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For the second day already, the participants of the protest action in Yerevan, Narek Kirakosyan and Arthur Avagyan, continue their hunger strike in protest against the statements of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, on the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Investigators recognized as victims 397 people who were tortured in military units, and the sentences of 16 people unreasonably convicted in the “Terter case” were cancelled, the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan reported. Seven militaries were arrested on the charge of using torture.

Polad Aslanov, a convicted Azerbaijani journalist, faces new provocations in a penal colony, while the penitentiary service impedes the investigation of his beating on March 31, a spouse of the convicted journalist says.

A court found former policeman Filipp Mamonov from Bataysk guilty of beating a detainee and sentenced him to three years of imprisonment.

Senior Sergeant Saddam Seiranov perished in Ukraine, the administration of the Rutul District reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, the information about at least 86 perished natives of Dagestan has been officially confirmed.

The two solo pickets in support of the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, accused of financing terrorism, were welcomed by residents of Makhachkala. According to Magomed Magomedov, one of the picketers, only one citizen doubted that a solo action could solve anything and demanded not to distract people.

Sergey Bondarenko, a resident of the working settlement of Medveditsky, Zhirnovsky District, has perished in Ukraine. Since the start of the special operation, it has become officially known about the deaths of at least 22 natives of the Volgograd Region.

Contrary to the law on compulsory medical insurance, war invalids are not paid the due insurance sums, protesters have declared.

This March, a total of 20 persons were detained for violating the border; eight of them have already been fined; four others have been expelled from South Ossetia, the republic's State Security Committee (known as the KGB) has informed.

Opponents of the discussion of the Nagorno-Karabakh status have spent the second night in the Yerevan square, where the police again did not allow them to set up a tent for holding an endless protest action. The health condition of the two activists who are on a hunger strike has not worsened yet, one of them has informed.

A fine of 30,000 roubles for discrediting the Russian Army has been imposed on a resident of Krasnodar, who set fire to a sofa in the street, writing a word with letter Z next to it.

The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) must compensate the material damage and moral harm suffered by 24 journalists during the rally of opponents of the LGBT parade in Tbilisi in July 2021, the NGO "Transparency International-Georgia" has stated.

During the week of April 11-17, 2022, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

A court fined human rights defender Oleg Orlov 15,000 roubles under the article on violating rules of picketing.

Nver Kirakosyan and Arthur Avagyan joined a protest action held by Nikol Pashinyan’s opponents in a square in Yerevan and went on a hunger strike to draw the attention of Armenian residents to the problem of the status of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Elkhan Aliev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, who served a 30-day arrest, was detained upon leaving the detention facility.

Results of the presidential election in South Ossetia; arrival of refugees in Southern Russia, death in Ukraine of military personnel from the southern regions of Russia, persecution of pacifists; mitigation of the sentence in the case on the Tskaev’s death at the Vladikavkaz police department; return of children of natives of Adygea and Dagestan from Syria to Russia; FSB’s report about the prevention of a terror act in Stavropol, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 11-17, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

In Yerevan, several dozen oppositionists held their night protest against Nikol Pashinyan's policy towards Nagorno-Karabakh.

Three persons were detained in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) on suspicion of having links with the "Islamic State" (IS)* and preparing a terror act in the republic, the FSB has reported.

Lieutenant Colonel Dibir Dibirov from the village of Tsovkra-2 have perished in Ukraine, the district administration has informed. Since the start of the special operation in Ukraine, the deaths of at least 85 natives of Dagestan have been officially confirmed.