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The appeal against the verdict to Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy), will be held on July 23, said her advocate Ziyautdin Uvaisov.

An Azerbaijani soldier, a member of a diversion group, was killed on July 11 during an operation to neutralize the group in the territory of Karvachar located on the border of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh; also, an Armenian officer was lost, and a woman was wounded, reports the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The international organization in defence of the media "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has condemned the 5-year conviction of the 19-year-old blogger Omar Mamedov, says the RWB's statement released in the evening on July 11. The document urged the bodies of justice to remove the absurd charges against the blogger at the court of appeal.

Relatives of the four locals, killed during the special operation conducted in the Dagestani village of Maidanskoe, complain that they cannot get dead men’s bodies for burial from law enforcers. The bodies of those killed during the special operation will be given out to relatives after the end of the identification procedure, an employee of the morgue in Makhachkala told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The participants of the roundtable held in Volgograd on July 11 stated the need to set up some coordination body to address the problems of the Ukrainians who had arrived in the region. Refugees have addressed the local Ombudsman and the Pension Fund.

As of July 12, 2014, the demand of immediate liberation of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko from colony was signed by 5173 persons. In total, activists plan to collect 100,000 signatures in support of the ecologist.

In Stavropol, a court sanctioned arrest of the agent of the patrol-and-post service (PPS), suspected of abuse of office. The policeman broke a jaw of a detained young man, said the Investigating Department (ID) for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

The checkpoints "Gukovo", "Donetsk" and "Novoshakihtinsk", located on the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Rostov Region, have resumed their work, Vasily Malaev, the official representative of the Frontier Service of the FSB for the Rostov Region, said today.

The city of Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, has opened a centre for collection of humanitarian aid for the people who left the area of the antiterrorist operation conducted now in the Lugansk and Donetsk Regions of Ukraine. Residents of South Ossetia are bringing clothes, personal hygiene items, toys and household appliances.

Dashgyn Agalarov, a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) of Azerbaijan was detained in Georgia. Azerbaijan has initiated his extradition procedure, while Georgian rights defenders demand to provide him with political asylum, as Nana Kakabadze, the head of the NGO "Former Political Prisoners for Human Rights", told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

The NGO "Fair Elections" reports about pre-election violations registered before the second round of elections to local self-government bodies in Georgia. In particular, rights defenders have revealed facts of illegal campaigning and pressure on officials and candidates.

The Azerbaijani journalist Rauf Mirkadirov, who was arrested on charges of treason, has testified, for the first time during nearly three months of his custody, to investigators. He has completely denied the charges against him, said Elmar Suleimanov, one of his defenders.

Today, the house of Gadjigishi Bambatov, the chairman of the Dagestani organization "Atly-Boyun Public Anti-Corruption Board", located in the Leninkent neighbourhood of Makhachkala, was searched. Bambatov claims that the search was an attempt to put pressure and intimidate him to force him to give up his struggle with land frauds.

As reported by statements posted on the websites that support North-Caucasian militants, the latter took responsibility for assassinating Aitemir Salimgereev, the former head of the GOVD (City Interior Division) of Kizilyurt, and a police major in the Khasavyurt District of Dagestan.

This morning, a law enforcement source has reported that a supposed member of an illegal armed formation (IAF), who opened fire at law enforcers from the roof of the mosque, was shot dead in the Dagestani village of Echeda. His accomplice was killed after power agents blocked the mosque.

The Nasimi District Court has considered the complaint filed by Kyamala Bananyarly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), against the refusal of the Prosecutor's Office to institute criminal proceedings on her complaint about the fact that she had been subjected to torture at the police station. The Court has dismissed her complaint.

In the Rostov Region, operation of three checkpoints on the Russian-Ukrainian border has been suspended because of the ongoing shooting in the adjacent Ukrainian territory in the closest vicinity of the Russian border. This was told to the agency "Interfax-South" by Vasily Malaev, Spokesperson of the Border Guard Service of the Russian FSB for the Rostov Region.

In Dagestan, a "Caucasian Knot" source from the law enforcement agencies has reported the details of the murder of Police Colonel Aitemir Salimgereev committed in Kizilyurt. Attackers handcuffed the owner of the house to a metal heating pipe and tied him with a cord. Then, they inflicted multiple stab wounds to him and cut off the Aitemir Salimgereev's head.

On July 10, Isa Abdulkadyrov was detained in the Kizilyurt District of Dagestan. He has told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had been beaten by policemen and that he had been forced to incriminate himself.

In Dagestan, at the trial in the case against Sabina Abakarova, a local resident accused of illegal possession of weapons, the court has started to consider the written evidence. The defence has reported the results of the examination, which revealed no traces of explosive substances on the defendant's hands and face.