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For several months already, the defence of Valery Bailo, a convicted Jehovah's Witness* from the Krasnodar Territory, has failed to obtain medical treatment for him at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is kept.

In Southern Russia, authorities have launched an agitation campaign, offering migrants from Central Asia and those who recently received Russian citizenship some remuneration for their consent to be sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone; otherwise these people are threatened with punishment.

After criticizing law enforcing bodies for the inefficient inquiry into the disappearance of Anna Tsomartova, a North-Ossetian athlete, in Kaspiysk, her father Nikolai Tsomartov was fired from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for violating the ethic norms.

The charge of using violence against a policeman does not correspond to the circumstances of the blogger Askhabali Alibekov’s case. The authorities are forcing the blogger to stop his opposition activities by persecuting him, the “Support for political prisoners. Memorial” human rights project states.

As a result of shooting which took place near an office of the “Wildberries” Company in Moscow, Islambek Elmurziev, a 28-year-old master of sports in freestyle wrestling from Ingushetia, and Adam Almazov, a 41-year-old deputy commander of the “Akhmat-1” OMON (riot police) battalion from Chechnya, have been killed, sources report.

The cassation court refused to grant an appeal lodged against the sentence of Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, who was sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment for setting fire to a rug near an FSB building in Krasnodar. The above information has been reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project.

The military court of appeal upheld the sentence to 16 years of imprisonment for aiding and abetting terrorism pronounced against Denis Mamedov, a former official from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in Stavropol. The above information has been reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project.

Agents of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) have detained an earlier convicted Volgograd resident for his post in a messenger, seeing support for banned terrorist organizations in them.

In the conflict of a Dagestani resident with and an elderly Chechen after a road accident, both parties are to blame, as they wouldn't settle the problem peacefully and started a brawl, analysts believe, adding that the Dagestani resident by apologizing to Kadyrov decided to protect himself and end the conflict in this way.

The application made by Andzor Kudaev, a convicted entrepreneur from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) that his confession was obtained under torture is credible, human rights defenders have pointed out, noting that courts are trying to ignore applications about torturing the defendants.

The Supreme Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has rejected the appeal complaint, lodged by Olga Begretova, an activist, against the decision of the Nalchik court, which refused to request information that the FSB had received about her after forced fingerprinting at the airport.

The Stavropol Territorial Court has denied the defence's appeal against the refusal to mitigate the sentence and release Ingush activists, Ismail Nalgiev and Bagaudin Khautiev, from penal colony. The defence decided not to appeal against this decision.

Natalia Fedorenko, who is defending Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger, has demanded the judge's challenge due to the violations committed, but was refused; Natalia was accused of violating the judge's privacy. She has complained that her trial prevents her from defending Kharchenko*.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) found that the Russian authorities violated the article on the prohibition of torture and inhuman treatment in relation to Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva. The activist was awarded 1000 euros in compensation, although Russia does not consider itself obligated to comply with the decisions of the European Court.

A court dismissed all the arguments of the defence and upheld the decision to fine Marina Melikhova, an activist from Kuban, whose verse the law enforcement bodies recognized as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. Marina Melikhova, who does not have the money to pay the fine, intends to file an appeal against the court’s decision.

A shootout took place near an office of the “Wildberries” Company in the centre of Moscow. As a result, at least one person has been killed and several others have been wounded, sources report. Among the victims have been Abubakar Mestoev and Umar Chichaev, mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters from Northern Caucasus, reports Shamil Khadulaev, the chair of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan.

The Central District Court of Volgograd awarded prisoner Ruslan Mitrofan compensation in the amount of 1000 roubles, recognizing that the administration of a prison hospital in Volgograd violated the prisoner’s right to receive medical care by not providing him with an HIV medicine. Meanwhile, Ruslan Mitrofan requested the compensation in the amount of 100,000 roubles.

A court of appeal upheld the sentence of Daniil Vodolagin, a student from Volgograd, who was sentenced to five years of imprisonment on the charge of disseminating fakes about the Russian Armed Forces. This information has been reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project.

A court sentenced Denis Salmin, a contract soldier from the Astrakhan Region, to six years and six months of imprisonment, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

In the Akhtubinsky District of the Astrakhan Region, a court fined local resident Alexandra Toropchina 30,000 roubles, recognizing that her comments posted on the “VKontakte” social network discredited the Russian Armed Forces.