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Law enforcers would not allow Murad Manapov, the detained employee of the Navalny's office in Makhachkala, to contact his family and an advocate, and forced him, under pressure, to sign the protocol, the activist said after his release. Manapov intends to appeal against his detention and arrest.

Eldar Gasanov, a detained former Azerbaijani ambassador to Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, needs serious treatment because his health condition threatens his life, his advocates have stated. They called on President Ilham Aliev to help provide treatment to Gasanov and change his freedom restriction measure.

On April 13, Oleg Orlov, a member of the Council of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*, became involved as a public defender in the trial in a case against Ingush activists. The human rights defender represents the defence of Zarifa Sautieva.

After a meeting with an official from the National Security Service of Armenia, relatives of prisoners of war, who demanded to rescue their relatives from the captivity in Azerbaijan, unblocked the administration building in the Shirak Region.

Amid the Armenia’s attempts to return prisoners of war (POWs), the decision to display helmets of killed Armenian soldiers and dummies of military personnel in the War Trophy Park has become a manifestation of the Azerbaijani authorities’ cynicism, note Armenian MPs and the Ombudsmen of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh.

Internet users expressed their doubts that the leader of Chechnya was authorised to speak on behalf of all Muslims when he stated that Alexei Navalny had no right to read the Koran.

The police detained Anastasia Panchenko, a coordinator of the Alexei Navalny’s office in Krasnodar, and two office employees on the outskirts of the city, as they drove to Gelendzhik to prepare a video report.

Opponents of the construction of the Namakhvani hydroelectric power plant (HPP) have gathered for a protest action on the road to the village of Namakhvani, where law enforcers had installed metal barriers to prevent them from marching further. Six people were detained at night after opponents' clashes with policemen, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

Alexei Navalny has no right to mention and read the Koran, Ramzan Kadyrov said after learning about the oppositionist's request to provide him with the Koran for reading, and on behalf of all Russian Muslims urged the colony staff not to fulfil the prisoner's request.

For the first time since January 2021, the number of people infected with coronavirus in Georgia for the past 24 hours has exceeded a thousand people, said Amiran Gamkrelidze, the head of the National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health.

In Azerbaijan, 78 persons were detained and sentenced to terms from 12 to 20 years in prison under the so-called "Terter case", the World Organisation Against Torture (Organisation Mondiale Contre la Torture - OMCT) has reported. The detainees were tortured; there are 11 confirmed deaths from torture, human rights defenders have claimed.

The relatives of the prisoners of war (POWs), who block the entrance to the administration of the Shirak Region, demand from the authorities to announce the actions taken to free their relatives from captivity. The efforts to return POWs from Azerbaijan are not advertised, so as not to harm the POWs themselves, Nina Karapetyants, a human rights defender, and Naira Zograbyan, an MP, have noted.

The Georgian Court of Appeal (CoA) has approved the construction of a mosque in Batumi, having found the Mayoralty's refusal to sanction the construction as discrimination against believers.

Eduard Ataev, the head of Navalny's office in Makhachkala, who disappeared on April 12, is serving 10 days of his administrative arrest in Khasavyurt. Murad Manapov, his assistant, was arrested for three days and is in a special detention centre, Ruslan Ablyakimov, an activist, has informed. A policeman came to Manapov's home and took away his passport, but said nothing about his whereabouts, his wife said.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders called on the authorities of Azerbaijan to immediately release journalist Elchin Mamed and provide him with adequate medical care and treatment. A mother of the imprisoned journalist called his health state severe.

Magomed Gadaev, deported from France and handed over to Chechen law enforcers in Novy Urengoy, is being kept at a police department of Urus-Martan, but no advocates have been yet allowed to visit him, the “Caucasian Knot” has been informed by Tatiana Lokshina, the associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division.

Relatives of prisoners of war (POWs) and of soldiers missed in action blocked the entrance to the administration of the Shirak Region. They demand a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia. The problem of POWs remains unresolved despite several meetings with the authorities, the protestors claim.

Relatives of Lezi Artsuev, a native of Chechnya, deported from France to Russia, refused the help of an advocate after it turned out that Lezi Artsuev had been taken to Gudermes, his former defender reported. The advocate associates the decision of the Lezi Artsuev’s relatives with their fear of being deported as well.

In Dagestan, the ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks during the month of Ramadan infringes on the rights of residents, some local residents note on Facebook. However, their opponents consider the ban justified.

The construction of the new "Dolina Vasta" (Vasta Valley) ski resort in Sochi is illegal, the Russian branch of the environmental Greenpeace has stated. The construction of a new ski resort on the lands of the Sochi National Park will lead to the destruction of natural complexes, ecologists assert.