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Elchin Bekhbudov, the head of the Azerbaijani Committee against Torture (CaT) has died at the age of 55. He was engaged in monitoring places of detention and annually informed the public on cases of torture.

The custody of Mamed Ibragim, an adviser to the chairman of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been unreasonably prolonged for a month, his defence said, adding that investigators are deliberately protracting the inquiry in order to falsify the case.

Participants of the meeting in Cherkessk criticized the organizers of the Congress of the Karachay people, saying about the attempts to destabilize the situation in the region. The meeting was attended by about 700 activists of public organizations, and heads and deputies of municipalities, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Sochi, the city commission for emergencies is not lifting the high alert regime introduced because of heavy rains and floods. In the evening on November 13, another mudslide went down to the section of the Khosta-Kudepsta Federal Highway. City residents complain about the precarious storm sewers.

The Leninsky District Court of Voronezh that is considering the complaint lodged by the Media Rights Defence Centre (MRDC) against inclusion thereof in the register of "foreign agents" received the results of the examination of materials and publications of the Centre. Experts revealed political activities in them. At the same time, representatives of the MRDC have questioned the experts' conclusions.

In the Dagestani city of Buynaksk, policemen detained about 40 parishioners of a Salafi mosque, eyewitnesses report. Late at night, all the detainees were released.

On November 13, the Sakharov Centre in Moscow hosted a presentation of the book "A thin silver thread" by Polina Zherebtsova. The writer herself took part in the event via Skype.

Iskhak and Ismail Musliev, who disappeared in Argun, have not been found by law enforcers yet, his relative report. Law enforcement bodies of Chechnya refused to comment on the kidnapping.

Ruslan Parsilaev, suspected of killing the Moscow policeman Victor Razudalov, was accused of aiding militants. The whereabouts of two other suspects have not been established yet,

The "Legal Initiative for Russia" has submitted to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague applications of persons affected by the Georgian-South-Ossetian conflict in 2008. The complaints state the use of heavy weapons of indiscriminate action, killings and torture.

The US, EU and OSCE have welcomed the release of political scientist Arif Yunus from custody in Azerbaijan, and expect a similar action in relation of his wife Leyla Yunus and other activists kept in prisons.

In Dagestan, the Tlyaratin District Court has delivered its verdict in the case of residents of the village of Vitsiyatli, Tsuntin District, who was accused of helping militants.

As a result of shelling from the Azerbaijani side, two soldiers perished, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed. Two Armenian servicemen were killed during opposing the attack of a commando group, said the MoD of Azerbaijan.

The ICRF has accused Atsamaz Datiev and Oleg Dzampaev, the employees of the Interior Department for Vladikavkaz, the figurants in the case of the death of the detainee Vladimir Tskaev, of abuse of power with use of violence.

The criminologists found that the substances, found this spring during a search of the apartment rented by the figurants in Boris Nemtsov's murder case, are heroin and hashish.

In the course of a counterterrorist operation (CTO), conducted in an apartment block in Nalchik, during which Robert Zankishiev was killed, an apartment was severely damaged, said the owner of the apartment.

Kazbek Dukuzov, accused of killing in Moscow of Paul Khlebnikov, the first editor-in-chief of the Russian Forbes, has been found in Chechnya. Dukuzov is hiding under assumed name, The "Rosbalt" writes today.

Officials of the Sochi Mayoralty fail to fulfil their "pre-Olympic" promises and do not solve the problem of water drainage, local residents assert. Those of them who live in the neighbourhood called "Mirny" state that the Mayoralty not simply ignores the townspeople's demand to build gullies, but tries to challenge the need of them.

Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Russia has revealed violations in the activities of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", which should be eliminated before December 21. The MoJ's claims concern the HRC's Charter, which will be amended, said Alexander Cherkasov, the head of the HRC.

The republic will set up a public commission for working with children, who could be influenced by their relatives-members of illegal armed formations (IAFs).