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Shamil Sadulaev, accused of calling for terrorism, has died at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Makhachkala; his body had numerous signs of injuries, his mother has stated. She believes that her son died a violent death.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has awarded compensations to three natives of Chechnya who had been exposed to inhumane treatment while being transported to their jails.

By publishing on the Internet the face of a teenager who recorded a video with derogatory statements about the Koran, the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kabardino-Balkaria violated the teenager’s right to privacy of his personal life, residents of the republic wrote on social networks.

A court in Elista has found the statements made by Igor Sandjiev, a mobilized person, who had escaped from his military unit and left Russia, as discrediting the Russian Army and ordered him to pay a fine of 30,000 roubles.

After a shootout that occurred in the village of Stary Achkhoi, Salakh Mezhiev, the Mufti of Chechnya, has actualized the principle of collective responsibility, reminding republic's residents of the need to look after their families.

Two residents of Dagestan, who have learned that after taking part in anti-mobilization actions they were put on the prophylactic register, report that attention to them is so far limited to visits of local district policemen.

On the eve of the court session on the case of Oleg Orlov*, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Human Rights Defence Centre, three Italian cities, Milan, Rovato and Borgoricco, as well as Lisbon, Portugal, have hosted pickets demanding to stop persecuting Oleg Orlov*, accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian Army.

Searches took place at the premises of activists Maria Karnaukhova in Stavropol and at Stalina Erlenbach in Nevinnomyssk.

Murad Shuaibov, a resident of Dagestan, one of those convicted for the murder of Khadjimurad Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" outlet, was found dead in the penal colony located in the city of Segezha in Karelia.

A shootout in the Achkhoi-Martan District, in which law enforcers killed three suspects who exchanged fire with them, was preceded by a similar incident in Gudermes in March 2023.

Ilya Novikov*, an advocate, who defended the liquidated Human Rights Centre "Memorial"** at trials, has been arrested in absentia.

The testimonies of Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran, must be questioned given the conditions in which he is kept in Chechnya, human rights defenders believe.

There is no crime in the actions of Valery Badmaev, the editor-in-chief of the “Sovremennaya Kalmykia” (Modern Kalmykia): he was convicted for reposting a video, but did not voice his opinion, advocates emphasized in the Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia.

Sergey Lomako from Volgograd posted flags of Ichkeria and Ukraine on WhatsApp* and was fined 1000 roubles for displaying prohibited symbols.

Khazrataly Dzasezhev, the chair of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kabardino-Balkaria, has talked to a teenager who made a video with derogatory statements about the Koran. After the conversation, the teenager has apologized for his offense.

Nailya Tulekeshova, a resident of the Pallasovsky District, has asked Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), to initiate an investigation into the death of her son in a military unit stationed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

Under the new law signed by President Putin, the property of those found guilty of spreading fake news about the Russian Army can be confiscated, but this sanction cannot apply to those convicted under this article before the law was signed, lawyers have explained, adding that the new law is aimed to further intimidate dissidents.

Tatiana Polyudova has said that she succeeded in seeking a visit to her daughter, activist Daria Polyudova, who is serving her sentence in a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria on an extremism case. Tatiana Polyudova notes that her daughter is still being kept in strict detention conditions.

The authorities of Turkey are preparing to deport from the country Ibragim Askerov, a native of Dagestan. The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has put the man on the wanted list for his involvement in the extremist organization “At Takfir wal-Hijra”*, sources report.

The court of cassation halved, to 50,000 roubles, a fine imposed on Ratmir Zhilokov, an advocate from Kabardino-Balkaria, in a case on an attack on a law enforcer.