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In their complaint filed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), human rights defenders pointed out that with the decision to liquidate the “International Memorial”* (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”), the authorities of Russia violated a number of articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.

When commenting on the persecution of four sisters from Dagestan by their relatives, Caucasian experts have noted that “honour killing” as a punishment for refusing to marry is not provided for in Islam, the Sharia, or Muslim customs.

Members of the Chechen Diaspora and employees of the human rights organization “Amnesty International” (AI) held a demonstration in the capital of Austria. During their protest action, the activists called on the authorities of Romania not to expel Amina Gerikhanova to Russia.

Aina Gamzatova, who is the wife and an adviser to the Mufti of Dagestan, has called on the girls, who had accused their relatives of domestic violence and ran away from home, to return home under her personal responsibility.

Patimat Magomedova, Khadizhat and Patimat Khizrievas and Aminat Gazimagomedova from Dagestan, who ran away from home and accused their relatives of violence, have been taken to a safe place in Georgia, human rights defenders have informed.

Amid Kadyrov's statement about 13-million-rouble payments to casualties, Bislan Chabaev, a deputy commander of the "Akhmat-1" OMON (riot police) battalion, has called on young people to go to army service and "represent their people."

At the "Verkhniy Lars" checkpoint, the young women from Dagestan have written applications about threats received from their relatives, the Ombudsperson of North Ossetia has stated. In her audio message, one of the girls asked not to return them to their relatives who came to pick them up.

The four girls from Dagestan, held by border guards, have told how they were beaten up at home, forbidden to study, and tried to force them into marriage. The girls are afraid that their relatives might kill them.

Ramzan Kadyrov's and Evgeny Prigozhin's criticism against the Russian military command is caused by the desire of each of them to win political dividends, Alexei Malashenko, a political scientist, has suggested.

Border guards refused to let four girls from Dagestan who escaped from domestic violence through; they are holding them at the checkpoint until their relatives arrive, human rights defenders have informed.

A resident of the Tarumovsky District who fired a submachine gun at a wedding in Kizlyar followed the traditions, some Telegram users have pointed out. Their opponents have objected stating that the tradition that violates the public order is out of place.

Law enforcers have detained Khasukha Suliev, a resident of the Gudermes District of Chechnya, after which Adam Elzhurkaev, the head of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, reprimanded him for engaging in occultism.

A court in the city of Volzhsky (Volgograd Region) has fined Eduard Safronov, a local resident, by 50,000 roubles, treating the slogan he voiced out at his factory workplace in support of Ukraine as discrediting the Russian Army.

Bislan Chabaev, a deputy commander of the "Akhmat-1" OMON (riot police) battalion, has called on the unemployed residents of Chechnya to go to Ukraine to defend their republic.

The police searched the house of Mustafa Belkharoev, the head of the Accounts Chamber of Ingushetia, and took him away with them. This was reported by Amirkhan Belkharoev, a son of the official.

Arslang Sandjiev, the chair of the Congress and the Executive Committee of the Congress of the Oirat-Kalmyk People, who was fined twice for his pacifist calls, moved to the United States.

The appeal instance has found no grounds for overturning the sentence passed to Bagaudin Myakiev, convicted after clashes with law enforcers at a protest rally in Magas.

In October, the Russia's FSB (Federal Security Service) has reported three times about the prevention of terror acts and detention of three groups of supporters of radical movements. According to law enforcers, they twice detained supporters of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS)*.

Since the start of the week, a total of 23 Chechen fighters have perished "overnight" in the Kherson Region; and 58 others have been wounded, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

Since the start of the military operation in Ukraine, authorities have reported the deaths of at least 850 residents of Southern Russia, including 536 casualties from the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) and 314 ones from the Southern Federal District (SFD).