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Teona Tamazashvili, the mother of the deceased programmer, Tamar Bachaliashvili, has agreed to stop her hunger strike after meeting with the Georgia General Public Prosecutor. The woman received assurances that experts from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) will run her daughter's case.

The detained participants of the bicycle ride in Yerevan were released from police stations; protocols were drawn up on them for disobeying police's demands, but cyclists have disagreed with the charges.

There are enough places in the quarantine camp in Azerbaijan to accommodate all those waiting for departure home from Dagestan, the Azerbaijanis who have arrived home assert. The Azerbaijani authorities must organize the unhindered return of their citizens from Kullar, Azerbaijani rights defenders believe.

Eighteen opponents to the development of the Amulsar gold field were detained at the building of the Armenian government; cases of disobeying the police were opened against them.

The four criminal articles in Vadim Cheldiev's case have been supplemented by the article on organizing mass riots in Vladikavkaz.

The Yerevan police detained human rights defender Nina Karapetyants who held a solo picket against the development of the Amulsar deposit. The police also prevented activists from gathering in a city park.

The defence succeeded in seeking the release of Ruslan Dzeitov, who was sentenced for attacking a law enforcer during a rally in Magas. The court of Stavropol counted the months spent by the activist under arrest as his imprisonment term.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev visited an agricultural holding without wearing medical masks. The top-ranking officials ignore their own requirements, while local residents are fined for absence of masks, Instagram users note.

In Tbilisi, Teona Tamazashvili claims she does not trust an investigators' version about suicide as the cause of her daughter Tamar Bachaliashvili's death. Today, Teona Tamazashvili has declared going on a hunger strike with the demand to engage experts from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation in the case of her daughter's death.

Over the past 1.5 months, in Azerbaijan, the number of political prisoners has increased by 37 and reached 192, the "Union for the Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan" reports.

Anzor Malizaev, a brother of Minkail Malizaev, a critic of the Chechen authorities, who is living in Europe, has urged, in his video message addressed to members of the Chechen Diaspora in Europe, to stop his brother and other critics of the Chechen authorities, or send them home, where they will be "stopped." The Malizaev's appeal has caused rejection among residents of the republic.

At his trial at the Nizami District Court, Tofig Yagublu, a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and of the "Musavat" Party, declared his innocence. The court rejected all the defence's motions. Mr Yagublu has treated the trial as biased and "fulfilling the political order" of the Azerbaijani leadership.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has joined the investigation into the circumstances of the death of the programmer, Tamar Bachaliashvili; it was done at the request of her relatives who do not trust the findings of Georgian investigators, the advocate has informed.

The court has postponed for almost two months the consideration of the lawsuit lodged by the mother and brother of Khusei Makitov, the murdered resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, against the FSB, demanding compensation for the moral harm. The FSB is responsible for the actions of its employees, said the advocate, referring to a similar decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the case of the policeman named Evsyukov.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has expressed its concern about persecutions of political oppositionists in Azerbaijan. A wave of arrests following the July 15 rally in Baku could lead to the disappearance of an already highly fragmented independent opposition, the AI said in its statement.

Local residents protesting against gold mining have demanded from Armenian authorities to revise the impact of the mine on the environment; about 200 activists gathered in the outskirts of Mount Amulsar, protesters have informed.

The detention of Farrukh Mamedzade, an activist of the "Nida" Movement was associated by his colleagues with the July 15 rally in Baku.

Residents of Abkhazia have got the opportunity to return home from Georgia until August 9. A medical control was organized for people crossing the border.

The state-run "Grozny" TV Channel made public several stories about the celebration of the Aimani Kadyrova's birthday. Residents of Argun involuntarily took part in the march dedicated to the birthday of the Chechen leader's mother, Instagram users suggested.

Late in the evening on August 4, in Tbilisi, four transgender women were attacked by young men. The attackers were in a state of alcoholic intoxication, but they managed to flee before the police arrived. The victims have complained that they do not feel safe, since members of the LGBT community are often attacked in Georgia.