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In Baku, the prosecutor has asked to sentence Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) to 10 years in prison. Gumbatov has protested to the state prosecutor and announced the falsification of his criminal case.

It is suggested to rename five Grozny dwelling settlements in honour of heroes of the Chechen nation, or to return their old names, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, announced on November 11.

The Supreme Court of Russia notified the NGO “International Memorial”* about the consideration of the claim filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office with a request to liquidate the NGO due to the lack of marking on the status of a foreign agent. Human rights defenders considered the claim filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office a political decision.

After an incident in New Moscow, the Chechen parliament prepared for submission to the State Duma of Russia a bill banning the mention in the media and social media of information on the ethnic and religious affiliation of criminals.

Mikhail Saakashvili has decided to stop his hunger strike, his advocate Nika Gvaramiya reports today.

At a protest action in Yerevan, about 200 oppositionists demanded to prevent installation of an Azerbaijani customs checkpoint on the road from Goris to Kapan. After the protesters tried to break into the government building, 16 of them were detained, the police reported.

At least 30 Azerbaijani citizens have to rent housing in Dagestan while waiting for the opening of the border, and others live at their relatives’ places and in a temporary accommodation centre, human rights defender Afig Allakhverdiev reports. Former residents of a camp in Dagestan believe the people cannot return from Dagestan to their homeland, since the Azerbaijani authorities ignore their problems.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has denied the petition lodged by representatives of Mikhail Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, that asked to oblige the authorities to transfer him to a civil clinic. Saakashvili's personal doctor, Nikoloz Kipshidze, has recorded injuries on his patient's body.

At doctors' insistence, due to deteriorating of her tests, on the eighth day of her hunger strike, Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, was made a blood transfusion.

The prison terms demanded by the Prosecutor's Office (PO) for the figurants in the Ingush case are excessive and undermine ordinary people's trust in the authorities, the defendants have stated.

Relatives of Gasan Galibekov, a Dagestani accused of beating up a passenger in Moscow metro, have apologized to the victim, Roman Kovalyov and his mother, offering to help him with rehabilitation.

A tractor with a local resident inside was shelled by Azerbaijani militaries, the head of the Khachik village of the Areni community said on November 10.

Salekh Rustamov, convicted within the case of financing the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) of the prison hospital. Doctors have threatened him with forced feeding if he didn't stop his hunger strike, his son has informed.

The video proofs of torture of residents of Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia and Azerbaijan in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 in Saratov gives hope that the perpetrators will be punished; however, in other Russian institutions the situation is similar, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

About 60 Armenian soldiers tried to cut the lines of communication between the posts of the Azerbaijani army in the border area, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan claimed.

In their video appeal addressed to the President of Russia, Volgograd residents claim that the requirement for QR codes violates the constitutional rights of citizens. The activists who took part in recording the appeal said that they spoke not against vaccination, but against coercion to it.

Despite a court’s request to bring Mikhail Saakashvili to the trial, the special penitentiary service refused to do that, fearing an attack by the opposition on a convoy car.

A Moscow court ruled to detain Salman Zhamaldaev, a former winner of the World Fighting Championship Akhmat, until January 6. The athlete faces 10 years of imprisonment under the article on drug trafficking.

At least ten activists were detained even before the start of the rally in front of the building of the State Security Service of Georgia. Two more protest actions against the transfer of Mikhail Saakashvili to a prison hospital are taking place near the buildings of the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry for Public Health.

About a dozen doctors have held a protest action in front of the building of the Georgian Government in Tbilisi, where they demanded to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former president of Georgia, to a multifunctional private clinic.