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On Tuesday, the state of health of Iles Tatiev, who is holding a hunger strike at the Ingush IVS (temporary detention facility), became worse, said his lawyer Zima Sautieva. She also told that an ambulance was called to the IVS because of the sharp deterioration of Iles Tatiev's health.

Today, the Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria has decided to extend the detention of 53 defendants in the case of the attack on Nalchik, committed on October 13, 2005, for another three months, until September 26.

No criminal case against the policemen who beat up two builders of Olympic objects has been initiated yet, the builder’s attorney Alexander Boichenko told the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent in the evening of June, 17. According to the lawyer, he cannot receive a determination of refusal to start criminal proceedings from the investigation.

Court removes Mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov from office, and his suicide attempt in SIZO was reported; refusal of Russian government from building Kudepsta TPP in Sochi; start of hearing on the merits of the case of former city manager of Stavropol Igor Bestuzhy; strike of lawyers in Armenia against non-transparent methods of country Court of Cassation; sentence for hostage taking in Astrakhan by using mock firearm and bomb, – look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 10-16, 2013, prepared by the"Caucasian Knot".

On June, 14, layer Sapiyat Magomedova in Dagestan appealed to the court against the actions of investigative bodies who discontinued the criminal case on the fact of her being beaten up in Khasavyurt Department of Interior Affairs. The lawyer states that she was beaten by two policemen and there is enough evidence in the case for bringing a charge against them.

The official statement of the US Congress on cooperation with Georgia in the defence sphere has called the recent arrests of former officials in Georgia politically motivated.

Relatives of resident of Dagestan Seifudin Babaev who was found dead in his exploded car insist that he was killed and report pressure from law enforcement officials.

The detained resident of Makhachkala Sabina Sheikhmuradova, in whose house a "suicide belt" was found during a search, on June 14 was arrested by the court for a period of two months, Gadjimurad Izmailov, a lawyer from the Bar "Kavkaz" told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

On June 13, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the arrest of the head of the civil movement "Republican Alternative" (ReAl) Ilgar Mamedov, and urged the Azerbaijani authorities to ensure "a prompt, fair, transparent and independent investigation of the charges against him."