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Ismail Isaev and Salekh Magamadov were prosecuted for publicly criticizing the Chechen authorities and for their belonging to the LGBT community, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* concludes.

In Makhachkala, participants of four pickets demanded to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to stop pressure on journalists and arrests without evidence.

Yunis Safarov and nine people, whom Azerbaijani human rights defenders recognized as political prisoners, have filed an appeal against the verdict in a case on the assassination attempt on the Ganja mayor.

Soldiers stole a car that a resident of the Syunik Region of Armenia had to leave in the territory controlled by Azerbaijan, the head of the border village of Tekh reports today.

Today, bilateral battalion tactical exercises have been simultaneously launched at four training grounds of the Southern Military District, and they will last for a week, until September 18.

During the week from September 6 to September 12, 2021, at least two people perished during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; no information about the wounded ones was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The principal and two teachers of a school in Argun have been dismissed for extortions from pupils' parents, Vakhit Usmaev, the Chechen Deputy Prime Minister, has informed.

Residents of the Adjarian village of Bobokvati have held a rally demanding to transfer ownership rights to 28 hectares of land to them.

The passage of other countries' cars across the territory controlled by Russian peacemakers contradicts the agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated demanding to stop such traffic.

Nurpasha Kulaev has deserved life imprisonment for the terror act committed in the Beslan school, social media users from North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria assert in their comments on Kulaev's appeal to the Ombudsperson with a request to review his case.

The declaration by Akhmed Arsanukaev of a blood feud against four families is contrary to Vainakh traditions and elementary decency rules, members of the Chechen Diaspora in Turkey have stated.

In the Lachin District, militaries of Turkey and Azerbaijan have mastered the skills of conducting reconnaissance, setting ambushes and finding and liquidating saboteurs, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

The declaration of blood feud to several families in Chechnya is backed by republic's authorities, Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations, has stated. The Kremlin connives at republic's authorities by ignoring the phenomenon of blood feud, political analysts assert.

The operative headquarters has cancelled the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime in the Buynaksk District of Dagestan, where two militants were killed.

Armenia has launched the largest military training in 30 years. Azerbaijan and Turkey have deliberately opposed them with their military exercises in Nagorno-Karabakh, military experts assert.

The absence of any reaction of the Prosecutor's Office (PO) to the call of Nino Lomdjariya, the Georgian Ombudsperson, to bring the organizers of riots in Tbilisi to justice is explained by the fact that law enforcers would not admit the involvement of priests in violence against journalists, Vakhtang Maisaya, a political analyst, believes.

The condition of certain objects shown in the video about the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Buynaksk District, which, according to law enforcers, had belonged to the killed militants, fails to meet the conditions of staying in the forest, which raises doubts about the official version of the reasons for the CTO, Instagram users have pointed out.

The health condition of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, has worsened after his second arrest, but at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) he cannot receive the necessary medical treatment, his advocate asserts.

Karabakh rescuers found remains of Armenian military servicemen in Matagis, bringing the total number of remains and dead bodies found in the conflict zone up to 1662, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

Armenian authorities have decided to hold a large-scale celebration of the 30th anniversary of the country's independence, but the public criticized these plans, and relatives of the dead militaries demanded to cancel the holiday. Armenian human rights defenders treat the lavish celebrations prior to the first anniversary of the 2020 autumn war as inappropriate.