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Kevin Lik's conviction has not been expunged, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Adygea has informed.

Many passers-by took pictures of the picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and scanned a QR code to learn more about his persecution, reported Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft). Abdulmumin Gadjiev continues to write articles under arrest and publish them in the “Chernovik”.

Sulumbek Yandyrkhanov, a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has been sentenced to four and a half years of imprisonment for beating a detained resident of Magas. The above information is reported on the Telegram channel of the “Travmpunkt” human rights project.

The institutions of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) have staff deficit; and those who work there with great overloads have modest salaries, which contributes to corruption and violation of safety rules for personal gains. This was stated by law enforcers in their comments on the hostage-taking incidents that occurred in Surovikino and Rostov-on-Don.

The court has extended the custody of Zaur Magomedov, accused of involvement in the militants' attacks committed in Derbent and Makhachkala, by three months. It was done despite the complaints from Magomedov's defence that the proofs in the case had been falsified, the advocate has stated.

Alexei Schus, an engineer from Sochi, has deleted his posts on a social network that the law enforcement bodies considered dissemination of fake news about the Russian Army, and the weapon the man was accused of making was a modification of a slingshot, an advocate reports.

The fate of Seda Suleimanova remains on everyone’s lips thanks to pickets and information activity. The law enforcement bodies had to institute a criminal case in connection with the Seda Suleimanova’s disappearance, although there has been no progress in the investigation, activists believe.

The penal colony No. 19 in Surovikino, where prisoners took warders hostage, is known for its extremely poor conditions of detention and the practice of provocations against Muslims, which could lead to a riot, human rights defender Igor Nagavkin notes.

A court in Volgograd has sided with Olga Sorokina, the wife of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent in Volgograd, who demanded from the police to investigate attempts to break into her apartment and intimidate her. However, there is no hope for progress in the case; investigators are not interested to deal with it, Vyacheslav believes.

Thirteen people were killed as a result of the hostage-taking in a penal colony in the city of Surovikino in Volgograd Region. One of the penal colony employees died in the hospital, and two more victims stay in severe condition, the “Kommersant” reported with reference to the Volgograd Region Committee for Public Health.

Magomed Alkhanov, a native of Chechnya, who had been kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don in connection with the attack on Pskov paratroopers, has been charged with organizing an escape from the SIZO.