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In the Khosta District, policemen fabricated a case of administrative offence. This was reported by Olga Sofronova, a resident of Sochi. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by Olga Sofronova that on August 30, she came to the OVD (Interior Division) to find out the fate of the complaint filed earlier.

In Yerevan, one more protest action was held in front of the General Prosecutor's Office. Participants of the protest action demanded to acquit Tigran Arakelyan, Artak Karapetyan, David Kiramidjyan, and Sargis Gevorgyan, four young opposition activists, accused of disorderly conduct.

The Khasavyurt Interdistrict Investigating Division of the Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) for Dagestan has instituted a criminal case on the fact of threats received by advocates Sapiyat Magomedova and Musa Suslanov.

The Court of Appeal (CoA) of Nagorno-Karabakh has considered the claim filed by advocates on the case against students Rafael Avagyan and David Barsegyan, who were sentenced to 11 and 10 years of imprisonment, respectively, for treason in the form of espionage. The decision of the CoA will be pronounced on September 27.

A fight with the security guards of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the leader of Ingushetia, in which three persons were injured, was initiated by the owner of the car, which the security guards intended to inspect. The actions of the security guards themselves were not professional. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" that studied the video record from the place of the incident.

The court has fined and released 71 participants of the rally held by residents of the village of Agachaul, who demanded to release Malik Kambulatov, detained on suspicion of illegal arms trafficking. Four other protesters still remain detained, and criminal cases were instituted against them, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

Ruslan Akhmedov, a resident of the village of Gomushchu, Saatli District of Azerbaijan, states the pressure used against him by the authorities and the use of police violence. He attributed this to his criticism of local authorities and his support of the opposition presidential candidate Jamil Gasanli.

The international Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on Vladimir Gasparyan, the chief of the Armenian police, and Vagram Shaginyan, the head of the special investigation service, to bring those responsible for attacks on protesters to justice.

Today, the police detained more than 50 participants of the unsanctioned rally, which took place near the Prosecutor's Office of the Lenin District of Makhachkala. The people were protesting against the unlawful, in their opinion, detention of Malik Kambulatov, a resident of the village of Agachaul of the Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan.

Several officials from the Makhachkala administration are suspected of stealing 1.5 million roubles of budget funds. As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan, the suspects used forged documents to allocate the apartments built in the building of a kindergarten to relatives of the Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov.