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A court imposed a large fine on a resident of Chechnya, finding him guilty of justifying terrorism because of his posts on the social media.

In Chechnya, law enforcers continue keeping Khusein Zakaev; his younger brother Bislan has returned home. This was reported by Shamil Albakov, Honorary Consul of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria in France.

The consideration in Chechnya of the case of Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in connection with the burning of the Koran, could lead to more severe punishment, said Valentin Bogdan, a human rights defender.

A court in Croatia has found a refugee from Chechnya not guilty of involvement in extremism and decided to release him from a deportation camp, an activist of the "Assembly of European Chechens" has informed.

A case against Timur Zakiev, a resident of Chechnya, has been sent for reconsideration, since the republic’s Supreme Court and the Prosecutor’s Office do not rule out that the case was falsified by the police.

In Yerevan, a court session is scheduled on the case of Salman Mukaev, a native of Grozny, who is under threat of extradition to Russia, the SK SOS Crisis Group has reported.

The decision to transfer the case of burning down the Koran by Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, to investigators in Chechnya not only contradicts the law, but also creates a threat of torturing him, as well as a threat to his life, lawyers assert.

In Grozny, a district court has once again refused to recognize a wife of Salman Tepsurkaev as a victim in the case on his kidnapping. An appeal against the court’s decision will be filed to the Supreme Court of Chechnya, human rights defenders announce.

On an audio record, a father of Khusein Djambetov states that he forgives a blood feud enemy who will kill his son. Khusein Djambetov began to hand over to the republic’s authorities those Chechen natives who had visited their house and expressed the disagreement with the Chechen authorities’ policy, including Imam Valid Kuruev.

A twenty-year-old female resident of Nazran shared a story of her escape from domestic violence in the podcast of the “Svoboda (ne) za gorami” (Freedom (not) beyond the mountains) project. Aminat Lorsanova, a native of Chechnya, said that her mother was beating her, justifying herself with permission from Putin and Kadyrov.

Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, memory of the victims of the Caucasian War, kidnapping of Pashinyan’s son, death of a girl from Malgobek, scandals 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 May 15-21, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has accused European and Ukrainian special services of plotting terror acts against him.