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At night of April 10 and in the morning of the same day, the Azerbaijani armed forces 17 times shelled the Armenian positions in the north-east direction of the state border of Armenia. This was reported by the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has called on the authorities of Dagestan to prevent fabrication of a criminal case against Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the Khasavyurt "Eastern" mosque. According to the human rights defenders, the Imam publicly spoke out against violence and against departure of young Muslims to join militants.

About 3000 people took part in the "March of Silence" in memory of the soldiers and officers killed in Nagorno-Karabakh. The march started from the Shaumyan Avenue in Yerevan.

During the week of April 4-10, 2016, five persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. Of them, three persons were killed, and two others were wounded. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Policemen entered the mosque in a state of alcoholic intoxication and behaved inappropriately. This was reported by staff member of the mosque located in Hungarian Fighters Street in Makhachkala. The mosque administration intends to file a complaint about the behaviour of the policemen.

Today, under the mediation of the International Red Cross Committee and the OSCE, Armenia and Azerbaijan have exchanged bodies of dead soldiers and officers.

Residents of the North-Caucasian republics try to balance between the sharia law, the Russian laws and the adat law, and that leads to the vagueness of norms and rules of behaviour in society, and in turn, that results in violation of the rights of women. This opinion was voiced by participants of the roundtable on the topic "The role of the state, society and media to protect the rights of women in Northern Caucasus."

The Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of the Volgograd Region had information about the existence of a radical group in the Pallasovsky District; however, it failed to conduct explanatory work. This opinion was expressed by the "Union of Muslims of the Volgograd Region".

Russia supplies to Azerbaijan the weapons systems that Baku cannot purchase from other countries, and the delivered weapon will certainly be used against Armenia. This was stated by participants of the protest action held in Yerevan.

On April 9, the court pronounced the pre-trial restriction against Magomednabi Magomedov, Imam of the Khasavyurt "Eastern" mosque, in the form of detention in custody for two months.

To prevent re-escalation of the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh, the OSCE should call the culprit of the escalation of the conflict, to apply sanctions to the countries, which are supplying weapons to Azerbaijan, and to exclude Turkey from the Minsk Group, said the participants of the youth protest action in Yerevan.

The non-use of force, the right of people to self-determination, and the territorial integrity are the key principles for the settlement of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, said the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group. The mandate of the Minsk Group does not imply an investigation into the resumption of hostilities in the conflict zone, the co-chairs have noted.

One resident of Dagestan and two residents of North Ossetia have been killed tonight at the entrance to the village of Kizlyar, Mozdok District, said investigators.

The Imam of the local mosque, detained in Khasavyurt, had urged parishioners to terrorist activities and posted on the Internet "materials intended to incite enmity," said a law enforcement source.

Chechen policemen have detained helpers of illegal armed formations (IAFs), one of whom had helped the criminal grouping of the field commander Yasir Amarat, killed in 2010, said the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya.

In Chechnya, a criminal case was opened against a local resident, who, as investigators believe, persuaded his acquaintance to take part in the warfare in Syria for the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia.

The journalist Khadija Ismayilova, convicted in Azerbaijan, was awarded the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Award for her contribution to the cause of the freedom of press.

At night on April 9, Azerbaijani troops shelled the Karabakh positions from mortars, said the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR).

A young girl-resident of Dagestan, who was kept on the chain by her relatives, has received medical and psychological care. She was placed into a social-rehabilitation centre for minors in Makhachkala. The mockeries on the girl are broadly discussed in social networks among residents of the republic.

The killings of civilians in the village of Talysh in the course of exacerbation of the Karabakh conflict were committed with special cruelty, the eyewitnesses said. The International Court of Justice will have problems in classifying these crimes as war crimes or crimes against humanity, said Karina Moskalenko, a well-known Russian lawyer.