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July 31, 2014 17:49

• Firearms were planted on resident of Dagestan Musa Magomedov at search, his relatives assert

  Musa Magomedov, a resident of the village of Nechaevka, Kizilyurt District of Dagestan, was detained by power agents, his relatives have reported. They cannot establish his whereabouts and believe that firearms were planted on him during search.

July 31, 2014 15:01

• "Centre of Legal Technologies": 92 million roubles withdrawn illegally from Nadezhda Tsapok's account

  Despite the arrest imposed on Nadezhda Tsapok's account at the "Rosselkhozbank", 92.064 million roubles were illegally withdrawn, said Andrei Karpenko, the director of the law firm "Centre of Legal Technologies".

July 31, 2014 14:43

• State Duma MPs, who visited Rostov Region, offer to increase financial aid to Ukrainian refugees

  The MPs of the Russian State Duma Vladimir Pligin, Andrei Isaev and Alexander Sidyakin are preparing an appeal to the government to increase the financial aid to the Rostov Region, which is accommodating Ukrainian citizens.

July 31, 2014 04:39

• Defence plans to challenge MCC's verdict on "Hizb ut-Tahrir" case

  The advocates are preparing a complaint against the verdict passed by the Moscow City Court (MCC) in the case of the members of the of the Moscow branch of the organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami", banned in Russia, who were sentenced to imprisonment for 7-11 years.

July 31, 2014 03:39

• Victims' testimonies in "Million Mask March" case confirm defendants' innocence, says the defence

  In Yerevan, at the trial of the participants of the "Million Mask March", the court questioned six policemen, who figure in the case as victims. All the six have asserted that prior to the march held on November 5, 2013, they were not familiar with the defendants.

July 31, 2014 02:40

• Dagestani SC postpones session on Zarema Bagavutdinova's case

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan will continue, on August 4, its consideration of the appeal complaint against the verdict passed by the Buynaksk City Court against Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

July 31, 2014 01:37

• Minor son of Azerbaijani oppositionist Gyulalyev is accused of hooliganism

  In Azerbaijan, criminal charges of disorderly conduct were presented to the minor son of Oktay Gyulalyev, the press secretary of the oppositional National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF). The father treats the charges as far-fetched and associates them with his own political and human rights activities.

July 30, 2014 21:50

• Azerbaijani rights defender Leyla Yunus arrested for three months

  On Wednesday, July 30, the Nasimi District Court in Baku ruled to arrest Leyla Yunus, a human rights activist and Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), who is accused of treason, for three months.

July 30, 2014 19:08

• Azerbaijan GPO bans rights activist Rasul Djafarov to go abroad and arrests his bank accounts

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has ruled to prohibit Rasul Djafarov, a well-known civil society activist and coordinator of the campaign "Art for Democracy", from leaving the country. His bank accounts were arrested.

July 30, 2014 17:55

• Volgograd Region: court finds that website "Kavkaz News" is extremist

  The Krasnoarmeisky District Court of the Volgograd Region has concluded that the website "Kavkaz News" posts extremist materials.

July 30, 2014 16:45

• Trial on terror act in Sheikh Chirkey's house postponed till September 5

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has postponed until September 5 the consideration on the merits of the terror act, which killed the religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi and six other persons. The break is needed for to one of the defendants to get acquainted with the indictment.

July 30, 2014 15:37

• Consideration of Nadezhda Tsapok's case resumed in Krasnodar Territory

  The Kuschevsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has resumed the hearing of the criminal case against Nadezhda Tsapok, accused of a fraud; she is the mother of Sergey Tsapok, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment and recently died in Krasnodar SIZO.

July 30, 2014 14:51

• MCC finds four members of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" guilty in case of putsch planning

  The Moscow City Court has found the guilt of four Caucasian natives to be completely proven. The defendants are members of the organization "Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami", which is banned in Russia, and they were accused of plotting an attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in the Russian Federation.

July 30, 2014 13:21

• Dagestan starts trial on terror act in house of Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has started the trial in the case of the terror act, which killed religious leader Said Afandi al-Chirkawi and six other persons. The prisoners' dock contains four residents of Dagestan.

July 30, 2014 13:13

• In Azerbaijan, prosecutors detain IPD Director Leyla Yunus

  On Wednesday morning, human rights activist Leyla Yunus was detained near her house in Baku. She was delivered to the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office.

July 30, 2014 10:27

• Rostov Region: border checkpoints "Gukovo" and "Donetsk" are first observation objects for OSCE mission

  In the Rostov Region, OSCE observers have announced the beginning of their work at border checkpoints "Gukovo" and "Donetsk". In the coming days, new observers are to join the OSCE mission. This was announced by Paul Picard, the chief of the OSCE mission.

July 30, 2014 09:22

• In Dagestan, local residents report on new Imam in mosque of Maidanskoe village

  About 200 law enforcers still stay in the village of Maidanskoe of the Untsukul District of Dagestan. This was reported by local residents. However, according to them, the presence of law enforcers does not affect their lives at the moment.

July 29, 2014 22:14

• Conflict in Armenian Church in Tbilisi not to spoil Armenian-Georgian relations, experts hope

  The attack on the believers of the Armenian Echmiadzin Church committed on July 19 in Tbilisi, will not affect the inter-state and inter-church relations of Armenia and Georgia, said participants of the videoconference held with participation of Georgian and Armenian experts.

July 29, 2014 19:03

• Batyr Pukhaev is on the 14th day of his hunger strike in Tskhinvali IVS

  The South-Ossetian businessman Batyr Pukhaev, who went on a hunger strike on July 16 at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of Tskhinvali, is still rejecting nutrition and hospitalization, said the head of the IVS Otar Margiev.

July 29, 2014 16:18

• Rostov Region: two persons killed in road accident involving policeman

  A Rostov policeman became a figurant of a road accident with two casualties, as reported by the Investigating Department (ID) of the ICRF for the Rostov Region.