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The Nalchik City Court has obliged three convicted policemen to pay 150,000 and 300,000 roubles, to Alexander Knyazev and Valery Levdik, respectively, who claimed that they had been tortured. The victims disagree with the amount of compensations, Mr Knyazev has stated.

Human rights organizations have sent a report to the UN on the deteriorating of the human rights situation in Northern Caucasus and described cases of persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya and Dagestan.

The authorities are required by law to compensate for damages to a woman from the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, whose house was damaged during a counterterrorist operation, but to assess the damage, the woman needs to go to court, lawyers note.

Alan Khasiev, a blogger from North Ossetia, was fined for a video posted on the social media.

The court sentenced Nikolai Bogoslavsky, the Pastor of the Evangelical Church of Christ the Saviour in Anapa, to a year in colony under the article on cooperation with an undesirable organization.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found violations in considering the cases of nine residents of Ingushetia detained at the venue of a rally in Magas in 2019.

Rinat Kiramov, Sergey Korolyov, and Sergey Kosyanenko, the Jehovah's Witnesses*, whose case is being considered by the Akhtubinsky District Court, are under threat of long freedom deprivation terms under the charges of extremism. The prosecutor has demanded eight years in colony for each of them.

The police reported about the detention of a Moscow advocate in a case on a threat of violence to a public officer during a court session. Timur Idalov, representing the interests of the Belkharoev family in the case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”), was detained, and a search was conducted in the Timur Idalov’s house.

The statement of Ramzan Kadyrov concerning connections of a detainee in Chechnya with Ingush militants is not enough to consider a person a member of the armed underground, human rights defender point out.

The special operation in the village of Gvardeiskoye was held two weeks after the armed incident in Gudermes, where two men were shot dead.

A court in North Ossetia has terminated the proceedings in the case of Regina Gagieva, who posted pacifist comments in a social network.

The Baksan District Court has found the comment posted by a local woman in a social network as discrediting Russian militaries.

Aslbek Aitakov, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, was fined 30,000 roubles for his comment on the social media criticizing the special military operation in Ukraine.

Suleiman Lorsanov, Chechen Minister for Public Health, has called on opponents of polio vaccination to come out on TV with evidence that vaccinations are harmful to children’s health.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has informed that his daughter, Eset Kadyrova, a second-form pupil, won the All-Russian contest "Language Is Nation's Soul".

During the week of April 3-9, 2023, at least four people perished and eight others were wounded during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The solo pickets demanding to stop the criminal case against Gadjiev caused an approving reaction from car drivers and interested the guests of Makhachkala, journalists have informed.

Max KomikadZe, a blogger who starred with Ramzan Kadyrov in a series of parody video clips about Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, has told the police about the received threats.

The murder committed by law enforcers of more than a hundred civilians in the Chechen village of Samashki back in 1995, has not been investigated for 28 years; and the perpetrators have not been punished, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence has pointed out.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has called on sellers not to raise prices for goods before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr. He has compared to drug dealers the entrepreneurs who raise the prices on the eve of the holiday. For the republic, the rise in prices during Ramadan has become a chronic problem.