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Based on the application submitted by Aslan Iritov, the head of the NGO "Volny Aul" (Free Village), about his beating by policemen, a Nalchik court has obliged investigators to check the information.

In Dagestan, a local resident will appear before the court, as investigators treat him as a member of the banned religious association "At-Takfir Wal-Hijra"*.

South Ossetia has held events in memory of the victims of the "Five-Day War" that began on August 8, 2008. Residents of Tskhinvali, who refused to attend these events, prefer to personally share their memories with their descendants. Those who attended them believe that such events are important for the next generations to remember the history.

Ramzan Kadyrov got a certificate of the candidate from the “Edinaya Rossiya” (United Russia) Party in the election for the leader of Chechnya, scheduled for September 19.

Public prosecutor asked the court to sentence Rafig Bairamov, the former Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Culture, to 10 years of imprisonment for abuse of power. The defence demanded to remove the arrest from the Rafig Bairamov’s bank account and claimed he was not guilty.

The Azerbaijani armed forces used their positions in the city of Shushi to shell the Armenian positions near the villages of Mkhitarashen and Shosh, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reported. Villagers asked for peacekeepers to be deployed in the area, and the recent shelling attacks have again highlighted the security concerns, local residents complain.

Lachin Veliev, a supporter of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, and a former member of the “Musavat” Party, was hospitalized on the ninth day of his hunger strike. After being forced to accept food, Lachin Veliev stopped the action he was holding in protest against the extension of his arrest.

A Baku court has upheld the verdict to the Azerbaijani citizens who had earlier been found guilty of complicity with the "Islamic State" (IS or ISIL), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, and sentenced to terms ranging from two and a half to eight years in prison.

On August 9, Armenian militaries shelled the positions of Azerbaijani troops stationed in the Sadarak District of the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR), the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

On August 10, Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), will be transferred to the medical unit of the colony where he is serving his term, his son has informed. However, the medical unit has no equipment and facilities for treating serious diseases, but the custody conditions there are better, human rights defenders have explained.

Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the edition, and the journalist, Idris Yusupov, came out to solo pickets in Makhachkala demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev and all political prisoners.

Eight tents have been set up by opponents of oak felling in the Volga-Akhtuba floodplain near the site where the road construction is planned.

The disappearance of Ibragim Musaev, a resident of the village of Sernovodsky, whom law enforcers were interested in, indicates a real danger for him, human rights defenders believe, suggesting that a criminal case can be fabricated against Musaev.

Relatives of Armenian prisoners of war kept in Azerbaijan, including convicts, went to a protest rally in front of the building of the Armenian government. The protestors promised to continue their action until officials provide them with concise answers about the situation with the prisoners of war (POWs).

In Moscow, a court extended the arrest of Alikhan Adjamatov, a native of Dagestan, by six months. According to the defence, the case is based on the fact that the counterparties, with whom Alikhan Adjamatov had business contacts, had indirect ties with persons convicted in terrorist cases.

The defence of Eldar Gasanov again requested the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan to change the pre-trial restriction measure for his treatment at a clinic because of the deterioration of his condition at a hospital.

The defendants were aware that their acquaintance was involved in the activities of a terrorist organization and was plotting to create an illegal armed formation, but did not report the above information to the law enforcement bodies, investigators claimed.

Anti-COVID measures imposed by the authorities in Southern Russia; reappointment of Nikol Pashinyan as Prime Minister of Armenia; preparation for the September elections in Southern Russia; new successes of athletes from the Caucasus and Southern Russia at the Tokyo Olympic Games, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 2-8, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

During the week from August 2 to August 8, 2021, no information was received about any perished or wounded persons 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.

Law enforcers used torture to obtain confessions of participation in the attack on Nalchik in 2005, two convicts indicated in their answers to the questions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), despite Russian authorities' assurances that they had not been tortured.