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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.

Ensign Shakhmurad Alizade of the Azerbaijani Army died as a result of ceasefire violation committed by the Armenian side. This was reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

Today, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes has found human rights defender Rasul Jafarov guilty on all charges and sentenced him to 6 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

In Nalchik, in the course of the counterterrorist operation (CTO), power agents killed two suspected militants: a man and a woman. The man has been already identified.

At the press conference held in Yerevan on April 15, advocates of arrested members of the "Founding Parliament" have declared that the arrests of the activists in Armenia are an act of political persecution. According to the defence, investigators have unreasonably imposed a ban on the visits of family members to the arrested activists.

Today, the Kirsanov District Court of the Tambov Region has refused to grant a motion to release the Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko on parole (under conditional early relief – CER). The Court has explained the decision by the fact that the ecologist "failed to repent of the committed crime and to behave better during the year served in the penal colony." According to advocate Sergey Loktev, the ecologist's defence is going to file an appeal.

Today, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have unanimously adopted the resolution "To declare the date of April 24 the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day in the European Union."

In Chechnya, the criminal investigation was started in the case against two 17-year-old teenagers suspected of preparations to join an illegal armed formation (IAF) in Syria.