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On June 23, the Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) considered the appeal filed against the decision of the Baku District Court on detention of journalist Afghan Mukhtarly.

A Makhachkala court has ruled to place the lawyer Rustam Yunusov, suspected of an attempted fraud, into custody. He refused to plead guilty; and the advocate Musa Abdulkadirov, who is defending Yunusov's interests, promised to appeal against the ruling.

Investigators have charged Georgy Sveshnikov, a pupil of a school in Sochi, with stealing goods from a store. He signed recognizance not to leave. The suspected schoolboy pleads not guilty.

On June 23, Bairam Mamedov, an activist of the oppositional Azerbaijani "Nida" movement, went on a hunger strike in protest against his custody conditions at the colony.

Arthur Panov, who is accused of plotting a terror act in Rostov-on-Don, has told the court that the day before the date of his detention as indicated in his case files, he was captured in the street and taken away for questioning by people, who presented themselves as law enforcers. The application, submitted by Arthur Panov, with a request to conduct a check was delivered to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The Krasnodar Territorial Court has dismissed the appeal of Aidamir Basto, who was fined for taking part in the moleben (prayer) on the Day of the Adygs' Memory. Ruslan Gvashev, the Chairman of the Board of Elders of Circassians-Shapsugs, also fined for taking part in the moleben, is waiting for the decision on his appeal.

The ruling party "Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia" has deceived the Venice Commission by providing it with an irrelevant draft of the Georgian Constitution, oppositionists assert.

The head of the department of education in the Takhtamukay District of Adygea was dismissed for organizing the passing of the Unified State Examination (USE) at the facility, where her daughter was examined.

The organization "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) condemns the resumption of repressions in Azerbaijan, during which at least 15 bloggers, independent journalists and media workers have been detained recently, says the RWB's statement released on June 22, a copy of which is available at the "Caucasian Knot".

At the court session on the case of the Yerevan armed group, the judge has treated the refusal of the defendant Vahan Shirkhanyan to stand up as disrespect of the court. Despite his claim of his poor health condition as the reason, the judge removed him from the courtroom.

Today, officials of the OSCE mission have conducted monitoring at the troops contact line in the area of Karabakh conflict. No violations of ceasefire have been fixed, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) reports.

An open appeal of the wife of Rasambek Bekmurzaev, suspected of executing three officers of federal forces almost 17 years ago, has been spread through the WhatsApp. The woman states her husband's innocence and asks the head of Chechnya to help him to get back home.

Anna Lubeznova, an official from the press service of the Ministry for Public Health for the Astrakhan Region, was dismissed from her position after posting a critical comment on Facebook under a request for help written by a young woman suffering from a rare blood disease. The official herself stated that she did not write the comment and that her Facebook account was hacked.

At night on June 23, the Armenian armed forces violated the ceasefire regime 117 times in various directions of the front. This has been reported by the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has recognized as lawful the decision to send Maxim Panfilov, a resident of Astrakhan, for compulsory medical treatment to a hospital. Maxim Panfilov was sentenced in the case of involvement in mass riots in Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. The defence intends to appeal against the decision of the Court to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

In Rostov-on-Don, the North-Caucasian District Military Court is nearing the end of the consideration in the case against Khiramagomed Magomedov, one of the leaders of the NGO "Union of the Just". This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Abakar Abakarov, a public figure from Dagestan, one of the organizers of the rally against Caucasus-phobia and Islamophobia in Moscow.

Today, the Georgian parliament has adopted, in the first reading, the draft amendments to the country's Constitution. The MPs plan to hold the second reading tomorrow, on June 23.

The UN Secretary General and the US Department of State have issued statements in connection with the recent violations of the ceasefire regime in the Karabakh conflict zone.

Servicemen of the Defence Army have stopped an attempt of a group of Azerbaijani special agents to cross the troops contact line; at least four saboteurs were killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) reports.

Today, the village of Nabakia in the Gali District of Abkhazia has hosted the action held by residents of the villages of Verkhny Bargyap, Otobaya Pervaya, and Nabakia. The event was attended by about 80 people.