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The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has upheld the verdict of the first-instance court, which had found Corporal Madina Kabaloeva from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of failure to appear for her military service.

The prosecutor has offered to commute Musaeva's sentence due to her state of health and the injustice of the sentence passed by the first-instance court. After sentence mitigation, Musaeva has every reason to ask for the conditional early relief (CER), Natalia Dobronravova, an advocate, believes.

The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which recognized the Derbent residents, Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov, as victims of torture, will not affect the outcome of the consideration of the appeal complaint, since Russia is no longer a party to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), the convicts' advocate has indicated.

The information of Ramazan Gadjiev, a prisoner from Dagestan, about torture in the Mordovian colony was not confirmed, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) has reported. The Ombudsperson for Mordovia, during his meeting with Gadjiev, also found no violations of any of the prisoner's rights.

At the trial, the defence witnesses have recalled the role of Oleg Orlov and of the "Memorial" he heads in the case of the Gasanguseinov brothers killed by law enforcers in Dagestan, and his work during the military campaigns in Chechnya.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the authorities of Russia to pay 26,000 euros to Temirkhan Amakhanov, a resident of Derbent, recognizing him as a victim of torture by law enforcers. The ECtHR’s decision was pronounced against the backdrop of the Russia’s refusal to implement the decisions of the Strasbourg Court.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized that Kuban pensioner Klavdiya Kushnikova suffered after the unjustified use of force by the police, being injured in her home.

Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in Kyrgyzstan in connection with illegal border crossing, has requested temporary asylum, his advocate has informed.

By using torture, law enforcers obtained a confession of theft from Oleg Nosov, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), who is under arrest. Human rights defenders have appealed the refusal of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to investigate the use of violence by law enforcers.

Elkhan Suleimanov, a former Minister of Public Health and Deputy Chairman of the Chechen Government, stated that he had resigned of his own free will and left for another country for personal reasons. At the moment of his resignation, Suleimanov treated Kadyrov's health condition as satisfactory and voiced praise for the head of Chechnya.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Russian authorities to pay 26,000 euros to each of Derbent residents Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov in compensation, recognizing that law enforcers forced them to confess to crimes under torture.

After the Supreme Court of Chechnya commuted her sentence, Zarema Musaeva has the right to take into consideration the time served by her in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), as well as to ask for conditional early relief (CER), noted human rights defenders.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay compensation of EUR 26,000 to Aslan Iritov, a resident of Nalchik, recognizing him as a victim in the case of torture by law enforcers.

A resident of Dagestan is seeking social benefits for his wound received in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine. The Khasavyurt District Court has returned to him the lawsuit filed against the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office).

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pointed to a violation of the article prohibiting torture and degrading treatment, and obliged Russia to pay EUR 26,000 to each of the human rights defenders, Svetlana Anokhina and Maisarat Kilyaskhanova, who were in the Makhachkala shelter during the visit of law enforcers, who forcibly took away Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, and also Iraida Smirnova, who was also hiding in the shelter.

Almost six months after his release from a penal colony, Alexander Valov, a blogger from Sochi, still has not succeeded in seeking the return of the money seized from him during a search. Meanwhile, according to Alexander Valov, he intended to use the mentioned money to pay off a fine and compensate for moral damage to MP Yuri Napso.

The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Igor Paskar, convicted of setting fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar, as a political prisoner, demanding his release and an investigation into his allegations of torture.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has confirmed the conviction of Khusein Batalov and Yusup Dauev in the case of preparing murder motivated by religious hatred. Their defence alleged torture, but the court found these arguments unjustified.

An acquittal for Abdulmumin Gadjiev was unlikely, but given the absence of proofs in the charges, there was hope for a minimum sentence; therefore, the court's decision turned out to be unexpectedly harsh, friends of the Dagestani journalist have stated. In their opinion, appealing the verdict will not lead to the acquittal or any significant reduction in the prison term.

During the years of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) and the rule of Ramzan Kadyrov, thousands of people disappeared in Chechnya, but Russia failed to take measures to investigate their disappearances, says the report by Oleg Orlov and Alexander Cherkasov, human rights defenders.