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In Chechnya, homosexual women face risk not only of being placed to secret prisons or being subjected to alleged treatment with psychotropic substances, but also of falling victim to "honour killings," the British "Sky News" TV Channel reports in its material.

On the UN International Day in Support of Torture Victims, human rights defenders have noted the invariably difficult situation in Northern Caucasus as regards the readiness of local authorities to combat torture.

The community of Russian-speaking Jews in France has condemned the country's Interior Minister for his hostile remarks about immigrants from Chechnya after the riots in Dijon.

At his meeting with the relatives of the deceased woman from Gudermes, Ramzan Kadyrov has urged women to withstand beatings by their husbands. Such a tolerant attitude to domestic violence is unacceptable and contradicts the public morality of Northern Caucasus, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Nodar Meladze, a producer of the "Pirveli" TV Company, refused to disclose to the Georgian State Security Service his sources of information about the man detained in a case on an assassination attempt on Giorgi Gabuniya.

The mother of the deceased Gudermes woman was forced to apologize and self-incriminate – this was the comment of Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a blogger, to the meeting with the participation of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

After the riots staged in the French city of Dijon, three Chechens remain in custody; another one was released under recognizance not to leave. One of the detainees faces a long prison term.

Chingiz Akhmadov, an active critic of the oppositional blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, who headed the "Chechnya Today" News Agency, has been appointed by Kadyrov to the post of the head of the "Grozny" ChGTRK (Chechen State TV and Radio Company). This appointment was expected; it has greatly increased Akhmedov's power in countering Tumso and fighting any dissent, the republic's residents interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

In the course of the investigation into the circumstances of the resonant death of a woman from Gudermes, Ramzan Kadyrov openly sided with her husband, Instagram users note. They suggest that the apologies voiced by the mother of the deceased woman were not voluntary.

People should make visits in medical masks and no longer than for 15 minutes, observe the social distance of 1.5 meters, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Residents of Chechnya note that the demands are ridiculous; and it is impossible to check the fulfilment of them.

The authorities decided to exhume the body of a Gudermes woman because of the public outcry, believe human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliamentary, demonstrates his readiness for dialogue on Dagestani border, but Dagestani authorities wouldn't get involved in a conflict-prone process. For the least conflict-prone resolution of the problem, the mechanisms of Sharia law should be used, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

Relatives of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a native of the Pankisi Gorge, who was killed in Berlin, have asked the German and Swedish authorities for protection, declaring fear of persecution by Russian special services.