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The problem of early and forced marriages in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is still there, although there are no reliable statistics on this issue. The problem is rarely brought into the public sphere amid girls' confidence in their own defencelessness, absence of working laws and gender discrimination characteristic of the patriarchal structure inherent in these republics.

A criminal case on the murder of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a 19-year-old resident of Kayakent, should be sent for additional investigation after a forensic expert admitted that an earlier forensic report did not describe all the wounds on the young man’s body. The above has been reported by a family’s lawyer.

The police have put on the wanted list a native of Nazran who left for Syria eight years ago. According to the investigators’ version, the woman joined a terrorist organization and was raising money for its needs.

A court in Volgograd has extended the arrest of Daniil Vodolagin, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, by three months, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

At trial, Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, claimed that he did not give the testimony that was read out earlier, but it had been written by an investigator.

The arguments of the Russian Ministry of Justice, presented at the today’s court hearing considering the claim filed by Oleg Orlov* to challenge his status of a foreign agent, contain no specific reasoning and are unconvincing, so, the decision to refuse to exclude the human rights defender from the register of foreign agents will be challenged, an advocate has announced.

Barakh Chemurziev, Ismail Nalgiev and Bagaudin Khautiev, who had already served most of their eight-year sentences, have asked the court to replace their remaining prison terms with some sanction not related to freedom deprivation. The court in the Stavropol Territory, where they are in a penal colony, has refused to grant their motions.

The Magas District Court has awarded compensation of 1.5 million roubles to a resident of Ingushetia who had been beaten up by a law enforcer during his detention. This was reported by the human rights project "Traumpunkt".

Despite the fact that the decision to transfer Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, under house arrest was made in her favour, it still violates the law, since the investigation period has ended and she could not have been given a preventive freedom restriction measure at all.

Because of the imperfect legislation, only a small number of labour slavery cases get into law enforcers' attention. In their turn, those who occur in labour slavery, including in Southern Russia, refuse to complain to the police due to their low legal literacy.

The charge against Mikhail Balabanov in a case on plotting a terror act in the Stavropol Territory was reclassified to a lighter charge, and therefore a court sentenced the defendant to half the term of imprisonment requested by a public prosecutor, an advocate reported.

In Volgograd, a court arrested a local resident for desecrating the graves of participants in the special military operation (SMO). After being detained, the accused man escaped from the police station and was put on the wanted list. The police managed to detain the man again on May 20.