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The Patriarchate of Georgia appealed to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with a request to help in the release of Zaza Gakheladze and asked the convict’s father not to visit the territory of South Ossetia.

The court in Essentuki has extended the detention term of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, for other three months, despite the arguments of the defence about his poor health and his father's old age.

None of the defendants entered into physical confrontation with "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard) agents, a prosecution witness in the case of Ingush activists has declared.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) replaced the real term of imprisonment with a suspended sentence for athlete Said Mamedzade, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, charged with disorderly conduct after his open support for the opposition.

In Makhachkala, Ramazan Ramazanov, a student, and Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, have held solo pickets in support of journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, and against groundless arrests.

During the week from June 14 to June 20, 2021, during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, no information about any casualties or wounded persons was reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has published a bulletin describing and analyzing the main events of the three spring months in Northern Caucasus – the new data on the "execution case" in Chechnya; the expulsion of North-Caucasian natives from the European Union (EU); the "Ingush trial"; and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on complaints received from residents of the region.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has appointed the consideration of the complaint lodged by the journalist, Afghan Sadygov, for July 2. The journalist is on hunger strike for 227 days and is in grave condition; he may not live to see the trial, his wife Sevindj Sadygova fears. She intends to seek asylum for her family abroad.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has begun considering the complaint of Deacon Giorgi Mamaladze about the closed nature of the trial in Georgia and the violation of the presumption of innocence. The convict needs urgent medical care, but this failed to speed up the communication on the case, the NGO "Centre for Social Justice" has regretted.

A criminal case is being prepared against Elez Merzhoev, who was arrested after his conflict in a cafe with Aina Getagazova, a singer, on intentional infliction of minor harm to one's health. Instagram users have linked the doctors' conclusion about Getagazova's trauma with corruption and called on to punish hospital managers.

The defence of Georgy Guev, a resident of North Ossetia, intends to seek a mitigation or cancellation of the verdict passed on his case, his advocate has stated. In their turn, rights defenders believe that the practice shows that it is practically impossible to change a court judgement on the case of financing terrorism.

Three Russian businessmen of Armenian origin have been accused of illegal supply of weapons for conducting hostilities against Azerbaijan in Nagorno-Karabakh, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has announced.

Law enforcers broke into an apartment shelter for victims of domestic violence in Makhachkala in civilian clothes, without presenting any warrants, the human rights group “Marem” claims.

Lasha Khereteli was handed over to the Georgian side after serving a year in a Tskhinvali prison in a border violation case.

The boarding school for orphans named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda will be transformed into three small boarding facilities, which will keep children who do not want to leave the institution, said the manager of the boarding school, Bishop Yakov of Bodbe. Authorities refuse to take decisive measures in relation to the boarding house, as wouldn't like to spoil relations with the church, which during election campaigns supports the ruling party, analysts believe.