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As a part of a new story with public apologies of a fortune-teller, the Chechen TV Channel made public photos of local residents who addressed spiritual healers for help. Some Instagram users found it unacceptable to make public someone's personal data.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has registered a complaint prepared by human rights defenders about torture and murders in a case of killed Dagestanis in Chechnya on behalf of their relatives, the "Legal Initiative" reports.

The Krasnodar Territorial Court left Nikolai Kuzichkin, a Jehovah's Witness* from Sochi, in custody until November 24. The consideration of the appeal filed by Vyacheslav Popov, another detained believer, is postponed. According to advocate Anton Bogdanov, after the detention, Nikolai Kuzichkin was not allowed to be visited by his wife and son.

Tofig Yagublu, a member of the coordination centre of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), was beaten up after being detained by law enforcers on the day of the rally in Baku on October 19, said his daughter Nigyar Khazi. According to the advocate, Nemat Kerimli, Yagublu has his rib, shoulder and leg damaged.

The police actions during an unauthorized rally in Baku on October 19 were condemned by the Council of Europe, the European External Relations Service, the PACE and the US Embassy in Azerbaijan.

The mother of Magomed Doliev, whose death was imputed on employees of the Ingush "E" Centre, has disagreed with the awarded compensation since she demanded ten times more.

The tradition of stopping a wedding procession (cortege) for claiming ransom exists in Chechnya and in neighbouring regions, but in urban conditions it becomes dangerous. Authorities should take measures so that the custom does not lead to accidents and traumas, the Orientalists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Deputy Qadi, who refuted the jinns' attack on the house of a Vashendaroi villager, has got involved in the practice of public reproaches, characteristic for Chechen authorities. Reprimanding in public of people by clergymen is not welcomed in Islam, said Akhmet Yarlykapov, an Islamic scholar.

Seven Ingush protest leaders, suspected of calling for mass riots, refused to undergo a psychological and psychiatric examination in Stavropol. The activists were threatened that next time such examinations would be appointed in a region still farther from the SIZO (pre-trial prison), said the advocate.

Investigators have evidence that people from militants' encirclement transferred money to Khamukovs, residents of Baksan, but there are no proofs that the "One Body" Fund used these funds for criminal purposes, said the advocate. He explained Lianna Khamukova's testimony against her brother Asker by law enforcers' pressure.

During the week of October 14-20, 2019, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Deputy Qadi of the Shatoi District of Chechnya, who had earlier called on people not to believe reports of a genie attack on a local resident's house, admitted that Alims had to confront genies in the village of Vashendaroi. Instagram users were surprised by the inconsistency in the statements voiced by the religious leader.

The Prosecutor's Office has launched a check after a video was posted on the Internet in which children requested a "ransom" from participants of a wedding party procession in a street in Grozny. Local residents and Instagram users have expressed conflicting views on the appropriateness of the ancient wedding party tradition in modern traffic conditions.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled 22 times in the conflict zone within 24 hours, and a village in the area bordering Armenia fell under fire, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Jehovah's Witnesses* from Sochi plead not guilty of participating in an extremist organization, and their arrests are an act of intimidation of believers, notes advocate Anton Bogdanov.

On October 20, in central Baku, about fifty people held, despite policemen's counteraction, a rally in protest against using violence to women, and agreed to end it only after the detainees were released.

The Georgian party has accused Russian border guards of installing barbed wire near the village of Atotsi, bordering on South Ossetia; and observers and policemen arrived at the venue. Oppositionists staged a protest at the "Shakshaketi" checkpoint, demanding to let them into the village.

The use of alcohol and psychotropic drugs became the reason for a "prophylactic talk" of law enforcers with the men detained in Chechnya. Local residents and Instagram users have treated the public warning of the detainees as excessive.

Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has stated that after he was detained at a rally, he was beaten up several times.

The picket of Dagestani Afghan War veterans in Makhachkala ended after they managed to get promises from the authorities to solve their problems, Gasaini Gasainiev, the head of the initiative group of veterans, has informed.