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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) dismissed the complaints filed by residents of South Ossetia about the violation of human rights by Georgian militaries during the conflict in 2008. The Strasbourg Court explained its decision by the fact that the Georgian authorities had lost control over the region.

Tension in relations between Baku and Tehran is subsiding, and the release of Iranian truck drivers and an order for Iranian carriers to stop travelling to the zone of responsibility of Russian peacekeepers in Karabakh will contribute to the normalization of relations between Azerbaijan and Iran, Azerbaijani analysts suggest.

The two drivers detained earlier for smuggling and illegal border crossing have been released and handed over to the Iranian party, Azerbaijani authorities have informed.

Four Russians, a citizen of Ukraine and a citizen of Uzbekistan have been detained in Istanbul on charges of plotting an attack on opposition figures from Chechnya.

After Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, criticized the users of the TikTok and Bigo Live, a public has appeared on the Instagram containing threats to particular users of these services.

Chechen authorities will ignore the jokes performed by participants in the humorous show "Igra" (Game) on the TNT TV Channel about public apologies to Kadyrov; the efficiency of this practice as an instrument of pressure on critics will not go down, human rights defenders believe.

Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has sharply criticized the residents of the republic, who are broadcasting live in social networks. He believes that only discussion of "serious topics" is acceptable in social networks, and urged relatives and local officials to "deal with" the users of the services "TikTok" and "Bigo Live", who are engaged in "empty conversations".

The State Security Service of Azerbaijan released after a questioning Shiite theologian Khadji Ilgar Ibragimoglu, the head of the website “deyerler.org”.

A court extended the arrest of the defendants accused in the “Ingush case” by three months, although investigators did not present any real grounds for such decision, advocate Djabrail Kuriev reports.

The Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan has reported about the detention of the man suspected of raping a minor. The victim’s family expressed the hope that the suspect would be arrested.

Warders of the special detention facility persuaded Dagestani activist Salim Khalitov to stop his dry hunger strike. Salim Khalitov is under the supervision of a doctor, and his health state is improving, reports Uma Askerkhanova, a member of the Public Oversight Committee (POC) of Dagestan.

The existing legal regulations fail to protect tenants of crisis centres from being abducted by law enforcers at requests of their relatives. Russia must adopt a special law that will prohibit relatives to approaching the victim or returning them back into the family with the help of the police, human rights defenders have stated.

Law enforcers have detained five members and supporters of the public association entitled "Spiritual Figures of Azerbaijan". The believers' houses and apartments were searched; their PCs and mobile phones were seized.

The incident at the Tambukan training centre is being actively discussed in social networks. Many commentators have linked the story about the dishonest struggle of Chechen fighters with the distribution practice of undeserved titles and awards widespread in the republic, while the 1ADAT outlet has treated the incident as law enforcers' desire to curry Kadyrov's favour.

After searching his home, policemen have detained Haji Ilgar Ibragimoglu, a Shiite theologian and the head of the deyerler.org website. Law enforcers' interest in Ibragimoglu may have to do with a wave of repressions against religious figures amid the aggravation of Azerbaijani-Iranian relations; he can be accused of treason, human rights defenders believe.

Russian authorities failed to conduct an efficient inquiry into the death of Muslim Kuriev, a resident of the village of Plievo, who was killed in a counter-terrorist operation (CTO) in 2014, and are responsible for his death, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. Muslim's mother named Laila was awarded compensation in the amount of 60,000 euros.

Azerbaijan has handed over to Armenia five prisoners of war (POWs) who had been sentenced in Baku to six years in prison; they were sent from the airport to the medical centre. The father of one of the missing servicemen has called for a protest action near the building of the Armenian Government on October 20.

The family of a minor Azerbaijani activist has failed to achieve an inquiry into the rape for a year already; the girl's mother treats it as a political order and revenge for her daughter's activeness in defending women's rights. Gyulnara Mekhtieva, a feminist, was detained for the demand to bring her companion's rapist to justice.

After returning to their husbands, the young women who fled from their relatives in Dagestan and were abducted by law enforcers from a shelter in Kazan, face a risk to fall victim to “honour killings” even against the background of the publicity of their story. This opinion has been voiced by Caucasian experts.

Aishat Saigidguseinova and Fatima Saigitova left a shelter apartment in Kazan and returned to Dagestan of their own free will, says a father of one of them. The man accused human rights defender Svetlana Anokhina of the young women’s escape from home and voiced threats against her.