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Advocates managed to visit Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, brought to Chechnya by law enforcers, the "Russian LGBT Network" reports today.

In Yessentuki, the police detained Alyona Sadovskaya, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who was holding a solo picket in front of the city court building. The journalist protested against the detention of Ingush activists in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

Today, hundreds of law enforcers were brought to the building of the Ministry of Education (MoE) of Armenia before Nikol Pashinyan's visit there. Only three activists gathered in the venue, just to show how authorities fear protests, the opposition has stated.

A supporter of the "Islamic State" (IS)*, a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, has been detained; he confessed to preparing a terror act in central Maikop, the capital of Adygea, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) has reported today.

Two law enforcers accused of beating up Temirkhan Amakhanov, a Derbent resident, in 2017, stated that the charges against them were based on perjury, while the proofs of their innocence was ignored.

A group of six Azerbaijani citizens wanted to get to the village of Yusifdjanly in the Agdam District. Five of them triggered an anti-personnel mine: two were killed and three were wounded.

Two thousand people went out to a rally demanding to invalidate the 1921 treaty signed by RSFSR (Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic) and Turkey, which defined Armenia's borders. The continuation of this policy was the transfer of Nagorno-Karabakh to Azerbaijan, protesters have stated.

Rescuers have resumed the search for the bodies of those who perished during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict; today, in the territory of the Martuni District, now under Azerbaijan's control, they found remains of military servicemen. Since the start of searches, they found and evacuated the bodies of 1502 persons, the State Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported.

Residents of Vladikavkaz will be able to visit the travelling exhibition "Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov – an epoch man" until April 14. The first visitors have already seen it.

In the centre of Yerevan, activists of the movement "Azatagrum" (Liberation) blocked the roadway with garbage cans. They demanded the resignation of Nikol Pashinyan. The police restored traffic down the street and detained seven persons.

The leaders of the Ingush protest, accused together with Zarifa Sautieva of creating an extremist community, called the release of the activist from custody the goal of their hunger strike. Advocate Magomed Abubakarov announced the above and promised to appeal against the return of Zarifa Sautieva to the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In Batumi, presenters, photographers, cameramen, and musicians held an action in front of the building of the Adjara government. They demanded permission to hold mass events.

Ingush activists accused in a rally case went on a hunger strike and refused to participate in the trial, Bilan Dzugaev reported. The protest action followed the court's decision to return Zarifa Sautieva to custody.

The elimination of the practice of citizens' representation in courts of Azerbaijan has limited people's access to reliable legal support and excluded the lawyers who are not members of the Bar Association from participation in trials, experts from the Institute for Democratic Initiatives (IDI) have noted.

A Stavropol court has overturned the decision on house arrest for Zarifa Sautieva and ordered to transfer her to SIZO (pre-trial prison), her advocate, Magomed Bekov, wrote on the Facebook.

On March 15, the search for the bodies of those who perished during the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh was suspended due to unfavourable weather.

During the attack in Nantes on Mukhammed Mirzali, an opposition blogger from Azerbaijan, they to cut off his tongue, Emin Akhmedbekov, a political emigrant, has reported. Mirzali is in grave condition under intensive care. Human rights defenders have accused Azerbaijani authorities of the attack and called on the authorities of France and other European countries to investigate such incidents.

Ilyas Saduev, deported from France to Russia, has been handed over to Chechen law enforcers, said his female relative. In Chechnya, Saduev's life and health are in danger, rights defenders believe.

The criminal prosecution of Aleksander Zolotaryov, deputy chairman of the government of the Stavropol Territory, under the bribery case is another episode in the fight against corruption in Northern Caucasus by the model of cadre cleansings in Dagestan, Anton Chablin, a political analyst, believes.

An entrance to the building, which houses the editorial office of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", which has posted today an eyewitness evidence of the extrajudicial executions in Chechnya, has been poured with a chemical liquid of pungent smell, the newspaper reports. No hazardous substances have been discovered in the building, a source from the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) reports.