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Today, the Tbilisi Court of Appeal upheld the decision on the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of keeping in custody against Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Defence and Internal Affairs of Georgia.

During the process on the case of mass murder in Kushevskaya Krasnodar regional court dismissed a motion of suspect Sergey Tsapok’s attorney, the “Caucasian Knot” correspondent reports.

Three residents of Chegem district of Kabardino-Balkaria accused of gang rape of a fourteen-year-old girl from Kursk region in the settlement of Nartan were sentenced to custody terms of 4,5 to 9 years of custody by the Supreme Court of the republic, a representative of regional Department of Committee of Inquiry of Russia (CIR) reported.

Bacho Akhalaya, ex-Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, faces charges of torture. This was reported today by his lawyer David Dekanoidze.

The Georgian side will not extradite to the Russian Federation Akhmed Chataev, a Russian citizen, an ethnic Chechen, who was detained during a special operation to eliminate an illegal armed formation (IAF). This was announced today by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia.

Taimuraz Mamsurov, the leader of North Ossetia, appealed to Alexei Orlov, the leader of Kalmykia, with a request to ensure the investigation into the fact of violence in the territory of the penal colony "IK-1".

First 82 participants of mass fight of foreign workers in the site of the construction of sports and tourist complex "Mountain Carousel" in Sochi sent to places of their permanent residence. This was reported by the UVD (Interior Department). Local human rights defenders report complaints of detained workers from Uzbekistan about torture at police stations.

Human rights defenders, who watched the progress of the trial, believe that the verdict of the Karabulak Court on the case against Nazir Guliev and Ilyas Nalgiev, former staff members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia, accused of torture, is indecisive and inconsistent and it causes perplexity.

The police detected a criminal group who within half a year sold up to 12 children from Chechnya and Dagestan to residents of Russia and Turkey, sources in law enforcement bodies reported.

In the vicinities of the Tbilisi International Airport, a grave of four Chechens, killed during a special operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the Ministry of Defence of Georgia in August 2012, was found. The killed men were buried in a narrow 9-meter pit. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Umar Idigov, a nephew of Djokhar Dudaev, First Chechen President, a member of the Chechen community in Georgia.

In Sochi, on November 9, Federal Judge Sergey Martynenko extended the detention of Yulia Zhigulina, suspected of the murder of 87-year-old Antonina Mayevskaya, till December 12.

Relatives of Khasan Esmurziev, a resident of Ingushetia, detained by power agents, claim cartridges were planted to his house during the search. They sent Pavel Belyakov, Prosecutor of Ingushetia, a complaint against the actions of policemen, who conducted the search in the house.

In the evening of November 9, in Moscow, unidentified persons, armed with traumatic weapons, committed two attacks on natives of Northern Caucasus.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria appointed additional attorneys to seven defendants on the case of assault at Nalchik committed in October of 2005.

There has been no deportation of the participants of a mass scuffle among builders of Olympic objects as of the moment. Criminal cases against the participants of the incident have not been referred to court yet, official representatives of the Department of Interior Affairs and the court reported.