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Alexei Motorny from the Rostov Region was detained and forcibly sent to the special military operation zone, despite a heart attack he suffered, claimed his spouse Svetlana. The woman is seeking her husband’s return home.

Activist Marina Melikhova, who was sentenced for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on June 1, the “OVD-Info”* reports.

Even if the court rules to leave a child with the mother, fathers from North-Caucasian regions often kidnap their children and take them to their homeland, from where it is then difficult to return them, human rights defenders have in their comments on the story of Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident.

A court in Volgograd has fined Stanislav Terentiev, a former editor-in-chief of the "Kolokol" (Bell) newspaper, finding him guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. Stanislav refused to plead guilty and appealed against the court ruling.

A court in Kizlyar (a city in Dagestan) has fined Saadula Zakaryaev, a local resident, for violating the rules of organizing a rally after he had posted an invitation in a social network for his subscribers to take part in filming a video about cars.

The expertise, on the basis of which the court found Salikh Osmanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of attempted sabotage, was conducted with gross violations, the complaint lodged against Osmanov's verdict asserts. He has accused law enforcers of fabricating the case against him.

Marina Melikhova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), remains at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although her prison term has expired, her advocate has stated demanding from the SIZO to release Marina.

Oksana Voronina from Tikhoretsk and Yulia Vaganova from Sochi have been fined for their comments in social networks, which were treated by the court as discrediting the Russian Army. Yuri Boretsky, a Sochi resident, was ordered to pay a fine for his statements made during a conversation with his colleagues.

The problem of early and forced marriages in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is still there, although there are no reliable statistics on this issue. The problem is rarely brought into the public sphere amid girls' confidence in their own defencelessness, absence of working laws and gender discrimination characteristic of the patriarchal structure inherent in these republics.

A court in Voronezh has sentenced Alexander Shevchenko, a resident of the Rostov Region, to 24 years and four months of freedom deprivation. He tried to enter the territory of Ukraine aiming to tae part in hostilities against Russian troops there, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has informed.

Maria Smelaya, a resident of Krasnodar, explains that her decision to refuse to make public an attack on a shelter was caused by her fears for the relatives’ lives because of the threats voiced by her former husband. The woman has decided to file a complaint to the police in connection with the kidnapping of her son.

A criminal case on the murder of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a 19-year-old resident of Kayakent, should be sent for additional investigation after a forensic expert admitted that an earlier forensic report did not describe all the wounds on the young man’s body. The above has been reported by a family’s lawyer.

The testimony that Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, declared falsified, was the base for the charges of terrorism, pointed out Felix Wertegel, an advocate of Boris Goncharenko. In similar cases, courts usually adhere to an accusatory bias, noted lawyer Dmitry Zair-Bek.

The Gelendjik City Court has received a criminal case opened against Vasily Romanyuta, accused of discrediting Russian militaries.

After complaints of domestic violence in the family of a native of Chechnya and a subsequent refutation, Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident, has again turned to human rights defenders, claiming that her husband had forcibly taken away her 1.5 year old child.

The fifth criminal case has been opened against the singer Sharlot, who in January apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov. The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has announced him as a political prisoner.

On May 29, at a court session, Kishta Tutinova, Tsagan Khalgaeva and Ekaterina Menkova rejected charges of extremist activities and stated that the actions they were accused of were their exercise of the constitutional right to profess any religion.

The police have put on the wanted list a native of Nazran who left for Syria eight years ago. According to the investigators’ version, the woman joined a terrorist organization and was raising money for its needs.

A court in Volgograd has extended the arrest of Daniil Vodolagin, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, by three months, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

At trial, Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, claimed that he did not give the testimony that was read out earlier, but it had been written by an investigator.