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Mikhail Abramyan, the Secretary of the Committee of the Stavropol branch of the "Communists of Russia" Party, has declared a hunger strike at the IVS (temporary detention facility) of Stavropol. According to party colleagues of Mikhail Abramyan, he protests against political persecution and non-admission of advocate.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala has placed under house arrest Ibodullo Nabotov, a budun (employee) of one of the mosques in the capital of Dagestan. According to his advocate, he is suspected of possessing a grenade and narcotic substances.

In Sochi, at the court session held on April 17 on the case to evict Saveliev family members from a vacant cottage occupied by them in the village for Olympic settlers, the court has dismissed all the motions filed by the defendants. The Saveliev family members left the courtroom in protest.

Professor Mikhail Savva, convicted for fraud in Krasnodar, fears new criminal cases that can be opened against him and, therefore, does not intend to return to Russia in the near future.

The participants of the today's action in Yerevan, held in support of the arrested activists of the "Founding Parliament", demanded from the authorities to release the activists. According to the organizers of the rally, it was about 3000 strong, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Yerevan has opened an exhibition "Remember and Demand; Revival", dedicated to the centennial of the Armenian Genocide.

Akhmed Kamilov, a resident of Khasavyurt, whose kidnapping was reported by his relatives, was detained by operative agents for a check and is already back at large.

The fact that advocate Evgeny Gubin is refused to visit Zaur Dadaev, accused of the murder of Boris Nemtsov, violates the criminal procedure law and questioned the evidentiary basis of the case. This was stated by members of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT).

Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has treated the verdict of guilty against human rights defender Rasul Jafarov announced by the court in Baku as unjustified. According to her story, Azerbaijan is a country where fundamental human rights and critical voices are being suppressed on systematic and large-scale basis.

In France, the court has announced sentences to four natives of Chechnya, accused of providing financial support and transfer of military ammunition to militants in Syria.

On April 16, Gevorg Safaryan, an activist of the "Founding Parliament", accused of plotting riots in Armenia, went on hunger strike in prison to protest against "political repression". This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the office of the "Founding Parliament."

On April 16, in Yerevan, members of the Youth Union of the ARF "Dashnaktsutyun" Party and the "Nikol Agbalyan" Students' Union held an action near the US Embassy to Armenia. The activists demanded from the USA to recognize Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire.

On April 14, the Krasnodar Territorial Court considered the appeal filed by the defence of Mikhail Savva and upheld the decision to replace his conditional sentence by real imprisonment. This was reported by the "RAPSI" (Russian Agency of Legal and Judicial Information) on April 16 with reference to an official from the Territorial Prosecutor's Office.

The kidnapping of Akhmed Kamilov, a 31-year-old native of the Untsukul District of Dagestan, was reported today by his relatives.

Precinct No. 1, chaired by Magistrate Judge Tatiana Deineko of the Tsentralny District of the city of Voronezh, has considered the administrative case regarding the Mass Media Defence Centre (MMDC). The operative part of the decision, read out on April 15, rules "to attract the Regional Fund 'Mass Media Defence Centre' to administrative responsibility and impose a fine of 300,000 roubles."

The Moscow office of the public organization "Open Russia" (OR) was searched because of the documentary about Ramzan Kadyrov, said Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the founder of the OR.

The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has stated today that the name of the casualty of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Nalchik is Zaur Prokopchuk, not Zalim Shebzukhov.

The names of alleged killers of Boris Nemtsov became known to law enforcement bodies just a day or a day and a half after the crime, the Russian President Vladimir Putin said today in the annual question-and-answer session with Russians.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has challenged the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on payment of 120,000 euros to Larisa Dadaeva, an aunt of the main defendant in the case of the Boris Nemtsov's murder.

Shamsudin Tsakaev, an advocate of Zaur Dadaev, a defendant in the case of Boris Nemtsov's murder, requests investigators to re-interrogate his client. According to the advocate, Zaur Dadaev told him that the investigators forced him to testify against his colleague Ruslan Geremeev, the "RBC" reports. Initially, Zaur Dadaev has promised to show how Boris Nemtsov was murdered; however, the investigative experiment has failed, the "Rosbalt" reports.