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Amid the public outcry around a video depicting the Salman Tepsurkaev's humiliation, supporters of the Chechen authorities demanded from relatives of the young man not to address the law enforcement bodies and threatened them with problems, one of Salman Tepsurkaev's relatives told human rights defenders and administrators of the "1ADAT" Telegram channel.

Since his disappearance in July, Movsar Umarov has not contacted his family, his sister said.

Akhmed Zakaev, who called Chechen authorities responsible for torturing Tepsurkaev, has no right to speak on behalf of the Chechen people – this was the leitmotif of those speaking at a gathering in the Chechen village of Djalka.

Salman Tepsurkaev faces death due to the resonance after the publication of the video with his self-humiliation, the authors of the 1ADAT Telegram Channel believe. This is not excluded also by the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), which asked the European Court to demand from Russia to find the young man kidnapped on September 6.

Natives of Chechnya filmed a video of how they were washing their shoes in a spring near an Orthodox church in Kaliningrad. Later, one of the men from the video apologized for the incident.

In his video appeal, Salakh Mezhiev, the Mufti of Chechnya, has criticized Salman Tepsurkaev for "shameless conversations", and called Akhmed Zakaev, who stood up for Salman, "an outcast."

At their gathering in Urus-Martan, members of the Zakaev family clan have criticized, in an insulting manner, Akhmed Zakaev, the head of government of the self-proclaimed Ichkeria (banned in Russia by the court) for supporting the 1ADAT Telegram Channel. Having declared their loyalty to the "padishah", the clan members demanded from emigrants not to interfere with Chechen affairs.

Relatives in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) received the eleven children returned from the Middle East. Four other children from the Astrakhan Region, Dagestan and Chechnya remain in hospital.

In Chechnya, many relatives of Murad Aslamkhanov, a critic of Chechen authorities, who is living in Austria, have been detained, Aslamkhanov himself stated on September 12. He launched his YouTube channel after the resonant humiliation of Salman Tepsurkaev. In a video appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov, he stood up for his relatives, threatening to execute relatives of the people from Kadyrov's retinue living in Europe.

Zamid Chalaev, the commander of the special regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Chechnya, called the words of critics of the republic's authorities after the publication of the video with the humiliation of Salman Tepsurkaev as empty talks, stating that they would be "called to account." Activists believe that authorities are trying to reduce the negativity caused by this video.

The "Grozny" TV Channel has spread a video appeal of Salman Tepsurkaev's father, who stated that he had disowned his son for his disobedience, and made peace with the people offended by posts of the 1ADAT Telegram Channel.

Musa Lomaev, a blogger, has stated that Finnish law enforcers arrested a suspect of attempting on his life. According to the 1ADAT Telegram Channel, Chechen authorities had promised half a million US dollars for Lomaev's head.

Salman Tepsurkaev was deservedly humiliated for insulting women; such antics will be monitored and punished in the same way or even more severely, Said Chubaev, the director of the marketplace in Oiskhar, stated in his video appeal. Instagram users criticized Chubaev and suggested that the video had been recorded in view of some expensive gift from the authorities.