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The NGO "Human Rights Monitoring and Training Centre" has criticized the inquiry conducted by the Prosecutor' Office (PO) into the murder of Temirlan Machalikashvili. Investigators should not rely solely on testimonies of a special troop fighter, who shot Temirlan dead. Besides, these testimonies contradict to the examination outcomes, which should have become the basis for suspicions, human rights defenders believe.

Chechnya could become a place where Makhi Idrisov, who escaped from house arrest in Makhachkala, is hiding, said Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender. Earlier, suspects of involvement in high-profile crimes and put on the wanted list had already hid in Chechnya. At least in one case, an attempt to detain such person triggered threats from Kadyrov to open fire at law enforcers from other regions.

The well-known Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has been hospitalized after an attack by a man who penetrated into his apartment.

Relatives of a murdered resident of the Nadterechny District are reconciled with two families who appealed to Ramzan Kadyrov. In Chechnya, relatives of murderers can escape persecution, but criminals themselves rarely escape revenge, experts note.

The court of appeal dismissed a complaint filed by Zaur Dadaev about the decision to toughen the terms of his punishment for the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

Eduard Urazaev, a political analyst, and Gadjimurad Sagitov, a journalist, have expressed different opinions on what Idrisov's ties with Ramzan Kadyrov were.

Investigators refused to institute a criminal case against the law enforcers, whom the brothers, Mukhtar and Ismail Kurbanov, have accused of torturing them in an attempt to knock out confessions to their participation in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants.

The court has sentenced Ibragim Dugiev to one year and two months of imprisonment for assaulting a policeman during a rally in Magas. On Tuesday, February 25, Mustafa Vysegurov, an activist, was set free from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In Derbent, a mother of Nillan Aliev held a picket with an appeal to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Her son stopped contacting his relatives and friends after a trip to Grozny with his two acquaintances. Till present, the search for the disappeared men has not brought any results, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

At a rally held in front of the courthouse, supporters of Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of Armenia, called him a victim of political persecution. The defence claimed the biased attitude of the public prosecutor and demanded his challenge.

According to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Bagaudin Khautiev, the head of the Council of Ingush Youth Organizations, was called for political reasons an organizer of an extremist community and clashes with law enforcers. The human rights defenders demand to release the activist.

In Tbilisi, the court found Mikhail Kalandiya guilty of killing schoolchildren and sentenced him to 11 years and three months of imprisonment. The defence decided to appeal against the verdict.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) requested the Russian authorities to submit a clarification concerning a complaint filed by Ziyavudin Ashikov, the former acting head of the Kaspiysk Police Department, for unreasonable detention in custody. This was reported by advocate Sapiyat Magomedova.

Members of the Gaisultanov family forgave a member of the Alkhazov family after he swore he had not been involved in the murder of their relative. Beslan Alkhazov, who was sentenced for the murder, still faces a blood feud, residents of Chechnya note.