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Magomed Piraev, a former criminal investigator of the Kizilyurt Department of Internal Affairs, who was sentenced for hostage-taking, robbery, and illicit firearms trafficking, was tortured in a SIZO (pre-trial prison). His defence is seeking the institution of criminal cases based on the results of inspections based on Magomed Piraev’s complaints, reports advocate Nadezhda Borodkina.

Law enforcers conducted a search in a house of journalist and human rights defender Svetlana Anokhina in Dagestan. Svetlana Anokhina reminded that she left Russia two years ago.

The Sovietsky District Court of Krasnodar has fined Victor Torba by 40,000 roubles, finding his messages posted in the messenger as discredited Russian militaries.

Although the actions of the staff of the colony located in the Ulyanovsk Region, who broke the nozzle on the clipper so that Muslim prisoners from Dagestan and Chechnya could not leave the parts of their hair and beards in accordance with the prescriptions of Islam, do not fall under the notion of "torture", such treatment of prisoners falls under the Criminal Code, lawyers have noted.

In Ust-Labinsk, a court fined a local resident 30,000 roubles after recognizing that a comment he posted on social network discredited Russian militaries.

Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, tragedy in Georgia, persecution of opposition in Azerbaijan, 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 August 7-13, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The court has sentenced Yuri Kobelev, a resident of the town of Kropotkin (Krasnodar Territory), to a fine, finding his posts in the social network to be discrediting to the Russian Army.

In Makhachkala, journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov held solo pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev from custody.

The cases of Maria Kostenko and Vladimir Skalsky have arrived at Krasnodar courts.

Water supply problems in Dagestan have led local residents to block a section of the Astrakhan-Makhachkala federal highway.

The resident of Dagestan, who refused to be tested for alcohol intoxication, has been suspended from driving, the Chechen police have informed. Social network users have treated the mentioning of the offender's residence as inappropriate.

By the administration of the colony in Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), where he is serving his term, Oleg Danilov, a Jehovah's Witness from the village of Kholmskaya, was declared a malicious regime violator and placed into a cell-type facility.

The borders of the "Samursky" National Park are still located on the lands of residents of the village of Kurush; the villagers participating in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine have complained about it in their video appeal addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A court in the town of Lyubertsy has arrested for 15 days Philipp Kozlov, a Volgograd street painter, for the second time on charges of disobeying the police.

Due to the judicial victory of a mobilized resident of Znamensk, who has succeeded in seeking to be recognized as unfit for the military service, he may count on compensation for moral damage, but its amount will be much lower than the requested 10 million roubles, lawyers and human rights defenders believe.

After the protest action in Makhachkala, the power was supplied only for a few hours, residents of Magomed Gadjiev Street have reported. The head of Dagestan has promised that new protests will be suppressed.

Zarema Musaeva did not respond to four letters, and her son attributes the delay to censorship. The law does not provide for restrictions on sending and receiving letters, but if a person is being kept in a punishment cell, he or she may be deprived of the right to correspond with people, notes lawyer Abusupyan Gaitaev.

A court in the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) has fined Sergey Detochkin, a local deputy, treating his statements made at the funeral of a mobilized military serviceman as discrediting the Russian Army. The deputy called himself a victim of a slander.

In Makhachkala, the long absence of electricity has affected entrepreneurs, and city residents complained that power outages led to a shutdown of water supply. General Prosecutor Igor Krasnov reacted to massive power outages in Dagestan by instructing his subordinates to find the causes of what was happening.

Tlegen Islyamgaliev, a resident of Volgograd, volunteered for a brigade of the LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic) and was injured in the hostility zone. However, a hospital in Volgograd refused to make surgery for him. Tlegen Islyamgaliev demands surgery and combat payments, which he has not received, his lawyer Nikolai Lutsenko reports.