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A group of feminists has held a rally in front of a police building in Baku aiming to draw attention to the death of Sevindj Magerramova, a resident of the settlement of Zira, who had complained of beating by her husband. The protesters poured paint on the building and were detained for half an hour.

The positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed in the Kelbadjar District have been shelled from Armenia, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has complained about the lack of medical assistance in a penal colony where he is serving his sentence. The activist suffers from heart disease and needs hospitalization, his son reports.

Investigators have launched a check after employees of a water park in the city of Volzhsky refused to let a family with a disabled child in. The administration of the water park explained the ban by taking care of other children on vacation, but is ready to compensate for moral damage to the family.

A commander of a police squadron, a relative of the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya, was detained near Khasavyurt with a pistol, sources have reported.

The Armenian armed forces have suppressed an attempt by an Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle to fly over the territory of the Gegarkunik Region, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reports.

The “City of the Dead” complex has got enhanced security, and it has been decided to block openings into all the crypts, Batraz Tsogoev, the director of the National Museum of North Ossetia, reports.

In their complaint submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), the former inspectors of the patrol-and-post service (PPS) of the Ingush Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), claimed the political pretext of their firing.

The criminal prosecution of five young guys from Chechnya for a brawl with law enforcers in Saratov needs to be checked by the Prosecutor's Office, Mansur Soltaev, a member of the Public Chamber of Russia, has stated. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), four policemen who tried to stop the brawl were beaten up. In its turn, the defence insists that the policemen were drunk and attacked the young guys themselves, the defence claims.

On August 3, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan upheld the decision of the Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala, which found the actions of the policeman, who had declared a warning to the student, Diana Dibirova, for a solo picket she never held.

At the session of the court that considers the so-called "Ingush case", members of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) have testified that at the rally held in Magas in March 2019, young people were provoked to use violence, while the defendants tried to calm them down.

More than ten Armenian journalistic and human rights organizations have criticized the restrictions introduced on the journalists accredited at the Parliament. In a joint statement, they demanded to cancel the novelties that hinder their work in the parliament building.

A Baku court has arrested Eldaniz Salimov, an MP, who was deprived of his parliamentary immunity, under a case of abuse of office.

When accommodating into a hotel in the Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory, called like that by the name of the main river, – note of the "Caucasian Knot"), tourists must present vaccination certificates or a promise to get the first vaccination within three days. The accommodation demands have reduced, as these demands scare tourists away, tourism professionals report.

Ibragim Musaev, a resident of the Chechen village of Sernovodskoye, who disappeared in June on his way from the Magas airport after his return from Greece, is at home, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

In the city of Volzhsky, employees of the water park unreasonably refused to let in a family with a disabled child who had come to rest from Astrakhan, the boy’s parents complained. The Prosecutor’s Office launched an investigation into the incident.

Activists of the opposition “Alliance of Patriots of Georgia” Party have addressed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which they asked him for assistance in settling the Georgian-Russian relations, the “Georgia Online” reports today with reference to Irma Inashvili, the leader of the “Alliance of Patriots of Georgia” Party.

A court found Mokhyamadkhan Abdulvakhabov, a resident of Chechnya, guilty of transferring money to a friend for travelling to Syria and sentenced him to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

In Azerbaijan, 89 persons who attended weddings have been fined for violating the quarantine restrictions; 2700 more people were not let to the celebrations because of absent of COVID-19 passports, the Azeri Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

In the Fizuli District, Karabakh rescuers have found remains of four military servicemen who perished in the Nagorno-Karabakh hostilities. The total number of bodies and remains of Armenian militaries found has reached 1623.