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For more than a week, law enforcers of Chechnya have been keeping Anzor Aliev, a Sunzha resident, demanding from his relatives to give out his brother, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", where the Aliev family appealed for help, has reported.

Since January 11, relatives cannot establish the whereabouts of Movsar Rashidov, who had abdicated, in the presence of Ramzan Kadyrov, his son Magomed Rashidov. They suggest that he was kidnapped by power agents.

In Chechnya, power agents check the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) that receive foreign funding; their employees are accused of "engagement in subversive activities," the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

The Embassy of Iran in Baku has issued a statement, blaming "certain media structures of Azerbaijan for unwillingness to expand bilateral relations." Azerbaijani civil activists believe that the statement referred to the publications that had caused the inquiry into the activities of the ReAl.

Today, the court of general jurisdiction of the Yerevan districts Kentron and Nork-Marash has sentenced Arsen Mkrtumyan, Gagik Mikaelyan and Soso Margaryan to three years in prison each, finding them guilty of using violence against policemen during riots in Yerevan.

The three young men, killed at night on January 30 in Shali had been instructed by Syrian militants to attack policemen and commit terror acts, said a law enforcement source.

On February 1, the Derbent residents, who are protesting against resettlement, met Ibragim Kazibekov, the Minister of Construction and Housing of Dagestan, and Ali Khazbulatov, the permanent representative of the head of the republic in Southern Dagestan. People brought posters to the meeting: "We want no other’s property, but we won’t give away ours!" and "Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin! Stop the construction!"

On February 1, the Baku City Prosecutor's Office refused to open a criminal case about the torture of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov during his custody at the police. His advocate intends to challenge the refusal.

Since the start of the year, at least five persons were killed in Azerbaijan, whom power agents declared to be religious extremists. The level of terror threat in the country is on the rise, believe the political analysts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The investigation of the case of torture of Magomed Aushev is unreasonably protracted, while the demand to hold a confrontation with the suspects is rejected, said the relatives and the advocate of the resident of Ingushetia.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has communicated the complaint filed after the death of Tarkhan Kartoev, a convict for blowing up the "Neva Express" train, who died in one of the establishment of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary System).

The forced migrants, who live in the Zugdidi district hospital disagree with the assessment of their living conditions and demand from the Government of Georgia to provide them with housing. In protest, five of them have sewn up their mouths.

One Azerbaijani soldier was captured and another one was wounded in the action of a sabotage group, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the unrecognized republic.

On January 31, the Freedom House published a report "Freedom in the World-2017" on the situation of human rights in independent and partially recognized countries, which are treated by rights defenders as "disputed territories". According to the report, no country or disputed territory of the Caucasian region has a relatively high rating to recognize it as a free country.

The advocates of Giyas Ibragimov and Bairam Mamedov, convicted in Azerbaijan for applying graffiti on the monument to Geidar Aliev, have turned to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asking to consider their complaints in the priority order.

Over 20 persons stood in support of Leonid Tibilov, the head of South Ossetia, at the meeting of the initiative group to nominate him as a republic’s president candidate.

Due to the positive doping assay of the Volgograd athlete Antonina Krivoshapka, Russia has been deprived of the silver medal of the Olympic Games 2012 in London in the women's 4x400 track-and-field relay, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reported.

The oppositional "United National Movement" (UNM) Party has organized a protest action in front of the government building in Tbilisi. Its participants demand from Georgian authorities to make the new contract with the "Gazprom" public.

Four persons were killed and one person detained after giving an armed resistence to law enforcers, the State Security Service (SSS) of Azerbaijan has reported today.

The Georgian commando Giorgi Tsertsvadze, who was detained in Kiev at the request of Russia, and then released under the decision of the Ukrainian Prosecutor's Office, has appealed to the Ukrainian authorities for political asylum for himself and his family.