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Participants of the rally in Grozny, which grew into a pogrom of the office of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the apartment, where members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of rights defenders lived, show the use of administrative resources for centralized transportation of protesters to the capital of Chechnya.

Two young men, who were detained at night on June 2, at the border checkpoint "Verkhniy Lars", and who were on the way, as reported by special services, to Syria aiming to take part in the war on the side of the "Islamic State", today have been sent home, a law enforcement source told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

Today, members of the Russian Federal Human Rights Council (HRC) have discussed the pogrom in Grozny at their special sitting with participation of Timur Aliev, the head of the Chechen HRC, and Vadim Gaidov, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

The redistribution process of assets and spheres of influence of the ex-mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov began immediately after his arrest and is still on, the Dagestani experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" have noted.

The pogromists who attacked the office of the Committee against Torture (CaT) and the apartment of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) in Grozny had pre-planned their actions, said Dmitry Utukin, a CaT activist, and refuted the statement of the head of Chechnya that rights defenders had themselves provoked the incident.

Russian authorities are trying to put pressure on Mustafa Dzhemilev, an MP of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, by oppressing his son, the mother and advocate of Khaiser Dzhemilev, found guilty by the jury of the Krasnodar Territorial Court of manslaughter, believe.

The arrest of Mukhammad Magomedov, one of the leaders of the public organization "The Union of the Just", expired in the evening on June 2, said his advocate Magomed Magomedov and demanded to release his client from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

In the village of Zakan-Yurt, law enforcers detain young people, who on May 30 blocked the local police station. This was reported by local residents.

Staff members of the Committee against Torture are not engaged in human rights activities, and they themselves have provoked the attack on their office "in order to receive more US grants." This was stated by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.