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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.

Azerbaijan should ease the pressure on the freedom of speech, improve the situation of lawyers and continue working towards solving the problems of forced migrants. This was stated by Dunya Miyatovich, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), on the outcomes of her visit to Azerbaijan.

At their last sitting before the summer vacations, Chechen MPs have approved the renaming, which took place this May, of the native village of Ramzan Kadyrov into Akhmat-Yurt.

The mass events in honour of Kunta-haji Kishiev's birthday were organized in Chechnya through the use of administrative resources, residents of the republic report. The ideas of Kunta-haji had helped residents of the Caucasus not to abandon their faith during the years of repressions and atheistic propaganda, Islamic scholars have pointed out.

Azer Gasymly, an oppositionist, has achieved, in a Baku court, a cancellation of his ban on leaving Azerbaijan. The ban was in force for more than six months after the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared it illegal, Mr Gasymly has noted.

In January-June 2019, during their military service, 11 servicemen of the Armenia Armed Forces and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) perished; 18 other deaths were not related to the performance of service duties, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has informed.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya began to consider the case of eight Dagestani residents, who, according to the law enforcement bodies, were plotting a terror act and were killed in a shootout. Relatives of the killed suspects demanded to unite the cases on the shootout in Chechnya and on kidnappings in Dagestan.

A mother of a seven-year-old girl, beaten by an aunt in Ingushetia, said that she was not allowed to see her daughter. The tradition of leaving children in a father's family often leads to isolation of a child from society, lawyers report. In the regions of Northern Caucasus, the traditions do not always take into account the interests of a child, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports.

On July 11, at the conference held in Batumi, the European Union (EU) agreed to allocate 46.6 million euros to Georgia for programmes to strengthen the security and improve the efficiency of the country's economic management.

Beglar Tsilosani, a citizen of Georgia, was placed to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on suspicion of illegally crossing the border. His daughter who was with him was handed over to her mother, the State Security Service of Abkhazia reported.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria dismissed a complaint filed against the extension of the arrest of activist Zubeir Khamkhoev, involved as a suspect in the case on the March rally in Magas.

Members of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) mission have revealed no ceasefire violations on the troops contact line, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) and the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan have reported.

At their meeting with Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, Georgian oppositionists raised the issue of imposing sanctions of the European Union (EU) on Bidzina Ivanishvili.

The court has dismissed the appeal against the denial of the conditional early relief (CER) of Dmitry Pavlyuchenkov, sentenced to 11 years in prison for involvement in the murder of the journalist, Anna Politkovskaya.

Mansur Sadulaev, the head of the Association of Chechen People named "Vayfond" is back at large after Sweden refused to extradite him to Russia. He said that Russian law enforcers believe him guilty of calls to terrorism.