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An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Georgia is detained in the case on abuse of power while dispersing a protest action at night on June 21, the General Prosecutor's Office reports today.

Law enforcers detained Alexander Cherkasov, the chairman of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" Board, Svetlana Gannushkina, the head "Civic Assistance Committee", and Elena Milashina, a correspondent of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". The activists held a picket in the centre of Moscow to remind people of the unsolved murder of Natalia Estemirova.

Today, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, a father of the shepherds killed in Dagestan, has held a solo picket in Makhachkala. He demands from the authorities to sanction a rally to gather 5000 people.

Detention of activists in Ingushetia; return home of Russian children from Iraq; termination of direct flights between Russia and Georgia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 8-14, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

A conflict between residents of Georgia and border guards of Azerbaijan arose at the "David Gareja" Monastery Complex after icons had been removed from one of the temples, reported a guide of the monastery complex. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Georgia reported about launching an investigation into the incident.

The Chechen authorities have no data concerning the information that a girl living in Moscow was forcibly taken away to Chechnya by her relatives, reported the press secretary of Ramzan Kadyrov.

During the week of July 8-14, 2019, no one fell victim to 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.

On the 10th anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova, human rights defenders reminded that even in the realities of Chechnya, she managed to find the opportunity not only to report about rights violations, but also to help the victims. The activists demanded from the authorities to complete the investigation into the murder of Natalia Estemirova.

The criminal proceedings against Zarifa Sautieva are related to her civil position, state the Ingush branch of the "Yabloko" Party, the public movement "Support of Ingushetia", and the "Patriotic Union of Women of Ingushetia". They demanded to release the activist.

Doctors advised the two participants of the hunger strike in front of the Bidzina Ivanishvili's residence to stop their protest action, but the activists did not listen to the medical officers.

Relatives took a Chechen girl living in Moscow back to Chechnya against her will, and they force her to marry, reports an activist from the "Kitezh" centre.

Law enforcers tortured with electric current Rashid Maisigov, a detained Ingush journalist, his advocate Magomed Aushev claimed.

The Russian authorities took away from a Baghdad prison 33 children, whose mothers were sentenced or suspected of involvement in the ranks of militants. Social network users argue about whether those children should be transported to Russia. Residents of Chechnya, where nine of the children were brought, blamed Ramzan Kadyrov for self-PR actions.

Activist Zarifa Sautieva has become the first woman detained after rallies in Ingushetia, and that is a blatant fact for the Caucasus, users of social networks emphasize. Local residents noted that they were hoping in vain for an end to the persecution of activists after the change of power in the republic.

The last two participants of the hunger strike with the demand for the resignation of the Georgian Interior Minister stopped their protest action due to the recommendation of the medical officers.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Azerbaijan called on the OSCE Minsk Group to put pressure on Yerevan and Stepanakert to release Shakhbaz Guliev and Dilkham Askerov, sentenced in Nagorno-Karabakh. The men were sentenced for kidnapping and killing a teenager, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to grant an appeal filed against the arrest of Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), who was accused of calling for riots and attacks on law enforcers.

In the period from July 7 to 13, the Azerbaijani armed forces more than 90 times violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line and made about 800 shots, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

In the Khasavyurt District, law enforcers have detained two men for keeping firearms.

Law enforcers have detained an oppositional journalist, Rashid Maisigov, and took him away to some unknown place.