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By their actions, protesters provoked policemen to start dispersing them, but law enforcers behaved excessively aggressively; and they unreasonably used special means, the Georgian Centre for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (CHREM) has stated.

Under various pretexts, authorities have refused to sanction any of the seven applied actions in defence of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly; however, attempts to hold a rally in Makhachkala will continue, protest organizers have stated.

The case of using violence at rallies in Tbilisi will be investigated under the article on an attempt to overthrow the power, the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported detention of four activists suspected of attacking policemen.

Elchin Sadygov, an Azerbaijani lawyer, who is defending the journalist, Polad Aslanov, accused of treason, says that that he has received threats. He treats them as pressure related to his professional activities, indicating the plight of advocacy and journalism in Azerbaijan, the NGO activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Relatives of Ziyavudin Ashikov, the acting head of the Kaspiysk police, his brother Raip Ashikov and Omar Abdurashidov came out to pickets in the capital of Dagestan, stating that the men are illegally prosecuted for alleged financing terrorism.

The Azerbaijani militants, who have recorded their oath to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, are extremely small in number and have no influence on believers inside the country; while Azerbaijani authorities keep all religious groups under control, Orientalists believe.

The body of the policeman from Novokuznetsk, killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in Chechnya, will be buried tomorrow in his homeland, reports the Department for Kemerovo of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Investigators are engaged in questioning relatives and friends of the attacker, the Chechen MIA reports.

In Derbent, the health states of both participants of the hunger strike have deteriorated sharply at night. However, the women refused to be hospitalized, reported a female relative of one of the hunger-strikers.

The dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi, during which dozens of protestors and journalists were injured, was a response to the calls for assaulting the parliament building, stated Kakha Kaladze, Secretary General of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party. Activist Giorgi Mshveniradze treats the Kakha Kaladze's statement as an attempt of the authorities to relieve themselves of all responsibility for the victims.

The decision of the Russian authorities to ban flights to and from Georgia is an unreasonable measure that will "adversely affect" citizens of both countries, the European Union declares.

On July 3, Armenia started to introduce measures under the Istanbul Convention to combat family violence. The programme includes retraining of lawyers, police officers, and social workers, reports the Council of Europe (CE) Office in Yerevan.

So far, the growth in the number of armed incidents in Kabardino-Balkaria does not mean a real militants' activation, but the conditions for the operation of the armed underground have not disappeared, but the work on militants' adaptation has been curtailed, analysts assert.

The Syrian President, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, has announced a general amnesty, but a Perm court refused to change the verdict and release a native of Chechnya, convicted for participating in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants, from his colony.

The erection of fortifications on the demarcation lines with South Ossetia and Abkhazia is painfully perceived by the Georgian society and supports anti-Russian sentiments in it, as can be seen from the recent protests in Tbilisi, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated.

The practice of mass detentions of acquaintances of a suspected militant is not unique for Chechnya and Northern Caucasus; this is a common method of Russian law enforcers, said Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reduced the arrest of the Ingush elder, Ahmed Barakhoev, from three to two months.

The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has sent the case of eight residents of Dagestan, who, according to law enforcers, had prepared a terror act and were killed in a shootout, to the Supreme Court of Chechnya. The casualties' relatives insist on the trial to be held Dagestan, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer of the "Agora" International Human Rights Group, has stated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan refused to transfer Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), to house arrest. The defence believes that the detention of Abdulmumin Gadjiev is not justified.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claims that the police checkpoint, where policemen were attacked, is of "no strategic" significance. The police checkpoint is located in the forest at a great distance from villages and towns, local residents report.

Zelimkhan Musaev, who was killed while attacking a police checkpoint in Chechnya, was a drug addict, married to a woman whose relatives were militants who had left for Syria, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported.