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The court refused to stop the criminal prosecution and place under house arrest Niyameddin Akhmedov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, accused of financing terrorism. The oppositionist denied the accusations and called them politically motivated.

The detention of Akhmed Pogorov is unlikely to change the accusations against the other defendants in the "Ingush case". This opinion was voiced by the advocates interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". The defenders also ruled out the merger of the Akhmed Pogorov's case with the cases of other defendants, since there would be a need to start the entire investigation from the beginning.

The court has sentenced Elchin Gasanzade, a journalist and a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and Ibragim Tyurksoi, a blogger, to eight months in prison each on charges of defamation and insult.

The Committee against Repressions and Torture sees political motives in the cases of the Azerbaijani journalists, Polad Aslanov and Afghan Sadygov, and demanded to stop prosecuting them.

The investigation of the "Mediazona" and the "Scanner Project" into the murder of Boris Nemtsov has shown that only ordinary perpetrators occurred in the prisoner's dock, Dmitry Borko, a journalist, has noted. The journalists did the work that investigators never did, Vadim Prokhorov, the advocate for the Nemtsov family, has stated.

The actions of Nikol Pashinyan's government have brought Armenia to the brink of losing its statehood, while the oppositional movement is capable to unite the society, the Yerevan protesters interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Azerbaijani journalist Polad Aslanov stopped his hunger strike on the 31st day, his spouse reported. The woman said that she sent food for him, but was not allowed to visit her husband.

In the Kaitag District, in a house of a 62-year-old resident, law enforcers discovered homemade pistols and daggers, locksmith tools, and machines. During an interrogation, the man said that he had found the arms several years ago on the outskirts of the village.

Today, nine villagers have been detained in Azerbaijan for trying to enter into the non-demined territories of Nagorno-Karabakh despite the ban imposed by the authorities, the police report. Residents of the Terter District do not rule out looting among the motives of people who enter the restricted area, despite the risk of being blown up by mines.

The criminal case on the murder of Boris Nemtsov did not include all the materials at the disposal of investigators, claims Mikhail Maglov, the editor of the Scanner Project, one of the co-authors of the journalistic investigation about the involvement of natives of Chechnya in the politician's assassination.

The exact number of prisoners of war (POWs) and civilians remaining in Azerbaijani captivity is unknown, the chief plenipotentiary of Armenia for the Diaspora matters has stated today. There are women among those in captivity, Armenian MPs have noted today, calling on the world community to pay attention to the problem.

Having appointed Khas-Magomed Kadyrov as Mayor of Grozny, Ramzan Kadyrov gave preference to his family ties, and this undermines the position of people from the inner circle of the head of Chechnya, Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev have pointed out.

Amid the visit to Georgia of Charles Michel, President of the European Council (EC) and his talks with Georgian authorities, the opposition has changed the format of its protest actions by excluding picketing.

The Azerbaijani journalists, Polad Aslanov and Afghan Sadygov, continue their hunger strike, their wives have informed.

The chronology of calls, videos and information about air travel points to involvement of several other Chechen natives in Boris Nemtsov's murder; they were not convicted, although their names are known, says the joint journalistic investigation of the "Mediazona" and the "Scanner Project".

The employees of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), recognized as the suffered party at the riots at a rallies in Magas in 2019, said at the trial that they have no claims against the protest leaders, since they had not seen them at the rally, advocates have stated.

The authorities have used administrative resources when organizing a rally in Yerevan and will do the same in case of elections, but the opposition has enough supporters to effectively control the voting, political analysts believe.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, a court sentenced Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko to three years of imprisonment.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Nagorno-Karabakh has started to investigate a case on the deaths and capture of dozens of civilians during the combat actions in the autumn of 2020. The tragedy occurred, because the local authorities failed to carry out the evacuation of civilians, the Ombudsman claims.

In 2020, out of 103 cases of violence against journalists registered by human rights defenders in Russia, 40 cases took place in Chechnya. The unfavourable situation with the freedom of the Internet has also developed in Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Adygea, and Kuban.