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The Ombudsperson of the Ulyanovsk Region has announced that 22 convicts in the Dimitrovgrad prison wrote declarations about going on a hunger strike, and 38 more people participate in the protest action unofficially.

Azerbaijani human rights defender Rufat Safarov was not allowed to attend the trial in a case against Ali Aliev, the leader of the “Citizens and Development” Party. Rufat Safarov had a quarrel with law enforcers in a yard of the Baku court, as he tried to argue against the refusal in access to the court building.

An agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan will be signed only after the public discussion in Nagorno-Karabakh, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan assures. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev threatens to reconsider the attitude towards the territorial integrity of Armenia if Yerevan refuses a peace treaty.

Nver Kirakosyan and Arthur Avagyan, who are on the fourth day of their hunger strike in Yerevan in protest against the attempts to change the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, have gathered nearly a thousand signatures of their supporters.

Law enforcers have accused Olga Gorelik, a former employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, went to a pacifist picket in Moscow, of discrediting the Russian Army.

A court in Baku has jailed Samir Ashurov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), for four months. He denied the accusation of attacking a man with a knife and claimed that he had been beaten up by law enforcers.

Valery Badmaev, an oppositional journalist and human rights defender, has demanded from investigators to check the information about the use of physical force during the detention of Altan Ochirov, an employee of the administration of the city of Elista, the capital of Kalmykia.

A court in Rostov-on-Don has found Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of preparing explosions and attacks on law enforcers in Makhachkala and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.

The Staropromyslovskiy District Court of Grozny has extended until June 12 the arrest of Zarema Musaeva, who is accused of attacking a law enforcer.

The commander of the North-Caucasian District of the "Rosgvargiya" (Russian National Guard) and the head of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have handed Orders of Courage over to the families of the KBR natives who perished in the special operation.

The Southern District Military Court has left Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, accused of financing terrorism, in custody for other three months.

The Azerbaijan’s authorities were addressed by 114 citizens of Ukraine, who left the country after the start of the special military operation by the Russian troops. The people who came from Ukraine applied for refugee status.

Activist Samir Ashurov, detained in Baku, denied the charge of attacking a man with a knife. He called his case falsified and went on a hunger strike in protest.

An investigation into a case against a native of Dagestan, accused of participating in mass riots in a Vladikavkaz penal colony, has been completed.

Yuri Rybinsky, a driver of a motorized rifle battalion, perished in Ukraine, the administration of the Kotelnikovo District reported. Since the beginning of the special military operation, the information about at least 23 perished natives of the Volgograd Region has been officially confirmed.

A court in Tatarstan has placed six local residents accused within the case of the attack of militants under command of Shamil Basaev and Khattab on Pskov paratroopers in Chechnya into custody.

The Public Association (PA) "Legal Enlightenment of Sumgait Youth" has sent an appeal to the UN Committee on Human Rights urging to help in releasing Elchin Mamed, an Azerbaijani human rights defender, from prison.

The quality of the study conducted by the National Environment Agency on the reasons of the landslide that went down on the village of Itkhvisi in the Chiatura District causes doubts, as it fails to mention the activities of the "Georgian Manganese" Mining Company, NGOs assert.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported on the detention of six defendants within the case of the attack committed in 2000 by militants of Shamil Basaev on Pskov paratroopers.

Judges of the Chechen Supreme Court (SC) can use self-withdrawal as a trick to avoid participating in the trial of Zarema Musaeva; and in case of self-withdrawal of the entire court composition, the territorial jurisdiction of the case can be changed, the lawyers believe.