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During raids, Chechen law enforcers detained at least 700 people on suspicion of selling and using drugs. Later, on September 28, they were brought to the centre of Grozny, where Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov threatened to expel them from Chechnya together with their family members. According to local residents, the number of the detainees also included people, who at the time of the raid could accidentally appear close to the suspects.

Since November 2015, Khaiser Djemilev has spent in total 210 days in the dungeon (known as ShIZO) of the Astrakhan colony, said Nikolai Polozov, the advocate of the son of Mustafa Djemilev, one of the leaders of the movement of Crimean Tatars.

The lawyers of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT) have addressed their complaint about the investigators' unsatisfactory work in the cases of attacks on journalists and rights defenders committed in Ingushetia and Chechnya to the Chair of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), the General Public Prosecutor and the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia.

Today, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported that by the court decision, policemen Sosyrbey Shadzov and Oleg Bekulov, accused of beating two teenagers, are obliged to pay 170,000 roubles to each victim.

In Tbilisi, law enforcers have detained 11 activists of the nationalist organization "Kartuli Dzala" (Georgian Power), who are suspected of involvement in riots in cafes and shops in Agmashenebeli Avenue on September 27.

Chamsulvar Chamsulvaraev (Al-Bara), a native of Dagestan, a well-known wrestler, was killed in Iraq. This has been reported by the media resources, supporting the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS).

On September 27, the court of appeal began to question witnesses in the case against of Kislovodsk Imam Kurman-Ali Baichorov. Witness Vitaly Kravtsov, who was invited as a witness during the Imam's detention, stated that he had arrived to the checkpoint of the road-and-patrol service (known as DPS) by an order of his Ataman. According to the witness, when he saw Kurman-Ali Baichorov for the first time, the latter had been already kept at the DPS checkpoint handcuffed behind his back and with a plastic bag over his head.

On September 27, the North-Caucasian District Military Court held a hearing in the case of an attempt to create a Sharia state in the territory of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). During the court hearing, an indictment was read out. Advocates of the defendants claimed lack of description of the objective side of the crimes in the indictment, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports.

In Abkhazia, after the release of the information about suicide of a young woman from the town of Gudauta, who was allegedly accused of being unfaithful on the basis of SMS, the women's NGOs appealed to the law enforcement authorities with a request to investigate the case. The activists who signed the appeal do not rule out that the incident is a case of so-called "honour killings".

A petition demanding a fair trial in the case against Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a penal colony, has collected more than 20,000 signatures.

In the Rostov Region, the court has sentenced pensioner Valery Dyakonov, a coordinator of the miners' protest actions in Gukovo, to 60 hours of compulsory labour. The pensioner is found guilty of threatening to kill the deputy chief of the Zverevo administration.

Ravil Kaibaliev, the Deputy Imam of the Neftekumsk District of the Stavropol Territory, has been killed today by unidentified persons on the Budyonnovsk-Kara-Tube highway, the "Caucasian Knot" was informed by the regional Muslim community.

So far, the three suspected militants, killed in the Tabasaran District of Dagestan, have not been identified. To do so, a genetic examination was appointed, said a law enforcement source.