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About ten residents of Ingushetia came to the building of the Essentuki City Court to support the leaders of the Ingush protest. Among them were activists who had already served their sentences in the case on the rally in Magas.

In Rostov-on-Don, a court found Aslan Daudov, a resident of Chechnya, guilty of hostage-taking, terrorism, and premeditated killing during the 1995 attack by Shamil Basaev's grouping on Budyonnovsk. The defendant was sentenced to 12 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

The Southern District Military Court found Imanat Razokhanova, a 25-year-old native of Dagestan, guilty of aiding and abetting in terrorist activities and sentenced her to 3 years and 6 months of imprisonment.

The killing by law enforcers of Kazbek Baidulaev, who had already been declared killed earlier, could be an imitation, representatives of the 1Adat Telegram Channel suggest. The photo from the place of the special operation released by the law enforcement bodies gives reason to doubt the version of the Kazbek Baidulaev's death, a criminal law expert confirms.

International organizations should follow the progress of the investigation of war crimes committed in the Karabakh conflict zone by all parties, the Azerbaijani human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

On the 50th day of his hunger strike, Afghan Sadygov, an Azerbaijani journalist, has stopped talking but refuses to stop his protest, his wife said.

On December 21, eight people went out to solo pickets in Makhachkala demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Daft) newspaper accused of financing terrorism.

In Tskhinvali, relatives of deceased Inal Djabiev have been protesting for 18 days. They demand to punish the persons responsible for his death. The authorities broke the promise to report to the relatives of the deceased man the progress of the investigation, stated a widow of Inal Djabiev. Meanwhile, the police reported on the detention of an Inal Djabiev's brother.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, 11 residents of the Leskensky District did not create any extremist community, their advocates insist. The court agreed with the motion filed by investigators and extended the arrests of all the defendants for other three months.

During the week of December 14-20, 2020, three persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded 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.

Local officials have met with the participants of the protest action held in central Tskhinvali by relatives and friends of Inal Djabiev, who died during interrogation at the South-Ossetian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), and urged them to leave the central square so as not to freeze. The protesters installed a photo of Djabiev and lit candles in his memory.

The "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company) has shown a report about how relatives of a resident of the village of Gordali, who died in a road accident, had pardoned the driver who killed him. Instagram users pointed to the archaic nature of the blood feud custom.

The Prosecutor's Office should bring to justice those responsible for the death of Inal Djabiev, regardless of their positions, the MPs have stated.

Law enforcers are forcing the convicts in the case of the attack on Nalchik to drop their claims against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), their advocate has stated. The organization "Legal Initiative", which represents the interests of victims of torture, was also attacked.