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Student Anazor Arslanuk left the detention centre for foreign citizens and stateless persons in the Krasnodar Territory and went to Abkhazia. He managed to avoid deportation to Syria due to obtaining the citizenship of Abkhazia. This was reported by his advocate.

Azerbaijani activists and journalists living in Georgia have held an action in honour of the National Press Day. They have demanded to release arrested journalists.

Fuad Gakhramanly, Deputy Chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the "Muslim Unity", and Abbas Guseinov and Ali Nuriev, two other persons sentenced in the "Nardaran case", are placed to a punishment cell.

They demand to recognize all the persons arrested within the "Sasna Tsrer" case political prisoners and place them into separate cells in the Nubarashen Prison.

The ban of religious organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses by the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has to do with the increased influence of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), headed by Patriarch Kirill, on the policy of Russian authorities, Lyudmila Alekseeva, the head of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), is convinced.

Overall, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has fixed over 20,000 ceasefire violations on the contact line in the Karabakh conflict zone since the start of 2017. The statistics was announced by Vagif Dargyakhly, the spokesman of the Azerbaijani MoD.

Last night, during two hours, the Azerbaijani armed forces shelled the village of Barekamavan in the Tavush Region of Armenia. No one was injured, the village head reported.

Magomed Aushev, subjected to torture after his detention by law enforcers, suffers from persistent headaches, his vision has deteriorated sharply, and his family is short of money for his medical treatment in a specialized rehabilitation centre. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by relatives of Magomed Aushev.

On July 21, the Presidents of Russia and Azerbaijan met in Sochi, where they reaffirmed the partnership relations between the two countries and, in particular, discussed the Karabakh conflict.

The court has sentenced a woman from Shali to two years of imprisonment in a colony-settlement for injuring her husband's daughter on a thigh with a hot knife because of dislike. However, the execution of the sentence has been delayed.

In Sukhumi, agents of the State Security Service for Abkhazia have detained a native of Uzbekistan who confessed to be a member of the organization "Muslim Brothers", banned in Russia as a terrorist organization.

On July 21, the court hearing in the case against Zhirair Sefilyan, the leader of the opposition movement "100 Years Without Regime", was held in the absence of six defendants and several of their advocates, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Maria Lasitskiene (Kuchina), a track and field athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria, has won the "Diamond League" tournament in Monaco.

The information on the fact that the Apple Company, the manufacturer of the popular iPhone smartphone, has introduced a new set of emoji pictures used in electronic messages and web pages, namely, by girls in hijabs, arrived at the "Caucasian Knot" SMS-service on July 18.

Today, in Vienna, the migration department of Austria has decided to deport 37-year-old Aslan, a Chechen refugee, who lived in the country for more than 7 years. This was reported by his advocate Andreas Lepsi.

On July 20, at a sitting of the parliamentary committees on European integration and international relations, Victor Dolidze, the Georgia's State Minister for European Integration, presented his report for the first half of 2017.

Today, 96 miners of the "Kingcoal" Company and miners from the "Vostochnaya" mine have come out to a picket in front of the "Kingcoal" Company's office, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In their cassation appeal, representatives of Zhanna Nemtsova have demanded to abolish the verdict against the defendants sentenced for the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov's murder and return of the case to the Prosecutor's Office. This was announced by advocate Olga Mikhailova.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is ready to initiate the extradition to Russia of blogger Alexander Lapshin, sentenced in Azerbaijan, if he files such a request. This was reported by the press service of the Russian MoJ.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has upheld the verdict in the case of the riots in the village of Nardaran, which involves Talekh Bagirzade, the leader of the movement "Muslim Unity", and 17 other people. The court has pronounced the decision in the absence of the advocate who treated that as a violation of the defendants' rights to defence.