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The information obtained during the investigation into the criminal case instituted on the fact of the death of Karen Petrosyan, a resident of the border village of Chinari, captured by the Azerbaijani side, gives reason to consider the version of his kidnapping from the Armenian territory.

The OSCE observers have repeatedly recorded appearance of men in military clothes at checkpoints, who are travelling in both directions individually and in groups; however, they had never seen weapons in their hands, said Paul Picard, the head of the OSCE mission in the Rostov Region.

The Azerbaijani city of Nakhichevan hosts a trilateral meeting of Defence Ministers of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. Following the negotiations, the heads of the Ministries of Defence (MoDs) decided to hold the meetings on the regular basis every six months.

Rustam Yunusov, an advocate of Ilmudin Gasanov kidnapped in Dagestan has stated that investigators fail to act and that the case materials may be intentionally lost.

Candidates from 12 political parties have been included in the electoral lists for the elections of deputies to Vladikavkaz representative assembly (City Duma) of sixth convocation, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of North Ossetia reports.

The defence of Murad Shuaibov, a defendant in the case on the murder of journalist Abdulmalik Akhmedilov, has filed an appeal to the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Dagestan against the dismissal of the motion to return the criminal case to the Prosecutor's Office.

At night on August 17, in the Shali District of Chechnya, policemen and district officials summoned and questioned more than one thousand people, including minors, in connection with disappearance of a mobile phone of Ramzan Kadyrov, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has announced prisoners of conscience Faradj Kerimli, a youth activist of the "Musavat" Party, and his brother Siradj Kerimli, arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of drug trafficking, and called for their immediate release.

The Azerbaijani Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal filed by Ruslan Nasirli, a member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was sentenced to 30 days of administrative arrest.

At the Monday night, a resident of the village of Ashilta was killed by unidentified armed men in masks, stated Magomednur Nazirbegov, the head of the village administration. According to him, another local man was injured in the attack.

Leyla Yunus, Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), and her husband Arif Yunus, a conflictologist, who are accused in Azerbaijan of treason, should be released from custody, "The Nobel Women's Initiative" states.

During the week of August 11-17, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least one human life; no information about wounded people was reported. The casualty is a civilian Rasul Gamzatov – Deputy Mufti of North Ossetia. These are the results of calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Georgian authorities still have no strategy to address the needs of people who lost their homes, said Tamta Mikeladze, a human rights defender, at the presentation of the results of studies of homeless people's life held by the NGO "Centre for Study and Monitoring of Human Rights" (CSMHR).

On August 17, the fifth annual North-Caucasian Youth Forum "Mashuk-2014", held in Pyatigorsk during two weeks, was closed. The closing ceremony was held at the evening of August 16.

On August 17, the international human rights organization "Civil Rights Defenders" (CRD) called on for immediate release of Rasul Jafarov, an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender, who celebrated his 30th birthday in custody.

As reported by the lawyer Zulfiya Isagadjieva with reference to the victims, three residents of Buynaksk were beaten up by policemen, after which one of the victims was hospitalized. The Buynaksk GOVD (City Interior Division) denied this information, saying that two men who applied violence to a policeman were brought to them.

On August 14, the Khosta District Court of Sochi found a local resident Oksana Toropova guilty of beating a court marshal and sentenced her to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment and a probation term of three years.

The Deputy Mufti of North Ossetia Rasul Gamzatov was the fourth Muslim leader killed in Northern Caucasus since the start of 2014 and the 40th since 2009, the "Caucasian Knot" has calculated.

In Dagestan, the Akusha District Court has pronounced its decision to arrest Akhmed Nurmagomedov, a local resident, suspected of illegal possession of weapons, for two months, his advocate reports.

During the search conducted in the premises of the Moscow religious Muslim organization "Enlightenment" Educational Foundation, law enforcers planted leaflets and CDs, members of the foundation assert. According to the FSB report, mosque-goers were detained in order to ensure smooth conduct of the search.