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Warders of the special detention facility persuaded Dagestani activist Salim Khalitov to stop his dry hunger strike. Salim Khalitov is under the supervision of a doctor, and his health state is improving, reports Uma Askerkhanova, a member of the Public Oversight Committee (POC) of Dagestan.

The existing legal regulations fail to protect tenants of crisis centres from being abducted by law enforcers at requests of their relatives. Russia must adopt a special law that will prohibit relatives to approaching the victim or returning them back into the family with the help of the police, human rights defenders have stated.

Law enforcers have detained five members and supporters of the public association entitled "Spiritual Figures of Azerbaijan". The believers' houses and apartments were searched; their PCs and mobile phones were seized.

The incident at the Tambukan training centre is being actively discussed in social networks. Many commentators have linked the story about the dishonest struggle of Chechen fighters with the distribution practice of undeserved titles and awards widespread in the republic, while the 1ADAT outlet has treated the incident as law enforcers' desire to curry Kadyrov's favour.

After searching his home, policemen have detained Haji Ilgar Ibragimoglu, a Shiite theologian and the head of the deyerler.org website. Law enforcers' interest in Ibragimoglu may have to do with a wave of repressions against religious figures amid the aggravation of Azerbaijani-Iranian relations; he can be accused of treason, human rights defenders believe.

Russian authorities failed to conduct an efficient inquiry into the death of Muslim Kuriev, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was killed in a counter-terrorist operation (CTO) in 2014, and are responsible for his death, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Muslim's mother named Laila was awarded compensation in the amount of 60,000 euros.

Azerbaijan has handed over to Armenia five prisoners of war (POWs) who had been sentenced in Baku to six years in prison; they were sent from the airport to the medical centre. The father of one of the missing servicemen has called for a protest action near the building of the Armenian Government on October 20.

The family of a minor Azerbaijani activist has failed to achieve an inquiry into the rape for a year already; the girl's mother treats it as a political order and revenge for her daughter's activeness in defending women's rights. Gyulnara Mekhtieva, a feminist, was detained for the demand to bring her companion's rapist to justice.

After returning to their husbands, the young women who fled from their relatives in Dagestan and were abducted by law enforcers from a shelter in Kazan, face a risk to fall victim to “honour killings” even against the background of the publicity of their story. This opinion has been voiced by Caucasian experts.

Aishat Saigidguseinova and Fatima Saigitova left a shelter apartment in Kazan and returned to Dagestan of their own free will, says a father of one of them. The man accused human rights defender Svetlana Anokhina of the young women’s escape from home and voiced threats against her.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found the Russian authorities responsible for the disappearance and torture of Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, and obliged him to pay the compensation in the amount of 26,000 euros.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Chechen resident Magomed Dakaev guilty of transferring money to terrorists in Syria and sentenced him to 5.5 years of imprisonment.

In the city of Shusha (the Armenian name is Shushi), the Azerbaijani party has handed the remains of a military who perished during the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh over to Karabakh rescuers. Thus, the total number of found remains of Armenian militaries has reached 1686.

Participants in a humorous show on the TNT TV Channel have reacted to the practice of public apologies widespread in Chechnya by staging an apology of a dog that barked at the Chechen leader. Internet users have found the miniature to be unsuccessful.

"The girls from Dagestan, who were forced away from the shelter in Kazan, had complained about persecutions by their husbands and relatives; and one of them of beatings," said Svetlana Anokhina. According to her story, the ties of the father of one of the girls, a well-known Dagestan religious preacher, helped to find them.

The Military Court of Appeal has upheld the sentences to four residents of the Agul District of Dagestan convicted on charges of involvement in a terrorist community and an illegal armed formation (IAF).

After four inquiries, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation failed to provide the court with materials on the complaint about investigators' inaction on the complaint about the kidnapping of Ibragim Selimkhanov, a native of Dagestan, by Chechen law enforcers. They threatened Selimkhanov's relatives who live in Chechnya.

The check has showed that there were no brawl at the "Tambukan" test site of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) during the tests for maroon berets, Sergey Lysyuk, the head of the Association of the "Vityaz Maroon Berets' Brotherhood", asserts. According to his version, a relative of the head of Chechnya was removed from the tests.

The absence of celebrations of the 30th anniversary of Azerbaijan's independence suggests that authorities are belittling the significance of this event, Fuad Gakhramanly, the spokesman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has stated. During these 30 years, Azerbaijan has failed to become a democratic state, Nasimi Mamedli and Zardusht Alizade, political analysts, assert.

Law enforcers have forced two girls who had arrived from Dagestan away from the "Mother's House" crisis centre located in the city of Kazan.