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An official and employees of the rural house of culture in the village of Khol Garagashly in the Neftchala District demand to bring activist Vafi Nagi to criminal responsibility on a charge of defamation. The activist herself associates a lawsuit against her with her activities to "expose the facts of corruption."

On July 15, during and after the rally in support of the Azerbaijani Army in Baku, a total of 46 activists were detained. Criminal charges have been brought against 26 of them, says the report of the new human rights structure "Defence Line" that was set up in Azerbaijan on July 22. The organization does not exclude that the number of those arrested may be even higher.

The murders of young people in Georgia are investigated inefficiently, protesters in Tbilisi have stated. They demanded resignation of the head of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the government.

Relatives of the blogger, Mamikhan Umarov, assassinated in Vienna, took his death upon themselves by following the authorities' instructions; therefore, they won't be punished. The Chechen leadership equates criticism addressed thereto with unworthy behaviour, which is treated as an excuse for intra-family repressions, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

The video appeal made by relatives of the blogger, Mamikhan Umarov, killed in Vienna, cannot be equated to a confession, but should trigger a check of their involvement in the crime. Such a check should be conducted by Chechen law enforcers, the advocates interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Counterterrorist operations (CTOs) against alleged militants end with the killing of all suspects; but no convincing proofs of casualties' guilt is provided to the public, Instagram users have noted in their comments to the law enforcers' operative video from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR).

Law enforcers detained participants of solo pickets held in front of the building of the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia, which scheduled for today a consideration of a cassation appeal against the verdicts to Rostov-on-Don residents Vladislav Mordasov and Yan Sidorov.

In Austria, a court has extended until August 20 the term of arrest for one of the suspects in a case on the murder of Chechen blogger Mamikhan Umarov, and the second suspect will be kept in prison until January 2021, an official from the Prosecutor's Office reports. Investigators will take into account a video appeal of the blogger's relatives who took the blame for his murder, the police say.

Several dozen people have held protests in Tbilisi and Batumi, demanding an efficient investigation into the recent murders of a football player and a young woman. Three participants of the rally in Tbilisi were detained for disobeying the police, but were soon released.

At an emergency parliament session, Magomed Daudov, the Chairman of the Chechen Parliament, has called on the US State Department to put the entire population of Chechnya together with Ramzan Kadyrov into the sanctions list, while Salakh Mezhiev, the republic's Mufti, declared the US State Department "terrorist organization No. 1." Social network users and residents of Chechnya have ridiculed the Mufti's statement and accused the republic's authorities of trying to hide behind the population.

The memory action held on the 10th anniversary of the murder of Natalia Estemirova in Moscow was peaceful, but law enforcers detained its participants, while the court considered the case in the absence of the state prosecutor, says the complaint sent by Alexander Cherkasov and Svetlana Gannushkina, the chairman and a board member of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", respectively, to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Today, in the Chegem District, four members of a terrorist organization have been killed during the detention. The suspects were plotting a terror act, the FSB reported.

Men from among relatives of blogger Mamikhan Umarov, a critic of the Chechen authorities, who was killed in Vienna, recorded a video appeal. In the video, the men apologized for the statements the blogger had voiced. Furthermore, the relatives declared themselves guilty of his murder. Users of social networks believe the apology had been made under pressure.

Investigators have begun to bring charges under an article on terrorism against the persons detained in a case on an assassination attempt on Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"), a source from the law enforcement bodies reports.

The decision of the US State Department to put the head of Chechnya in the sanctions list is a symbolic measure that demonstrates only the attitude towards him, but is unable to cause any practical influence, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.