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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.

The Ramzan Kadyrov's call to remove all checkpoints on the roads between the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) was rejected by Moscow because of the threat of terror acts and the law enforcers' distrust in the leader of Chechnya, believe experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The police detain activists on the basis of photo and video materials, and anyone who attended the rally in Magas can become a suspect, states human rights defender Tamirlan Akiev. The arrests will result in an increase in the protests in Ingushetia, human rights defenders believe.

Over the past 24 hours, the positions of the Azerbaijani army were shelled about 30 times, including the positions in four areas bordering Armenia, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

Residents of Armenia honoured the memory of the victims of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915 by laying flowers at the "Tsitsernakaberd" Memorial Complex.

At a meeting convoked in the village of Djokolo, residents of the Pankisi Gorge spoke against the construction of a chain of hydropower plants (HPPs) in the gorge, as well as against the detention of their fellow villagers, who had taken part in clashes with the police.

On April 24, 2019, the House of Representatives of the US State of Colorado adopted a resolution condemning the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey. By a separate point, the House recognized the independence of the Republic of Artsakh (the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic – NKR).

In Chechnya, in January-March this year, one alleged member of the armed underground was killed, whereas in the same period of 2018, there were six of them, an official of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed, thus, confirming the data of the "Caucasian Knot" about the number of alleged members of the armed underground killed during these periods.

Farkhad Muradov, a supporter of the "Muslim Unity" (MU) movement, is denied a transfer to a prison hospital; his condition is worsening, his relatives have complained.

The commission has refused to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Vano Merabishvili, the former Georgian Interior Minister, who had been convicted in the case of beating an MP. The defence has treated the denial as politically motivated.

A court in Grozny has refused to satisfy a complaint against a refusal to open a case on the application of Ibragim Yangulbaev about his torture by law enforcers, the Committee against Torture (CaT) has reported today. The defence intends to appeal against the ruling.

A court in Kabardino-Balkaria has ruled to imprison Ruslan Aushev, suspected of involvement in clashes with law enforcers at a rally in Magas. While justifying the arrest, investigators presented uncertified copies of documents, but the court ignored this, the advocates Akhmed Kaloev and Magomed Bekov affirm.

Three policemen suspected of beating a man in Orekhovo-Zuevo, who later died in hospital from the injuries he got, were arrested. A source from the law enforcement bodies reported that the deceased man was a father of MMA world champion Magomed Yunusilau.

The Chief Directorate for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NFCD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) found rational an appeal filed by the NGO "Mothers of Beslan" with a request to preserve the "Chermen" checkpoint at the border with Chechnya, a member of the NGO reports today. The "Mothers of Beslan" opposed the Ramzan Kadyrov's call to remove all checkpoints between the regions of Northern Caucasus.

Four Ingush students kept in a Cairo prison were transferred to a medical unit because of deterioration of their health state after a hunger strike, their relatives reported. After a meeting with family members of the arrested students, human rights defenders promised to contact the Russia's Ombudsperson.