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Relatives of Leila Kulgishieva and Shakhban Shakhbanov, two residents of Dagestan, filed a complaint to the police about their disappearance. This was reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

On June 17, Viskhan Daudov, a 27-year-old resident of the village of Staraya Sunzha, was captured and driven away to some unknown destination from the mosque of the Grozny village named after Kalinin. According to residents of Grozny, along with him, armed men in uniform drove away two other young men, whose names were unknown.

In Baku, Khilal Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", published in the Talysh language, the deputy head of the Talysh Cultural Centre, was detained on suspicion of drug possession.

The international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) focused on the uncontrolled and unpunished killings and kidnappings of people in Northern Caucasus in its report entitled "Vicious circle of injustice: special operations and violations of human rights in Ingushetia".

Yusup Ektumaev, Makhmud Madaev, and Kemran Karsamov were detained on suspicion of involvement in committing explosion of an improvised land mine, committed on April 17 in the Cossack village of Assinovskaya of the Sunzha District of the Chechen Republic. Their relatives and lawyer claimed that the detainees were tortured. According to them, the detainees have confessed under torture and they intend to retract unlawfully given confessions at trial.

This morning, in the street of the city of Tyrnyauz (Kabardino-Balkaria) Arthur Urusov, a local resident, was kidnapped by unidentified persons. This was reported by his mother Fatima Urusova.

The decision of the Tuapse District Court, which convicted ecologists Suren Gazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko to three years of conditional sentence with probation period of two years, will be challenged at the court of appeal. This was stated by the defence.

The verdict in the case against Sergey Evloev, accused of involvement in an illegal armed formation (IAF), banditry and attack on life of a police officer, is to be pronounced on June 25. Today, Sergey Evloev was released from custody in the courtroom.

Relatives of Ziyautdin Shapiev, the residents of Dagestan, who was sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment in a high security colony for aiding members of illegal armed formations (IAFs), claim violation of his rights. He serves his sentence in the Tomsk Region.

On June 18, lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova filed a complaint to court about inaction of representatives of the investigatory agencies, who were engaged in the investigation into two cases, in which she had been a figurant. According to the lawyer, both cases are closed; however, her personal items, confiscated as material evidence, in particular, her mobile phone, were not returned, and the investigator fails to inform the Information Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) about closing the criminal case against her.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan exerts pressure on the staff of the "Kura" headquarters. This was stated by the organization's representatives at the roundtable in Baku. According to the representatives of the headquarters, criminal proceedings against Oktai Gyulalyev are being continued, and Ilham Amiraslanov was tortured at the police station.

The trial in the case of death of contractor officer Artak Nazaryan began the process of interrogation of the defendants. At the court session, held on June 18, Vaagn Airapetyan answered the questions of the parties and called the charges against him fabricated. Interrogation of the defendants will be continued on June 26.

Relatives of allegedly kidnapped Murad Ilyasov do not exclude that law enforcement agents may be involved in his disappearance. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by a son of Murad Ilyasov.

Officers from the Investigatory Committee of the Kirov District of Makhachkala do not give permission for giving out from morgue the body of Iskhaq Magomedov, who was killed, according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), on June 10 during a special operation, conducted in the village of Shamkhala. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Ramadan Akhmedov, the uncle of the killed man.