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The Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has dismissed the complaint of the advocate Tumas Misakyan, who asked to recognize as illegal the suspension of the investigation into the murder of the journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev and recognize illegal the investigator's inaction.

Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), has treated the attacks on journalists and rights defenders in Ingushetia as a demonstration of permissiveness and action of intimidation.

The actions of the attackers on a minivan with journalists on the Ingush-Chechen border should be qualified as an attempt to interfere with their activities, said the lawyers interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They expressed their confidence that in the process of the inquiry the initial articles will be re-qualified to graver ones.

Russian law enforcement bodies have reacted to the news of Turkish media that Kristina Tikhonova, a native of Dagestan, allegedly involved in the organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia, intended to commit a terror act in Istanbul.

The Ukrainian aviator Nadezhda Savchenko has announced, after meeting her advocate in the SIZO (pre-trial prison), that she would start drinking water, but she would continue her hunger strike. Earlier, conflicting information was received on Savchenko's dry hunger strike.

The Presidential Human Rights Council (HRC) has addressed Yuri Chaika and Alexander Bastrykin, the heads of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), accordingly, with a request to personally control the inquiry into the attacks on rights defenders and journalists in Ingushetia.

The Russian authorities must ensure the attraction to liability of those involved in the pogrom of the office of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) and the attack on journalists and rights defenders in Ingushetia, said Johann Beer, the head of the "Reporters without Borders" (RWB). The past similar incidents are still unpunished, he said.

The statements of Yusup Djaparov that he does not understand the case files, translated into the Tsudakh dialect, cannot be considered reasonable, linguists said. Experts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) have stated that Djaparov should not have difficulties in understanding the texts, since the differences of the above two dialects of the Dargin language are minimal.

On the eve of the Novruz Bayram holiday, the Azerbaijani Pardons Commission under the President of the country has reviewed about 400 applications. Positive decisions have been made in over 300 of them, and will be submitted to the President.

The attacks on the members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) and its office in Ingushetia were preceded by the pogrom of the JMG office in Grozny on June 3, 2015, and a fire therein on December 13, 2014. Nils Mujzhnieks, the Human Rights Commissioner of the Council of Europe, has condemned the attack on rights defenders and journalists.

Armed persons arrived at the headquarters of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders in Ingushetia in five cars and disabled all the surveillance cameras, said Dmitry Utukin, a lawyer of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

Eight rights defenders and journalists, who were in the van of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) during the attack, as well as the driver, were in need of medical care, said the Committee on the Prevention of Torture (CPT).

The Shkolny Lane in the village of Zhankhoteko has been renamed in memory of the journalist Kazbek Gekkiev, who was killed in 2012. A memorial plaque has been installed at the school, where Gekkiev studied.