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Without any explanations, law enforcers have detained Islam and Umar Djabrailov in the village of Yandi, Achkhoi-Martan District, and took them to some unknown place, a woman-resident of Chechnya has stated.

On December 26, the court ruled to return the operative criminal investigator, suspected of torturing Musa Aliev, from the house arrest into the SIZO (pre-trial prison). The court plans to consider the arrest of the second suspect.

Parviz Guluzade, a rap singer, known under the pseudonym Paster, has been arrested in Azerbaijan for 30 days on charges of petty hooliganism and disobedience to the police. The persecution of the rapper has to do with his creativity and political views, oppositional activists have suggested.

The court has sentenced Mustafa Vyshegurov, an activist, to a year and five months in settlement colony after finding him as a participant of clashes with law enforcers during a rally in Magas. Vyshegurov has pled guilty, but noted that the court disregarded his repentance.

The court has refused to transfer Orkhan Bakhyshly, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), to a settlement colony, as he had asked in his complaint.

The complaint of the blogger Eric Kituashvili, known under the nickname "Davidych", about some extortionists, who presented themselves as "Kadyrov people", was invented by him for self-promotion, the blogger, Dmitry Ivanov, has suggested.

A resident of Dagestan, Ismail Kurbanov, accused along with his brother Mukhtar Kurbanov of links with militants and keeping explosives, has stated at the court session that he had given his confessions under a threat of torture.

A roundtable held in Makhachkala has discussed how the state and businesses can help the women that occurred in difficult situations. The activists of non-commercial organizations (NCOs) interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe that the bill on the prevention of domestic violence has many shortcomings.

The girl, whose high-profile rape case is being investigated in Dagestan, is in a rehabilitation centre. The advocate of the suspect, who has reported torture, demands to punish the person, who had posted the girl's testimonies in social networks. This video was posted with the aim to justify law enforcers, the journalist, Svetlana Anokhina, has suggested.

Polad Aslanov, a journalist has been accused of a murder threat or causing grievous bodily harm. His wife treats accusations as far-fetched; Polad refuses to plead guilty.

A sister of the Aidamirova sisters who disappeared in Chechnya does not believe that the investigating bodies are interested in solving the crime involving law enforcers. Relatives of the Aidamirova sisters expect to get compensation at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) for an ineffective investigation.

The court has sentenced Musa Pliev, a participant of the March rally in Magas, to 18 months in colony. He will be back at large on January 9, 2020, as the court included the time spent in custody into the sentence.

Blogger Erik Kituashvili, who complained of extortionists who called themselves "Kadyrov's people," announced a solution to the problem after meeting with Adam Delimkhanov, a State Duma member from Chechnya, on December 23.

In Rostov-on-Don, the military court found a native of Makhachkala guilty of transferring money to his nephew, who fought in Syria on the side of the "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as a terrorist organization in Russia.