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Saida Sirazhudinova, an activist, has called the Anna Korobkova's denouncement of Saida's support for anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan to be slander and information distortion.

Protests in Georgia, echoes of the riots in Makhachkala, Adam Kadyrov’s new awards, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, trial in the Nikita Zhuravel’s case, and 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 November 13-19, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

After verdict overturning, the district court of Dagestan has the case of five policemen accused of kidnapping and torturing a female detainee returned.

The Volgograd Regional Court has rejected the lawsuit lodged by Vladimir Khlyntsev, a serviceman for the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC) against two penal colonies and the Russian Ministry of Finance (MoF) concerning torturous custody conditions.

Asiyat Magomedova, a resident of Kizlyar, was fined under the article on discrediting the Russian Army for watching Ukrainian TV channels and posting a video on the WhatsApp* about the situation in Avdeevka.

Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, has been released after a court hearing held in the city of Bishkek, but the decision to expel him from Kyrgyzstan was upheld, his advocate has informed.

Dagestani courts have received administrative cases against 412 people accused of offenses during the anti-Semitic action and riots at the Makhachkala Airport. This was reported by the "Mediazona"*.

Chechen Imams have become the suffered party in Nikita Zhuravel's case against their will, and ignore court sessions, because they received no instructions on their testimonies, Svetlana Gannushkina* believes.

Lawyers and human rights defenders have found distrustful the version that instructions from some curator were found in the phone of the person detained for setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in the town of Prokhladny.

A court in Nalchik has sentenced Isa Malsagov, a military serviceman, to five years of conditional freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

At least 27 people have been arrested within a criminal case regarding mass riots in Makhachkala, who have appealed against their arrest in the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. The SC has already upheld arrests on 17 complaints.

After posting her comment on anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan for some Western editions, Saida Sirazhudinova, the President of the Centre for Studying Global Modernity Issues and Regional Problems "Caucasus. World. Development", has attracted attention of a well-known informer.

Activists of the all-Russian organization "Russia's Labour Valour" have decorated Adam Kadyrov, a son of the head of Chechnya, who had beaten up the arrested Nikita Zhuravel, with their public award. Adam has also received the medal "For Contribution to Development of Russian Special Forces University".

In Sochi, a court fined activist Anna Kolmagortseva 40,000 roubles under the article on petty hooliganism for posting a video allegedly insulting the Russian president. The court’s decision will be challenged, since the video was filmed and posted by another user, the activist states.

Human rights defenders have noted that among the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the problem with evacuation of victims of domestic violence is most acute in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya, since in those republics, the authorities and the law enforcement bodies take the side of family aggressors.

Agents of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) have detained a man in Krasnodar who spoke favourably about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in a social network.

Law enforcers have seized books and computers during conducting a search of Yakub Gogiev, the founder of the "Dzurdzuki" Ingush historical and geographical society.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has received complaints about the arrest of 17 rioters at the Makhachkala Airport; the SC has already considered nine of them and upheld the awarded freedom restriction measures.

Fatima Zurabova was brought in for questioning in connection with an application about her disappearance, the Investigating Committee (IC) of Armenia has informed. The police are tasked with ensuring the safety of a native of Ingushetia, who had escaped from domestic violence.

The persecution of Nikita Zhuravel is politically motivated and aimed at intimidating the public, states the human rights project “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial.” The human rights defenders requested the authorities to immediately release the resident of Volgograd and launch an investigation into his beating by a son of Ramzan Kadyrov.