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Today, activist Sakhib Rustamli has been taken to a police station and warned for criticizing the authorities on social networks and issues of the online opposition TV channel. This has been reported by the activist himself. Members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) treat the detention of Sakhib Rustamli as a part of the campaign to persecute oppositionists.

Azerbaijani journalist Fuad Abbasov does not intend to return to Russia, even if the 50-year ban on entry into the country is lifted. He promised to protect the rights of Azerbaijanis in Russia through his online "Misra-TV" channel.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" continues to examine cases of the activists arrested after the March rallies in Magas. The list of Ingush political prisoners will include the names of other oppositionists, if prosecutors do not have convincing evidence against them.

Restrictions on the crossing of the borders of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia violate the rights of residents of border villages who cannot run their farms and risk being detained for crossing the border, declares the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

The Imams of Ingushetia have asked the Russia's Public Prosecutor General, Yuri Chaika, to check the lawfulness of the searches conducted at the republic's Muftiate and in the house of Mufti Isa Khamkhoev, and of many-hour-long interrogations of religious figures.

Outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, three persons continue their protest hunger strike demanding resignation of the head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), but no one cares about them, protesters have stated. Meanwhile, the spokeswoman of the "Georgian Dream" Party said that there are no complaints about Minister Giorgi Gakhariya's actions during the dispersal of protesters' rally.

The political importance of Azerbaijan for Europe after the commissioning of the TANAP pipeline will grow, Azerbaijani economists believe, whose opinions regarding the profitability of gas transmission projects have divided. The West, because of its energy interests, sacrifices human rights in Azerbaijan, right defenders believe.

The "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation by the court, has claimed responsibility for the attack on the police post in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya for the sake of self-promotion; and the incident itself was hardly a terror act, retired law enforcers believe.

The elimination of the electoral barrier, proposed by the "Georgian Dream" Party, will allow parties with dubious funding sources and created by ethnic minorities to enter the parliament, activists of Georgian non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have stated.

The video shows the detained employees of the "Directorate of the Unified State Customer-Developer" convoyed with bags over their heads. The demonstratively tough detention of suspects of committing economic crimes is a method for intimidating their potential accomplices, journalists and a political analyst believe.

The "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, has posted a video of the oath taken by Azerbaijani militants to the leader of the IS. This is the first IS' video from Azerbaijan.

Zelimkhan Musaev, a local resident, attacked the policemen in the Achkhoi-Martan District, the head of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has announced.

The Dagestani Ombudsperson has announced his readiness to help mothers of two detained residents of Derbent in protecting their rights. His meeting with detainees' relatives is scheduled for July 3.

Law enforcers questioned residents of Chechnya, who were detained because of their contacts with Akhmed Barzaev, killed while attacking policemen. There are no claims against the young people, and they are all released, reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The defence of General Manvel Grigoryan, a former delegate of the National Assembly of Armenia, failed to secure the release of the defendant in the courtroom on bail.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia cancelled the decision pronounced by the court in Magas, which recognized the legitimacy of the searches conducted at home of Musa Malsagov, as well as at the offices of the Red Cross, the Ingush Committee of National Unity, and "Support of Ingushetia". According to advocate Visit Tzoroev, the above court's decision will become a precedent to declare illegitimate other searches conducted in the region.

This year, the flow of tourists from Russia will decrease by about a million people, and that will damage the economy by 710 million US dollars. Such information was reported by Mariam Kvrivishvili, the head of the National Tourism Administration of Georgia.

Today, a complaint about the arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the editor of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), has entered the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan, but the date of its consideration has not yet been scheduled, the SC reports.

Khatiya Dekanoidze, a member of the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, demanded to examine the condition of David Grigoryan, an injured participant of the protest rally in Tbilisi, since he could get such a wound only when fired at point blank range. Law enforcers violated instructions when using rubber bullets, believes Ucha Nanuashvili, the former Ombudsman.

The "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in the Russian Federation by the court, claimed that a man, who attacked the police checkpoint in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya, was its militant.