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The question of political prisoners in Azerbaijan has become one of the main topics of the meeting of the Joint Working Group on Human Rights Issues with the participation of the delegation of the Council of Europe (CE).

source in the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has explained such an enhancement of police forces by the possible arrival in Makhachkala of Sergey Melikov, the Russian President's Envoy to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

In Makhachkala, employees of public sector have written an open letter to the City Mayor. In their letter, they have complained about being forced to take part in the works on improvement of the city, although it is the responsibility of municipal services, receiving money from the budget for those purposes.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the law enforcement bodies have announced the suppression of channel for the transfer of female fighters to Syria, after in Nalchik, they had detained a female resident of Moscow, who spoke about her plans to go with her husband to Syria.

A girlfriend of Khamzat Bakhaev, a defendant in the case in the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, has said that during the period of time when the crime was committed and during the following two days, the Ingush native was with her in the apartment.

In Stavropol, the court has partially granted the defence motion for questioning power agents as witnesses in the case against Kislovodsk Imam Ali-Kurman Baichorov. Besides, the court has summoned for questioning Police Colonel Nikolai Zavyalikov, the Deputy Chief of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The arrests of members of the "Founding Parliament" represent political persecution. This was stated by Paruir Airikyan, the leader of the association "National Self-Determination", at the press conference held on April 8. Ovik Abramyan, the Prime Minister of Armenia, has claimed that there are no political prisoners in the country.

As a result of the examination, Russian soldier Valery Permyakov accused of killing the Avetisyan family members in Gyumri has been found mentally sane.

Soslan Zhigunov, a witness to the death of Murat Borlakov, a detained resident of Karachay-Cherkessia in the Ust-Djeguta ROVD (District Interior Division), who was questioned at the trial in the case against five policemen, has changed his testimony given at the preliminary investigation stage.

The Court has announced the decision to take into custody until May 10 Yakub Khashagulgov, a resident of Ingushetia, detained after the acquittal on charges of aiding and abetting militants.

The Russian Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) has asked the Prosecutor of Dagestan to take personal control over the investigation into the case on the attack on Vyacheslav Starodubets, the author of the materials about Derbent.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has received a complaint against non-admission of advocate to Zaur Dadaev, a native of Chechnya, involved in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, three of the four residents of the village of Stary Cherek detained during the special operation, have been sent home.

During the counterterrorist operation, staff members of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan detained seven citizens of the republic, suspected of involvement in hostilities as members of terrorist groupings of "Taliban" and "Islamic State".

Evgeny Vitishko, a Krasnodar ecologist, who went on hunger strike in a penal settlement-colony of the Tambov Region, is being kept at a common brigade, and he continues to attend mandatory works. According to the advocate, Evgeny Vitishko refuses to write a formal letter of protest.

During the search of the apartment of Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, accused of involvement in the murder of Boris Nemtsov, law enforcers have found weapons. This was reported by Zaurbek Sadakhanov, an advocate of another defendant in the case, with reference to the investigators.

Today, advocates of Shagit Gubashev, Tamerlan Eskerkhanov, and Khamzat Bakhaev, accused of involvement in the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, have challenged the court's decision to re-arrest them.

On April 8, the court extended the arrest of Valery Permyakov under investigation in the case of the murder of the Avetisyan family members in Gyumri. At the court session, two new items were added to the charges against the soldier.

On April 8, at the trial in the case against journalist Boris Stomakhin accused of public justification of the terror acts in Volgograd, the court questioned two people. A former cellmate of the defendant told the court that the journalist expresses his joy about the terror act in Volgograd.

Asya Khandokhova, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, has claimed being subjected to pressure by power agents during the incident with blocking of a shop in Baksan. The young woman has also added that she fears provocations in her address.