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The residents of Ingushetia, who persuaded married women to adultery and blackmailed them, could face expulsion and blood feud, experts of the Caucasus believe.

Aliabbas Rustamov, a rights defender, has stopped his hunger strike demanding conditional early relief (CER) on the 14th day of his protest. He made such a decision in connection with the postponement of the court session and the appeals of the public and his advocate, the journalist. Shakhveled Chobanoglu has informed.

Kurban Kurbanaliev, a native of Dagestan, who was detained by Chechen law enforcers, was arrested on charges of links with militants, said his advocate. According to the defence, Kurbanaliev has pled guilty, but relatives doubt that this was done sincerely.

Relatives of the eight young people from Dagestan killed in Chechnya rely on testimonies of the witnesses, who can tell how the young men were kidnapped in their republic. The trial should be held in any region of the Russian Federation, except for Chechnya, the casualties' mothers believe.

Prior to his release from the colony, Magomedsaid Gazaliev received proper treatment, in which he was very lucky. In most Russian jails, prisoners suffering from cancer cannot hope for the necessary medicines, or for medics' humane attitude, rights defenders assert.

An investigator has seen no grounds for initiating a criminal case on the torture complaint during the detention of Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov in Derbent. Their advocate filed an appeal against the investigator's decision, while the aunt and mother of the detainees told about the deterioration of their health.

The man, killed today during the CTO in the Malgobek District, was looking for supporters to prepare a terror act and leave for Syria to join militants, the Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has informed.

A militant who was plotting a terror act was killed during a counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the village of Voznesenskoye, the National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) reports.

The counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced today in the village of Voznesenskoye has become the first in Ingushetia since January 2019. The shootout in the CTO zone is the second armed incident in the republic since the early 2019.

The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has dismissed the complaint lodged by journalist Polad Aslanov about the refusal to transfer him under house arrest.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia scheduled for August 12 a hearing in the criminal case of eight natives of Dagestan, who, according to the Chechen law enforcement bodies, were killed in a shootout. This was reported by advocate Andrei Sabinin.

The Prosecutor's Office of Armenia has toughened the charge brought against participants of the student movement who tried to throw blogger Narek Malyan into a garbage can. The case of an attempted kidnapping has been brought to court, investigators report.

Islam Gugov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), sentenced to 16 years in prison after his voluntary return from Syria, has sent a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in which he claims the second sentence for one and the same crime, a frequent change of judges and the inability to question witnesses.

Alexei Frenkel, a convict for the murder of Andrei Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Central Bank, plans to testify against Dagestani entrepreneurs, Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov, Frenkel's advocate has stated. The Magomedov brothers have nothing to do with Kozlov's murder, their advocate asserts.

The Urvan District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has extended the house arrest of the activist, Martin Kochesoko, by two months.