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After being attacked in Grozny, Igor Kalyapin, the leader of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture", left Chechnya for the Stavropol Territory. This was reported by the human rights defender himself.

The experts, interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot", believe that the attack on Igor Kalyapin in Grozny is a direct consequence of the impunity for the attack on rights defenders and journalists in Ingushetia.

The attack on Igor Kalyapin, the head of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" (CPT) has been committed this evening near the hotel "Grozny City", said Dmitry Utukin, a CPT member.

In Russia, the "Islamic State" (IS) has its organized underground, whose members may significantly increase the level of the terror threat; therefore the country is in dire need of "clever propaganda", so that young people had no desire to join militants, asserts Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, the author of the report on the export of jihad from the Caucasus to Syria.

Today, Nils Muižnieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), has published a memo on the murder case of Natalia Estemirova, a Russian rights defender and journalist, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". On March 15, the memo was submitted to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which considers a complaint lodged by Estemirova's sister. The CoE's Commissioner has acted at the ECtHR as a third party in the case.

At the border with Georgia, Russian border guards have detained two residents of one of the republics of Northern Caucasus, who, according to the FSB, had planned to go to Syria to join the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia.

The organization "Islamic State" (IS), recognized as terrorist and banned in Russia, has reported that Abu Umar al-Shishani (Tarkhan Batirashvili) alive.

At the "Kabardino-Balkarian Human Rights Centre", advocates have reported on violations committed in the course of the investigation into the case against persons accused of involvement in illegal armed formations (IAFs).

14 activists of the religious organization "Nurcular" banned in Russia were brought to the police station. Of them, 12 were released after questioning.

Last night, the Pentagon spokesman has reported that Abu Umar al-Shishani, one of the leaders of the terrorist grouping "Islamic State" (IS), died from injuries got in an airstrike which took place near the town of Al-Shaddadah in northeastern Syria on March 4.

The journalists, who suffered in the attack, committed by unidentified persons in Ingushetia on March 9, have called to qualify the attackers' actions under the article of "terror act".

In prison, Khadija Ismayilova demonstrates the freedom of spirit and provides an example of commitment to democratic ideals. This was stated in Baku at the presentation of the book "Children of the Jacaranda Tree", translated by Ismayilova.