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Two young men, who were detained at night on June 2, at the border checkpoint "Verkhniy Lars", and who were on the way, as reported by special services, to Syria aiming to take part in the war on the side of the "Islamic State", today have been sent home, a law enforcement source told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, members of the Russian Federal Human Rights Council (HRC) have discussed the pogrom in Grozny at their special sitting with participation of Timur Aliev, the head of the Chechen HRC, and Vadim Gaidov, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

Great-scale violations of the environmental legislation have been revealed in the course of the ecological expedition in the Volgograd Region, said activists of the public organization "Green Patrol". The ecologists have drafted 53 acts to be sent to supervisory authorities.

The Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of Russia has instructed Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee against Torture (CaT), to prepare a report about the attack on the office and apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny. The report will be handed over to Vladimir Putin.

The redistribution process of assets and spheres of influence of the ex-mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov began immediately after his arrest and is still on, the Dagestani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

During the attack on the office and apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny there were no mass detentions, because no policemen were present at the attack, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by eyewitnesses. In their turn, law enforcement bodies of Chechnya assert that relatives of the murdered Jambulat Dadaev were the organizers of the pogrom.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has satisfied the appeal, lodged by the advocate of Mukhammad Magomedov, one of the leaders of the public organization "The Union of the Just", against the decision of the Leninsky District Court of Makhachkala to put his client into custody.

Today, the counterterrorist operation (CTO) regime, introduced on June 3 in the Untsukul District of Dagestan, has been cancelled because of the completion of activities. No results of these activities are specified.

Employees of the human rights organization Committee against Torture (CaT) have turned to law enforcement bodies of Chechnya on the attack on the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny.

Five participants of an illegal armed formation (IAF), who shot dead OMON (riot police) fighters from Bashkiria in 2012 in Chechnya, have been sentenced from 3 to 25 years in a high-security colony. Their defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

In Yerevan, opponents of increased electricity tariffs have held an action aimed to inform about the planned protest march. Activists have also demanded from the authorities to provide guarantees that they have refused to increase energy tariffs, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

The pogromists who attacked the office of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny had pre-planned their actions, said Dmitry Utukin, a CaT activist, and refuted the statement of the head of Chechnya that rights defenders had themselves provoked the incident.

Russian authorities are trying to put pressure on Mustafa Dzhemilev, an MP of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, by oppressing his son, the mother and advocate of Khaiser Dzhemilev, found guilty by the jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court of manslaughter, believe.

The arrest of Mukhammad Magomedov, one of the leaders of the public organization "The Union of the Just", expired in the evening on June 2, said his advocate Magomed Magomedov and demanded to release his client from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In the village of Zakan-Yurt, law enforcers detain young people, who on May 30 blocked the local police station. This was reported by local residents.

Staff members of the Committee against Torture are not engaged in human rights activities, and they themselves have provoked the attack on their office "in order to receive more US grants." This was stated by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Akhmed Kutbudinov, a resident of the village of Kharachi of the Untsukul District, was kidnapped in Makhachkala by men in black uniforms. This was reported by relatives of the kidnapped man, who appealed for legal aid to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

In the Untsukul District of Dagestan, local residents report on fire activities in the village of Kharachi cordoned off by law enforcers. Besides, the local residents report on helicopters in the sky over the village.

Four staff members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of the Committee against Torture, which office in Grozny was attacked by unidentified men in masks, are out of danger. This was reported by one of them.

When commenting on the attack on the office of rights defenders in Grozny, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said that illegal actions will be suppressed regardless of the motives for those illegal actions. According to Ramzan Kadyrov, the incident involved relatives of Djambulat Dadaev, who was killed by policemen of Stavropol.