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Chechen refugee Zelimkhan O. may be deported to his homeland after being released from a French prison, human rights defenders report.

Only the Defence Minister and the country's president can criticize the commander of a grouping of troops at the frontline, Vladimir Boldyrev, a former commander of the Russian Ground Forces, has told Ramzan Kadyrov, commenting on the criticism expressed by the head of Chechnya against Colonel General Lapin. Mr Boldyrev has suggested that Kadyrov's criticism of militaries' actions could be caused by the "undercover fuss."

In Krasnodar, a court suspended the decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice to include advocate Mikhail Benyash* in the register of foreign agents.

The military training of the staff of the Chechen Muftiate and theologians fits into the Ramzan Kadyrov’s policy of militarization and is hardly voluntary, Svetlana Gannushkina* and Oyub Titiev believe. They considered the probability of participation of religious figures in real battles doubtful.

Kazbek Ataev, a resident of Malgobek, who has served a long term in colony under a terrorist article, has been detained after a search of his house; explosives were found there.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Prosecutor's Office, as well as the authorities of Stavropol, have launched a check after the complaint of the parents of a pupil of a local cadet school that their son had been beaten with a whip at that educational establishment.

In Ingushetia, the police have refused to open a criminal case against relatives of Leyla Gireeva on the girl's application about regular domestic violence against her, human rights defenders have informed.

In the Malgobek District of Ingushetia, an underage girl was abducted by a 37-year-old man with the aim of marriage; a search is underway for him, sources have reported.

Prior to deportation, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the natives from Chechnya and Ingushetia, who had left Russia, were kept in dirty and cold containers; and in Croatia, law enforcers used to beat up those who had arrived, natives of Chechnya have told.

The police took to a police station journalist Idris Yusupov and Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), who went out to solo pickets in Makhachkala.

In Magas, a court began considering a case against Leyla Chemurzieva, who was accused of possessing an explosive device. The testimony which investigators insisted on was given by Leyla Chemurzieva after torture and threats, the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial” reported.

Continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, news about the Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case, threat to the life of Mikhail Saakashvili, verdict to Ingush activists and hunger strikes of Azerbaijani oppositionists, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 9-15, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The Krasnodar Court of Cassation has cancelled the decision to prosecute Alexei Mandrigelya, an activist.

Nazhmudin Abdurakhmanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, has challenged at the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan the fine of 40,000 roubles imposed on him for his pacifist posts in social networks.

The court sentenced Gafar Isaev, a participant in a protest rally against mobilization held in September 2022 in Makhachkala, to two years of conditional imprisonment after finding him guilty of using violence against a law enforcer.

In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), law enforcers have returned to the scientists the things seized during searches, but they gave no explanations about the reasons for the searches, one of the scientists have stated.

An open letter with a complaint about problems with power supplies in Dagestan was sent to the President of Russia by Polad Nametullaev, a deputy of the City Assembly of Derbent. After that, residents of Dagestan criticized the republic's authorities in the social network.

At the trial, an expert of the forensic examination centre of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed the conclusions of his colleagues about the absence of any crime attributes in the publications by Abdulmumin Gadjiev; and this corresponds to the version of the journalist's innocence, his defence asserts.

Without owners' consent, they are planning to give the land plots belonging to villagers in the Rutulsky District into long-time lease, local residents have complained in their video appeal to Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan.

The court has explained its decision not to allow journalists to attend the consideration of the appeal lodged by the activists convicted within the case of the rally in Magas by the absence of vacant seats in the courtroom.