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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has promised to look into the attack on journalist Elena Milashina and lawyer Alexander Nemov. At the same time, Akhmed Dudaev, the Chechen Press Minister, said that "the style of Western intelligence services" can be traced in the attack.

The attack on the journalist Elena Milashina and the advocate Alexander Nemov has to do with Milashina's publications in which she wrote about human rights violations in Chechnya, human rights defenders have noted.

On the way from an airport to Grozny, a driver of a taxi, in which journalist Elena Milashina and advocate Alexander Nemov were traveling, was forced to stop by unidentified persons. Then the strangers tied Elena Milashina and Alexander Nemov up, beat them, and put guns to their heads, Elena Milashina reported.

Unidentified armed men have kicked Alexander Nemov, a lawyer, and Elena Milashina, a journalist of the "Novaya Gazeta", who had arrived in Chechnya to cover the trial of Zarema Musaeva.

A court in Grozny has sentenced Zarema Musaeva to 5.5 years of freedom deprivation after finding her guilty of assaulting a policeman.

Disappearance of Adam Delimkhanov and contract between “Akhmat” units and Russian Ministry of Defence, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Zarema Musaeva’s case, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 12-18, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

During the debates held at a court session in Grozny, Zarema Musaeva has declared her innocence of fraud and assault on a law enforcer.

During the pleadings in court, advocates Alexander Nemov and Alexander Savin stated that investigators and public prosecutors did not provide evidence of Zarema Musaeva’s guilt in an attack on law enforcer and fraud.

The administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where Zarema Musaeva is being kept, took her to hospital for examination, where doctors took tests from her. Musaeva has noted that she feels better.

Zarema Musaeva has been examined in the hospital and returned to the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is kept in Chechnya. The examination showed deterioration of her health.

After a 1.5-year-long stay at the Chechen SIZO (pre-trial prison), Zarema Musaeva has lost the ability to move independently. After the deterioration of her health, she was hospitalized, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has informed.

The defence has failed to present documents stating that Zarema Musaeva needs hospital treatment, the court in Grozny has decided and refused to order a medical examination of her health condition.

The health condition of Zarema Musaeva is deteriorating at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where she is kept, her advocates have stated and asked the court to conduct a medical examination to decide on the woman's hospitalization.

Investigators have tried to interrogate Zarema Musaeva, who is being kept in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Grozny, in a case against her son Baisangur Yangulbaev, but the woman refused to testify, Abubakar Yangulbaev reports.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has put Baisangur Yangulbaev, a son of Zarema Musaeva, on the federal wanted list, the human rights project “OVD-Info”* reports.