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Azat Khamaev, a member of the State Council of Tatarstan, apologized to his colleagues for critical words about Adam Kadyrov being awarded the title of Hero of Chechnya after his beating of arrested Nikita Zhuravel.

Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, whom the authorities of Switzerland refused protection and ordered deportation, will be subjected to persecution and torture in his homeland, state human rights defenders. They note that the authorities of European countries are often prejudiced towards refugees from Chechnya.

The authorities of Chechnya clearly demonstrated their double standards by punishing parents of a teenager for beating his colleague after recently praising Adam Kadyrov for similar violence used against a helpless person. Human rights defenders see the danger of such an approach and the normalization of demonstrative violence for Chechen society, especially for young people.

The bridegroom of Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, who was brought to the republic by law enforcers from Saint Petersburg, converted to Islam and asked to visit her, but received no response from her relatives, or the security guarantees for his trip to Chechnya, which the Chechen Ombudsperson had promised to him.

The City Court of Maykop (the capital of Adygea) has extended the arrest of Tatiana Moskalenko, accused within a criminal case of calls for protests against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, by two months. Her advocate has appealed against the extension.

The courts and investigators have failed to provide proofs of the creation of an extremist community; the persecution was caused by her political views, Darya Polyudova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), sentenced to nine years of freedom deprivation, has stated at the Russian Supreme Court (SC).

The Muslims' Coordination Centre of Northern Caucasus has accused Israel of "state terrorism and genocide" with the complicity of the United States and Western countries, demanding that the United Nations (UN) intervene in the situation to protect the people of Palestine.

Advocate Alexander Savin visited Zarema Musaeva in a penal colony and sent a motion to the court for the conditional early relief of his client. That was reported by the “Team Against Torture”* two weeks after a son of Zarema Musaeva announced filing a similar motion by an advocate hired by the family.

Mokhamad Mogushkov is arrested, and he refuses to talk to investigators. His younger brother and cousin have been arrested together with him. A father of Mokhamad Mogushkov was deported from France for involvement in a case on terrorism and now lives in Georgia, the media report.

The reason for the dispersal of a rally in Makhachkala in support of Palestine lies in its unsanctioned nature and the authorities’ fears for the deterioration of the situation in Dagestan. Meanwhile, the majority of the population of Dagestan sympathizes with the Palestinian people in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while the Jewish community in the republic is small, note journalists.

Contrary to Ramzan Kadyrov's calls, residents of Chechnya are trying to protect their sons from being sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine; and law enforcers are resorting to various tricks to force young people to go to Ukraine.

For three years, a disabled person from the Chechen war from the Volgograd region has been seeking insurance payments from the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) for his wound and disability. The claimant, who is partially paralyzed, needs money for treatment, Nikolai Renskov, a deputy, has explained.

Chechen authorities will not allow children to grow up cruel, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has stated in his comment on the video of a teenager beating up his peer; however, earlier, Daudov approved the beating of the arrested Nikita Zhuravel by Kadyrov's 15-year-old son.

Nikita Raichuk, a student from Krasnodar, has demanded to be reinstated at the university from which he was expelled after criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine in social networks. The court refused, but the student has filed an appeal.

Vladimir Atamanchuk, a Sochi pensioner, sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) against his criminal prosecution under the article on discrediting the Russian Army. The ECtHR has responded that the complaint had been accepted for consideration.

The Russian Supreme Court (SC) has refused to change the sentence passed to Darya Polyudova, an activist, who is serving her nine-year sentence within the case of creating an extremist community and publicly justifying terrorism. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"*.

The three law enforcers from Makhachkala, who were the first to be detained within the case of the death at the police station of Kurban Dalgatov after interrogation, fell under the hot hand amid public outcry; there are no proofs of their involvement in the incident, Mirzakhan Gasanov, an advocate of one of them, has stated.

Residents of Dagestan gathered in the centre of Makhachkala to hold an action in support of Palestine, but they were dispersed by the police, as follows from videos posted on the Internet.

More than 50 Dagestani MPs called on President Vladimir Putin to pay attention to the problems of residents of villages flooded during the commissioning of the Irganai hydroelectric power plant in 2008. Villagers have been seeking compensation during a long time.

In Chechnya, mosques have hosted collective namazes (prayers) in support for Muslims in Palestine, who are in danger after a sharp escalation of the conflict with Israel.