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After a video record depicting bullying of a military man was posted on the Internet, Sergey Menyailo, the leader of North Ossetia, has announced launching a check on the actions of the commander of the military unit in which the people mobilized from the republic serve.

A spouse of a contract soldier from Volgograd, who is seeking a re-passing of the medical commission through the court, complains that commanders of her husband’s military unit threatened him with opening a criminal case. Civilian doctors diagnosed the military man with a neurological disease.

Armed clashes in Ingushetia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, case against the leaders of the Ingush protest, 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 April 3-9, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

A resident of Derbent has demanded to cancel the decision to mobilize and send him to the special military operation (SMO) zone, pointing out that he, as the father of three children under 16, was entitled to a delay. The case should be considered by a military court, the judge has ruled.

Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, has decided to appeal against the verdict of the court, which convicted him for discrediting the Russian Army and sentenced him to a year and two months of freedom deprivation, Marina Dubrovina, an advocate, has informed.

The operative headquarters of Ingushetia has confirmed the detention of Mikail Moshkhoev, who is suspected of attacking law enforcers.

The court that considers the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev has rejected the petition lodged by Rizvanov, who asked to treat his identification in a photo by a secret witness as inadmissible proof.

The villagers' protest action against the construction of fish farms on the Chirkei Reservoir was caused by the authorities' insufficient reaction and fears that the above construction would still begin, residents of the village of Chirkei have stated.

At the court session that considered the complaint against the verdict in the so-called "Ingush case", the defendants-activists asked to send their case to the first-instance court because of the violations, but the court has dismissed the petition.

A mother of Movsar Umarov requested the law enforcement bodies to resume the investigation into the case on her son’s disappearance in the summer of 2020, but the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya rejected the request, a lawyer of the “Team Against Torture”* reported.

Ramzan Kadyrov got involved in the construction of a mosque in Moscow in order to highlight himself as the main defender of Russia’s Muslims and demonstrate his increased influence, although formally he has no right to interfere in any events in another region.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has found a violation of the rights of Mikhail Nazarenko, a resident of the Stavropol Territory, who was arrested after a spontaneous gathering in the city of Mineralnye Vody (Minvody) held in 2015.

A court in Paris has launched an investigation into the actions of the head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and two other officials involved in the deportation of Magomed Gadaev, a native of Chechnya, who was then sentenced to imprisonment in his homeland.

The Krasnodar Garrison Military Court has sentenced Sergey Lyakh to 3.5 years in prison and stripped him of his military rank for two cases of leaving his unit during the mobilization period.

The verdict in the case of three natives of Dagestan for beating a passenger in the Moscow metro was predetermined due to a media campaign against the defendants, their defence believes.

Mariana Katsarova, a Bulgarian human rights defender, who worked as a journalist in the war zone in Chechnya and also took part in monitoring human rights violations in Northern Caucasus, has been appointed the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Russia.

The law enforcers’ losses during an armed clash in the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, including three killed and eight wounded persons, became the largest number of casualties within a day among the law enforcers in Ingushetia after August 2012, the “Caucasian Knot” calculated.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya again cancelled the decision of the instance court, which refused to consider common-law wife of Salman Tepsurkaev as a victim in the case on his kidnapping.

Explosive devices and ammunition have been found in the houses of three residents of the Malgobek District, relatives of the alleged militant. All of them have been detained, the power structures of Ingushetia have informed.

Three policemen have perished and eight wounded during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, a law enforcement source has informed.