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Today, relatives of the people convicted in the “Terter case” have tried to hold a protest action in front of the administration of the President of Azerbaijan. They demanded to review the charges against the convicts. However, the police stopped the protest action.

In his video appeal, the head of the Chechen community in Norilsk has announced serious inconsistencies in a case against Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, accused of plotting a terror act in Norilsk.

The film "Unclenching the Fists" directed by Kira Kovalenko and filmed in North Ossetia was put on the long list of films nominated for the Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Film".

The Russian Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) has conducted a polling of the prisoners who had earlier complained about torture at the Regional Tuberculosis Hospital (known as OTB-1) of the Saratov Regional Branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN); and they confirmed their testimonies about mass violence.

The picketers have demanded to release the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, and all political prisoners, as well as to stop arresting people without proofs.

Residents of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) have supported the letter of the initiative group against compulsory vaccination, the introduction of QR codes and other restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic. They stressed that such decisions should be made after extensive public discussions.

On December 6, the advocates of Salekh Rustamov, an activist, submitted their motion to the court demanding to set him free for health reasons; Salekh has been on his protest hunger strike at the prison hospital for the 31 days already.

The video messages with brothers and the father of the blogger, Khasan Khalitov, who is living in Turkey, were made under pressure; and Chechen authorities are using the family to intimidate their critics, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The criminal prosecution of Ingush activists within the case of the extremist community was ordered and falsified, one of the defendants, Malsag Uzhakhov, said in his last plea.

Farmer Zakarya Nabiev said that he was preparing to continue his hunger strike until the authorities of the Shamil District fulfilled their promise to conclude a lease agreement with him. However, on December 3, the famer had to end his protest action due to the need to graze goats far in the mountains.

The European Union (EU) has prolonged for another year the sanctions for violations of human rights around the world, including the sanctions imposed on Abuzaid Vismuradov, the deputy chair of the Chechen government, supervising the law enforcement bloc, and former Argun police chief Ayub Kataev.

According to a report released on December 4 by the “Grozny” state-run TV Channel, the capital of Chechnya hosted large-scale antiterrorist exercises of the police and the National Guard of Russia.

Today, Vladimir Osechkin, the head of the human rights project “Gulagu.net”, has reported that warders beat prisoners in a penal colony in the Primorsky Territory (Primorye), and after that Khusein Adakhanov, a native of Chechnya, who was serving his sentence in the penal colony, died. According to Vladimir Osechkin, as a result of a special operation by warders in the penal colony, about 150 prisoners were beaten, and other 16 people were severely injured.

During the week of November 29-December 5, 2021, no killed or wounded in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Under unclear circumstances, a contract soldier, Gor Martirosyan, received a fatal gunshot wound, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh has reported.

Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has urged Azerbaijani authorities not to delay the release of Salekh Rustamov, who has been on his protest hunger strike in the prison hospital for 30 days already.

A protest action against the compulsion to vaccination and use of "green passports" organized in central Tbilisi gathered several thousand people. They demanded a public debate on the issue.

Law enforcers have set free the supporters of the oppositional "David Ambartsumyan" bloc, who were detained on December 5 in the Armenian village of Aintap during the elections.

In their new video messages, the brothers of Khasan Khalitov, a blogger living in Turkey, have urged him to stop criticizing the Chechen leadership.

Interpol has refused to fulfil Russia's request to search for Tumso Abdurakhmanov, suspected of calling for terrorism, the Chechen blogger has himself stated. Visitors to his YouTube channel treat Interpol's decision as just and fair.