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Ogtai Gyulyalyev, an Azerbaijani human rights defender, who has been in a coma since November 2019, has been placed into the intensive care unit of a Baku hospital. Doctors assess his condition as critical.

Ibragim Musaev, a resident of the village of Sernovodsky, who returned home two days ago after his disappearing in June, disappeared again on August 4. His fellow villagers saw a police car with North-Ossetian license number plates near Musaev's house, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has informed.

Advocates of the leaders of the Ingush protests have obtained the involvement in the case of the experts who did not find any extremist appeals in the statements voiced by the defendants. The defence claims that investigators concealed the results of the expert examinations.

After an arrest of the chief for the GIBDD (Road Police) Department for the Stavropol Territory, artist Alexander Chaplygin offered the police department an installation with a golden toilet bowl as a reminder of the punishment for bribery. Alexander Chaplygin was detained and complained that law enforcers threatened to institute against him a case for insulting a public officer.

In the Kelbadjar District, the police detained two residents who tried to enter the areas not cleared of mines in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan reports.

In Sochi, after the requirement of the vaccination had been imposed for tourists, the hotel occupancy rate has decreased by almost 1.5 times, and about a third of the resort’s guests refuse to be vaccinated, hotel owners complain.

Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has announced a hunger strike in the colony, demanding to provide him with medical care. Salaev's health has worsened, his son has informed.

Seven Western countries have signed a joint statement calling on Russia to recall its recognition of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and to immediately withdraw its troops from there.

Residents of the town of Karabulak in Ingushetia went out to a rally near the building of the unfinished school, which officials have promised to open for three and a half years. In protest, parents decided not to send their children to other schools on September 1, Zarema Akhilgova, the head of the parent committee, has stated.

Under the terms of the sponsor's agreement, the "Akhmat" Football Club (FC) is now advertised by the "PariMatch" betting company, the logo of which is on the players' T-shirts. The cooperation with bookmakers will not improve the club's image among Muslims, since gambling is prohibited by Islam, experts have noted.

A group of feminists has held a rally in front of a police building in Baku aiming to draw attention to the death of Sevindj Magerramova, a resident of the settlement of Zira, who had complained of beating by her husband. The protesters poured paint on the building and were detained for half an hour.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Kelbadjar District have been shelled from Armenia, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has complained about the lack of medical assistance in a penal colony where he is serving his sentence. The activist suffers from heart disease and needs hospitalization, his son reports.

Investigators have launched a check after employees of a water park in the city of Volzhsky refused to let a family with a disabled child in. The administration of the water park explained the ban by taking care of other children on vacation, but is ready to compensate for moral damage to the family.

A commander of a police squadron, a relative of the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, was detained near Khasavyurt with a pistol, sources have reported.

The Armenian armed forces have suppressed an attempt by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over the territory of the Gegarkunik Region, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

The “City of the Dead” complex has got enhanced security, and it has been decided to block openings into all the crypts, Batraz Tsogoev, the director of the National Museum of North Ossetia, reports.

In their complaint submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the former inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (PPS) of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), claimed the political pretext of their firing.

The criminal prosecution of five young guys from Chechnya for a brawl with law enforcers in Saratov needs to be checked by the Prosecutor's Office, Mansur Soltaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, has stated. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), four policemen who tried to stop the brawl were beaten up. In its turn, the defence insists that the policemen were drunk and attacked the young guys themselves, the defence claims.

On August 3, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan upheld the decision of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, which found the actions of the policeman, who had declared a warning to the student, Diana Dibirova, for a solo picket she never held.