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The court has refused to satisfy the motion demanding to stop prosecuting activists within the case of an unsanctioned march in Baku. Activists claim that there are no proofs of their guilt.

Participants of a protest action held in front of the Armenian government building left the place after a meeting with the press secretary of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. Azerbaijan admits keeping 45 Armenian citizens, while the Armenian side has collected data about 280 prisoners of war (POWs), human rights defender Artak Zeinalyan notes.

At the court session, an advocate asked the court to summon Yunus-Bek Evkurov, a former head of Ingushetia, and Zyalimkhan Evloev, a former Prime Minister of Ingushetia, as witnesses in the case of Magas protesters. Ten defence witnesses have confirmed the defendants' innocence.

Based on the application submitted by Aslan Iritov, the head of the NGO "Volny Aul" (Free Village), about his beating by policemen, a Nalchik court has obliged investigators to check the information.

In Dagestan, a local resident will appear before the court, as investigators treat him as a member of the banned religious association "At-Takfir Wal-Hijra"*.

Public prosecutor asked the court to sentence Rafig Bairamov, the former Azerbaijani Deputy Minister of Culture, to 10 years of imprisonment for abuse of power. The defence demanded to remove the arrest from the Rafig Bairamov’s bank account and claimed he was not guilty.

Lachin Veliev, a supporter of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, and a former member of the “Musavat” Party, was hospitalized on the ninth day of his hunger strike. After being forced to accept food, Lachin Veliev stopped the action he was holding in protest against the extension of his arrest.

Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the edition, and the journalist, Idris Yusupov, came out to solo pickets in Makhachkala demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev and all political prisoners.

In Moscow, a court extended the arrest of Alikhan Adjamatov, a native of Dagestan, by six months. According to the defence, the case is based on the fact that the counterparties, with whom Alikhan Adjamatov had business contacts, had indirect ties with persons convicted in terrorist cases.

The defence of Eldar Gasanov again requested the General Prosecutor’s Office of Azerbaijan to change the pre-trial restriction measure for his treatment at a clinic because of the deterioration of his condition at a hospital.

The defendants were aware that their acquaintance was involved in the activities of a terrorist organization and was plotting to create an illegal armed formation, but did not report the above information to the law enforcement bodies, investigators claimed.

During the week from August 2 to August 8, 2021, no information was received about any perished or wounded persons during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.