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The newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" got copies of photographic tables prepared by the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which contained the information about the detention of 108 people, some of whom fell victim to extrajudicial executions. The "Novaya Gazeta" announced a release of an interview with a Chechen law enforcer who witnessed the executions.

Today, in Moscow, a judge has decided to withdraw from consideration a complaint about the arrest of Said-Muhammad Djumaev, since the defendant is in quarantine for coronavirus and is not able to participate in a court hearing.

During the week of February 8-14, 2021, no information was received about any casualties or wounded persons in the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Three solo pickets were held in Volgograd demanding to release the opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, and other political prisoners. Policemen treated one of the pickets as a group one, because a passerby helped the picketer collect her posters flying in the wind.

At a picket in Makhachkala, female relatives of Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov, residents of Derbent, claimed that an investigator ordered to remove the advocate of the defendants and thus deprived them of their right to defence. A mother of Mirzaali Mirzaliev, the third defendant in the case on terrorism, complains that investigators are forcing him to incriminate Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov.

The reconstruction of the Tskhinvali water intake, as well as the construction of a school and eight more facilities will be stopped if MPs do not approve the budget of South Ossetia in the next month, the Minister of Construction announces. The opposition disrupted one more session of the parliament, because the agenda did not include the issue of the General Prosecutor's resignation, MP David Sanakoev explains.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) brought charges against three more Ingush natives in absentia in a case on an attack on Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E"), and put them on the wanted list, a source reported. One of the new suspects was arrested in absentia.

The verdict to Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested after a fight with law enforcers at a rally in Moscow, depends on political circumstances, but now he should not expect any leniency, Timofei Shirokov, a lawyer, believes. Close attention to Djumaev's case can bring both pros and cons in sentencing, said Svetlana Gannushkina, the chair of the "Civil Assistance" Committee.

In Azerbaijan, a secretary of court hearings of the Barda District Court is accused of fraud. The Azerbaijan's judicial system needs radical reforms, and some isolated manifestations of the fight against corruption will not solve the problems, analysts say.

By taking part in a protest action in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Said-Mukhammad Djumaev showed the Russian authorities that the Ramzan Kadyrov's ability to control natives of Chechnya was exaggerated, says human rights defender Ruslan Kutaev. An investigation into the Said-Mukhammad Djumaev's case will not be long, and the verdict is unlikely to be mild, lawyers predict.

Nalchik residents Alexander Knyazev and Valery Levdik left a police station with clear signs of beating on their bodies, parents of the victims claim in court. Both young men told their relatives that they had to incriminate themselves by signing a confession to theft.