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Mass detentions were launched in Argun before the August series of attacks on policemen in Chechnya, and stopped after the appointment of a new head of the interior department, local residents have reported.

The court in Baku has denied the conditional early relief (CER) to Murad Adilov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA).

The Judge, who is considering the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", told about futile search for a witness who allegedly saw Oyub smoking marijuana. Swedish rights defenders from the organization entitled "Civil Right Defenders" came to visit the court session.

Law enforcers of Chechnya have rejected the idea to hold a people's assembly, announced by them earlier, to expel the families of the participants in the attacks on policemen.

Policemen have offered teachers to give negative characteristics to the participants in the recent attacks on law enforcers, a source said. The Chechnya's Minister of Information has refuted the data on any pressure exerted on the families of assassinated teenagers.

The court has sentenced a resident of Ingushetia to eight years in prison, having found him guilty of killing his 31-year-old daughter. A police source said that it was an "honour murder."

An operational video record disseminated on the Internet shows how law enforcers detain Magomedrasul Omarov.

The investigators took a written recognizance not to leave the country from the second president of Armenia Robert Kocharyan, who was accused within the case of dispersal of the oppositional rally.

Family members of the participants in the attack on policemen on August 20 have left Shali under the pressure of law enforcers, local residents said. According to the estimates of the "Caucasian Knot", this is the sixth case during two years, when relatives of members of the underground and the people, whom the authorities labelled as militants, were forced to leave their home.

Young people were detained after the appearance in the outskirts of the village of Koshkeldy of a flag of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court. Kheda Saratova, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya, has reported that young people were released.

Rustam Amirov, a 37-year-old native of Dagestan, was detained at the airport, when he tried to fly to Ukraine, his relatives have reported. Earlier, Amirov was put on the wanted list by the Interpol on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activities.

In the city of Argun, law enforcers have tortured 40 detainees trying to knock confessions out of them, sources assert. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya calls this information a lie.

One person was killed and two more were wounded in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 27 to September 2, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Day of Knowledge and anniversary of the terror act in Beslan; actions in Southern Russia against the pension reform after the President Putin's proposals; presentation of an updated list of political prisoners in Azerbaijan; emergency landing of a passenger aircraft in Sochi; claim of 15 OSCE member states on the violations of human rights in Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 27-September 2, 2018, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".