the Dubrovka Theatrical Centre has been captured in the Crimea, said the Border-Guarding Service of the FSB.

The residents of Chechnya Zavaraev, Khalukaev and Parmazov, who died from explosion on the dam, were not members of the armed underground, said a local law enforcement source.

The life-long convicts from South Ossetia, kept in Gldani Prison, have stopped their hunger strike after receiving a promise from officials of the Georgian presidential administration to bring their cases for consideration of the Parliament.

The Moscow Bureau of Interpol has disseminated in its international network a request for the arrest of Kuban ecologist Suren Gazaryan. This was reported by his advocate Alexander Popkov.

Tonight, in Volgograd, unidentified persons used a grenade to blow up an automatic teller machine (ATM) in a bank building. No one was injured, and criminal failed to steal money. This is the second incident of such type during recent 10 days.

Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, accused of the murder of an Armenian family in Gyumri is to undergo a scheduled forensic psychiatric examination. The examination results can be reported in two weeks.

In Derbent, Nasur Osmanov, the chief physician of the Derbent district polyclinic, was killed near his house.

In his letters to relatives, Pyotr Parpulov, a resident of Sochi, accused of treason, has reported the violation of his rights at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). According to Pyotr Parpulov's daughter, her father has described his complaint about the living conditions and medical care.

At the first court session held on March 4 in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terror act during the Boston Marathon in April 2013, the court has questioned six witnesses for the prosecution. This was reported from the courtroom by Fatima Tlisova, a journalist of the "Voice of America".

All the residents of the settlement of Semender in the Kirov District of Makhachkala, detained on March 3, are back at large, said the police.

The women-participants of the hunger strike in the Dagestani village of Shushiya report the worsening of their health status and state their readiness to stop their protest against guarantees of fulfilment of their demands.