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The Prosecutor's Office (PO) has treated as unjustified the actions of the investigator, who had sent to Chechnya reports about the violations during the detention of Zarema Musaeva, the "Team Against Torture"* has reported, calling it a rare event in their practice.

Over the past two months, about 300 people have begun their service at the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya. This was announced by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov amid the massive dispatch of fighters to Ukraine.

The appointment of relatives to key positions in Chechnya is explained by trust in them, and not by kinship, Ramzan Kadyrov said in response to criticism about the appointment of his nephew as a minister.

Scandals with Ramzan Kadyrov, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, official data on the natives of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine, struggle of Azerbaijani oppositionists, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 30-February 5, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

The term of “Mekhkan Da”, literally translated from the Chechen language as “father of the people,” was not earlier used in the Chechen society. An attempt to introduce it is connected with the Ramzan Kadyrov’s leadership style, which inherits the Stalinist model, analysts point out.

A court in Grozny has extended the arrest of Zarema Musaeva until May 12, 2923, human rights defenders have informed.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has posted a video with the mass participation of children speaking out in defence of the Koran in response to the actions with the burning of this book held in Denmark and Sweden.

A draft law proposing to supplement the position of the leader of Chechnya with the title “Mekhkan Da” has been published on the official website of the republic’s parliament.

The decision of the court, which refused to recognize a wife of Salman Tepsurkaev as a victim in the case on his kidnapping, was cancelled by the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya. The Court of Appeal pointed to significant violations of the law by the first instance court.

Chechen authorities are unable to eradicate the practice of blood feud; this custom has adapted itself to the Sharia Law and remains relevant, Oyub Titiev, a human rights defender, and Akhmet Yarlykapov, a Caucasian scholar, believe. 

The call of Salakh Mezhiev, the Mufti of Chechnya, not to prohibit mothers from seeing their children in the event of a divorce, if authorities and the society stay inactive, will hardly affect men in the republics of Northern Caucasus, female human rights defenders have noted.

Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced for using violence against law enforcers, was transferred to a punishment cell. His relatives believe that the punishment measure was deliberately used by warders of the penal colony to disrupt a visit of his mother.