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Elena Kostyuchenko, a journalist of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”, said that in the spring of 2022, she received reports of an impending attack by the Kadyrovites on her, and in the autumn of that year she was poisoned in Germany.

Nikita Zhuravel, arrested within the case of burning down the Koran, has stated that he was beaten up by the son of the head of Chechnya at the Grozny SIZO (pre-trial prison), Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, has reported.

Although the actions of the staff of the colony located in the Ulyanovsk Region, who broke the nozzle on the clipper so that Muslim prisoners from Dagestan and Chechnya could not leave the parts of their hair and beards in accordance with the prescriptions of Islam, do not fall under the notion of "torture", such treatment of prisoners falls under the Criminal Code, lawyers have noted.

Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, tragedy in Georgia, persecution of opposition in Azerbaijan, 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 7-13, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Zarema Musaeva did not respond to four letters, and her son attributes the delay to censorship. The law does not provide for restrictions on sending and receiving letters, but if a person is being kept in a punishment cell, he or she may be deprived of the right to correspond with people, notes lawyer Abusupyan Gaitaev.

The staff of the colony located in the Ulyanovsk Region have forced Muslim prisoners from Dagestan and Chechnya to shave off their beards, tortured them and confiscated their personal belongings, human rights defenders have reported.

Members of the Chechen Diaspora have held a rally in Zurich, during which they called on Swiss authorities not to deport Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, to Russia, since he is expected to be persecuted in his homeland.

Khasan Yangulbaev has volunteered for the special military operation (SMO) and completed a full training course at the Russian Special Forces University.

The “Chechenenergo” Company should provide the necessary power instead of turning off the electricity during the hot weather and calling on residents to save electric power. This was a reaction by social media users in response to the company’s calls to save energy.

By promising to solve the problems of residents of the Kemsi-Yurt village, the authorities of the Khasavyurt District tried to appease Chechen natives amid the current political situation, believes Ruslan Kutaev, the president of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

Since the start of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, a total of 29,000 fighters have been sent to the SMO zone from Chechnya, including 13,000 volunteers, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced.

In Chechnya, law enforcers have detained a brother of Saidi Yangulbaev, a former Russian federal judge, and three of his nephews and sent them to the special military operation (SMO) zone, Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, has informed.

Marina Sotskova, a Russian-speaking resident of the Grozny village of Vozrozhdeniye, filmed a video in which she expressed her concern that hazardous waste would be dumped into a local river through a pipe that was being laid from the airport.

Explosions in the Black Sea, tragedy in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, persecution of opposition in Azerbaijan, 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 July 31-August 6, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.