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Vadim Cheldiev, charged in a case on a rally in Vladikavkaz, left in custody until August 18 by the court's decision.

During an extraordinary session of the parliament of South Ossetia, at which the incident in the Tskhinvali colony was discussed, physical force was used against some MPs, the parliamentarians wrote in a Telegram channel.

Doctors in Beslan have operated on Salomeya Plieva, who received a trauma during her clash with court marshals in the building of the Supreme Court of North Ossetia. The singer, suspected of assaulting law enforcers, claims that, on the contrary, she is a victim. According to Ms Plieva, she was beaten up by court marshals, after which a criminal case was opened against her on the use of violence against a state servant.

Law enforcers called pickets of advocates in support of their colleagues from Kabardino-Balkaria a "hidden form of a mass event." Protesters insist that they held solo pickets. They intend to challenge the accusations up to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

A court in Baku has upheld the arrest of Niyameddin Akhmedov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), within the case of financing terrorism. Akhmedov declared his innocence; and his father has stated that he is not allowed to visit and call his son, contained in jail.

The court sentenced a defendant accused of killing a same-sex couple of pensioners to 12 years of imprisonment. According to the court, the crime was provoked by a domestic conflict. Fellow villagers of the killed pensioners believe that homophobia was the motive of the crime, and the "Russian LGBT Network" emphasized that Russian courts did not take into account such versions.

Law enforcers from Chechnya who beat their colleague 10 years ago were not punished because of an ineffective investigation, claimed former field investigator Alikhan Akhmedov. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Russian authorities to answer questions in the case on torture of Alikhan Akhmedov until November 19.

Law enforcers have put a female resident of Chechnya, accused of links with militants in Syria, on the wanted list. She left Chechnya after her husband, who had fought for militants, and then disappeared with her children, her relatives assert.

The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Ali Aliomarov, a resident of Dagestan, to three years in prison within a case of promoting terrorist activities.

In a case against residents of the town of Kajaran, whose detention provoked a protest action, three out of five defendants were arrested. The defence requested the court to release Babken Ambartsumyan on bail, because he took care of his family members, including his sick child. However, the court dismissed the motion filed by the defence.

In the Stavropol Territory, the court found Rezvan Ozdoev, a participant of a rally in Magas, guilty of attacking a law enforcer. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony, but was set free, because he had spent a year in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).