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On Saturday, September 7, in Paris, a rally was held at the German Embassy demanding from German authorities to objectively investigate the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Pankisi native.

Social network users have noted that instead of complaining about the many-hours-long detention by law enforcers of Novosasitli villagers, the blogger, Rasul Asad, has emphasized law enforcers' politeness and the fact that villagers came to police voluntarily.

During the first week of September, Azerbaijani military units fired more than 700 shots at positions of the Defence Army, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

The head of Chechnya has welcomed the decision on the conditional early relief (CER) of the football players of the "Krasnodar" and "Zenit" Football Clubs (FCs), Pavel Mamaev and Alexander Kokorin, and offered them to join the "Akhmat" FC in Grozny. Kokorin and Mamaev will not accept the invitation, Chechen football fans believe.

A bike ride of Ekaterina Gerasimova, a journalist, along the embankment in Vladikavkaz seemed to local law enforcers like the behaviour of a drug hider. Ms Gerasimova complained about ill-treatment at detention. She missed her train, but law enforcers helped her to catch up with the train in a police car.

Several dozens of people, who were kept in a division of a power structure in the Khasavyurt District, were released nine hours after detention, local residents have informed. The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) claims that none of these people was detained.

Law enforcers have set up their checkpoint at a distance of less than two kilometres from the Georgian one, which became the subject of a border conflict. The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has treated this as a compulsion to border demarcation. The OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) has supported Georgia by opposing the bordering process.

At their protest action held in Baku, relatives of those convicted within the "Terter case" have demanded to return the case back for preliminary investigation and to release their convicted relatives. The action was stopped after police intervention.

The Imam from the village of Novosasitli and local residents, dissatisfied with the decision to hand over the madrasah to the Muftiate, are being kept by law enforcers, sources report. They said that among the detainees, there is Rasul Asad, the author of a popular Telegram channel.

A Magas court has extended until October 12 the arrest of the Ingush journalist, Rashid Maisigov, accused of drug storage, his advocate has stated. The court session on the case of the Ingush activist, Zarifa Sautieva, has been postponed until September 9.

In Chechnya and Dagestan, the birthrate is "three times higher than in Japan," said Russian President, Vladimir Putin, urging young people to "spend energy on creation." Ramzan Kadyrov expressed his confidence that this joke will get into a collection of aphorisms.

Employees of three Makhachkala police divisions were engaged in checking documents at the "Tangim" Mosque; nobody was detained. Law enforcers claimed that the raid had nothing to do with religion.

Three activists of the public organization "Kaspiysk is Our City" went to solo pickets in Makhachkala. They claim that the general plan "will destroy the public territories of the city."

The administrative prosecution of Azerbaijani activists violated their rights, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) acknowledged that fact by awarding them compensation, believes advocate Asabali Mustafaev. Sagif Gurbanov, one of the complainants, also called the decision of the ECtHR fair.

The court postponed the consideration of an appeal concerning the conditional early relief (CER) of Timur Khamkhoev, who was sentenced in the case on torture used at the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE) in Ingushetia. The court pronounced a too lenient sentence for Timur Khamkhoev, and he should not be released earlier than his sentence expires, the victims say.

In Dagestan, a criminal case has been instituted on the use of violence against a policeman during a conflict at the "Gerzelsky Bridge" checkpoint near the border with Chechnya. The incident did not affect the relationship between the two peoples, the Chechens from the border regions with Dagestan believe.

Azerbaijani authorities should pay almost 80,000 euros to 12 activists, arrested and fined for participating in peaceful protests, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided.

Ikram Ragimov, an Azerbaijani journalist demanding to reconsider his verdict under the extortion case, has begun eating after 29 days of his hunger strike.

After the shooting incident on September 4, in the dwelling settlement of Prokhladny, the filming of the "Chiki" movie continued, the producer of the movie has informed. The attacker shouted insults at the film crew, and his bullet hit the car with important equipment, the film director has added.

An examination of the video depicting the oath given by four residents of Buynaksk to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court), has shown that they were affected by an off-screen manipulator, the defendants' advocate has stated.