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Chechen law enforcers have taken away relatives and friends of Movsar Zakriev, who was shot dead on November 21 in Grozny, to some unknown place.

The attack on a policeman in Grozny, which resulted in the murder of a man armed with a knife, was preceded by a similar incident that occurred in the capital of Chechnya in July 2021. Since 2019, there have been at least five attacks with bladed weapons on law enforcers committed in the republic.

The trial of Aslan Iritov, an activist from the city of Nalchik, was not fair, and his sentence was based only on policemen's testimonies, the lawyers stated in their complaint lodged to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

In central Grozny, an unknown man has attacked a policeman with a knife, as a result of which the law enforcer died. The attacker was killed while trying to escape with the policeman's service pistol, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has stated.

In the torture case of prisoners in the Kalmyk colony, investigators have not yet found any evidence and suspects, despite the identification of the law enforcers who used torture.

Nikita Chereshnev, a contract military serviceman from North Ossetia, was found guilty of leaving his unit without permission and refusing to perform the "special missions" in Ukraine.

A court’s refusal to grant complaints against the sentences of Vadim Cheldiev, Arsen Besolov, and Ramis Chirkinov outraged activists who came to Sochi to support the accused. Vadim Cheldiev was persecuted by officials and law enforcers, and he had to leave for Saint Petersburg, but he was detained there, too, his mother Nadezhda Cheldieva noted.

The case about financing terrorism, initiated against Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, is based on testimonies of classified witnesses and those who are serving long prison terms, while other witnesses claim that unreliable information was put into their testimonies.

Abubakar Rizvanov, the head of the "Ansar" Fund, who is accused, along with Abdulmumin Gadjiev and Kemal Tambiev, of financing terrorism, has stated during interrogation that he became a co-founder of the Fund at the suggestion of the preacher, Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, but only formally participated in the activities of the "Ansar".

The state prosecutor has demanded to sentence Daud Davydov, a former head of the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison) to 13 years in prison, and two of his subordinates to nine years; they figure in the case of beating up detainees and extorting money and property.

Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, a native of Ingushetia, convicted in the case on participation in hostilities in Syria, is being unreasonably punished in a penal colony. Marzhan Albagachieva, a mother of the convict, complains that warders put pressure on her son. The woman asked human rights defenders to protect the rights of her son.

The conditional early relief (CER) of those convicted within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev after being tortured at the police will be appealed against, his widow has stated.

Social networks users have treated the court judgement on the conditional early relief (CER) of two law enforcers convicted within the case of the death of Vladimir Tskaev, a Vladikavkaz citizen, as unfair.

Spartak Buzoev and Alan Bigaev has been released on conditional early relief (CER). This is reported by the human rights project “Axioma” on its Telegram channel.