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The decision to transfer the property of the "International Memorial"* to the state was made with violations of the law, the advocates have pointed out at the consideration of the appeal at the Moscow City Court (MCC), but their arguments failed to convince the judge.

The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has treated as unjustified the actions of the investigator, who had sent to Chechnya reports about the violations during the detention of Zarema Musaeva, the "Team Against Torture"* has reported, calling it a rare event in their practice.

Over the past two months, about 300 people have begun their service at the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya. This was announced by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov amid the massive dispatch of fighters to Ukraine.

The Nalchik City Court restricted a local woman’s rights to her one-year-old son, considering that it would be better for the child. A lawsuit to restrict the parental rights of the child’s mother was filed to the court by the boy’s grandmother, who reported the antisocial behaviour of her daughter.

Leyla Gireeva, who ran away from home due to domestic violence, has returned to Ingushetia voluntarily, human rights defenders have confirmed.

Residents of the Russian capital came to the Moscow City Court (MCC) to support the "International Memorial"* in a dispute over the legality of transferring its office to the Research and Education Centre.

The intensified control over women in Chechnya has led to refusals to issue foreign passports to local women without guarantees of other family members. This practice grossly violates the law and human rights, human rights defenders assert.

Alexander Valov, a former editor-in-chief of the website "BlogSochi", was beaten up in the colony. According to the colony administration, he "has left for treatment," his advocate has informed.

Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia, who is serving his sentence in the Astrakhan Region, is not provided with proper medical care, and he is also regularly placed in a ShIZO (punishment cell), the “Public Verdict Foundation”* reports.

Drivers and passers-by have expressed their approval and support for Salim Khalitov and Idris Yusupov during their solo pickets demanding the release of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and other political prisoners.

In Dagestan, the Jehovah's Witnesses* sentenced to conditional imprisonment have decided to recall their appeals against the verdict. Under the current conditions, such sentence can be treated as a victory, said Suat Abdullaeva, the wife of one of the convicts.

Vitaly Votanovsky, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), has stated that after he made and posted in his Telegram channel entitled "Titushki in Krasnodar" photos of the graves of the militaries who perished in Ukraine, he began receiving threats.

The Rostov Regional Court has reduced the prison term for activist Anastasia Shevchenko, who has left Russia, by a year.

On February 6, activist Salim Khalitov and journalist Idris Yusupov held solo pickets with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft).

A public prosecutor announced that the materials concerning advocates of blogger Alexander Nozdrinov, who was accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, would be transferred to the Chamber of Advocates to take action against the defenders.

A court in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has imposed fines on two conscripts, treating their refusals to take summonses to the military commissariats as evasion from service.

The appointment of relatives to key positions in Chechnya is explained by trust in them, and not by kinship, Ramzan Kadyrov said in response to criticism about the appointment of his nephew as a minister.

Residents of a house in Volgograd complained to Alexander Bastrykin, the chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), that officials did not relocate them from a failing building, the state of which threatens the people’s safety.

Scandals with Ramzan Kadyrov, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, official data on the natives of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine, struggle of Azerbaijani oppositionists, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 30-February 5, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Oleg Denisov and Irina Kuznetsova from Rostov-on-Don were sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony for setting fire to a car with symbols of the special military operation in Ukraine.