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A resident of Dagestan was detained and taken to the police department in Khasavyurt, but law enforcers do not allow an advocate or relatives to visit the detainee, his relatives complained. They requested the police to explain what he was suspected of.

People in civilian clothes took Razi Gumbatov, an activist of the “Muslim Unity” movement, away with them to some unknown destination. Arzu Abdullaeva, a member of the Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Islamists, suggests that the detention of Razi Gumbatov may be related to his critical posts and comments about the authorities on social media.

Five detainees have been charged with assaulting journalists during protests against the gay parade in Tbilisi, bringing the total count thereof up to eight, the Prosecutor’s Office has informed.

Pleadings in court in a case against Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, accused of using violence against law enforcers, have been postponed until August 18. The defence points out that a big mistake has been made in the legal assessment of the young man’s actions at the stage of the preliminary investigation in the case against Said-Mukhammad Djumaev.

The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan did not grant the cassation appeal against the verdict to journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, and the defence decided to seek his conditional early relief.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensation to a resident of Grozny, Rizvan Abdulkhanov, who became disabled due to the wounds received during law enforcers’ special operation.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced a decision that the Russian authorities ineffectively investigated the killing of Aslan Yemkuzhev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, by law enforcers and the version that he was tortured before his death. The Strasbourg Court obliged the Russian authorities to pay 70,000 euros of compensation to a mother of the killed resident of Kabardino-Balkaria.

Azerbaijani investigators accused Armenian citizens Gevorg Sudjyan and David Davtyan of espionage, and the criminal case was transferred to the Baku Court of Grave Crimes.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Makharbi Tosuev, a native of Chechnya, guilty of an armed riot, acts of banditry, an attempt on policemen, and a murder, and increased his term of imprisonment to 25 years.

The alleged militant from the Astrakhan Region shot dead by law enforcers had planned to commit attacks with firearms and cold weapons, while the five persons liquidated in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Kabardino-Balkaria had prepared to blow up Muslim buildings, the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau) has informed.

Human rights defenders interviewed by the “Caucasian Knot” note that there are examples in different regions of Northern Caucasus, when law enforcers kidnapped people and then reported their killing during detention and those examples speak in favour of the version of a staged special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria.

During the week of June 28-July 4, 2021, at least five persons were killed in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.