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Razi Gumbatov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" movement, who was arrested within a drug dealing case, was deprived of the opportunity to contact his family and invite a lawyer of his choice, his defence has stated in an appeal complaint against his arrest. Gumbatov had been conducting an anti-drug campaign in his dwelling settlement by warning young people against drug use, the movement has stated.

During the week from July 5 to July 11, 2021, at least one person perished during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

The protesters have commemorated the cameraman of the "TV-Pirveli" Company, who died after being beaten up, demanded resignation of the Georgian government and read out the names of the journalists who had been beaten up while covering the gay pride parade in Tbilisi.

The guide of a search group of the Emergency Situations Service (ESS) of Nagorno-Karabakh has lost his leg by stepping on a mine while searching for the casualties' bodies and remains in the battle zone.

Peacekeepers ensured the safety of pilgrims from Stepanakert during their visits to the Amaras and Ganzasar monasteries on the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh controlled by Azerbaijan, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported.

Tofig Yagublu, a member of the Coordination Centre for the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), was banned from flying from Azerbaijan to Georgia to attend his mother’s funeral. The decision was made at the level of the country’s authorities and is biased, the oppositionist says.

The Georgian police detained David Kutaladze, who became the fifth suspect accused of beating up Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the “TV Pirveli” TV Company.

34-year-old driver Elshan Eivaz oglu Khalilov was injured as a result of a bomb explosion in the village of Garakhanbeili in the Fizuli District, the regional Prosecutor’s Office reported.

The victims of blackmailing by means of intimate photos are facing threats to their lives in Northern Caucasus. At the same time, Russian social networks fail to react to demands to remove the photo; while policemen are not always ready to investigate blackmail cases, human rights defenders assert.

Journalists and opposition supporters took to large-scale actions in Tbilisi and other large cities of Georgia demanding resignation of the government and an inquiry into the death of Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the "TV-Pirveli" Company.

Disrupted “March of Dignity” in Tbilisi; flooding in Kuban; attack on policemen in Grozny; protests against the construction of a road in the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 5-11, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Karabakh rescuers found remains of three more persons who perished in battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh. The total number of bodies and remains of Armenian militaries found has reached 1604.

The armed incident in Grozny was at least the eighth attack on policemen with knives in Northern Caucasus since May 2018. Five attacks were committed in 2019.

Relatives found Lekso Lashkarava, a cameraman of the "TV-Pirveli" Company, who was beaten up during riots at actions against the gay parade in Tbilisi, dead.

All the collective and Friday namazes (prayers) have been suspended in the mosques of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) by the decision of the republic’s Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) due to the spread of coronavirus. Believers are advised to hold the Eid al-Adha prayers in mosque yards or in spacious places.

The attack by a man with a knife on policemen in Grozny was the second armed incident in Chechnya since the start of 2021.

The information of the Azerbaijani party about the shelling of the positions of its militaries stationed in the Gadabay District by Armenia has nothing to do with reality, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Four detainees in Tbilisi within the case of attacking journalists are charged with obstructing the work of media professionals, as well as with using insults and physical violence, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

In the evening on July 9, positions of the Azerbaijani Army deployed in the border Gadabay District were shelled from Armenia, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

The only road leading to the high-mountainous Georgian village of Omalo has been blocked by a landslide.