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On January 19, the town of Shali hosted a gathering, which participants held militants' family members responsible for the actions of the militants and decided to evict in future militants' family members from the town. This was reported by the Shali Mayor's Office. Some participants of the gathering believe that the authorities are trying to avoid responsibility for illegal actions against militants' relatives.

Today, in Ingushetia, law enforcers detained a man suspected of setting fire to three mosques in Nazran during one week. Two of them have been set on fire today.

Kuban activist Darya Polyudova, sentenced on charges of extremism, has filed an appeal against the verdict to the Presidium of the Russian Supreme Court (SC). This was reported by the Darya Polyudova's mother. The woman noted that her daughter intends to declare a hunger strike.

During the eight years passed since the murders of advocate Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, a journalist of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta", the human rights situation in Russia has deteriorated, and the authorities are engaged in aggressive propaganda of hatred and xenophobia through the media controlled by them. This opinion was voiced by participants of the action held in Moscow in memory of advocate Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova.

In December 2016, Timur Khamkhoev, the chief of the Ingush Centre to Combat Extremism (CCE), and field investigator Adlan Khamkhoev were detained by law enforcers. After that, investigators opened a case of torture used against Magomed Aushev. This was reported by his advocate.

The court has pronounced the decision to bring Rakhmet Kasaev, a fifth-year student of the StavropolMedicalAcademy, to administrative responsibility and arrest him for five days. His advocate believes the period of five days was required by law enforcers to prepare to charge Rakhmet Kasaev of drug trafficking.

Rufat Safarov, a former investigator, who is serving his sentence in the penal colony No. 9 in Azerbaijan for bribe-taking, has been placed to a punishment cell for seven days. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in the evening of January 19 by Eldar Sabiroglu, the father of Rufat Safarov.

The advocates of Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" journalist, sentenced in Chechnya to three years in prison, have drafted a cassation complaint against the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Chechen Republic. Meanwhile, Geriev has been temporarily transferred to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Chernokozovo.

Tonight in Moscow a march was held to commemorate the slain lawyer Stanislav Markelov and the journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta" Anastasia Baburova.

Following their visit to Azerbaijan, the co-rapporteurs of the Monitoring Committee of the PACE (Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe) have urged the Azerbaijani authorities to reform the country’s judicial system, the NGO legislation, and to free all political prisoners.

The casualty of the shootout that broke on January 17 in Khasavyurt turned to be the 38-year-old Ruslan Magomedov, said the spokesman of the investigating authority.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has announced the detention of two Chechen natives, who, imitating his voice, tried to extort money from a businessman from Surgut into the Akhmat Kadyrov’s Fund. The video posted by Kadyrov shows the detainees’ confession. The police of the KhMAO (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District, where Surgut is located) said they did not take part in the detention.

On January 18, lawyers of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" and the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC) applied to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the fact of a special operation carried out in a Dagestani village of Vremenny (a part of the village of Gimry) in 2014. According to the lawyers of the HRC "Memorial", violations were committed during the above special operation.

Bodies of the militants killed in the Chechen capital on December 17-18, 2016 have not been finally given out to their family members, who learned that their killed relatives were buried in unmarked graves near Grozny. Meanwhile, the law enforcement agencies do not comment on the information.

At the request of Interpol and the FBI, the law enforcement authorities have detained programmer Stanislav Lisov, who arrived to Spain from the Rostov Region on vacation.

At a press conference, Armenian human rights defender has claimed political nature of the sentence for Gevorg Safaryan, a member of the "Constituent Parliament".

Armenian Ombudsman Arman Tatoyan and the Public Council of Armenia have called on the Belarusian authorities to prevent extradition of blogger Alexander Lapshin to the Azerbaijani authorities.

On January 18, the Baku Court of Grave Crimes continued listening to final speeches of the defendants in the "Nardaran case". All of them pleaded not guilty and associated their prosecution with fight against injustice and lawlessness. The defendants have also reminded the Court of the use of torture against them after their detention. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent who attended the court hearing.

Today, family members of Rakhmet Kasaev, a fifth-year student of the Stavropol Medical Academy, have claimed his kidnapping, however later the student has been found among the detainees kept at a local police station.

This evening, law enforcers have cancelled the counterterrorist operation (CTO) legal regime, which was earlier introduced within a single section of the Buynaksk and Karabudakhkent Districts of Dagestan.