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Murtazali and Patimat Gasanguseinov have decided to stop picketing for several days, because the head of Dagestan, a meeting with whom they are seeking, is away.

Rajab Abdulatipov, a Dagestani MP, was detained on suspicion of taking part in a criminal community; he will soon be charged, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported on its website.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan has partially granted a cassation appeal filed by journalist Fikret Faramazoglu and reduced his sentence from seven to six years of imprisonment. The defence does not agree with this verdict and will appeal to the European Court of Human Rights.

Levon Yeranosyan, the former Armenian police forces commander, is charged with exceeding his power in connection with the use of special equipment by law enforcers during the April mass protests. The Lieutenant General refuses to testify in the case.

In the course of the court hearing to pronounce the pre-trial restriction measures, medical officers diagnosed advocate Mikhail Benyash with pneumonia. The court postponed the hearing for September 28, and Mikhail Benyash was hospitalized, his advocates reported.

Investigators have closed the case on the use of violence by law enforcers against activists and journalists in the Sary Tag District of Yerevan. According to the investigators, there are no defendants in the case.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has recognized Roman Ternovsky, a citizen of Ukraine, convicted for involvement in the "Right-Wing Sector" (an extremist organization, banned in Russia by the court) to be a political prisoner and demanded his release.

Zaza Saralidze, the father of the murdered schoolboy, has applied to Tbilisi Mayoralty for an official permit to install tents in front of the parliament building in order to keep holding protests regardless of weather.

The father and mother of the Gasanguseinov brothers killed in the Dagestani village of Goor-Khindakh held a five-hour picket in Makhachkala, but did not succeed in meeting the leader of Dagestan. The parents of the killed brothers say they will hold daily pickets until the leader of the republic accepts them. 

In Azerbaijan, imprisoned activist Giyas Ibragimov has complained of being placed into a dungeon (punishment cell) because of reading a book after the beginning of the night's sleep regime time. The Penitentiary Service claims that Giyas Ibragimov violated the regime, but denies the fact of his placement to the punishment cell.

Should officials started dialogue with public activists and acted professionally, the confrontation in Kendelen could have been avoided, Aslan Kudaev, the organizer of the equestrian march in honour of the 310th anniversary of the Kanjali Battle, has stated today.

Today, in Makhachkala, a father and a mother of the brothers-shepherds killed in the Dagestani village of Goor-Khindakh, have held a picket in the hope to meet the leader of the republic. The parents demanded to punish the persons who killed their sons, but no officials came out of the building to meet the Gasanguseinov spouses.