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In 2022, amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Chechen authorities continued suppressing the dissent, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted. Its report also mentions the persecutions of opponents of mobilization in Dagestan.

Alibek Alibekov, a resident of Dagestan with many children, was denied a deferment from mobilization; his advocate has sent a complaint to the Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights.

Employees of the Chechen Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) and the republic's Imams are undergoing military training at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes in order to be ready for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, the SAM (or the Muftiate) has informed.

The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in absentia of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and justifying the special military operation. Adam Delimkhanov said those accusations did not matter to him.

Elina Ukhmanova, a resident of Dagestan, who claimed being persecuted for bisexuality and atheism, mentioned the parents’ plans to send her for treatment to the Chechen centre of Islamic medicine as the reason for her running away from home.

In Makhachkala, for more than 24 hours, municipal services fail to react to power and water supply outages, residents of the city have complained.

Despite the medical documents about the deterioration of her health condition, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has upheld the extension of the arrest of Zarema Musaeva.

The Timashevsky District Court has fined Karina Terebetskaya, a refugee from Kherson, for discrediting the Russian Army.

In the film “Fathers and Sons. And Torture”, the “Team Against Torture”* recalled the murder of the Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan, which has remained unsolved for more than five years already.

Lawyers from the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* and the “Memorial International”* (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”) filed complaints to courts requesting them to examine for legality the liquidation of the above organizations and their inclusion in the register of foreign agents.

More than 21,000 Chechen fighters have taken part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine; and over 9000 are currently on the frontlines there, the head of Chechnya has stated.

At the court session on the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, the outcomes of the examination of the articles written by Gadjiev a Dagestani journalist, for the "Chernovik" outlet were announced.

After detention, law enforcers tortured, including with the use of electric current, Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, accused of committing a terror act attack and vandalism: he set fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar; he claimed torture at the trial at the Southern District Court.

The case on the murder of 19-year-old Magomed-Ali Sultanov is at the stage of preliminary investigation, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized the law enforcers’ responsibility for the deaths of eight residents of Dagestan in Chechnya in October 2016 and awarded 27 complainants 609,000 euros in compensation.

The Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar has dismissed the claim lodged by Roman Volik, a resident of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), who tried to obtain alternative military service instead of mobilization, referring to his anti-war convictions.

The court has fined Khadis Gazimagomedov, a 63-year-old pensioner from Dagestan, by 15,000 roubles for posting pacifist photos in a social network.

In the village of Avadan, Dokuzparin District, local residents tried to block the highway, demanding to solve their problem with gas supply. Heating boilers turn off because of low pressure in the gas system; the problem affects different villages of Dagestan, Telegram users have informed.

The South Korean Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has denied asylum to Djashar Khubiev, a football player from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who had left Russia due to the threat of being sent to the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

Under absurd pretexts, law enforcers prevent pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" weekly outlet, by detaining picketers; and even an occasional female passer-by was taken to the police station, Dagestani journalists have informed.