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The Baku police have detained Mekhman Guseinov, a blogger and the Chairman of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), said his advocate Elchin Sadygov. Guseinov's friends said that the blogger did not get in touch since the evening on January 9.

Ruslan Saifutdinov, a student of the Tyumen Medical Academy, who was wanted by the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has died in a penal colony in the city of Kurgan, where he was kept after a conviction for participation in the war in Syria. Rights defenders assert that Saifutdinov was tortured, and doctors failed to help him.

The inquiry and the trial of 18 religious activists, accused of the riots in the Azerbaijani settlement of Nardaran, were biased, the defendants' guilt was not proved; therefore, they should be acquitted, their advocates have stated.

The case on the attack on the Director General of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company should be investigated under the article of persecution because of one's public activities, said Dmitri Sadzaglishvili, the advocate of Nika Gvaramiya. The attack on Gvaramiya was condemned by the US Ambassador to Georgia.

In Ingushetia, a court has pronounced the pre-trial restriction measure in the form of two-month detention against Ruslan Djamaldinov, charged of killing journalist Amirkhan Kokurkhoev. This was reported by an official of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).

At an antiterrorist rally held on January 8, family members of the young people killed in the special operation in Grozny have apologized for their actions. Relatives of the killed young men have claimed changes in their behaviour before the attacks on the police.

During the week from January 2 to January 8, 2017, in the course of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus no casualties and victims were recorded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

The third term for Ramzan Kadyrov and tightening of pressure in Chechnya, scandals at elections and attacks on policemen in Dagestan, attacks on human rights defenders in Ingushetia, struggle against natural disasters and swine fever in Kabardino-Balkaria, pressure on activists in North Ossetia and the Stavropol Territory, these and other events took place in the years 2016 in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of Russia.

There are no Chechens among the detained foreigners suspected of an attempt to join militants in Syria. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by members of the Chechen Diaspora in Istanbul. Journalist Saslanbek Isaev associates frequent references to Chechens in the Turkish media with the preparation for mass extradition of immigrants from Northern Caucasus at the request of Russia.

The last one out of the detained relatives of the young people killed in the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in Grozny was released from police on January 5; thus, all the relatives are back at large.