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Mothers of the prisoners who attempted to commit suicide in a Volgograd SIZO (pre-trial prison) say that they cannot obtain any information about the condition of their imprisoned sons.

During a day, the petition with the demand to prevent the liquidation of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* and the “International Memorial”* gained 4900 more signatures, and the total number of signatories exceeded 110,000.

Supporters of the “Liberation Movement” tried to block the streets in different parts of Yerevan. They demand to make public a draft agreement on the delimitation of the border with Azerbaijan. The police detained six activists and drew up administrative reports against them.

According to the experts interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot”, the manoeuvres of the Chechen Department of the National Guard of Russia cause concern, since the goals of such a large-scale operation are unclear, and it has no analogues.

An advocate and relatives of Azerbaijani activist Salekh Rustamov managed to persuade him not to go on a dry hunger strike. However, the activist still refuses food, and doctors assess his condition as extremely severe, the advocate reports.

The today's counterterrorist operation CTO) in the Karachay Distict, during which law enforcers have killed two alleged militants, is the second after the CTO conducted in several districts of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) back in December 2015.

A soldier who was captured during the hostilities on the border, as well as a civilian who got lost and ended up in the Agdam District, were handed over to Armenian authorities, their Azerbaijani counterparts have informed.

Khadija Ismayilova, an Azerbaijani journalist, has called for accounting the international law when defining the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, referring to the country's map, recognized by the United Nations (UN). In their comments, Facebook users argued about the relevance of the map.

Magomed Khazamov, accused of assassinating the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, gave an interview at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) to Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the portal, and told about the prolonged torture after detention.

Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, has demanded to let the MPs from the oppositional parties to visit him. He has stated that otherwise he will refuse taking the medicines prescribed by his doctors for recovering from the hunger strike.

Detainees of Volgograd SIZO-4 (pre-trial prison) attempted suicide in protest against the actions of the administration, Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, told the "Caucasian Knot".

The fate of a number of Kadyrov's critics in Europe does not allow ignoring threats pronounced by Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, Sarazhdin Sultygov, a co-chairman of the NGO "Mekkh-Khel", has stated.

If the Ingush side is dissatisfied with the border agreement, Chechnya, with the help of the Russian federal authorities, will achieve a decision in its favour and return eight more villages from Ingushetia, Ramzan Kadyrov announces.

A rally against the chairman of the “Rossiya” collective farm in the Stavropol Territory and an attempt to elect a new leader ended in a harsh detention of an activist. Administrative protocols were drawn up against several other protesters.

A judge refused to involve representatives of the NGOs affiliated with the “International Memorial”* as co-defendants. The number of activists detained near the courthouse has reached three persons.

A court fined Natalia Aparina 3000 roubles for taking part in a protest action against QR codes together with two other activists at the building of the “Rospotrebnadzor” (Russian Federal Agency for Consumer Supervision) Department in Volgograd.

The police have detained activists Olga Bakst and Aleksei Belenkin, who took to pickets in front of the building of the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia, where the trial on the lawsuit to liquidate the “International Memorial”* has been started today.

Twelve natives of Azerbaijan have been returned to their homeland from a refugee camp in the Syrian city of Jarabulus, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.

Authors of some comments have treated the forgiveness of the driver who fled the scene of the accident as inappropriate; their opponents pointed out that reconciliation of feudists improves the rule of law.

The defendants in the "Ingush case" have compared their prosecution to repressions of Stalin's time and named the underlying reasons for the mass protests that gripped the republic in 2018.