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Members of the movement "Solidarity for Freedom of Media" held a protest action in front of the Chief Prosecutor's Office of Georgia against the confiscation of satellite dishes from the "Maestro" TV Company. The protest action was motivated by the decision of the Georgian Court of Appeal, which recognized the confiscation as lawful.

The convicts' relatives state that after the end of their hunger strike the situation with the "jammers" for mobile communication established in investigative isolation ward (IIW) No 1 of Makhachkala became even worse. Representatives of Department of Federal Penal Service (DFPS) and human rights activists doubt about the possibility of causing damage to people's health by this equipment.

Merab Kachakhidze, member of the National Committee of Conservative party and "The Georgian Dream" coalition was detained by the police in Tbilisi, representative of Press service of the coalition Greta Tsitsava reported.

The Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the Tbilisi City Court of the arrest of 10,000 satellite antennas of the "Maestro" TV Company.

Today, the Kirov District Court of Astrakhan dismissed the lawsuit, filed by Oleg Shein to cancel the outcomes of the voting in the Kirov District at the election of Mayor, held on March 4, 2012.

In Dagestan, the criminal investigation into the shelling of Sapiyat Magomedova and Gasan Baisultanov, committed by law enforcement officers in 2006, was reopened. This was reported today by Mamatkhan Baisultanov, a resident of Khasavyurt.

On July 15, Paris hosted a rally to honour the memory of Natalia Estemirova. The participants of the rally demanded that the Russian authorities should take measures for immediate investigation into the murder of the human rights defender.

The Prosecutor's Office of Novorossiysk appealed to court because of inaction of the authorities in eliminating the consequences of the flooding in the Krasnodar Territory. This was reported today by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation.

The Nalchik City Court arrested Khasanbi Sheozhev, Chief of the Pension Fund of the Kabardino-Balkaria, on suspicion of embezzlement of 68 million roubles. This was reported by a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies.

Liquidation of consequences of catastrophic flood in Krasnodar Territory; all-Caucasian camp "Mashuk" in Pyatigorsk; Film Festival "Golden Apricot" in Yerevan; reducing of the number of presidential candidates in Nagorno-Karabakh; exhibition of Islamic relics in Grozny; murder of an employee of the General Prosecutor's Office and the outcomes of the service check at the Ministry of Justice on application about a capture of party office in South Ossetia, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of July 9-15, 2012, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

On July 14, the court pronounced the decision to sentence 5 persons, detained by police in connection with the incident in the village of Karaleti of the Gori District of Georgia, to 15-days arrest.

In the evening of July, 15, a meeting of many thousands supporters of oppositional coalition the "Georgian Dream" headed by billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvily was held in the town of Gori.