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A specific feature of police preventive conversations in Chechnya is the desire to humiliate offenders. This opinion was voiced by human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina after law enforcers had reprimanded residents of the Kurchaloi District. Lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov note that the law enforcement bodies may make public videos of such conversations only with the offenders' consent.

The defence of Mekhti Ibragimov, who has been on a hunger strike in custody for the eighth day already, has filed a motion to transfer the detainee under house arrest. Activists treat the prosecution of Mekhti Ibragimov as revenge for the opposition activities of his father Mamed Ibragim.

Today, in Kabardino-Balkaria, the court has started the consideration of the case against Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko. In contradiction to his confession signed after the detention, the activist has pleaded not guilty.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 31 times over 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

Residents of Astrakhan held solo pickets and a gathering in support of Belarusian citizens on protest against the presidential election outcome, as well as residents of Khabarovsk who stood up for arrested Governor Sergey Furgal.

Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; fifth attack on law enforcers in Ingushetia since early 2020; actions in support of protesters in Belarus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 10-16, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the French city of Saint-Dizier, law enforcers detained 16 natives from Chechnya; three of them were accused of organizing a criminal community and preparing armed revenge for their fellow countryman. The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has proposed to tighten the rules for considering asylum requests received from natives of Chechnya.

The five young men, who, according to law enforcers, had been planning attacks on policemen, were detained in Khasavyurt. Their names are Alan F., Ismail U., Isak A., Gasanpasha M. and Mukhammad S. According to one of the detainees, the grouping's goal was "to establish Sharia laws in this land."

During the week from August 10 to 16, 2020, no casualties or victims were recorded during 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.

The tightening of the mask-wearing regime has led to a 40 percent decrease in the number of people infected with coronavirus in Chechnya, the republic's Ministry of Public Health (MPH) reported on August 15. Instagram users and local residents have ridiculed this statement, pointing out that the mask regime in Chechnya is only formally observed.

In Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, five teenagers were detained who had planned attacks on policemen, law enforcers have reported.

The commentators to Karen Shainyan's documentary "Chechen War against LGBT" have treated the persecution methods of gays and lesbians in Chechnya as the wildest Middle Ages. The problems of film heroes need maximum publicity, spectators have pointed out.

Law enforcers have blocked a residential area near the Mount Tarki-Tau and began a special operation in the forest. Instagram users are concerned that civilians may perish there, as happened with the Gasanguseinov shepherd brothers.

Azerbaijani citizens, Elmar Musaev and Taral Giyasov, have stated that they have been deceived when they signed confessions in the case of protests in the tent camp in Kullar. Seven out of ten accused have been left in custody.

In August 1992, the Georgian society was busy with internal confrontation and did not immediately realize the ethnic background of the conflict in Abkhazia, said Paata Zakareishvili, an ex-minister for reconciliation. The feeling of war was in the air, but its start was still a surprise, the eyewitness has recalled.

Seven people, beaten up by law enforcers in Mozdok, have met Tamerlan Tsgoev, the Ombudsperson in North Ossetia. Law enforcers and local authorities fail to react to complaints of torture, the victim's advocate has stated.

After the conflict in Ekazhevo, claims had been put forward against the former law enforcer shot dead in the Nazran District of Ingushetia. He had provided his car to employees of Centre "E"; and the detained conflict participants were taken away in the car, which caused claims from members of their vird (a sort of praying community), fellow villagers of the casualty believe.

Despite the resonance, the apologies of teenagers to Khabib Nurmagomedov will have no consequences for them, says Mikhail Roschin. However, the procedure itself is humiliating, said Alexei Malashenko.

Law enforcers have gathered offenders in the building of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) and recorded a "prophylactic" conversation with them on video. Such videos serve as reports to the authorities, local residents have noted.

After the Friday (August 14) namaz (prayer), several dozen law enforcers stopped the cars of visitors of the Makhachkala "Tangim" Mosque and examined their documents.