News

Anna Politkovskaya was killed by law enforcers, not by suspected natives of Chechnya. This was stated today at the Moscow City Court by the lawyer Murad Musaev.

In Azerbaijan, Asif Orudjlu, an activist of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) was sentenced to seven days of administrative arrest for disobeying the police.

As reported y the Southern Investigating Department for Transport, seven juvenile offenders cut their veins when in a train in protest against their convoying from the Krasnodar SIZO (pre-trial prison) to the Belorechensk Juvenile Correctional Colony.

Azerbaijani Court found Ali Guseinov, one of the elders of the village of Nardaran, a religious activist and a member of the Islamic Party of Azerbaijan (IPA), guilty of violation of regulations to hold demonstrations and sentenced him to 9 days of administrative arrest.

In the Stavropol Territory, as a result of a road traffic accident involving a tourist bus, one person was killed, and 29 persons were injured. This was reported by Oleg Degtyarov, Spokesperson of the Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) of the Stavropol Territory.

In Sochi, the family of local residents Toromonyan claims that the court pronounced the decision to withdraw without regard to the real cost the house and the garden of 0.23 hectares belonging to them for the Olympic venue an alternate highway of Kurortny Avenue.

The USA urges the Azerbaijan's authorities to ensure the conditions for free and fair presidential election. This is declared in the statement made by Richard Morningstar, US Ambassador in Baku.

The civil movement "Republican Alternative" (REAL) held a protest action demanding to release its leader Ilgar Mamedov.

On August 5, in Sochi, Oleg Rubezhansky, the publisher of the newspaper "Mestnaya" (Local), was handed in the resolution to terminate criminal proceedings against him as a result of the act on amnesty.

On August 5, advocates of Nikolai Yarst filed a complaint to the judicial board on criminal cases of the Krasnodar Regional Court against the decision to extend the home arrest of the journalist.

The Chechen Prosecutor's Office has sent to the court the case opened after the fire that occurred in April in "Grozny-City". The charge is brought against Magomed-Amin Amirov, a 47-year-old mechanic of the "UK Genstroy".

Today, the Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has dismissed the appeal of the defence of the theologian Talekh Bagirzade against the extension of his arrest.

A group of Muslim from Kislovodsk plans to appeal at higher instances against the decision of the Territorial Court to demolish two mosques in the villages of Belorechensky and Industriya, said Aslan Shamanov, the Imam of Kislovodsk.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) of Armenia has dismissed the motion to change the measure of freedom restraint of Tigran Arakelyan, an activist of the "Armenian National Congress" (ANC).

Activists of the opposition treat the shift of the voting day to an earlier date as illegal and unjustified, and caused by a possible intention of the authorities to exclude Rustam Ibragimbekov from the race.

In Makhachkala, the second improvised explosive device (IED) installed near the shop "Kristall" (Crystal), was a dummy. This was reported by a source in the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Dagestan.

Operation aimed to detain an alleged rapist in Moscow, which turned into "cleansing" of Moscow marketplaces and gathering places of natives from Northern Caucasus and Central Asia; another murder of theologian in Dagestan; appointment of voting date at presidential election in Azerbaijan, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of July 29-August 4, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

In the city of Nevinnomyssk of the Stavropol Territory, a detainee died in a ward of a detention facility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). He was serving his 15-day administrative arrest.

In Georgia, 116 prisoners were granted conditional early relief (CER). This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Corrections and Legal Assistance.

According to the specified information, seven persons got minor cut injuries in the explosion in a shop located in the centre of Makhachkala. The number of victims has reached nine persons, including two persons who got contused at the moment of the explosion.