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In the evening of August 4, at the centre of Yerevan, about 400 people came to a march and blocked Mashtots Avenue. They demanded to release all the arrested members of "Sasna Tsrer" group (Daredevils of Sassoun). After the protest action, more than dozen activists were detained.

Meeting with relatives are forbidden to Andrias Gukasyan, a member of the civil movement "Get up, Armenia!", who was arrested on suspicion of organizing mass disorder in Yerevan, his wife Anahit Tarkhanyan has stated today.

A group of six residents of the village of Dygulybgey had supplied foodstuffs and medicines to militants, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has stated today.

On August 17, the court will start considering the lawsuit lodged by Khadija Ismayilova against the Prosecutor’s Office of the city of Baku, at the request of which the journalist had been in custody on charges of driving her colleague to suicide. She claims a compensation for the moral harm caused to her in the amount of 18,000 US dollars.

At the meeting with the head of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), Ingush leader Yunus-Bek Evkurov has asked to send to the republic a special police commission to investigate the fact of the death of Magomed Daliev, suspected of robbery, who died at a police station.

The commitment of the Armenian authorities to the forced suppression of peaceful protest actions can become a new dangerous reality for the Armenian political environment. This opinion was voiced by the human rights organization "Freedom House". Any use of violence against peaceful protesters is unacceptable, state activists of the Human Rights House Foundation.

In Oslo, Adam Magomadov, a 23-year-old native of Chechnya, has been sentenced to seven years and six months of imprisonment for involvement in the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia by court.

The country's authorities should treat seriously the threats against Russia, expressed by the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization, banned by the court in Russia, said the experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". Thus, they did not support the opinion of the acting head of Chechnya that the IS has no real power and capacity to commit terror acts in Russia.

The Investigating Committee of Armenia has reported about 14 injured mass media professionals. The affected journalists, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, assert that their attackers during clashes knew that they were beating up mass media workers.

Araik Papikyan, a representative of the group of advocates, who defend the members of the "Sasna Tsrer" grouping, said that all the members of the grouping are arrested.