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In the evening on October 10, Musa Musaev, the former Mayor of Makhachkala, was released after almost two years of imprisonment in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) and a penal colony, his advocate reported. The Musa Musaev's early release will not affect the cases of other officials, Dagestani journalists believe.

On October 10, in Tbilisi, the court upheld all restrictions imposed on opposition MP Nika Meliya, including a ban on uncontrolled leaving of an apartment. Nika Meliya said that he would no longer sit at home and continue carrying out his political activities.

The case of the Circassian activist, accused of drug storage, has been returned for additional investigation.

The first complaint of an Ingush oppositionist, arrested after the March rallies in Magas, has been filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Akhmed Barakhoev, one of the leaders of the protests, demands to recognize a violation of his rights under four articles.

The investigator persuaded the wife of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik", to testify, but she refused to evidence against her husband. The woman is his public defender and cannot be a witness.

In the Tskhinvali penal colony, some of the prisoners who declared a hunger strike are forced to accept food, while several inmates continue the protest action, reports the South-Ossetian Minister of Justice. According to relatives, warders beat six prisoners.

A court in Stavropol has sentenced two members of the international neo-Nazi organization "Misanthropic Division" (MD), banned in Russia, to long prison terms.

During the last month, no investigative actions were conducted with Zarifa Sautieva. The judge of the Supreme Court (SC) of the Stavropol Territory came into the deliberation room for several minutes and announced the decision in the absence of the activist.

Elkhan Aliev and Alizamin Salaev, activists of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), detained on the eve of the action in Baku, have been sentenced to 15 days of arrest on charges of disobedience to the police. The party treats their arrest as politically motivated.

A brother and a sister detained in Kabardino-Balkaria transferred six million roubles raised in different regions of Russia to militants in Syria, investigators have reported today.

Relatives of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the arrested journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, were summoned for questioning within his case. Gadji Gadjiev, Abdulmumin's brother, wrote a written refusal to testify and demanded explanations from the investigator why they prohibit relatives from visiting the journalist.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made its decision on the case "Khakimova et al versus Russia", obliging Russian authorities to pay compensations to relatives of seven missing residents of Chechnya.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged Russia to pay 80,000 euros to families of each of five natives of Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Kabardino-Balkaria, who were kidnapped in 2007-2001.