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In his answer to the complaint lodged by the "Team against Torture"*, the head of the Krasnodar Territorial Branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has admitted that the preliminary inquiry into the torture case of Aram Gambaryan was suspended unreasonably.

Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, was killed in September 2020 and buried in an unmarked grave because his relatives were told to "bury him like a dog," a Chechen Telegram channel asserts.

A court in the Stavropol Territory has received the case against Svetlana Zaitseva, a local resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army.

Vyacheslav Koshelev, an activist, has held a three-day dry hunger strike, demanding better custody conditions at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is awaiting a decision on his appeal.

Amid the FSB's report on the rapid disclosure of the murder of Darya Dugina, human rights defenders have recalled the still unsolved murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Natalia Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov.

Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, could not be helped, and it is known for sure about his death, Olga Sadovskaya, a lawyer of the “Team Against Torture”*, says.

The 2020 agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh does not define the territorial affiliation of the Lachin Corridor and its borders, which allowed each side to interpret the agreements in its own way.

Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev sent an appeal to the President of Azerbaijan to renounce the citizenship of the country. The activist has explained his decision by receiving threats from the local law enforcement bodies.

An investigation has been launched into a criminal case on causing minor bodily harm against natives of Chechnya who beat Pavel Gerasimov.

The electricity voltage in central Grozny is very weak, a social media user has complained. Commentators supported him, noting that this problem is observed throughout the republic.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has stopped proceedings on the claim of the "Conde Nast" Publishing House (PH), which demanded from the "Firdaws" Fashion House to return 814,000 roubles of debt and to pay 893,000 roubles as penalty.

Since May this year, water has been supplied to the village of Inarki, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, with outages; and since July, due to the heat, there has been no water at all, a local resident has stated.

Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, an activist, was released after almost four hours of detention. According to his story, law enforcers forced him to remove his critical posts from social networks about the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs and threatened him with arrest for new posts about the minister.

As stated by Rasul Djafarov, a Baku-based human rights defender, the area of the Lachin Corridor was occupied not by militaries, but civil defence members, who perform protection functions.

Pavel Gerasimov, an advocate, should be punished for the traumas inflicted on the child, social media users have stated in their comments on his conflict with Chechen natives in Moscow. They have suggested that an advocate's apologies will follow shortly after the incident.

Today, a group of activists have held a rally in Yerevan demanding not to transfer three settlements in the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan.

Today, in Makhachkala, activists have held pickets demanding the release of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and other political prisoners.

Military men were injured as a result of a mine explosion in the Lachin District.

The detention of activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev might be related to his critical posts on social media against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan, the “Line of Defence” NGO suggested.

Four non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have suspended their participation in all the working groups created on the initiative of the "Georgian Dream" Party.