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A resident of the Kizlyar District, kept in custody at the Khasavyurt SIZO (pre-trial prison), was hospitalized with a craniocerebral trauma; investigators opened a case about the intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm.

About 200 people gathered in Moscow for the mourning ceremony on the anniversary of the terror act at the Theatrical Centre. Only 60 victims out of a thousand received compensations from the authorities; it's too late for others to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Igor Trunov, a lawyer, has stated.

On October 25, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the Dagestani weekly "Chernovik" (Draft), held a series of solo pickets in central Makhachkala near the complex of buildings of the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) and the FSB.

A court in Baku has sentenced Sevinj Abbasova, a former school principal, to restriction of liberty, finding her guilty under the case of an eighth-grader's death. Relatives of the casualty decided to seek imprisonment for the former school principal.

The day of October 23, 2019, marked the 17th anniversary of the seizure of the Dubrovka Theatre Centre. The terror act took place in Moscow, on October 23-26, 2002. A group of armed militants led by Movsar Baraev took 916 hostages. The terrorists demanded an immediate cessation of hostilities in Chechnya and the withdrawal of federal troops from the republic. During rescue operation 130 hostages, including 10 children, were killed, and more than 700 other hostages were injured.

The conflict of two Chechen families of farmers in the Rostov Region, in which five persons perished, will lead to blood feud, the residents of Chechnya interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" suggest.

A court pronounced a decision to arrest Arsen Babayan, the former deputy chief of the administration of the Armenian parliament, in a case on changing the chair of the Constitutional Court.

In his complaint to Yuri Chaika, the General Public Prosecutor of Russia, Musa Aliev, a resident of the Khasavyurt District, demanded to take the investigation of his application about torture under control. According to Aliev, law enforcers first beat him up, trying to get a confession to raping a girl, and then began threatening his family.

After his detention, Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a Dagestani journalist, arrested under the case of financing terrorism, was for the first time visited by his wife and four children.

Akhmed Bilalov, the former head of the "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" Company, has been detained in the United States for violating the immigration regime and is currently in custody pending removal proceedings, reports the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Today, the court has refused to release on bail Irakli Okruashvili, the leader of the "Victorious Georgia" Party, who was arrested in a case on organization of riots in front of the parliament building.

The court found Nikita Khatskevich, a resident of the town of Gulkevichy, not guilty of disorderly conduct and confirmed the illegality of his detention by law enforcers. Lawyers from the Committee against Torture (CaT) claim they will seek an investigation into a case on torture about which Nikita Khatskevich complained and a punishment of law enforcers for the illegal administrative prosecution.

The Russian Embassy to the USA has asked the US authorities to confirm the media reports about the detention in Miami of Akhmed Bilalov, a former president of the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "North-Caucasus Resorts".

Nairi Unanyan, sentenced to life under the case of a terror act committed in the Armenian Parliament on October 27, 1999, has filed a petition on conditional early relief (CER). Human rights defenders doubt that he will be set free.