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Robert Kocharyan, the second Armenian President, accused of overthrowing the constitutional order, has refused to participate in investigatory actions and testify, investigators have stated.

On August 4, the funeral of Yusup Temirkhanov, who died in the colony after being convicted for killing the serviceman Yuri Budanov, was attended by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. He declared Temirkhanov innocent of assassinating the officer.

National authorities should make every effort to bring to justice attackers on journalists Orkhan Djemal, Alexander Rastorguev, and Kirill Radchenko in Central Africa, announces today UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay.

Employees of private and public organizations specializing in making inquiries have pointed to discrepancies of the data released by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) about traces of torture on journalists' bodies, and about the security of the area where Orkhan Djemal and his colleagues were killed.

The Azerbaijani Centre for the Protection of Political Prisoners (CPPP) has updated the list of political prisoners and reduced it to 151 people. The names of nine new arrested people were added and other 19, released in the past six months, were excluded from the list.

Bekkhan Zubairaev, who was deported from Austria to Russia and accused in homeland of organizing a terror act, was tortured in Grozny, his sister claims. The Committee against Torture decided to provide an advocate for Bekkhan Zubairaev.

The jury of the "Laurel branch" awarded the prize to Rostov resident Alexander Rastorguev, who was killed in the Central African Republic (CAR) together with his colleagues while they were working on a documentary film.

On August 2, Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili signed a decree on pardon, according to which 40 people would leave prisons, and for other 43 prisoners, their sentences would be shortened.

The Penitentiary Service has dismissed a request of blogger Mekhman Guseinov's to provide a meeting with his seriously ill mother. Officials motivated their refusal by the fact that the sentenced blogger did not participate in "correctional activities" in the penal colony. Activists consider the decision of the Penitentiary Service to be illegal and inhumane.

Orkhan Djemal and his colleagues failed to observe security requirements by leaving at night for the area controlled by rebels; and they resisted the attackers, said the Media Minister of the Central African Republic (CAR). There are no signs of torture on journalists' bodies, said the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

CSTO Secretary General Yuri Khachaturov, charged in the case on the dispersal of protests in Yerevan, may leave Armenia, the spokesperson for the investigating authorities has reported today. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reproached the Armenian authorities for persecuting political opponents.