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The health state of Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed in a penal colony is deteriorating, and his transfer to a hospital is being delayed, a mother of the prisoner reports.

Nizamali Suleimanov, an activist of the “Musavat” Party, was arrested because of a fabricated conclusion of a narcological examination conducted two months ago, claimed Arzulla Buludlu, the leader of the Surakhany regional organization of the “Musavat” Party.

In Chechnya, a court extended for a month the detention in custody of Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, and their defence filed an appeal against the court’s decision. Moreover, according to an advocate, the defence has also filed a complaint about the threat to the lives of the arrested young men, because their relatives are being persuaded to commit a so-called “honour killing.”

On April 5 and 6, the film "Khan Yu" describing the life of people in a Chechen village was screened within the “Artdocfest” documentary film festival, with an increased audience on the second day, organizers reported. According to them, after a film about a Chechen gay was removed from the screening, there were no attempts to disrupt other premieres.

After a conversation with a theologian, two women from the village of Vedeno and a woman from Urus-Martan repented of practicing occult services, the “Grozny” TV Channel reported.

Azerbaijan has handed over the remains of a soldier to Karabakh rescuers. The number of bodies and remains found has reached 1530, including 27 civilians, the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) for Nagorno-Karabakh reports on Facebook.

Alaif Gasanov, an Azerbaijani lawyer, has filed a lawsuit against the Azerbaijani Bar Association (ABA) with a demand to restore his membership in this body. The ABA does not accept Gasanov into its ranks on a far-fetched pretext, a member of the Civil Society Platform and the head of the Centre for Monitoring Political Prisoners assert.

Some Instagram users have criticized the Dagestan police for publishing a video in which a law enforcer is scolding a woman from Makhachkala who sold illegal substances to teenagers. Their opponents have stood up for the police; and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) explained that the video was made public for edifying purposes.

The remains of Aram Mkrtchyan, a basketball player of the Armenian national team, who perished in the Karabakh war in the fall of 2020, have been buried in Stepanakert. He had volunteered for the war and perished presumably in the vicinity of Varanda, his friends have reported.

The appointed reconsideration of the claim put forward by human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov does not guarantee that his statements will be really examined. This was stated by Oleg Orlov, a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and Dmitry Makarov, a co-chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG).

The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has ruled to reconsider the claim of human rights defenders against the investigators who had refused to check the threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov.

Fatima Khazueva, the finalist of the beauty contest, who enjoys Ramzan Kadyrov's favour, owns a luxurious mansion in Grozny; she, along with Ramzan's wife, possesses apartments in elite residential complexes in Moscow. This is stated in the investigation of the edition named "Project".

Residents of Azerbaijani villages and towns, who came under fire during the aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, have declared that authorities had violated their promises of paying compensations for destroyed houses.

In the evening on April 6, law enforcers completed their special actions in the Sunzha District; the mobile Internet disconnected for the time being was restored only on Wednesday morning, local residents have informed. According to unofficial information, the checks had to do with the case initiated after the rally in Magas.

The documentary "Doazuv" (Border) Maryana Kalmykova has been removed from screening at the "Artdocfest" festival because of the position of the Russian Ministry of Culture, which saw incitement of interethnic hatred in the film. It tells about protests of the residents of Ingushetia against the border agreement with Chechnya.

Salman Tepsurkaev, a moderator of the opposition 1Adat Telegram Channel, fell victim to a campaign to persecute dissidents in Chechnya and he is a political prisoner, announces the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*.

The Chechen GIBDD (road police) releases a video in which four residents of Urus-Martan are apologizing for violating traffic rules on a wedding day.

Despite numerous street surveillance cameras, the law enforcement bodies failed to find a person who poured chemical liquid over the entrance to the building hosting the editorial office of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”. The investigations into attacks on the newspaper employees were also ineffective.

Activists of the "Veto" movement accused the Armenian authorities of the pro-Turkish policy and concealment of information about combat losses and prisoners of war (POWs). Female participants of a rally dedicated to the Motherhood and Beauty Day tried to break into the government building. At least one of the protestors was detained.

The military servicemen, Aliev Punkhan Shaban oglu and Bakhtiyar Ilgaroglu, have been wounded in a mine explosion near the village of Sugovushan while searching for missing soldiers.