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The court has granted the defence's petition and allowed visits of his relatives to Arush Arushanyan, the Mayor of the city of Goris. His supporters held an action at the courthouse demanding his release.

Thirteen judges have refused to support the harsh response of the judicial conference to the US and EU diplomats regarding the election of new members of the Georgia's Supreme Council of Justice. Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has called on Washington to support the struggle for the courts' independence with personal sanctions.

After visiting the third president of Georgia in prison, an advocate has reported that Mikhail Saakashvili is not able to stand on his feet and think coherently on the 36th day of his hunger strike. The leader of the “United National Movement” Party has announced an indefinite protest action in front of the prison in Rustavi.

At the “Time of Legends-7” tournament, not only a son of the leader of Chechnya, but also his nephew Magomed Delimkhanov became a winner. The boxer said that he owed the victory to his “dear uncle.”

Opposition MP Ilya Yashin, who posted a video criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov, shifted the focus, while talking about the border conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia and the proposals to legalize polygamy in Chechnya and the fighting efficiency of the “Kadyrov’s army,” blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov notes.

Azerbaijani MPs have voted for the amnesty act, timed to coincide with the Victory Day in the Karabakh war in 2020. The parliament’s resolution does not solve the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders note.

Tural Akram oglu Akhmedov, an extended service sergeant, was fatally wounded by a grenade fragment during a field exercise held in Western Azerbaijan.

The videos of the fights at the boxing tournament in Grozny have sparked a resonance in the social network. Some commentators have suggested that they saw a circus performance; other – that it was a staged performance. Users have ridiculed Eli Kadyrov's fight; experts also drew attention to the dubious outcome of the fight of Abdulkerim Edilov against Richard Larti.

In the Georgian village of Salkhino, five persons were taken to the police after refusing to leave the monastery and rendering resistance to law enforcers. Other excommunicated monks stated that they would not leave the monastery territory either, despite the demands of the Patriarch's secretary.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former President of Georgia, has problems with communication and memory on the 35th day of his hunger strike. He refused to cooperate with a doctors' council convened by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), demanding to be examined by an independent council.

Eli Kadyrov's rival has surrendered the fight by going on the defensive and avoiding attacks, social media users assert after watching a record of Kadyrov's son's fight at the tournament in Grozny. At the tournament, the coach of Kadyrov's sons also won by knockout.

The policeman who on January 23 brought the student, Diana Dibirova, to the police station from the square in Makhachkala has been brought to disciplinary responsibility.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded the compensations in the amounts of 40,000 euros to the family of Mamikon Khodjoyan and the family of Karen Petrosyan, residents of the Tavush Region of Armenia, who were captured and tortured in Azerbaijan in 2014.

The results of the recent medical tests which Mikhail Saakashvili underwent refute the assertions of the penitentiary service which claims the stable health state of the hunger-strike, and the vital signs of the former Georgian president have reached a critical level, his advocate report.

More than 1000 people gathered in the capital of Abkhazia to protest against the reinstatement of Dmitry Dbar as Minister of Internal Affairs. The protesters ignored the refusal of the Sukhumi Mayoralty to approve the rally.

A court arrested Ramiz Djafarov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, for 25 days on the charge of failure to obey legal requests of the police. Party colleagues of the activist consider the charge against him politically motivated.

Yerevan protesters from among relatives of the dead and missing Armenian soldiers have achieved a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. They said that at the meeting appointed for October 6, they would demand to reveal the exact number of prisoners of war (POWs), and a report on the progress of the investigation.

The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia will fail to endure efficient investigation of torture cases, Ara Karagezyan, a lawyer, has suggested. For proper inquiry into these cases, a separate agency is needed, Nina Karapetyants, a human rights defender, believes.

Eli, a Ramzan Kadyrov's son, has defeated his opponent at the "Time of Legends-7" boxing tournament held in Grozny. His victory was predictable, his rival has succumbed, social network users have suggested.

The advocate of Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has demanded to remove the judge, since Agil's relatives, journalists and human rights defenders were again not allowed to the court session. However, the court has rejected the adcvocate's motion. Gumbatov refused from his initial testimonies, claiming that he gave them under torture.