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The staff of the colony located in the Ulyanovsk Region have forced Muslim prisoners from Dagestan and Chechnya to shave off their beards, tortured them and confiscated their personal belongings, human rights defenders have reported.

Members of the Chechen Diaspora have held a rally in Zurich, during which they called on Swiss authorities not to deport Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, to Russia, since he is expected to be persecuted in his homeland.

Khasan Yangulbaev has volunteered for the special military operation (SMO) and completed a full training course at the Russian Special Forces University.

A resident of the Astrakhan Region, who was declared unfit for the military service by a military medical commission, filed a claim for moral damages of 10 million roubles for being illegally mobilized.

The “Chechenenergo” Company should provide the necessary power instead of turning off the electricity during the hot weather and calling on residents to save electric power. This was a reaction by social media users in response to the company’s calls to save energy.

Following the presentation of the Astrakhan corrective colony IK-10, the court has changed the custody regime for Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a prisoner from Ingushetia, for the prison one. The decision will be appealed against, Irina Biryukova, an advocate, has informed.

An official from the Russian presidential administration has promised Guzel Gilmanova, a disabled woman from childhood from Sochi, who has been on the waiting list for housing for 35 years, to assist in obtaining an apartment in the near future, but in his written response he said that local authorities were not providing her with an apartment on legal grounds.

By promising to solve the problems of residents of the Kemsi-Yurt village, the authorities of the Khasavyurt District tried to appease Chechen natives amid the current political situation, believes Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

Since the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a total of 29,000 fighters have been sent to the SMO zone from Chechnya, including 13,000 volunteers, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced.

In Chechnya, law enforcers have detained a brother of Saidi Yangulbaev, a former Russian federal judge, and three of his nephews and sent them to the special military operation (SMO) zone, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, has informed.

A comment posted in the Telegram became the reason for drawing up an administrative protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Daniil Rogachov, a resident of Volgograd.

The “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project recognized as a political prisoner Alexander Somryakov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was sentenced to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony for his posts about the actions of Russian troops in Ukraine.

Marina Sotskova, a Russian-speaking resident of the Grozny village of Vozrozhdeniye, filmed a video in which she expressed her concern that hazardous waste would be dumped into a local river through a pipe that was being laid from the airport.

Explosions in the Black Sea, tragedy in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, persecution of opposition in Azerbaijan, 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 July 31-August 6, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Doctors have diagnosed traumas to activist Roman Taganov, who was hospitalized in the city of Maykop after being beaten up there. The attacker demanded to stop placing his posts in the social network.

In Kazakhstan, in the village of Malaya Saran, unknown vandals have destroyed the memorial sign dedicated to Akhmat Kadyrov, the father of the current Chechen leader and the first president of the republic. Offensive inscriptions appeared on another monument in the village.

A native of Chechnya, Ali Bataev, was taken to a medical centre in Zurich on the 52nd day of his hunger strike, after which he was returned to the deportation centre, the "European Peace House" reports.

The prosecution has asked for a conditional imprisonment of four years for Irina Perefilyeva, a Jehovah's Witness* from the village of Mednogorsky. The prosecutor has stated that such a punishment is asked given the absence of aggravating circumstances, the human rights project "OVD-Info"** has reported.

The idea to ban religious marriages without presenting by newlyweds of certificates about the absence of drug addiction and HIV infection is relevant for Ingushetia, local residents and activists have pointed out.

The investigator has unreasonably refused to provide advocates with the materials of the death case of a four-year-old girl from the city of Malgobek, the advocates assert and ask the court to cancel this refusal.