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The Union "For the Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan" held public hearings to draw attention to the fates of 14 people serving their life sentences.

In Chechnya, May Day demonstrations will traditionally gather tens of thousands of people, the Federation of Trade Unions in Chechnya announces. Public sector employees and students claim being obliged to take part in the festive event.

In December 2010, soldier Arthur Kazaryan died at the Yerevan Military Hospital, but within eight years, no persons guilty of his death had been identified. Relatives of Arthur Kazaryan believe that he was killed, and they demand to conduct a thorough investigation.

Villagers from the Pankisi Gorge have been opposing the construction of a hydroelectric power plant (HPP) on the Alazani River for a year and a half, and since the summer of 2018, they have been trying to challenge a construction permit in court. The lawsuit has been pending for ten months. On April 21, special forces fighters entered the Pankisi Gorge, the protesters treated that fact as a punitive measure, and as a result, mass riots occurred, local residents explained.

Asadulla Aliev, a Muslim, said that on April 26, he and several other believers were detained after the Friday prayer at the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala.

Students and state (budget-funded) employees were not forced to attend the latest football match in Grozny, but they were invited to the stadium by a lottery of prizes, residents of Chechnya have stated.

Neither the defence nor the relatives were infirmed about the transfer of Akhmed Barakhoev, the leader of protests in Ingushetia, from Nalchik to Vladikavkaz, Fatima Urusova and Akhmed's son Ilez has informed.

In Nalchik, the capital of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), law enforcers have detained a militant, who was preparing a terror act with the use of a homemade bomb, the Russian FSB has reported today.

Rasambek Bekmurzaev, a native of Chechnya, has been fined for crime concealment, but was found innocent in killing of three law enforcers and involvement in the armed underground, the court has ruled today.

Ramazan Salamov, accused of participating in an illegal armed formation (IAF), who was on the international wanted list, has been extradited to Russia, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed today.

Law enforcers have found a hideout with pistols, grenades and ammunition in the vicinity of the village, located 19 kilometres from the border with Dagestan, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone have come under fire, including those stationed in three villages, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed today.

Khamzat Edelgiriev, the head of the Chechen Hunting Authority, a fellow villager of Ramzan Kadyrov, has posted a video message with threats addressed to critics of Kadyrov Senior. Residents of Chechnya understand that threats are mainly addressed to the blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov.

Residents of the Irkutsk Region have supported the action of solidarity with Ingush oppositionists, initiated by Saint Petersburg and Moscow activists. Picketers in the above three Russian cities demanded to stop persecuting activists in Ingushetia.

For several days, monks, pilgrims and tourists could not get to the Udabno Monastery located in the territory of the ancient Georgian cave complex "David Gareji", the road to which was blocked by Azerbaijani border guards. The conflict was settled after negotiations of the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFAs) of Georgia and Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani special services are tapping the conversations of the journalist Sevindj Osmangyzy, the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) has stated after a record of her private conversation appeared on a pro-government TV channel. By breaking into the privacy of oppositional journalists, authorities are trying to silence them, the IRFS has stated.

Ingush officials and a well-known theologian have left for Egypt to negotiate the return of the arrested Ingush students to their homeland. The young people have been charged with extremism, espionage and links with "Islamic State"*, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has announced.

The US Department of State has banned Muslim Khuchiev, the Chairman of Chechen Government (Premier), to visit the USA, treating him involved in human rights violations.

The Strasbourg Court found no reason to award compensation to Levon Ter-Petrosyan under his complaint of house arrest during mass protests in March 2008.

Users of social networks reproached Khabib Nurmagomedov that he much more harshly criticized the actors and singers on tours in Dagestan than the law enforcers from the Moscow Region who were detained after beating a native of Dagestan.