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The action in support of Aslan Yandiev, extradited from Slovakia to Russia and accused of involvement in a series of terror acts in North Ossetia, was held in Volgograd.

Most of the law enforcers from the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division), who were questioned in the case against Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, stated that they did not see him at the police station, they were not acquainted with the rights defender, and they did not take part in his detention and bringing him to the police department.

Azerbaijani refugee Farid Yusub, accused of theft, forgery of documents, and illegal crossing of the border, associated his persecution in Azerbaijan with his opposition views. The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) believes that at home, the refugee can be subjected to torture and unfair trial.

Today, a businessman from the city of Volzhsky has held a picket outside the building of the Russian FSB, stating that he has faced an attempt to deprive him of his hotel complex, and complaining about corruption in power structures of the Volgograd Region.

Today, the court rejected the petition of the defence of Malkhaz Kobauri to release him from arrest for killing the Smith family in mountains of Georgia.

After the recent series of attacks on policemen, law enforcers took teenagers straight from the streets and conducted many-hours-long interrogations of them, residents of the Shali District of Chechnya have reported. According to their estimates, from 150 to 200 people were detained.

Five people perished and five others were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from August 20 to August 26, 2018. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, at the trial of Oyub Titiev, the head of Grozny representative office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Yusup Shakhgeriev, a policeman, stated that he knew nobody from the direct-action team. An advocate of Oyub Titiev has objected that he personally saw the witness handshaking with the group.

70 people came to courthouse aiming to support Orkhan Bakhyshly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), but they were not let to the courtroom, because the defendant has refused to testify.

The blogger Mekhman Guseinov was denied punishment mitigating and conditional early relief (CER) on the basis of negative characteristics received by the court from his colony. His defence treats the court's decision as unjustified and intends to appeal against it.

Today, Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" in Grozny, has celebrated his 61 years old. He will celebrate his birthday not with his relatives and friends, but behind bars, being taken into custody on the charge of marijuana possession.