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The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan did not grant the cassation appeal against the verdict to journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, and the defence decided to seek his conditional early relief.

68 people detained for administrative offenses have been released, and two persons have been detained in criminal cases, the Georgian police reports today.

The Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) postponed the discussion of the report of the commission on the determination of the border with Chechnya after the visit of law enforcers, who were checking information about house mining. An author of the bomb report was planning to disrupt the meeting of the Ingush Council of Teips, Instagram users suggested.

Azerbaijan is unlawfully claiming Nagorno-Karabakh minefield maps in exchange for Armenian prisoners of war (POWs), Yerevan online debaters believe.

On July 6, two Armenian soldiers were wounded in a shootout with their Azerbaijani counterparts, Armen Grigoryan, the head of the Armenian Security Council, has informed.

Within the case of confrontation on July 5, during the action against the “Tbilisi Pride”, a total of 23 persons have been recognized as victims, including 17 media professionals. NGOs have blamed Georgian authorities for the incident.

In the Fizuli District, Karabakh rescuers have found remains of a military serviceman. Thus, the total number of bodies and remains found in the battle zone has reached 1596, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh has informed.

Law enforcers knew in advance the potential places of unrests during the LGBT action held in Tbilisi on July 5, but they wouldn’t prevent them. Georgian authorities used radicals to deal with their opponents; and the attacks themselves were organized to disrupt Euro-Atlantic integration, the Georgian politicians interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported on the shelling delivered by Armenian units in the responsibility zone of the Russian peacemakers in Nagorno-Karabakh. A soldier of the Azerbaijani Army was wounded.

On July 6, actions were held in central Tbilisi in support of victims of the July 5 unrests, and of LGBT opponents. A police cordon was set up between them, but radicals attacked the participants in a silent rally in support of the suffered journalists. Several people were injured.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensation to a resident of Grozny, Rizvan Abdulkhanov, who became disabled due to the wounds received during law enforcers’ special operation.

An Armenian soldier and two Azerbaijani soldiers were wounded as a result of a shootout at the border in the Gegarkunik District, the spokesperson for the Armenian General Headquarters reported. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan denied the information about the incident.

Ramzan Kadyrov submitted documents to participate in the September election for the leader of Chechnya, the Chechen Election Commission reports.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced a decision that the Russian authorities ineffectively investigated the killing of Aslan Yemkuzhev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, by law enforcers and the version that he was tortured before his death. The Strasbourg Court obliged the Russian authorities to pay 70,000 euros of compensation to a mother of the killed resident of Kabardino-Balkaria.

A shootout took place at the border with Iran, when five violators tried to enter the territory of Azerbaijan. One of them, a citizen of Azerbaijan, was wounded and died on the way to hospital, while four others fled back to Iran.

Azerbaijani investigators accused Armenian citizens Gevorg Sudjyan and David Davtyan of espionage, and the criminal case was transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Makharbi Tosuev, a native of Chechnya, guilty of an armed riot, acts of banditry, an attempt on policemen, and a murder, and increased his term of imprisonment to 25 years.

Thirteen Georgian oppositional parties have issued a joint appeal, in which they criticized the Georgian authorities, reproaching them for encouraging mass violence during the riots in Tbilisi; they have also stated the intentional police’s inaction.

After the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, sappers have demined 3326 hectares and defused almost 22,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, as well as unexploded ordnances, the Azerbaijani National Anti-Mine Agency (ANAMA) has informed.

Neither local residents nor tourists wear medical masks; they fail to observe social distance and behave as if there is no pandemic, vacationers from Russia told the "Caucasian Knot".