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The Women-Human Rights Defenders’ International Coalition (WHRDIC) has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to release the rights defender Leyla Yunus from prison and put forward her candidacy for the 2015 Nobel Peace Award in 2015.

All the 26 detainees in the criminal case opened in connection of the fight in the hospital of the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody), after which one person died, have seen their charges, said the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

Chechnya has begun trying Said Mazhaev, a resident of Grozny, accused of involvement in warfare in Syria. After the first session, the court appointed the continuation for November 7. Mazhaev’s relatives expect that the court will take extenuating circumstances into account at sentencing.

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the sentence to the members of the so-called "Tsapok’s gang" from the village of Kuschevskaya, Krasnodar Territory, sentenced to long terms in prison. The case against Sergey Tsapok himself was stopped because of his death.

Students of the Dagestani State Pedagogical University (DSPU), who suspended their hunger strike, demanded from the Acting Rector of the university to present them, on October 27, with a copy of the order, according to which the merging of the engineering-pedagogical and technological-economic departments was cancelled.

In the Prokhladnoe District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), where on Friday power agents carried out their special activities and killed a man who opened fire on them, a policeman was wounded.

In Dagestan, in the course of a special operation conducted in the Tlyaratin District, two suspected militants were killed, and one law enforcer was wounded.

An action dated to the anniversary of the capture by terrorists of the viewers of the musical "Nord-Ost" was held in Moscow with attendance of several hundred people.

The Muslims living in the village of Mokha, Adigen District of Georgia, demand to stop construction works in the building, which was formerly a mosque, and return the appropriate status to the building.

As stated by Dagestani journalists, it is impossible to get to the settlement of Vremenny and check the locals’ information about the violations admitted by power agents. The lawyer Gadji Gadjiev said that household-by-household inspections are conducted for several times – even without the owners and witnesses.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya keeps rejecting all the petitions put forward by the defence during the consideration of the appeal against the verdict passed to Ruslan Kutaev, the President of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, since the petitions reveal falsifications, said Pyotr Zaikin, Ruslan’s advocate.

MPs of the European Parliament (EP) have adopted a resolution calling on the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) to withdraw from the Supreme Court its claim for dissolution of the Russian "Memorial".

All the 12 oilers who fell into the sea as a result of the accident that occurred on Platform No. 441 of the Oil and Gas Extraction Department (OGED) "Narimanovneft" of the country’s State Oil Company (SOCAR) countries. Five of them needed medical help.

Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CE), has begun his visit to Azerbaijan with the meeting with representatives of civil society held on October 22. At the meeting, they discussed the problems of political prisoners and the obstacles faced by NGOs in Azerbaijan.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has announced a break until November 25 in the consideration of the appeal complaint lodged by four natives of Ingushetia, convicted for the terror attack committed at the "Domodedovo" Airport, because Bashir Khamkhoev has asked to give him time to get ready for the SC’s session.

Andrei Sabinin, an advocate of rights defender Lyudmila Bogatenkova, the Chair of the organization "Mothers from Kuma River Area", has reported on filing an appeal against the decision of the Budyonnovsk City Court to take Lyudmila Bogatenkova into custody.

The Azerbaijani authorities should drop charges against rights defender Ilgar Nasibov and return him and his wife Malakhat Nasibova the right to freedom of travel. This was demanded by the laureates of the international human rights award named Rafto.

When asked about the reason for the terror act committed 12 years ago in Dubrovka in Moscow, most of the residents of the Russian Federation mention failure of law enforcers and corruption. One third of the Russian residents explain the deaths of the hostages by the law enforcers' failure to organize the evacuation.

A group of students of the Dagestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU) has stated that they will take their documents and quit the DSPU in case if the university's administration fails to respond to their demand to cancel the merger of the faculties.

On October 21, the mountainous Vedeno District, located in Southern Chechnya, opened a sports-and-tourist complex "Kezenoi Am", located on the shore of the lake of the same name.