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The release from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the son of Musa Bazhaev, a Chechen billionaire, is against the judicial practice and the law. In this case, the charge of assaulting a policeman cannot be reclassified, lawyers have noted.

Advocate Natalia Fedorenko has been placed in custody in a case on violation of privacy. The defence intends to lodge an appeal against the court’s decision.

The 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Second Chechen War has been ignored by the authorities and state-run media of the republic. Participants of the war complain on social media that the state has still not paid some war veterans and does not provide them with assistance.

Human rights defenders are sure that the transfer of the complaint against law enforcers' actions filed by Lena Patyaeva, a Seda Suleimanova's friend, to Chechnya can only be a formal reply or an imitation of the inquiry. Meanwhile, in most cases, law enforcers are siding with the families of victims of domestic violence.

Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, who are waiting for consideration of their appeal complaints against verdicts, have been transferred from the Novocherkassk SIZO (pre-trial prison) to the Grozny one, Gadjiev's wife has reported, while one of Gadjiev's colleagues has added that his solo picket in Gadjiev's support sparked interest among passers-by in Makhachkala.

Pacifist statements in the messenger have caused a fine imposed on an Astrakhan woman under the article on discrediting the Russian Army. The court has imposed a minimum fine on her, by treating her son, a military serviceman, as a mitigating circumstance.

Abdula Karimov, a resident of Makhachkala, has complained that law enforcers had allegedly planted narcotic drugs on him and fabricated a criminal case. Despite this, the court found him guilty and sentenced him to eight years in jail.

Explosion at petrol station, drones and fires, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Caucasus and the “Wildberries” Company, parliamentary elections in Georgia, 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 September 23-29, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Delegations of Chechnya and Ingushetia met with the purpose to prevent the escalation of the conflict after the shooting near an office of the “Wildberries” Company. However, during the meeting, Adam Delimkhanov, a Russian State Duma member from Chechnya, called for “cutting off heads.”

The delay in hospitalizing Zarema Musaeva fits into the practice of treating prisoners accepted in institutions of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN). The FSIN is not interested in providing medical treatment for prisoners, human rights defenders emphasize.

In Dagestan, the fuelling stations that were closed due to violations resume their operation by court orders, but the risk of explosions and loss of life remains, therefore, more thorough inspections are needed, Albert Esedov, a political analyst, and Arsen Magomedov, a lawyer, believe.

The shootout, in which law enforcers killed a suspected militant, was preceded by a special operation conducted in Karabulak in March, in which six members of the Islamic State (IS)* were killed.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has informed Lena Patyaeva that her appeal demanding that law enforcers involved in the abduction of Seda Suleimanova be held accountable has been forwarded to Chechnya.

Letters to Igor Paskar, a Volgograd resident, convicted of setting fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar, are arriving intermittently; and the prison administration prohibits him from receiving newspapers and books, human rights defenders have complained.

The explosion at the fuelling station near the village of Novy Khushet was preceded by at least 14 incidents with explosions or fires at fuelling stations in Dagestan since 2014, in which at least 54 people perished, the "Caucasian Knot" has calculated.

The police have issued a warning about the inadmissibility of violations to Yana Antonova, an activist, who was collecting signatures from Krasnodar residents to the petition against the development of Rozhdestvenskaya Embankment.

Mikhail Balabanov, a native of the city of Kazan, convicted of preparing to set fire to a military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in the Stavropol Territory, has written to his parents that he had been taken to the Chelyabinsk SIZO (pre-trial prison), human rights defenders have informed.

The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the sentence of Jehovah's Witnesses* Garegin Khachaturyan, Gevorg Eritsyan and Lyubov Galitsyna, who had been earlier found guilty within an extremism case.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a resident of Astrakhan made a public apology to townspeople for firing a traumatic pistol when leaving a cafe with his friends.

The Grachevsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory has begun considering the case of eight residents of Dagestan accused of involvement in the riots at the Makhachkala Airport.