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The court has sentenced Zalimkhan Bogatyryov to 14 years in prison, after having found him guilty of involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, and of preparing a terror act during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

By majority of votes, the Prosecutorial Council has nominated Irakli Shotadze to the post of Public Prosecutor General of Georgia, although human rights defenders have opposed his return to the post. The opposition has criticized this decision.

Dozens of law enforcers were examining believers' documents after the Friday (February 7) prayer in the "Tangim" Mosque in Makhachkala. Policemen were ensuring safety in a crowded place, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has assured.

Confessions to plotting an explosion in Makhachkala were obtained under torture, all the four defendants have stated.

Elena Milashina, an observer of the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper, believes that she and Marina Dubrovina, a lawyer from the Krasnodar Territory, were beaten up in Grozny in connection with their attending the trial of Islam Nukhanov, the author of the video depicting Chechen officials' luxurious life.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded 80,000 euros to Gasan Baisultanov, a resident of Dagestan, whose wife was shot dead during a special operation in 2006. Gasan himself was seriously wounded and lost his ability to move; his father intends to seek compensation to his son for his disability, and punishment of law enforcers.

After watching the video from the rally in Magas, the court has granted the motion that demanded to initiate a criminal case against an employee of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), who threw a chair at the protesters.

The Grozny police have registered the application about the attack on the journalist, Elena Milashina, and the advocate, Marina Dubrovina. Over the past four years, in Grozny, this is the second attack on people involved in human rights activities with the use of violence.

Brothers of Nazhmudin Dudiev and Ibragim Donashev, who were charged in a case on an attack on Pskov paratroopers in 2000, appealed to the leader of Chechnya with the claim that their relatives were not guilty and asked him to come to the men's defence. Ramzan Kadyrov is not interested in interfering in the situation, note human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

The positions of the Azerbaijani troops were shelled, including in two border areas, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

On February 6, relatives of three residents of Derbent accused of terrorism met Alexander Stepanov, the chief federal inspector for Dagestan, and asked for his assistance in transferring to the federal level the investigations into case on torture used against detainees.

An investigation into a case on bombing of the village of Katyr-Yurt in 2000 is intentionally delayed, while access to the information is limited, note participants of a memorial evening dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the events in Katyr-Yurt.

Marina Dubrovina, an advocate, and Elena Milashina, a journalist, have repeatedly received threats while working in Chechnya. The attack on them in Grozny was organized with the knowledge of local authorities, their friends and colleagues are sure.

The members of the Chechen Diaspora in Europe interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have admitted that after the assassination of Imran Aliev, they feel a threat to themselves; therefore, they intend to limit their circle of contacts

Four young people have been kidnapped from the village of Gekhi in the Urus-Martan District of Chechnya, local residents told human rights defenders.

After concluding a deal with investigators, Moris Machalikashvili, a participant of the clashes with the police outside the Georgian Parliament, has pled guilty and was sentenced to two years of conditional imprisonment.

Abkhazian MPs have adopted a law on declaring officials' incomes, expenses and property in the final reading. The activists demanding the adoption of the law have stopped their action in central Sukhumi.

Zarifa Sautieva, a participant of a rally in Magas, was subjected to inhuman treatment, and she was arrested by political motives, lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" stated in a complaint filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

On the 20th anniversary of the assault of Grozny, eyewitnesses of those events recalled how residents of the Chechen capital had to hide in basements from continuous shelling attacks.

The Prosecutor's Office succeeded in seeking the cancellation of the decision to submit the materials of the case on the dispersal of demonstrators to advocates of the former president of Armenia.