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The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has refused to consider cassation appeals against the verdict to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, accused of drug trafficking. Defenders intend to continue their struggle at the national level and at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for recognition of Zhalaudi Geriev as not guilty.

Ramzan Kadyrov has reported the return to Russia of a minor resident of Chechnya, who had been brought to Syria and found among the ruins in the city of Mosul.

A girl injured in the Iraqi city of Mosul was taken from Chechnya by her parents. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a source from the law enforcement agencies.

The police of Chechnya have put several homosexuals on the wanted list as persons suspected of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization and banned in Russia by court's decision. This has been reported today by the edition named "Kavkaz. Realii" with reference to the information from rights defenders.

In Chechnya, people of non-traditional sexual orientation are severely beaten and killed by their relatives with the complete connivance of the authorities and by their direct orders. This was claimed in a report prepared by the "Russian LGBT Network" in cooperation with Elena Milashina, a special reported of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta".

When commenting on the interview of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to journalist David Scott, rights defenders Svetlana Gannushkina and Valery Borschov associated the Ramzan Kadyrov's attention to sport with the desire to strengthen his power.

A suspected member of a unit led by field commander Shamil Basaev has been detained 22 years after the terror act. This has been reported today by a source from the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya.

During the week of July 24-30, 2017, two persons were wounded in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No killed were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

In the case on an attempted assassination of the Chechen leader, the Gudermes City Court has sentenced each of three defendants Aziz Alviev, Beslan Zakaraev, and Shamkhan Magomadov to 6.5 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony. This was stated by a source from the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic.

Investigators began to check the lawfulness for the actions of the Voronezh policemen, who on July 27 demanded from two Chechen women to produce their documents and who detained their father and brother. The leader of Chechnya has also requested the Voronezh regional authorities to react to the incident.

Sergey Bachurin, the head of the Chief Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has reported the prevention, since the start of the year, of 190 NCFD residents from joining terrorist organizations.

Reports on the wounding of two law enforcers in an explosion in the outskirts of the village of Nozhai-Yurt have not been confirmed, report sources from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the “Natsgvardia” (National Guard) of Russia. Local residents told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that in fact, two explosions occurred.