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A case against three residents of Chechnya has been sent to court. They are accused in a case on the terror act in the village of Znamenskoye, as a result of which 15 people were killed in July 2005.

The State Frontier Service (SFS) of Azerbaijan should give an adequate assessment of the attack by a border guard officer on a member of the film crew covering the farewell ceremony for those who perished in the crash of a military helicopter, the Press Council has stated.

The fate of the three detainees at the action in support of Salekh Rustamov in Baku remains unknown, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has informed. Rustam Ismailbeili, an activist, who was detained after the action, will stand trial today, his sister said.

When Mikhail Saakashvili was in power, Georgia officially recognized the Circassians' genocide, giving Circassian activists the opportunity to defend their rights within the international legal environment, Circassian activists have stated in their appeal to the Georgian President, Salome Zurabishvili. They have urged her to pardon Saakashvili.

A year later, the court has satisfied a complaint of the prosecutor's office and arrested Ashot Minasyan, accused of an attempt on the life of the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan. The prosecutor's speculation that Minasyan could hide or interfere with the inquiry speaks in favour of the version of a political order, Nina Karapetyants believes. The atmosphere of fear reigns in the country's judicial system, Avetik Ishkhanyan has noted.

The health condition of Salekh Rustamov, an activist, who is on a hunger strike demanding his release from jail in Azerbaijan, is deteriorating. The human rights activists who visited him tried to persuade him to stop his hunger strike, but he is adamant, said his advocate.

Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian President, has stated that citizens of Russia, including Chechens, were among organizers of the delivery of migrants from the Middle East to the border of Belarus with European countries.

The Russian President and Chechen authorities are responsible for the assassination attempts on the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, committed in Sweden, and on other critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, says the report of the Intelligence and Situation Centre of the European Union (EU).

In a video message, a resident of Chechnya accused his own son Khasan Khalitov of slandering the leaders of the republic and said that he wanted to kill the blogger who had left for Turkey. Khasan Khalitov publicly refused to apologize to Ramzan Kadyrov for criticism.

A case against a commander of a military detachment and his acquaintance, accused of transferring secret information to Azerbaijan, has been prepared for submission to court, the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia reports.

A resident of Tbilisi was detained at a checkpoint of the road-and-patrol police service (known as DPS) for illegal border crossing, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia reports today.

The police disrupted a rally in support of activist Salekh Rustamov, who is on hunger strike in prison. The activist demands to release him. Organizers of the action were detained before its start. During the action, the police took at least 20 activists away from Fountain Square in Baku.

Mikhail Kalandiya, who was sentenced to 11 years for killing a teenager in Tbilisi, should be released, and the accused Giorgi Menabde should not be sentenced, but all the high-ranking officials who interfere with justice should be punished. This was stated by Zaza Saralidze, the father of the killed teenager.

The Court of Appeal has left Agvan Ovsepyan, an Armenia's former Public Prosecutor General, under arrest by rejecting the defence's appeal.

The Military Court of Appeal has upheld the verdict to Aslan Daudov, a resident of Chechnya, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for taking part in hostage-taking, terrorism and premeditated murder during the 1995 attack by Shamil Basaev's detachment on Budyonnovsk.

The map of Azerbaijan placed on the UN website, which was referred to by the journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, who urged to take it into account when defining the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, corresponds to the Soviet small-scale maps, said Alexei Gunya.

At the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a Dagestani journalist, half of the prosecution witnesses have been questioned, but none of them has confirmed his guilt, said Arsen Shabanov, an advocate. The criminal case has been sent to the court also without proofs, Mairbek Agaev, the editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, said at the press conference timed to 900 days of Gadjiev's arrest.

The disputes in social media over the borders between Ingushetia and Chechnya can develop into a serious conflict between the two nations, and the conflicts should be resolved at negotiating table, states Magomet Tumgoev, the speaker of the Ingush parliament.

Showing respect for women is in line with the Chechen traditions and is not considered shameful, Ramzan Kadyrov declares. His statement came against the background of the practice in Chechnya of public condemnation of women and pressure on young women wearing niqabs.

In Azerbaijan, several political parties demand to release activist Salekh Rustamov, who is on a hunger strike in a prison hospital. An advocate has visited the activist today and reported about the deterioration of the Salekh Rustamov’s health state.