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An investigation has been launched against convicted Zarema Musaeva under the article on disorganization of the activities of a penal colony. The woman faces up to five years of imprisonment. The above information has been reported by advocate Alexander Savin.

In Vladikavkaz, armed law enforcers detained Batraz Gogaev and tortured him with electric current, trying to force him to confess to a crime. Soslan Didarov, a member of the republic’s parliament, demanded to launch an investigation.

In Moscow, Vladimir Putin met Chechen Interior Minister Aslan Iraskhanov, the Chechen media report. Aslan Iraskhanov has been included in the US sanctions list in connection with human rights violations and extrajudicial executions in the Chechen Republic.

A resident of the Kaitag District of Dagestan has complained that law enforcers had forced him to do repairs to the building where the police station is located; they groundlessly compiled a protocol; against him for drunk driving, and sent the case to court.

The court that considers the murder case of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a resident of the city of Kayakent (Dagestan) has refused to appoint a repeated expertise, which could show that there were several murder weapons. The judge's decision has outraged the casualty's father and brothers.

A court in Makhachkala has arrested Ramazan Rabadanov, an activist, until January 7, 2025, within a case of illegal arms trafficking. This was reported by Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan in his Telegram channel.

The Novorossiysk Garrison Military Court has sentenced Denis Sergeev, a mobilized serviceman, to six years in a strict regime penal colony for being absent from his unit for more than a year.

In Sochi, the Central District Court has fined for preaching and ordered the expulsion of Catholic priest Vladislav Klotz, who had been conducting services in Russia for the past 28 years.

Residents of Dagestan are outraged by the detention of activist Ramazan Rabadanov, who spoke in defence of the defendants in the case on riots at the Makhachkala airport.

The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov*, who lives abroad, into the register of foreign agents.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the round-the-clock video surveillance in a Krasnoyarsk colony as a violation of the rights of Murat Kanikhov, a convict kept there. However, no compensation was awarded.

The decision of the court in Makhachkala, which allowed Marat Babaev to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone, contradicts the pre-trial agreement in the case of the death of the detained Kurban Dalgatov.

Volgograd lawyer Ruslan Nurushev was detained in a case on fakes about the Russian Army for an entry he posted on a social network.

Staying in the special military operation zone, a son of detained Dagestani activist Ramazan Rabadanov appealed to the Russian president to take control over the situation.

The text of the second acquittal of law enforcers in the case on beating a disabled person Yevgeny Manchenko is almost identical to the first court’s verdict, human rights defenders note.

A resident of the Vyselkovsky District has become a suspect within a criminal case for active participation in the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses"*.

In Makhachkala, law enforcers have placed Ramazan Rabadanov, an activist, into the isolation facility. He intended to go to the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories to observe the trials within the case of the riots at the Uytash Airport.

In Pyatigorsk, a cassation court refused to recognize the detention of journalist Idris Yusupov* at a rally against mobilization in Makhachkala as illegal.

An attack with a drone shot down in Kaspiysk has become the first incident in Dagestan since the beginning of the special military operation (SMO). The incident occurred eight days after Chechnya was attacked by a drone for the first time during the hostilities in Ukraine.

A court in Makhachkala has allowed Marat Babaev, one of the defendants in the case of the death of Kurban Dalgatov, who was detained by law enforcers, to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone.