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Aslambek Akhmetkhanov, a businessman, who disappeared in early April after being publicly scolded by Ramzan Kadyrov, has returned to his native village of Gekhi, Instagram users have informed.

Law enforcers have tortured Niyameddin Akhmedov, an arrested activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), aiming to force him to testify against Ali Kerimli, his party comrade, the PFPA has stated. The country's police did not confirm this version.

In Moscow, law enforcers have detained Arsen Besolov, an administrator of a Telegram chat. The chat was for communication among the supporters of Vadim Cheldiev, the initiator of an unauthorized rally against self-isolation held in Vladikavkaz.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has ordered to toughen control over the travels of residents of the republic due to violations of the self-isolation regime. Grozny residents have complained about law enforcers' checks of public transport passengers.

The human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has mentioned Azerbaijan among the countries that are using restrictions imposed during the pandemic for repressing govt's opponents.

Within three days, the Instagram users, who have supported the initiators of the campaign under the hashtag #yamyvrachi (I and we are doctors), raised over one million roubles. The money will be used to buy medical masks and other personal protective means for Dagestani doctors.

Policemen have blocked all the entrances to Makhachkala and, referring to the order of the head of the city police. Only medics, law enforcers, and vehicles with foodstuffs and medicines are let into the city.

The Azerbaijani Court of Appeal has rejected the complaint about the administrative arrest of Natig Isbatov, a reporter of the website "7gun.az". His defence treats the refusal as unjustified and subject to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

An advocate of activist Batraz Gagiev filed an appeal against a court's decision on the activist's arrest. According to the advocate, the court did not take into account the fact that the defendant took care of his minor children.

In Azerbaijan, the authorities decided to uphold restrictions on crossing the country's state borders until May 31 because of the threat of the coronavirus infection spread. Exceptions are made for cargo and freight transportation and charter flights, the Azerbaijani operational headquarters announces.

The Second Western District Military Court found Dagestani blogger Alibek Mirzekhanov guilty of participating in activities of a terrorist organization.

The chairman of the board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" paid three fines, each in the amount of 100,000 roubles, which were imposed on him after the inspection conducted by the FSB Department for Ingushetia. The fines were paid out of the raised donations. Today, the HRC "Memorial" has announced that a complaint about the decisions of the Russian courts on fines will be filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Today, Georgia has registered new 517 cases of the coronavirus infection. Over 24 hours, more patients have been discharged from hospitals than new cases of infection have been registered.

During the last 24 hours, positions of Azerbaijani troops stationed in the villages on the border with Armenia and in the conflict zone with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) were shelled for 24 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

Because of the restrictions imposed by the authorities of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) in connection with the epidemic, minor businesses have to suffer losses and reduce their hired personnel, the entrepreneurs interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" assert.

At the charity event organized by the Kadyrov Foundation, volunteers handed out bread without wearing medical masks and gloves, Instagram users have emphasized.

The anti-crisis plan, drafted with the aim to help businesses and residents during the pandemic, fails to support several vulnerable social groups, the Centre for Human Rights Education and Monitoring has stated.

Two activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) were detained near the home of Ali Kerimli, the party leader and fined by USD 60 each for violating the quarantine regime. They were punished for trying to contact Kerimli, the PFPA has stated.

Residents of Yerevan have gathered near the government building with a demand to solve the problem of disconnecting utilities for non-payment. Due to epidemic restrictions, local residents are without livelihood, Aik Barsegyan, an activist, has stated.

The death toll from pneumonia in the village of Tebekmakhi in the Akushinsky District of Dagestan has gone up sharply, almost a third of villagers are sick, but there is not enough medicines and qualified medical help, Medjid Medjidov, the head of the village of Tebekmakhi, said in his appeal to the authorities of Dagestan.