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The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has upheld the verdict passed to Eduard Ataev, an activist from Dagestan, within the case of possessing a grenade and narcotic drugs, ignoring the arguments of the defence and Ataev's statements of his innocence.

The detention of Evgeny Skidanov, a resident of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) in 2019 has been recognized as illegal, but the police would not apologize. Investigators refused to open a case on Skidanov's torture for 15 times.

An investigator questioned Zarema Musaeva concerning an attack on a penal colony warder who accompanied her to hospital. Zarema Musaeva claims she did not attack anyone.

Chechen advocate Timur Idalov, accused in a case on threats to a public prosecutor, was detained in Grozny and taken to Moscow.

The Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Orenburg Region will check a complaint filed by former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov about torture in the “Black Dolphin” penitentiary facility.

The killing of a fighter of the “Rosgvardiya” (National Guard of Russia) in Chechnya may indicate the activation of the armed underground, but it is unlikely to affect the reputation of Ramzan Kadyrov, who declared that militants had been eliminated.

Marat Abdyushev, a resident of Bashkortostan, who attacked a policeman in Krasnodar and stole his weapon, was detained in the territory of a gardening association in the city.

The wife of Magomed Alkhanov, a Chechen native, has declared his innocence in the case of the attack on the Pskov paratroopers and intends to appeal against the verdict. Svetlana Gannushkina*, a human rights defender, treats the witness' testimony in Alkhanov's case as dubious.

No less than seven inmates kept at the Taganrog SIZO (pre-trial prison) are being tortured to extract confessions within the case of the riot at the Rostov SIZO; and Muslims are prohibited from practicing their religion.

Investigators have stopped the criminal prosecution of Ilyas Yakubov, a Chechen athlete, who signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) while at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and departed to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

An attack on a car with fighters of the “Rosgvardia” (National Guard of Russia) in Chechnya was preceded by an attack on a policeman in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky District in February. The information about the attack on a police checkpoint in Gudermes in early October has not been officially confirmed.

A detainee is suspected of holding eighteen people in slavery at one of the farms in the Aksaisky District. The investigating department, where a confrontation with the victims was being prepared, was approached by members of a Roma community, who started a scuffle on the spot.

Investigators and the court refuse to release Pyotr Golovnyov, a 20-year-old disabled man, from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Novocherkassk, despite his serious health condition and growing tumour, his advocate has stated, treating the charges against Golovnyov as falsified.