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The detention in Moscow of Selima Ismailova, a native of Chechnya, on a complaint about a theft, has continued the trend of involving law enforcers in the persecution of victims of domestic violence by their relatives, human rights defenders have pointed out, adding that prior to escaping victims should seek help from human rights organizations.

The Vladikavkaz Garrison Military Court has found the contract soldier, Sergey Sorochinsky guilty of leaving his unit without permission during the mobilization period and sentenced him to 5.5 years in colony.

During the time of her arrest, Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva's spinal problems and her eyesight have worsened, but she cannot get examination and receive treatment, the "Memorial Human Rights Defence Centre" has informed.

Shamil Basaev's relatives deny that his daughter and grandson have left Chechnya for Germany, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a Chechen oppositionist and rights defender, has informed.

Ariana Lolaeva, a comedian from North Ossetia, filed a complaint to the Constitutional Court with the demand to recognize the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces as unconstitutional, the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial” reports.

The police brought to a police station a deceived real estate investor who sought a meeting with the leader of Dagestan.

A man serving his sentence in Kabardino-Balkaria filed a lawsuit against a penitentiary facility and a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Novorossiysk, claiming that he contracted HIV there.

Law enforcers from Chechnya have taken the 20-year-old Selima Ismailova away, Sofia Rusova, a lawyer from the Centre for the Protection of Domestic Violence Victims, has confirmed. The aircraft, on which, according to human rights defenders, a ticket to Chechnya for Ismailova was bought, has departed to Grozny.

Law enforcers from Chechnya have arrived at the Moscow airport to pick up Selima Ismailova, who had escaped from domestic violence. The girl is very depressed and fears that she may be returned to her family, the advocate has stated.

Vyacheslav Dmitrov and Anatoly Balanovsky, contract officers from Rostov-on-Don, filed appeals to court against refusals of payments for their participation in the special military operation in Ukraine. Both officers found unreasonable their discharge from the Russian army after they had been wounded.

Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin from the Volgograd Region has recently been twice placed in a punishment cell in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he serves his sentence in a theft case. SIZO staff could plan the incident and accuse Igor Nagavkin of violating the SIZO regime, his advocate believes.

Khava Abdulmezhidova, a Shamil Basaev's daughter, has left Russia with her son and arrived in Germany, where she applied for asylum. However, German authorities may reject the appeal and deport them to Russia, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a human rights defender, is afraid.

Public activities of Ramzan Kadyrov, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Gayane Akopyan’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 June 5-11, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The court has treated the messages posted in the messenger by a resident of Dagestan, in which he compared the militaries of the Russian Army and fighters of the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC) with the heroes of John Ronald Tolkien's novel "The Lord of the Rings", as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

The court has fined Kirill and Ekaterina Ulitin, residents of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory) for taking part in the conference of the international religious movement "New Generation"*, whose activities are recognized as undesirable in Russia.

Zarema Musaeva has been examined in the hospital and returned to the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is kept in Chechnya. The examination showed deterioration of her health.

The deportation of Emran Navruzbekov, a former Dagestani law enforcer, was the result of the justified distrust of Polish authorities in his words, but this is only a special case, human rights defenders and a journalist have pointed out.

After her arrests in the Moscow Region, Ulker Gashimova, a resident of Derbent, who tried to leave Russia, was sent to Dagestan, where law enforcers took away her documents and limited contacts with her.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, and the founder of the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC), Evgeny Prigozhin, after an exchange of public statements, have spoken on the phone "in the manly way", and agreed not to criticize each other, Chechen units and the "Wagner" PMC.

During a week after British citizen Magomed Abubakarov had been detained at his mother’s home in Chechnya, the republic’s authorities did not disclose the reasons for his detention.