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A brother and a sister of Aishat, a native of Dagestan, living in Moscow, insulted and humiliated her after the kidnapping, and her father voiced death threats.

A complaint filed by Azerbaijani activist Fuad Ismayilov, who was arrested for a month on the charge of disobedience to the police, was left without satisfaction. Fuad Ismayilov complained that he was beaten during and after his detention, his advocate reported.

Members of units of international terrorist organizations were plotting terror acts in educational institutions in Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, and the Stavropol Territory, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reported.

The village of Karmir Shouka in Nagorno-Karabakh is being shelled every day from the Azerbaijani side, despite the presence of peacekeepers, and local residents are afraid to take their children to kindergarten.

Members of the team of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, are no longer going to comment on the situation with his critics to journalists, and will not react to the statements made by opponents of regional authorities, Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister of Information of Chechnya, has stated.

Daud Muradov, deported to Russia from France, has died, the Assembly of European Chechens (AEC) has informed on the Facebook. The Assembly has recalled that the deportation of Chechens is on a stream, and called on the French authorities to protect emigrants' rights.

Timur Tumgoev, a native of North Ossetia, was transferred from the town of Balashov to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Nizhny Novgorod, from where he they should be sent to the Vladimir Region, his sister, Marina Tumgoeva, has informed. According to her story, her brother received threats; and she fears for his life.

It is unlikely that the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) will begin checking the Chechen leadership's threat statements against the Yangulbaevs, human rights defenders believe. Abubakar Yangulbaev vowed to seek an inquiry into the threats addressed to his family.

Tofig Yagublu, an Azerbaijani oppositional politician, has demanded from the court to cancel the conclusion of the prosecutor's office that he had traumatized himself at the police station.

The Kremlin approves of Ramzan Kadyrov's policy in Chechnya and will not dismiss him, despite the popularity of the petition launched by Ilya Yashin, a Moscow oppositionist, political analysts believe.

A woman from Ingushetia stays in Syria and is engaged in preparing food for militants of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) and providing medical treatment to them, investigators suspect.

Aishat, a native of Dagestan, whom her relatives tried to kidnap and return home, stays in a depressed state, and she has been assigned the help of a psychologist, the crisis centre reports. The police have launched an investigation into the incident, an advocate of the young woman says.

Moscow opposition politician Ilya Yashin posted on the “Change.Org” website a petition to the President of Russia with a request for the resignation of Ramzan Kadyrov from the post of the leader of Chechnya. The petition has already been signed by more than 20,000 people.

The situation in the village of Gapanly in the Terter District of Azerbaijan, which was shelled by the Armenian military forces on the night of February 6, is calm. Villagers are engaged in their daily activities, and children have gone to school, say local residents.

Eight military servicemen, including those taken prisoner of war (POWs) on November 16, 2021, have been returned to Armenia, the Azerbaijani State Commission for POWs has informed.

During the week from January 31 to February 6, 2022, there were no reports about the dead and wounded persons as a result of the ongoing conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

In the public of the human rights project "Marem", Instagram users have expressed their indignation at the attempted abduction of a native of Dagestan in Moscow by her relatives. The commentators have suggested that the girl would not be left alone, while the Russian legislation provides almost no protection to victims of domestic violence.

Armenian militaries have shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani Army stationed on the border in the Terter District; a bullet hit a residential house in the village of Gapanly, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

Abubakar Yangulbaev, a former lawyer of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT)*, said that he left Georgia for Europe because of security threats.

Protest actions in Munich and Stockholm were held by Chechen émigrés who demanded that they stop mocking relatives of Kadyrov's critics and save them from extrajudicial executions. The protesters especially touched on the situation with the Yangulbaev family, expressing their support for them.