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Shakhban Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, accused in a case on mass unrest at an airport in Makhachkala, has been transferred from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) to house arrest in connection with his disability and the need for medical treatment.

Kevin Lik, 18, a Maykop resident, convicted of treason, has been transferred to serve his sentence from Adygea to a penal colony located in the Arkhangelsk Region.

The police refused to take an application about kidnapping of her child by her husband, a native of Chechnya Sh., but the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has got interested in the case, Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident, has informed.

The proposal put forward by Vladislav Davankov, the Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker, to ban religious clothing in schools is populist and discriminatory from the viewpoint of the law and is aimed against the Russian Muslim community, Islamic scholars, lawyers and human rights defenders have stated.

In memory of politician, Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Telpuk, an activist, has laid flowers at the monument to victims of political repressions in Volgograd. According to Vladimir, he was filmed by the hosts of a local TV channel, Sergey Mazanov and Roman Potolovsky, who asked him provocative questions.

Murat Khokonov, who after his dismissal achieved reinstatement in his position at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University, said that he had received an order suspending him from work.

In Khasavyurt, after reconsideration of a criminal case, a court sentenced Shakhban Abakargadjiev to five years of forced labour, finding him guilty of spreading fake news about Russian militaries. The “OVD-Info”* human rights project reported about the verdict to Shakhban Abakargadjiev on its website.

In Krasnodar, the police drew up a protocol under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against a man detained at a solo picket with a pacifist appeal near an administration building.

About 30 people from different regions have come to the debate session on the case of three Jehovah's Witnesses* from Elista, accused of extremist activities.

The inquiry into the case of Kadi Gadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, whom investigators treat as a cell member of the extremist organization "Union of Rus' Slavic Forces"*, is over.

A court concluded that an investigation into the case on a car hitting Sergey Sopnev, a resident of the Predgorny District, who as a result got his leg amputated and became disabled, was conducted ineffectively and led to a violation of the victim’s rights.

The court has fined Pavel Prokudin, a Volgograd blogger, by 60,000 roubles under administrative charges of discrediting the Russian Army and petty hooliganism.

In Sochi, a court imposed a fine on pensioner Elena Yanmurzina in a criminal case for attempting to spoil ballots at a polling station.

Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.

Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.

Employees of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) have detained Alexei Gaun, a Volgograd resident, for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, when he tried to undergo a medical examination after being seriously wounded in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

The consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Yuri Mikhailov, who was HIV infected while being kept at the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, was again postponed due to the fact that SIZO bosses failed to provide the documents requested by the court.

The pensioner is accused under the criminal article on discrediting Russian militaries.

An author of the study “Forcibly Married” indicated that when she and her colleagues were preparing the study they had to operate only with the information on early marriages released by the “Rosstat” (Federal State Statistics Service), although in many cases, only a religious marriage is being concluded.

Georgian parliament overcomes presidential veto, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, news from Ingushetia, 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 May 27-June 2, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.