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The defence has requested investigators to stop the criminal prosecution of Akhmet Barakhoev, Musa Malsagov, Malsag Uzhakhov, and Barakh Chemurziev, since the charges against them are baseless, an activists' advocate states.

Khasan Katsiev, accused of attacking law enforcers at a rally in Magas, are visited by unidentified people in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), who demand from him to plead guilty, a lawyer reports. He has requested the Prosecutor's Office to check the complaint filed by Khasan Katsiev.

An investigator questioned a mother and an aunt of Gasan Kurbanov, who was arrested in Derbent, in connection with his complaint of torture and voiced the term of the check. A mother of Islam Barzukaev, the second detainee, is ready to hold pickets in Moscow.

The "Grozny" TV Channel devoted a story to the exposure of a Chechen resident who complained about the insufficient assistance of the authorities to people with disabilities. A disabled person was forced to apologize not even for an appeal, but for a comment on the Internet, experts note.

Karen Grigoryan, a resident of Stepanakert, met the Ombudsman of Nagorno-Karabakh and officials who promised to fulfill his demands. The man stopped his hunger strike and complained about physical violence from law enforcers.

The introduction of new anti-Georgian sanctions will increase tensions in mutual relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin has stated. Mamuka Bakhtadze, the Georgian Prime Minister welcomed this position.

The police deny the existence of the so-called "prophylactic registry of extremists and fails to explain the reasons for placing people under control, the advocate of the Dagestani singer Ruslan Adjiev has stated. An unjustified prophylactic registering is illegal; besides, law enforcement bodies are guided by questionable criteria for extremism, law enforcers themselves have noted.

The resolution of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) on Abkhazia and South Ossetia will not force Russia to reconsider the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but is a factor of diplomatic pressure on the Kremlin, Georgian political analysts assert.

The ban on the import of Georgian wine into Russia may lead to export drop by 200 million US dollars a year, Georgian economists believe.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has upheld the sentence to Shamil Soltamuradov, convicted to 17 years in prison for involvement in Syrian militants.

Nika Gvaramiya, Director General of the "Rustavi-2" Georgian TV Company, has stated that he will not dismiss journalist Giorgi Gabuniya, who made abusing statements on air addressed to the Russian President Vladimir Putin.

After the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" had appealed to the Prosecutor's Office, the authorities of Adygea cancelled the restrictions contradicting the law concerning the venues of solo pickets.

The court pronounced a decision to leave Ismail Nalgiev, the coordinator of the organization "Choice of Ingushetia", under arrest in Nalchik until September 25. An investigator did not justify the request to extend the activist's arrest, claimed advocate Andrei Sabinin.

The law enforcement bodies did not give out the body of Zelimkhan Musaev, killed while attacking policemen, to his family members and forbade holding a mourning ceremony to commemorate him, his relatives reported. The ban on memorial ceremonies is not practiced in other regions of Russia, note scientists engaged in oriental studies.

Only 18% of respondents consider falsification of drug possession cases to be rare incidents, the "Levada Centre" releases the results of its survey after criminal prosecutions of Moscow journalist Ivan Golunov and activists in Northern Caucasus.

Members of the Russian State Duma voted for the introduction of economic measures against Georgia. The question of a ban on the import of Georgian wines and sorts of water and on the remittances was submitted for approval to the Russian government. The President of Georgia called on the Russian authorities "not to react to the actions of radical forces."

Aidyn Gurbanov, arrested in connection with riots in the city of Ganja, received no treatment in custody and fell into a coma at the last phase of his cancer, his wife said. The investigator refused to change Gurbanov's freedom restriction measure.

Giorgi Gabuniya, who insulted Vladimir Putin on air of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, did not violate the legislation, but his statement's lexicon is unacceptable, said Mamuka Zhgenti, an expert at the Georgian Institute of European Values. The incident can be considered settled, as the Georgian authorities have reacted to it, said Valery Chechelashvili, the head of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has refused to satisfy the complaints of the Ingush activists, Khasan Katsiev, Akhmed Nalgiev and Rashid Aushev, about the extension of their arrest until September 25, 2019.

Lawyers of the Committee against Torture (CaT) have lodged a complaint to a Moscow court about the investigators' refusal to interrogate the head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev. Rights defenders are sure that the facts known to him about Gasanguseinovs' murder must be added to the case files.