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Investigators and the court refuse to release Pyotr Golovnyov, a 20-year-old disabled man, from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Novocherkassk, despite his serious health condition and growing tumour, his advocate has stated, treating the charges against Golovnyov as falsified.

Vladimir Atamanchuk, an activist from Sochi, is serving a sentence within a slander case as a janitor at the hospital where he had worked as a doctor before retirement. A new case against Atamanchuk for contempt of the court will be heard on November 23.

Sergey Obodenko is serving his sentence in a penal colony located in the Volgograd Region. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, cannot move independently, and needs constant medical treatment, which, according to his wife and advocate, he is not receiving.

At trial, Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev claimed that the first instance court considered the purchase of airline tickets for 16,000 roubles as financing terrorism and completely ignored the findings of the forensic examination.

Relatives of Makhachkala resident Kurban Dalgatov, who died at a police station after being detained, demanded to cancel the pre-trial agreement with one of the accused, Islam Atavov. At trial, the former law enforcer downplays his role in torturing Kurban Dalgatov, a lawyer presenting the interests of the deceased man’s family reports.

A native of Chechnya, Bashir Omarkhodjaev, has been charged with organizing an assassination attempt on Sherip Alikhadjiev, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, and Vasily Konovalov, a citizen of Ukraine, has been accused of attempting to murder Alikhadjiev.

The cassation instance has upheld the verdict to Aslambek Ezhaev, a Chechen book publisher, convicted of financing terrorism. The court found his defence's arguments and those put forward by the publisher himself about the signs of case fabrication as unconvincing.

Investigators convinced the court to extend the arrest of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, although there was no need for that, an advocate states.

In Saint Petersburg, activists posted leaflets dedicated to the search for Seda Suleimanova, who was kidnapped and taken to Chechnya.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaints lodged by 107 individuals and organizations, including the "International Memorial"* and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, to be justified, concluding that inclusion of them into the register of foreign agents has violated their right to the freedom of expression and the freedom of association.

When commenting on the cancellation of the sentence of policemen in a case on torture of a woman from Khasavyurt, human rights defenders have noted that cases when law enforcers are being punished for using torture have become rare. The victim complains that she still has health problems.

In Chechnya, a court postponed the consideration of the complaint lodged against the refusal to release Zarema Musaeva on conditional early relief (CER) because of her hospitalization, which the defence insisted on.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia mitigated the sentence of former policemen Temirlan Yevloev and Khamzat Kotiev, convicted of accepting a bribe from relatives of Timur Derbichev.

The Volgograd Regional Court has sentenced Rasul Akhiyaretdinov, a blogger and a resident of Bashkortostan, to a year of forced labour, finding him guilty of rehabilitating Nazism in his video about the "Motherland Calls!" monument.

Elena Tardasova-Yun, an activist from Novosibirsk, has held a solo picket demanding an investigation into the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova in Chechnya.

Zakhar Zaripov, convicted of appealing to the head of Chechnya, is feeling poor after the surgery he underwent for his stage four cancer, but despite this, he is being prepared for transfer to the SIZO (pre-trial prison). The defence's motions to transfer Zaripov to house arrest remained unanswered.

The appellate court has reduced the suspended sentence imposed on Tatiana Lebedeva, a Volgograd resident, within the case of attempted arson of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office).

The Uspensky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory has refused to transfer pensioners, Marina Zakharova, Nikolai Nabiev and Sergey Kuzovenko, accused of creating an illegal armed formation (IAF) under house arrest.

Daniil Vodolagin, a Volgograd student, has been sent to a penal colony, where he will serve a five-year sentence for spreading fake news about the Russian Army. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"* with reference to his advocate.

Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the receipt of a jubilee medal in connection with the 25th anniversary of re-establishment of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) Branch in Chechnya, emphasizing that his medal is No. 1.