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Victor Ryzhkov, a resident of the Altai Territory, has been freed from slavery at a brick factory in Dagestan. However, he refused to write an application against those who kept him in slavery, the "Alternativa" movement against slavery has informed.

Residents of Dagestan are increasingly reacting to pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the solo picketers, Idris Yusupov and Magomed Magomedov, have noted. Believers and the progressive part of the population are interested in Gadjiev's case, Djambulat Gasanov, an activist, has added.

The defence of Nurmagomed Labaev, a native of Dagestan, has appealed against the extension of his arrest in the robbery case, claiming numerous violations in the case. According to the advocate, the victim described the criminal as having a Slavic appearance, while Labaev has a characteristic Caucasian one.

The court of appeal in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has refused to satisfy the appeal complaint against the decision to liquidate the Council of Elders of the Balkar People (CEBP).

Investigators are considering several versions of the death of three sisters in the Chegem District, including suicide and an accident. The women died after a conflict with their relatives, sources report.

In the Scherbinovsky District of the Krasnodar Territory, a court granted a public prosecutor’s request and appointed a new forensic psychiatric examination of activist Maxim Sokolov, who had earlier been forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic.

In Kaliningrad, a court takes an unreasonably long time to consider a claim to restrict the parental rights of Nina, a native of Dagestan, and that prevents the children from leaving for the republic with their father’s family, woman’s relatives point out.

A court of cassation has upheld the sentence of Elnar Amirbekov, who was sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment on the charge of terrorism and preparation of an attack on a road-and-patrol police (known as DPS) checkpoint in Dagestan. The court found unfounded the arguments of the defence about the falsification of evidence.

A female resident of Dagestan has held a solo picket, demanding the release of her brother, who was detained by law enforcers.

Disappearance of Adam Delimkhanov and contract between “Akhmat” units and Russian Ministry of Defence, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Zarema Musaeva’s case, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 12-18, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

A court in Krasnodar has found the posting of a flag on a social network with a slogan glorifying Ukraine as a demonstration of extremist symbols and arrested Mikhail Lyakh, a local resident, for 15 days.

Authorities of Chechnya will monitor social networks and identify residents of the republic who ignore Chechen traditions. Any deviation from traditional norms in social networks will be suppressed, Khamzat Kadyrov, an advisor to the head of Chechnya, has promised.

In the BBC documentary "When I Fled", girls from Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan tell that domestic violence, forced marriages and death threats had forced them to run away from their families. For victims of domestic violence, such escape often becomes the only way to save their lives, human rights defenders have emphasized.

The investigator has chosen the recognizance not to leave as the freedom restraint measure for Alipat Sultanbegova, a Krasnodar journalist, who is a figurant in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Army, although she had already managed to leave Russia.

The Novocherkassk Military Court has refused to satisfy the demand of Alexander Semenenko, a contract military serviceman, to be dismissed from military service, citing the presidential decree on the partial mobilization.

After taking part in the Russia's special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine Vladislav Biryukov, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, who had been sentenced to 16 years in colony for murdering his wife, has been amnestied.

During the debates held at a court session in Grozny, Zarema Musaeva has declared her innocence of fraud and assault on a law enforcer.

During the pleadings in court, advocates Alexander Nemov and Alexander Savin stated that investigators and public prosecutors did not provide evidence of Zarema Musaeva’s guilt in an attack on law enforcer and fraud.

An appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to check reports about torture of Anatoly Berezikov in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don, investigate the circumstances of his death, and institute a criminal case was published on the website “Change.Org”.

Speaking at the debates during the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, accused of financing extremist organizations, the prosecutor repeated the arguments earlier voiced out during the trial. It was expected that he would finish his speech in one session, but he had not enough time.