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The court has appointed the freedom deprivation measure of two months for Dagestani blogger, Khadjimurad Khanov, with in the case of illegal arms trafficking.

Charges brought against Khadjimurad Khanov in a criminal case on possession of firearms and a grenade is absurd, and the attention of the law enforcement bodies is caused by the scandal surrounding the demands for an apology from a doctor in Khasavyurt, who asked a patient to remove her niqab during a medical examination, to which the leader of Dagestan reacted, Dagestani journalists and activists believe.

The kidnapping of the relatives of Khasan Khalitov, a Chechen blogger living abroad, is revenge for his call to Aishat Kadyrova, the current Vice-Premier of Chechnya; threats to Khalitov were voiced out by Adam Kadyrov, a son of the head of Chechnya, human rights defenders report, expressing concern for the health condition of the blogger's relatives, especially his elderly father.

The ideological work aimed to counter radicalization should be conducted by Muslims themselves; and Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the convicted "Chernovik" outlet journalist, is one of those who is able to influence his fellow believers, Dagestani journalists are sure.

The hostage taking in the Rostov SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the attacks in Dagestan were committed by "Islamists," Alexander Bastrykin, the Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has stated and supported the idea of banning niqabs (long garments worn by some Muslim women in order to cover their entire body and face, excluding their eyes).

Maria Smelaya, a resident of Krasnodar, has complained that officials from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) are passing her complaint about her husband's kidnapping of their common son to each other and would not investigate the case.

Within 1.5 days, the petition demanding to take control over the inquiry into the murder of Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, was signed by 630 people.

The Shali City Court has for the second time dismissed a request for the conditional early relief of Zarema Musaeva. The court justified its refusal by the fact that the woman had not compensated for damages in the case on fraud and was placed on preventive registration in a penal colony.

Amid the militants' attacks committed in Dagestan, the head of Chechnya has called for a "hard response" to attacks on law enforcers, by killing all the perpetrators' blood relatives.

Soslan Dzidakhanov disagrees with the amount of compensation for his suffered moral harm that the Ardonsky Court awarded him for being beaten up by a law enforcer. In the Russian judicial practice, it is customary to decrease the compensation amount; and the resonance from Tskaev's case has partially contributed to a decrease in the number of tortures in the republic, Vladimir Tskaev's widow and his advocate have stressed.

In their video message, five Omarov brothers asked for forgiveness from the families of the people who fell victim to the militants’ attack in Dagestan.

The Rostov Regional Court has upheld the verdict against doctors of the prison hospital in a case on abuse of power with the use of violence, the “Kommersant” reports.

The Moscow City Court (MCC) has refused to satisfy the defence's protest against the arrest of the journalist, Nadezhda Kevorkova, the court's press service has informed.

After militants have committed their attacks in Makhachkala and Derbent, the number of tour bookings to Dagestan has decreased, the Russian Union of Tourist Industry (RUTI) has informed. In their turn, tourist operators suggest that tour sales will gradually normalize.