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A petition asking to apply the conditional early relief (CER) to Zarema Musaeva has been sent to the court by the advocate hired by the family, her son, Abubakar Yangulbaev, has informed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin invited Ramzan Kadyrov to discuss social and economic issues, but the leader of Chechnya claimed that there were no problems in the republic.

Zarema Musaeva has been sent to the settlement colony located in the town of Argun. Her advocates are preparing documents for her conditional early relief (CER), the project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has reported in its Telegram channel.

Verdict in Rostov-on-Don, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, elections in Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Zarema Musaeva’s case, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 11-17, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The prosecutor has offered to commute Musaeva's sentence due to her state of health and the injustice of the sentence passed by the first-instance court. After sentence mitigation, Musaeva has every reason to ask for the conditional early relief (CER), Natalia Dobronravova, an advocate, believes.

After the Supreme Court of Chechnya commuted her sentence, Zarema Musaeva has the right to take into consideration the time served by her in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), as well as to ask for conditional early relief (CER), noted human rights defenders.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya reduced the term of imprisonment for Zarema Musaeva to five years and replaced the term in a common-security penal colony with a settlement colony.

Elena Milashina, a journalist, has refused to attend the session of the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya that will consider the appeal complaint against the verdict passed to Zarema Musaeva. The refusal is caused by the absence of Chechen authorities' reaction to the question about the safety of the trip, Ms Milashina has explained.

In Saint Petersburg, law enforcers have detained and then fined Dmitry Kuzmin, a local resident, for violating the anti-COVID restrictions, when he went out to the city administration building with a picket in support of Zarema Musaeva.

The "Rosfinmonitoring" (Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation) has added Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer and one of Zarema Musaeva's sons, to the list of extremists and terrorists.

The police have put Abubakar Yangulbaev, one of Zarema Musaeva's sons, on the federal wanted list.

At a meeting with Mansur Soltaev, the Ombudsperson for Chechnya, lawyers of the "Team against Torture" (TaT)* tried to find out how the security of the journalist, Elena Milashina, in Chechnya would be ensured, and how the inquiry into the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, committed at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) was progressing. They failed to receive any specific answers to their questions.

A criminal case under a terrorist article has been opened against Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, who had earlier become a suspect in an extremism case. He believes that his comment about Akhmat Kadyrov's fate was the reason for initiated the new case.

Zarema Musaeva underwent two weeks of medical treatment and examination in a Grozny hospital, after which she was returned to a SIZO (pre-trial prison), the “Team Against Torture”* reports. In a letter to her son, Zarema Musaeva wrote that her health state improved significantly, and doctors prescribed a surgery.

Zarema Musaeva did not respond to four letters, and her son attributes the delay to censorship. The law does not provide for restrictions on sending and receiving letters, but if a person is being kept in a punishment cell, he or she may be deprived of the right to correspond with people, notes lawyer Abusupyan Gaitaev.