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In Ingushetia, the Nazran District Court has sentenced a local resident to one year of conditional imprisonment on charges of possessing live ammunition.

In Azerbaijan, the report "List of Political Prisoners in Azerbaijan" compiled due cooperation of activists and institutions of Azerbaijani civil society has been published. On August 8, the list was disseminated, and it included the names of 97 persons.

In Yerevan, in the trial in the case against Shant Arutyunyan, the leader of the "Tsegakron" Party, and other participants of the action of November 5, 2013, the defendants complained about poor custody conditions, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The assassination of Temirkhan Salikhov, the Deputy Chief of Makhachkala GIBDD (road police), can involve the same persons who fired the building of the Centre to Combat Extremism (CCE), the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told by a source from the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On August 8, in Baku, law enforcers came with a search warrant to the office of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS) in Rashid Bekhbudov Street. The policemen blocked the entrances to the building; and journalists could not watch what was going on near the office, since it is located in a narrow yard.

Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has arrested Intigam Aliev, the head of the Legal Education Society (LES), for three months. His defence intends to appeal against it.

Irina Bokova, Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), says that she expects the authorities to strain their efforts to investigate the circumstances of Timur Kuashev's death in Kabardino-Balkaria.

This morning, Temirkhan Salikhov, the Deputy Chief of the Makhachkala Road Police (known as GIBDD), was shot dead in the yard of his house. Investigators associate the murder with his official activities and believe that members of illegal armed formations (IAFs) could be involved in the crime, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was told at the Investigating Department (ID) for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

On August 7, near one of the camps for citizens who had arrived from Ukraine, set up near the border checkpoint "Gukovo" in the Rostov Region, an object resembling an improvised explosive device (IED) was detected, the "Interfax" reports with reference to a source from law enforcement bodies.