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Magomed Magomedov, an advocate from Dagestan, said that he was beaten by law enforcers after he refused to leave his client alone with field investigators. Magomed Magomedov filed a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and called the law enforcers' actions the torture.

Activists of the anti-slavery movement "Alternative" helped two men, who managed to escape from labour slavery in Dagestan, to leave for Moscow.

A resident of Chechnya publicly apologized for a joking communication with his bride at a wedding party. Ramzan Kadyrov demanded to expel from the republic the men who violated the wedding traditions of the Vainakh people.

Maria Lasitskene, an athlete from Kabardino-Balkaria, has announced that she will leave Russia to train in another country if the Russian Anti-Doping Agency is deprived of compliance status.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone, including in the border village, were shelled from heavy machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

Levan Djikuri, who was detained in a case on June protests, was transferred to a hospital. This was reported on September 25 by Elene Khoshtariya, an MP from the "European Georgia-Freedom Movement" Party, who visited the Gldani prison.

A search has been conducted at the house of Zalina Dzeit, the head of the Ingush regional NGO "Institute for Social Changes". Law enforcers seized reporting documents.

The fight against sorcerers raises the rating of Chechen leadership amid the support of this campaign by many Muslims, Akhmet Yarlykapov, an Orientalist, believes. Chechen authorities are trying to extend their influence onto the sphere of occultism, demonstrating their intention to totally control the whole society, Alexei Malashenko, a political analyst, believes.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has combined the complaint of Elizaveta Alieva, a resident of Ingushetia about her abduction with another complaint lodged by her about the murder of her sister Marem Alieva.

Relatives' concerns about the fate of Ramzan Akhyadov, accused of terrorism and extradited to Chechnya, are not ungrounded, since in his homeland, he may be subjected to torture and illegal prosecution, rights defenders believe.

The Azerbaijani journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, needs medical care after his hunger strike in jail, but is ready to resume his protest, his wife has stated.

Workers from Chiatura and Zestafoni, Mayoralty employees and schoolchildren have joined the protest action of Tkibuli miners, who demand payment of their wage debts.

An Azerbaijani unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV or drone) has been shot down today during reconnaissance, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed.

The ban on Jehovah's Witnesses* as a religious organization is no basis for persecuting for faith, but law enforcers ignore it, Maxim Pervunin, a lawyer for four Dagestani believers, has stated at a press conference today. He pointed to parallels of persecutions of Jehovah's Witnesses in modern Russia with the Soviet-time practices.

By placing Makhi Idrisov, who boasted of his friendship with Ramzan Kadyrov, under house arrest, the court chose a soft pre-trial restriction measure for him, users of social networks believe.

In Chechnya, there is no political figure capable to compete with Ramzan Kadyrov at the election of the leader of Chechnya, but statements of common support for Ramzan Kadyrov in Chechnya are not credible. This opinion was voiced by analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" when they were commenting on the statement of Djambulat Umarov about the election where Ramzan Kadyrov was actually the only alternative for the position of the Chechen leader.

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from the territories controlled by the Armenian side, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

Andrei Babushkin, a member of the Human Rights Council (HRC), demanded to provide medical assistance to Said Amirov, the former Mayor of Makhachkala, and Rasul Kudaev, a former Guantanamo prisoner, who are being kept at the "Black Dolphin" penal colony.

Tatiana Syrycheva, a mother of three children, has confessed to calls for terrorism under pressure of law enforcers. Her husband, a citizen of Azerbaijan, Ramil Ibragimov, has linked this with his refusal to cooperate with special services.

On September 24, Azerbaijani journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, stopped the hunger strike in jail, held in protest against pressure on his advocate Nemat Kerimli. The reason for terminating it was a sharp deterioration of his health and appeals from civil society figures.