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The court released four persons accused of facilitating a secret border crossing by former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Ten Azerbaijani citizens still stay in the Dagestani “Ogonyok” (Spark) children’s camp, and the date of their departure to their homeland is not yet known, the Department for Dagestan of the Ministry for Emergencies reports.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court extended until April 28 the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), accused of financing terrorism. The defence pointed out that there were no grounds for extending the journalist’s detention.

Today, residents of Baku have come to a memorial on the Alley of Martyrs to honour the memory of the people who died after the entry of troops into Azerbaijan on January 20, 1990.

On Rubati Mitsaeva's birthday, the Akhmat Kadyrov Fund has presented her with a car, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information, has informed. In their comments on the Instagram, residents of the region were outraged by the expensive gift for Mitsaeva, treating it as undeserved.

Cases of beating children up by employees of schools and kindergartens are quite frequent in Azerbaijan, but they are rarely made public and get authorities' reaction, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated in their comments on the recent resonant violence case against a child in a kindergarten.

The German Constitutional Court is considering the case of Akhmed Seriev, a native of Chechnya, who left Russia after his brother Magomed was kidnapped in 2016; supposedly, Magomed fell victim to an extrajudicial execution. Akhmed and his mother applied for asylum in Germany, but were refused.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili is in depression; he has general weakness and anaemia; he is not provided with necessary psychological assistance, the panel of doctors has indicated in its conclusion; the panel was convoked on the initiative of the Georgian Ombudsperson.

In 2021, Azerbaijan faced a broader practice of violating citizens' civil, political and socioeconomic rights under the pretext of the COVID-19 pandemic, says the report by the non-governmental Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Education (CEMDE).

During the hostilities in Nagorno-Karabakh in the fall of 2020, a total of 3809 people perished, and 220 others are still missing; the data was released today by the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia.

Kidnappings of his relatives will not affect the position of the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, and other critics of Chechen authorities; the campaign aimed to intimidate oppositionists by kidnapping their relatives turned out to be a failure, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

A driver of a Moscow bus who responded with insults to attacks of Dagestani native Shugaib Bolatukaev should also apologize for his words. This opinion was voiced by Instagram users after the native of Dagestan publicly apologized for his act.

Today, a court has started to consider a case against David Tonoyan, the former Armenian Defence Minister. Activists who gathered in front of the courthouse have demanded a fair trial. The court hearing was held behind closed doors, despite the motion filed by the defence.

Journalist Polad Aslanov continued his hunger strike, despite the assurances of the General Prosecutor of Azerbaijan about the unbiased and fair consideration of the journalist’s complaint in the Supreme Court (SC).

Today, Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been released in accordance with the Amnesty Act. The activist complains that his health state deteriorated during the imprisonment.

The Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has issued a memo recommending its citizens refrain from travelling to certain Russian regions.

The Novokubansk District Court has ruled to arrest Sergey Stroganov, an activist from Novokubansk, for five days finding him guilty of spreading extremist materials. In their turn, eco-activists believe that prosecution of Stroganov has to do with his statements against the construction of a mountain resort in the territory of the Lagonaki Plateau.

The Fifth Cassation Court in Pyatigorsk has considered the complaint lodged by Bagaudin Myakiev, an Ingush activist, and overturned the sentence passed for an alleged use of violence against a state servant. The cancellation means sending the case for a retrial, Magomed Aushev, an advocate, has explained.

In the Goranboy District of Azerbaijan, a local resident was blown up by a mine; his left leg was amputated.

As of today, the number of kidnapped relatives of the oppositional bloggers and human rights defenders still kept detained in Chechnya has decreased by at least 10 people; it follows from the data of the "Caucasian Knot" based on information from open sources and from Ramzan Kadyrov's critics themselves.