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A female resident of the Lankaran District of Azerbaijan was hospitalised after, according to her, she was tortured by power agents. The Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has refuted her statement and reported that the woman confessed of committing a crime.

Islam Shogenov, treated by prosecutors as a member of a militant grouping, which had planned to establish a caliphate in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), was unable to make an attempt on the colonel, said his mother. She presented the evidence to the court that before the attempt her son was busy preparing for the wedding, and on the day the crime he was at the higher school.

On January 13, at a rally of residents of the village of Tsotsi-Yurt, relatives of the detained suspected militants publicly repented for the actions of young people. It was decided not to evict the relatives from the village, but the villagers were warned that in the future militants' families will be sent out from the territory of the republic, the participants of the rally have reported.

Mindiya Gogochuri, a son-in-law of the President of Georgia, and his friend, who were hospitalized with gunshot wounds, are on the mend. Doctors estimate their condition is satisfactory.

The information about the fact that Madina Shakhbieva, an alleged member of a group of militants, wounded during a special operation in Grozny, was taken away from hospital, shot dead and buried, has been confirmed by a reliable source, said the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has for the sixth time refused to initiate a case on inaction of policemen, who failed on time to respond to the call from Grozny, where the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders was destroyed. This refusal of the ICRF has been already appealed against, said the activists of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT).

The search for the suspected militant, who managed to escape after the armed clash with power agents, continues. The special operation is conducted in forests and villages of the Shali and Kurchaloi Districts and in the city of Argun, said a law enforcement source.

In the study at the trial of Boris Nemtsov's murder of details of phone calls of Eskerkhanov, his advocate insisted that the defendant had nothing to do with the phone, with the use of which, according to investigators, the slain politician was shadowed.

In 2016, Russia stepped up the persecution against dissidents and tightened the control over freedom of expression and assembly. In Northern Caucasus, Salafi communities, human rights defenders and journalists found themselves under severe pressure of the authorities. This was declared by the report prepared by the international human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" (HRW).

Alexei Kozachek, the Public Prosecutor of the Tsentralny District of Sochi, has apologised to the pensioners Klara and Valentin Donchi-ool for their prosecution, said the advocate Anatoly Eroshenko. According to his version, the pensioners have all grounds to claim compensation for moral harm and material damage.

The successors of the Avetisyan family have filed a complaint to the Cassation Court demanding a re-examination of the massacre in Gyumri by the first-instance court. Should the complaint be rejected, they intend to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

The article, under which a criminal case has been opened on the attack on Vladislav Ryazantsev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, committed in Rostov-on-Don, provides for up to two years in prison.

As stated by the head of the Chechen MIA, in the shootout with power agents that broke out in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt on January 11, the following residents of Chechnya were killed: Umar Ozdiev, Raibek Idrisov, Alikhan Kupchiev and Uzum-Khadji Madaev.