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Ramzan Kadyrov's mother Aimani, Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, Muslim Khuchiev, the Chairman of the Chechen Government, and Zamid Chalaev, the commander of the special police regiment named after Akhmat Kadyrov of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), have been put on the sanctions list of the US Treasury Department.

The Saint Petersburg police have refused to clarify the fate of a native of Chechnya, Seda Suleimanova, who was detained on August 23, the SK SOS Crisis Group* has informed. Law enforcers gave contradictory information to Seda’s advocate and partner, who tried to find her.

Policemen came to the 26-year-old Seda Suleimanova, who had fled from Chechnya, and her partner and took them to the police station. Then the young man was released, and the young woman was taken to the airport to be sent back to Chechnya, human rights defenders have informed.

The police have put Abubakar Yangulbaev, one of Zarema Musaeva's sons, on the federal wanted list.

The nephew of Akhmed Zakaev, who had been sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone, has criticized his uncle, who supports Ukraine. 

At a meeting with Mansur Soltaev, the Ombudsperson for Chechnya, lawyers of the "Team against Torture" (TaT)* tried to find out how the security of the journalist, Elena Milashina, in Chechnya would be ensured, and how the inquiry into the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, committed at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) was progressing. They failed to receive any specific answers to their questions.

In Grozny, the police detained local resident Roza Tsaralieva, after which Adam Elzhurkaev, the chief of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, reprimanded the woman for practicing the occult services, follows from a report released by the “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company).

Tragedy in Makhachkala, Kadyrov beats a prisoner, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, victims of landslide in Georgia, 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 August 14-20, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

At the Manas Airport, in the capital of Kyrgyzstan, law enforcers have detained Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, who was on the wanted list in Russia within in the case of financing extremism.

The Chechen officials close to Ramzan Kadyrov have praised his son after reports that he had beaten Nikita Zhuravel at the Grozny SIZO (pre-trial prison); Nikita was arrested in connection with the burning down of the Koran.

The witnesses interrogated at trial have recalled Oleg Orlov's human rights and legislative work, as well as the fact that in Budyonnovsk he voluntarily offered himself as a hostage to Basaev in order to free the prisoners.

A criminal case under a terrorist article has been opened against Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, who had earlier become a suspect in an extremism case. He believes that his comment about Akhmat Kadyrov's fate was the reason for initiated the new case.

Being in a penal colony, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev suffers from more and more frequent epilepsy attacks, his condition is affected by the consequences of torture to which he was subjected by law enforcers, claim relatives of the native of Ingushetia.

Zarema Musaeva underwent two weeks of medical treatment and examination in a Grozny hospital, after which she was returned to a SIZO (pre-trial prison), the “Team Against Torture”* reports. In a letter to her son, Zarema Musaeva wrote that her health state improved significantly, and doctors prescribed a surgery.

Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, has reported about the meeting with Nikita Zhuravel after the latter's complaint about the beating by Kadyrov's son and stated the need to involve investigating bodies to the check.