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In the evening on August 19, Nazir Guliev, the head of the organization "World of Law" got into a road accident in the village of Alinazarli, together with his wife and a child.

On August 19, power agents detained Vasif Niftiev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), the Party leader has informed the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent today.

Law enforcers have explained that an explosion of an improvised explosion device (IED) in the car, found today in the Kayakent District of Dagestan, killed one person, not two, as reported earlier.

Power agents made a search of the apartment of Faig Amirov, the financial director of the oppositional newspaper "Azadlyg", who is also assistant to chairman of Ali Kerimli, the chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). Amirov was detained by men in plain clothes.

Fuad Akhmedli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is charged with disseminating personal information of mobile communication users. According to PFPA members, the law enforcement authorities are trying to discredit the Party by presenting Fuad Akhmedli as a supporter of Turkish Islamic preacher Fethullah Gülen.

Two victims, whose bodies have been found today near a burnt-out off-roader in the Kayakent District of Dagestan, have not been identified yet. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Most miners, who came on August 19 to the meeting with officials in Gukovo, left the event early, since they failed to obtain guarantees for payment of wage arrears.

At the meeting on ecological issues at the Prosecutor's Office of the Krasnodar Territory, Vladimir Ostapuk, a Sochi ecologist, has drawn the prosecutors' attention to the problems with wastewater disposal, landfills and urban development of the resort of Sochi without environmental impact assessments.

The Armenian Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal filed against the decision on the arrest of six members of the group "Sasna Tsrer" (Daredevils of Sassoun). The consideration of the complaints filed about the detention of three other persons involved in the seizure of the police regiment building in Yerevan has been postponed, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Vladimir Putin is to pay attention to the case of Leyla Chemurzieva, a resident of Ingushetia, convicted on charges of having links with militants and who fell victim to "arbitrariness over the law," said her mother in her address to the president. After submitting her petition, she held a solo picket in support of her daughter.

Usman Murdalov and Sulim Israilov, killed in attack on road-and-patrol (DPS) employees near Moscow, had assured their families that they went to Moscow in search of employment, the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

David Sanasaryan, a member of the Council of Elders of Yerevan from the block "Hello, Yerevan!", accused of organizing mass riots, has been released from custody on bail of 1.5 million drams, said his advocate.

A bill, submitted today to the State Duma of Russia, envisages 5-10 years in prison for female circumcision, committed on religious grounds.

The court has pronounced the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of arrest against two other persons accused of abuse of power and obstruction of journalists' activities during a protest action in Yerevan. This has been reported today by the Special Investigating Service of Armenia.

On August 18, natives of Northern and Southern Caucasus won four medals at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Of the above four medals, three were won by athletes of the national team of Azerbaijan, and one by an athlete of the national team of Russia.

The practice of mutilating procedures on girls' genitals in Dagestan is a criminal offense. This opinion was voiced by advocates interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". According to them, a procedure of female circumcision can be qualified as a bodily injury.

The concern over the arrests of Natiq Jafarli, a co-founder of the Azerbaijani "ReAl" Party, and other activists has been expressed by Federica Mogherini, the current High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and Alan Duncan, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, responsible for Europe and the Americas.

More than a dozen complaints of relatives of the men accused in the attack on Nalchik in 2005, who demand to disclose the places of burial of the killed men, were filed to the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia, the "Kommersant" reports today.

A retired couple has been charged with illegal felling of trees. The pensioners themselves fought for the preservation of trees in Sochi. According to them, they were revenged for their fight.

Members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) have reported the detention of its two activists Fuad Akhmedli and Gadim Bekirov. Till present, the reasons for their detention have not been reported.