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The shooting in the village of Ameterkmakhi has become the first armed incident in Dagestan within 32 days. The previous incident was the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Buynaksk District.

According to a video received by human rights defenders, a native of Azerbaijan was sexually assaulted in a prison hospital in the Saratov Region. A deputy chief of the prison hospital claims no violence was used against the prisoner.

The authorities of Chechnya stopped the distribution of the Medina Mirai’s book “Syntonyms”, considering it immoral, and will not allow its sales in the republic, announces Chechen Minister for National Policy Akhmed Dudaev. According to him, the book promotes values alien to the Chechen society.

Malik Rzaev, an oppositionist accused of drug dealing, has stated that he was tortured after detention. His complaint about torture was forwarded to the Sumgait Prosecutor's Office, said his advocate.

The release of a video in which the prison staff is rudely treating Mikhail Saakashvili is violating his right to privacy and insults his honour and dignity, Nino Lomdjariya the Georgia's Ombudsperson, has stated.

In Tbilisi, the opposition held a protest action, where the participants spoke out against the detention of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili's supporters. At the rally, two persons received traumas from the stones thrown at them.

The court has sentenced Timur Tumgoev, a native of North Ossetia, to eight months in a colony within the case of disrupting the work of the correctional institution.

In Baku, the prosecutor has asked to sentence Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) to 10 years in prison. Gumbatov has protested to the state prosecutor and announced the falsification of his criminal case.

It is suggested to rename five Grozny dwelling settlements in honour of heroes of the Chechen nation, or to return their old names, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, announced on November 11.

The Supreme Court of Russia notified the NGO “International Memorial”* about the consideration of the claim filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office with a request to liquidate the NGO due to the lack of marking on the status of a foreign agent. Human rights defenders considered the claim filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office a political decision.

After an incident in New Moscow, the Chechen parliament prepared for submission to the State Duma of Russia a bill banning the mention in the media and social media of information on the ethnic and religious affiliation of criminals.

Mikhail Saakashvili has decided to stop his hunger strike, his advocate Nika Gvaramiya reports today.

At a protest action in Yerevan, about 200 oppositionists demanded to prevent installation of an Azerbaijani customs checkpoint on the road from Goris to Kapan. After the protesters tried to break into the government building, 16 of them were detained, the police reported.

At least 30 Azerbaijani citizens have to rent housing in Dagestan while waiting for the opening of the border, and others live at their relatives’ places and in a temporary accommodation centre, human rights defender Afig Allakhverdiev reports. Former residents of a camp in Dagestan believe the people cannot return from Dagestan to their homeland, since the Azerbaijani authorities ignore their problems.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has denied the petition lodged by representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, that asked to oblige the authorities to transfer him to a civil clinic. Saakashvili's personal doctor, Nikoloz Kipshidze, has recorded injuries on his patient's body.

At doctors' insistence, due to deteriorating of her tests, on the eighth day of her hunger strike, Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, was made a blood transfusion.

The prison terms demanded by the Prosecutor's Office (PO) for the figurants in the Ingush case are excessive and undermine ordinary people's trust in the authorities, the defendants have stated.

Relatives of Gasan Galibekov, a Dagestani accused of beating up a passenger in Moscow metro, have apologized to the victim, Roman Kovalyov and his mother, offering to help him with rehabilitation.

A tractor with a local resident inside was shelled by Azerbaijani militaries, the head of the Khachik village of the Areni community said on November 10.

Salekh Rustamov, convicted within the case of financing the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) of the prison hospital. Doctors have threatened him with forced feeding if he didn't stop his hunger strike, his son has informed.