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The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has condemned the detention of mothers of Beslan and called the actions of law enforcers and the court's decision as "a blatant case of legal blindness."

Today, in Beslan, the court has found three women involved in a protest action and a woman who was standing next to them, guilty of violating the order of holding rallies.

Relatives of the Gasanguseinov brothers, killed on August 23 in the Shamil District of Dagestan, filed a complaint to the investigating authorities of Dagestan and human rights defenders with a request to carry out an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths. This was told on September 1 to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the killed brothers.

In Beslan, Svetlana Margieva, whose daughter was killed in the terror act and who took part in a protest action, went on a hunger strike in protest against the actions of the police. The court has pronounced the decision to fine all the women involved in the protest action, who have been detained today. The detainees also plan to go on a hunger strike.

Victor Kapitonov, an activist, who tried to hold a commemoration action for victims of the terror act in Beslan, was detained near the building of the administration of Russian President.

Sculptures, decorations and tapestries created by Syrian repatriates are presented at the exhibition "Autumn-2016", organized by the Union of Artists. At the opening day, August 31, the exhibition was attended by about 100 people, the organizers have reported.

Policemen have charged five women-participants of the protest action in Beslan, detained today together with journalists, with violation of the order of holding a meeting.

Today, Elena Kostyuchenko and Diana Khachatryan, journalists of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" and the edition "Takie Dela", respectively, have been detained in Beslan while they were highlighting the protest action of mothers who lost their children during the terror act in Beslan in 2004.

Foreign citizens, who on August 30 declared a hunger strike at a special temporary detention facility in the Sochi village of Vardan, stopped their protest action in connection with the improvement of their conditions of detention.

The Chechens, who are refused entry to Poland from Belarus, do not want to return home, and many of them decided to stay in Brest.

Usman Murdalov, a resident of Chechnya, who was killed while attacking inspectors of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) in the Moscow Region, had planned to join his family members, who had earlier moved to Germany. This was reported by relatives and friends of Usman Murdalov.

Relatives of the Avetisyan family members murdered in Gyumri claim that Valery Permyakov was not able to commit a crime alone. They intend to appeal against the verdict.

The Belgian secret services have compiled a list of suspected terrorists, which included 614 people. Of them, 29 are citizens of Russia, the edition "Knack" reports. According to it, the number of Russian citizens mostly includes natives of the North-Caucasian republics, who have connections with the terrorist organization "Imarat Kavkaz" banned in Russia by court.

The fight against dissent in Chechnya was enhanced in late 2014, and the measures taken by the authorities are of repressive and punitive nature. This was stated by the human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW). Ramzan Kadyrov has repeatedly received signals of the Kremlin's dissatisfaction with his policy, and a carte blanche given to him in Chechnya is not absolute, said Tatiana Lokshina, Russia programme director at HRW, while commenting on the HRW's report.

A terror act prevented in the village of Ali-Yurt was directed against Imam Isa Tsechoev and connected with the threats in his address earlier voiced by the authorities of Chechnya. This was stated by human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A picket organized as a part of the "Strategy-31", an All-Russian civil movement in defence of freedom of assembly in Russia, was held at the place in front of the State Bank building in Volgograd, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Nina Karpenko, Alexander Matviyenko, and Igor Maslov, farmers from the Krasnodar Territory, have recorded a video appeal to the Russian President. They have asked Vladimir Putin to help the arrested participants of the "tractor march" and to solve the problems with raiders' seizures and corruption in Kuban.

After Russian Paralympic athletes were disqualified from the competitions in Rio de Janeiro, three Russian quotas went to Azerbaijan.

In Azerbaijan, investigators have completed the preliminary investigation into the case against activist Giyas Ibragimov, accused of drug trafficking on a large scale. The case has been sent to the court. The defence intends to file a motion for termination of the criminal proceedings.

The authorities of Poland will not grant asylum to migrants from Chechnya, since there is no war in this Russian region. This has been reported today by Mariusz Błaszczak, Minister of Internal Affairs of Poland. He has made such a statement after on August 29, more than 150 Russian citizens from Chechnya gathered at the Belarusian-Polish border and demanded from Poland to grant them asylum.