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Human rights defenders were involved in Khalimat Taramova's abduction, while Chechen law enforcers acted within the framework of the law, said Akhmed Dudaev, Minister for Nationalities' Matters of Chechnya. He reiterated the thesis of the Chechen and Russian authorities that there are no members of sexual minorities in the region.

The court has found Viken Euldjekzhiyan guilty of terrorism, mercenarism and illegal border crossing. He refused to plead guilty, claiming that he had led a peaceful life in Armenia and was captured on the Lachin highway.

The minefield maps that Yerevan has handed over to Baku in exchange for 15 militaries make an essential, but only small part of the information about minefields, Nikol Pashinyan, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, has stated.

Three video clips have been posted on the Instagram of the "Marem" project, which allegedly show the man who took testimony from Khalimat Taramova shortly before her detention and extradition to Chechnya. It was he who had informed Chechen law enforcers about the girl's whereabouts at the Makhachkala shelter, social network users have suggested.

At the rally held in front of the Georgian Parliament, NGO activists demanded to let the Ombudsperson into the boarding school in Ninotsminda and to remove all the pupils from there. In his turn, the Church spokesman has stated that the Patriarchy is not going to close the boarding school.

Kidnapping by law enforcers of a young woman who escaped from Chechnya and lived in a Makhachkala shelter for victims of domestic violence; fatal shooting of court marshals in Sochi; beginning of the election campaign in Armenia; resignation of the speaker of the Dagestani parliament, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 7-13, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

An uncle of a witness in the case of child abuse at the boarding school named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda has been accused of threatening his nephew, the Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

The total number of remains of Armenian militaries found in the Karabakh conflict zone has reached 1576.

Today, fifteen military servicemen held by Azerbaijan were handed over to Armenia in exchange for the maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines placed in the Agdam District, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.

In Volgograd, activists of the "Left-Wing Front" have held three solo pickets criticizing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the adoption of the Declaration of the Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which is celebrated on June 12.

Sirazhudin Pogorov, an Ingush elder, has offered the Russian President to release, on the occasion of the Day of Russia, the arrested leaders of Ingush protests against the border agreement with Chechnya.

In the Kelbadjar District, policemen detained five residents who were trying to enter non-demined territories in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

In Kalmykia, five activists reported that protocols were drawn up against them after they took part in the congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk people held in Elista.

The forced abduction of a girl from the crisis apartment in Makhachkala can undermine confidence of domestic violence victims in safety of shelters, Nailya Birarova, a social psychologist, is afraid.

Khalimat Taramova, a resident of Chechnya, refused to leave the apartment for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala with her father; and then she and her girl friend were persuaded to get into a car, promising to take them to a safe place. However, both residents of the shelter were brought to the building of the Dagestan Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), where Taramova was given to her relatives, the journalist, Svetlana Anokhina, has informed.

Several former pupils of the Saint Nino boarding school in Ninotsminda have reported that after they gave testimonies to investigators, they received threats and were forced to leave their educational establishments.

The Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala has found no violations of the law in the actions of volunteers of the "Marem" project. The aim of the special operation of attacking the shelter was Khalimat Taramova, said Olga Gnezdilova, a lawyer of the "Legal Initiative"* project said.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the arrest and long custody in Volgograd of the activist, Igor Nagavkin, to be illegal. Russian authorities should pay him a compensation of 2700 euros.

Khalimat Taramova, a daughter of one of the Ramzan Kadyrov’s close associates, had to flee Chechnya to save herself from domestic violence to which she was subjected because of her sexual orientation. In Chechnya, the young woman faces murder for “washing dirty linen of the family in public,” an activist from the “Russian LGBT Network” suggests.

Armenian soldiers opened fire from small arms at positions in the Kelbadjar District, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.