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The staff of the Vladikavkaz SIZO (pre-trial prison) refused to let new advocates to Malsag Uzhakhov and Akhmed Barakhoev, Vadim Klyuvgant, an advocate, said on June 26. In his opinion, this violates the activists' constitutional rights.

The court was to acquit Mikhail Savostin, the head of the "People's Veche (Council) of Mineralnye Vody", since no proofs of his guilt were presented; the conviction was politically motivated, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have stated.

Georgian MPs have satisfied the motion of the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to suspend the parliamentary immunity of Nika Meliya, an MP from the "United National Movement" (UNM) Party, accused under the case of organizing group violence at a protest action in Tbilisi.

Relatives of the Anapa residents, tortured after being detained by law enforcers, and lawyers of the Committee against Torture (CaT) have held a series of solo pickets in the city centre.

On the third day of their hunger strike, two female residents of Derbent received a permit to meet their detained sons, and stopped their protest.

At a request of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, the Tbilisi City Court released 51 protesters detained during the protest action held at night on June 21, the press service of the Tbilisi City Court reports today.

The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia filed an appeal against the decision of the court of Marneuli to release Azerbaijani citizen Avtandil Mamedov on bail after his detention at a request from Baku.

Today, officials from the Prosecutor's Office have handed over to a defender of MP Nika Meliya an indictment in the case on organization of group violence during a protest action in Tbilisi. The MP himself did not appear in the Prosecutor's Office.

Today, the North-Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has found Timur Tumgoev, a native of Vladikavkaz, to be a member of a group of Syrian militants and sentenced him to 18 years in a high-security colony.

By the three refusals to sanction rallies in support of the arrested Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the Dagestani Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has relayed the authorities' position, activists believe.

The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has decided to transfer Martin Kochesoko, the head of the Circassian NGO "Khabze", accused of drug dealing, under house arrest.

The Armenian Court of Appeal (CoA) has satisfied the complaint of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and cancelled the decision to release the former President, Robert Kocharyan, from custody.

Advocates of Robert Kocharyan, the second president of Armenia, accused the court of bias and decided to boycott the today's pronouncement of the court's decision concerning the appeal filed by the General Prosecutor's Office.

A night bike ride of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov through Grozny several hours after an attack on law enforcers in the centre of the Chechen capital "promoted" a calm situation in the region for citizens and tourists, noted local residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".