Russian actor Vitaly Gogunsky, known for his role as Kuzi in the TV series Univer, was not allowed into Georgia. Upon arrival from Moscow to Tbilisi airport, he was turned around and sent home on the next flight.

The wives of convicted Crimean Tatars Nariman Dzhelal, Asan and Aziz Akhtemovs were no longer allowed to visit them in the pre-trial detention center. Leviza Dzhelalova, Repika and Adile Akhtemova represent the interests of the spouses in court as public defenders along with lawyers.

In a wasteland adjacent to the territory where the buildings of the government of the Chechen Republic, the Ministry of Emergency Situations and law enforcement agencies are located, Said-Magomed Dzhamalaylov, 65 years old, who lived on Klara Zetkin Street, was blown up and killed by a tripwire mine.

At the Prison of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Ulyanovsk Region in Dimitrovgrad, warders punish Muslim prisoners from the republics of the North Caucasus and other regions for writing complaints about beatings, bullying and inadequate conditions of detention.

The Crimean authorities have banned raising and displaying the Crimean Tatar flag along with the flag of the Russian Federation on rulers in the schools of the peninsula. This was reported by the human rights organization "KrymSOS".

As a result of a landslide in the mountains of the Shovi resort in Georgia, 21 people died. In addition, the search continues for more than ten people, including several children.

The Crimean Tatar Server Zekiryaev, sentenced to 13 years, was again placed in a punishment cell of correctional colony No. 1 in the city of Donskoy, Tula region.

The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) is concerned about the arrest and harsh conditions of detention in Azerbaijan of civic activist and academic economist Gubad Ibadoglu.

The Investigation Department for the city of Malgobek completed the investigation of a criminal case against a local resident.

On August 8, 2001 at 6.30 am a shell exploded in the Salamovs' house in the village of Chiri-Yurt. A 14-year-old girl was seriously injured.