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The Court of Cassation lifted the ban on the publication of the “Sahih al-Bukhari”* book amid the statements voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov, who is trying to position himself as the main defender of Muslims in Russia, religious experts Dmitry Mikulsky and Alexander Sotnikov point out.

Rustam Buluev, Ruslan Namatov, and Arthur Ushaev, former employees of the antiterrorist centre of Chechnya, were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment on the charges of committing a terror act in the village of Znamenskoye in 2005.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized violations of the rights of six Krasnodar residents who were detained at rallies in Krasnodar in 2017 and 2018.

Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against a resident of Rostov-on-Don for his post in a social network.

Users of the "VKontakte" social network have sharply criticized officials after the complaint from a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), who had asked local authorities for firewood, but received tickets to the circus instead.

In Moscow, a court fined 70-year-old Olga Slegina under the article about discrediting the Russian Armed Forces because of her conversation about the President of Ukraine during a vacation in Kabardino-Balkaria.

Investigators four times refused to institute a criminal case on the kidnapping by Chechen law enforcers of Ibragim Selimkhanov, a native of Dagestan, and the prosecutor’s office once again recognized the above decision on refusal as illegal, the “SK SOS Crisis Group” reported.

The Dagestani Supreme Court (SC) has refused to reduce the prison term of five year appointed to Murad Dadashev, a native of Dagestan, for his posts in the Internet. Dadashev himself has rejected his authorship of the posts.

Policemen have beaten up Konstantin Beltyukov, a resident of Sochi, after he asked them to produce their IDs in response to their demand to give them his documents for examination.

Irina Nikiforyak, the wife of the mobilized man has complained that authorities of the Urupsky District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) brought her two tickets to the circus instead of firewood she has asked for.

The mother of Adam Ozdoev, who was put on the wanted list in the case of an attack on law enforcers in Ingushetia, has again recorded a video appeal to her son urging him to surrender to authorities.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya has cancelled the decision of the court, which for the 13th time recognized as lawful the refusal to institute a criminal case on the torture of Timur Debishev, an actor from Chechnya. Human rights defenders called the above court’s decision rare for Chechnya and encouraging for them.

Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement about the need to return to the front line for Chechen fighters released from the Ukrainian captivity are aimed at preventing surrendering of fighters and fit into the Stalinist traditions, when captivity was considered a disgrace, human rights defenders point out.

The Chegem District Court has fined Khasansh Urusov, a local resident, for his post in a social network.

Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet, has filed a lawsuit, in which he challenges the legality of policemen's actions of disrupting his solo picket in support of the arrested Abdulmumin Gadjiev, his colleague.

In his last plea, Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender from the Volgograd Region, spoke about falsification of his case and violations during the investigation, but the court issued a guilty verdict.

Law enforcers did not send any documents to Svetlana Anokhina, a Dagestani journalist and human rights defender, about initiating a criminal case against her under the article on discrediting the Russian Army, Svetlana herself has stated, noting that she lives abroad.

In the Volgograd Region, a court found human rights defender Igor Nagavkin guilty of stealing jewellery and sentenced him to six years of imprisonment.

Oleg Azizov, a resident of Elista, was mobilized despite having five children and suffering from a spinal hernia. After the Elista City Court had refused to consider the Oleg Azizov’s claim, the case was sent to the garrison court.

The case initiated against the law enforcer accused of beating up Ilya Afrosin, a Krasnodar resident, who died after detention, has been sent to the Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar.