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Vugar Aslanov, a member of the Youth Committee of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who was detained on July 21 during his silent solo picket in Baku, was sentenced to 10 days of administrative arrest on charges of disobeying the police.

Sergey Plakhotnyuk, the Public Prosecutor of the Tsentralny District of Sochi has refused to approve the indictment against the journalist Nikolai Yarst, accused of drug trafficking and possession, and returned the case for further investigation, said the lawyer Marina Dubrovina.

Grachya Arutyunyan, a native of Armenia, suspected of committing a traffic accident near Podolsk, has refused to testify, the press service of the Moscow MIA reports.

Alla Kurbanova was detained by Dagestani law enforcers in Makhachkala on suspicion of illegal possession of firearms and ammunition, including the so-called "shahid belt". Her father asserts that his daughter is innocent.

Actions in support of opposition leader and blogger Alexei Navalny in cities of Southern Russia; death of a child from meningitis in North Ossetia; natural disaster in Georgia flooding 20 villages; nomination of incumbent heads of Ingushetia and Dagestan for the upcoming indirect elections; verdict in the case of the death of a tourist at "Zorb" entertainment in Karachay-Cherkessia; establishment of a new oppositional alliance in Azerbaijan in support of the National Council of Democratic Forces, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of July 15-21, 2013, prepared by the"Caucasian Knot".

The Investigative Committee of the Krasnodar Territory has opened a criminal case against a local man who had allegedly posted an article justifying terrorism on the Internet.

Four masked men attacked Eldar Nazaraliev, the deputy chairman of the Committee on Tourism, and tried to kidnap him, said the spokesman of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan.

In Azerbaijan, the health condition of Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who is kept in custody, has deteriorated; and he was taken into the prison hospital, said his father Alisafa Melikov.

In Dagestan, the rights of detainees to defence are massively violated, lawyers assert. They intend to raise the issue at a press conference scheduled for July 31 at the Bar building in Makhachkala, Dagestan.

Baku Court of Appeal (CoA) has separately considered the complaints of youth activists Ulvi Gasanli, Majid Mardjanly and Kenan Gasymly, who are kept under administrative arrest. Young people asked to declare the illegality of their arrest and release them from detention. The complaints were dismissed.

On July 18, the suspects kept in the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Cherkessk attempted to launch a rebellion, said the advocate of one of them, adding that it was caused by violations made by law enforcers.