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The Nasimi District Court of Baku has extended by two months the arrest of Ilkin Rustamzade, a member of the civil movement "Free Youth", charged with disorderly conduct. Under the ruling, the young man will stay behind bars till November 17. The defendant and his advocate have stated their disagreement with the ruling and intend to appeal against it.

The Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, kept in custody in Moscow, will retain his post until the next election schedule for 2014, since the Dagestani authorities have decided not to hold the early election.

The Sovietsky Court of Makhachkala has postponed – till September 23, because of non-appearance of the prosecutor, – the consideration of the complaint of the lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova against the investigators who had stopped the criminal case on her beating in the building of the Khasavyurt OVD (Interior Division).

In Georgia, an educational film for training and re-training of employees of the penitentiary system was produced within the project of the training centre of the corrections and probation. The project lasts for half a year already, and starting from in September, the training centre launched a new training course.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan has dismissed the appeal filed by Avaz Zeinalov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Khural", and upheld the verdict to deprive the journalist of liberty for nine years, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

Akbar Murtazaliev, a resident of the village of Shamkhal, who was detained on September 9, is kept in the Kirov ROVD (District Interior Division) of Makhachkala. This was reported by the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy). He is charged of illegal possession of weapons.

At the trial on the case of the attack on Nalchik, prosecutors have qualified the actions of all the defenders as banditry, armed revolt, terrorism, attempts on lives of law enforcers and murder of two or more persons. It is expected that the prosecution will finish their debate on October 12 and announce the proposed punishments, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

As reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia, within 6 months they managed to reach a 30-percent increase in crime-solving. The Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili said that the police was acting efficiently; however, his opinion was not shared by the political expert Gela Vasadze, the leader of the NGO "Free Zone", and Zaza Khatiashvili, the Chairman of the Bar Association of Georgia.

At least 76 persons suffered from the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus in August 2013; of them, 42 persons were lost and 34 more were wounded. These are the results of the calculations made by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In Azerbaijan, the advocate's power of lawyer Aslan Ismailov has been terminated. This decision was made today by the Nariman District Court of Baku to grant the request of the Advocates' Bar of Azerbaijan to deprive Aslan Ismailov of advocate status and to expel him from the Advocates' Chamber. Aslan Ismailov himself does not agree with the decision of the Court.