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A total of 37 people, including 16 members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), were accused under several criminal articles after the July 15 rally in Baku. Oppositionists wouldn't plead guilty.

In the evening on September 14, in the Tovuz District, a serviceman, Renat Eldar-oglu Aliev, was wounded as a result of ceasefire violation, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

A 50-year-old resident of Nazran died after unidentified persons opened fire on him from inside a car, an Ingush law enforcement source has reported.

Three more persons have joined the women who are holding a hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding a large-scale amnesty. The total number of protesters has reached 18.

Since his disappearance in July, Movsar Umarov has not contacted his family, his sister said.

Akhmed Zakaev, who called Chechen authorities responsible for torturing Tepsurkaev, has no right to speak on behalf of the Chechen people – this was the leitmotif of those speaking at a gathering in the Chechen village of Djalka.

Tofig Yagublu, an Azerbaijani oppositionist, who is under intensive care, has refused medications, his daughter has informed.

Salman Tepsurkaev faces death due to the resonance after the publication of the video with his self-humiliation, the authors of the 1ADAT Telegram Channel believe. This is not excluded also by the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), which asked the European Court to demand from Russia to find the young man kidnapped on September 6.

Natives of Chechnya filmed a video of how they were washing their shoes in a spring near an Orthodox church in Kaliningrad. Later, one of the men from the video apologized for the incident.

Azerbaijani oppositionist Tofig Yagublu, who continues his hunger strike, is not allowed to be visited by his family members and to communicate with them via mobile phone, his daughter said. The defence complained about the delay in the consideration of an appeal filed in the Tofig Yagublu's case.

In Astrakhan, each city resident got 700 roubles under formal pretexts for visiting polling stations on election days, and several complaints were filed to the police in connection with the above violations, members of opposition parties reported.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in villages located near the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 32 times over 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

In his video appeal, Salakh Mezhiev, the Mufti of Chechnya, has criticized Salman Tepsurkaev for "shameless conversations", and called Akhmed Zakaev, who stood up for Salman, "an outcast."

Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; public outcry around a video with Chechen native's self-humiliation for cooperation with a Telegram channel, nomination of Mikhail Saakashvili for the post of Georgian Prime Minister, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 7-13, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

During the week, from September 7 to September 13, 2020, no information was received about the victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

At their gathering in Urus-Martan, members of the Zakaev family clan have criticized, in an insulting manner, Akhmed Zakaev, the head of government of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria (banned in Russia by the court) for supporting the 1ADAT Telegram Channel. Having declared their loyalty to the "padishah", the clan members demanded from emigrants not to interfere with Chechen affairs.

Relatives in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) received the eleven children returned from the Middle East. Four other children from the Astrakhan Region, Dagestan and Chechnya remain in hospital.

In Chechnya, many relatives of Murad Aslamkhanov, a critic of Chechen authorities, who is living in Austria, have been detained, Aslamkhanov himself stated on September 12. He launched his YouTube channel after the resonant humiliation of Salman Tepsurkaev. In a video appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov, he stood up for his relatives, threatening to execute relatives of the people from Kadyrov's retinue living in Europe.

The Tbilisi City Court has placed into custody Tamaz Khomasuridze, the father of the minor, who is accused of killing the football player, Giorgi Shakarashvili. The father is charged with threats, falsification of proofs and false testimonies.

At a Swiss clinic, doctors have successfully operated on Mekhman Guseinov, an Azerbaijani blogger and human rights defender, who is suffering from cancer. Now, the young man must undergo a long rehabilitation course, his brother said.