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In Dagestan, the law enforcement authorities require residents put on police prevention registration lists to bring copies of their personal documents and of the documents of their family members. This was reported by the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The human rights defenders intend to appeal for explanations to the Dagestani Minister of Internal Affairs and the Ombudsman.

The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has demanded to release activist Khiramagomed Magomedov, one of the leaders of the NGO "Union of Fair", accused of involvement in the organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir al Islami" banned in Russia.

On April 20, the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan considered an appeal filed by the police about the decision of the Makhachkala court to remove the name of Magomed Magomedov from a police prevention registration list who had been earlier included in the above list under the "religious extremist" category.

The legal regime of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced in the Buynaksk and Karabudakhkent Districts has been announced in the territory Dagestan for the eighth time since early 2017 and for the first time in the second quarter.

The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia has made a mistake by approving the liquidation of the Administrative Centre and local organizations of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. This decision will be appealed against, the representative of the Centre and advocates have stated.

Zaur Dadaev told the court that he had been physically abused by law enforcers for two days after his detention. The court also read out the testimony of Rustam Yusupov, who was detained together with Dadaev.

The criminal case against publicist Rizvan Ibragimov, the author of books about the God's favoured Chechen people, accused of extremism, has added popularity to him, but showed other authors in Chechnya the limits of what is permitted. This is the opinion of the writer Arslan Khasavov.

Threats to journalists coming from Chechnya after publications about persecutions of members of the LGBT-community in the republic may harbinger of greater misfortune, said Nadezhda Azhgikhina, a member of the “Free Word” Association; and Alisa Ganieva, a member of the Association, has added that they would strengthen the support of the journalists, threatened for their honestly performed professional work.

The North-Caucasian District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Renat Abdurakhmanov, a resident of Dagestan, to two years in a high-security for giving money to a militant for leaving for Syria. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent has learnt it at the court's press service.

During his interrogation, Zaur Dadaev told that he had shot Boris Nemtsov dead from the distance of about five meters. According to his version, this was the fourth meeting with the victim since the start of shadowing the politician, the “Kommersant” writes.

The main purpose of addressing the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) was to uphold the right to a fair investigation, and not to receive compensations, as some users of social networks assert, said the “Beslan Mothers” Committee. Based on the decision of the ECtHR, Russian authorities should eliminate violations in the inquiry into the terror act, the "Legal Initiative" has stated.

Zelimkhan Evloev, the Speaker of the Parliament of Ingushetia, has suggested introducing a sentence of three years in prison for abducting brides. He asked MPs to draft an appropriate bill.