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Four of the returnees from international terrorist organizations acting in Syria were killed, 13 others were convicted, Oleg Zharikov, the Public Prosecutor of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), has stated today.

The authorities ordered residents of 37 private houses in Kurchaloi to leave their houses within a week. Among them, there is the house of the family of the arrested rights defender Oyub Titiev; they will demolish the houses in order to build a shopping centre instead, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has stated.

The European Parliament (EP) treats falsifications in the case of Oyub Titiev as obvious, and his prosecution – as another link in the chain of human rights violations committed in Chechnya and throughout Russia, rights defenders Oleg Orlov and Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya have stressed.

The European Parliament has called on the Russian authorities to respect the rights of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", and protect him from prosecution in the court and arbitrary arrest.

On February 7, a girl found in Iraq was brought by a plane to Grozny, the authorities of Chechnya report. The fate of her mother is unknown.

By the end of January, the number of residents of Chechnya, who are banned from leaving Russia because of their debts, amounted to 22,000, the Federal Court Marshal Service (FCMS) has reported. Some local residents find the restriction disproportionate to the debt amounts.

On February 8, the European Parliament plans to discuss the arrest of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial". The HRC has handed the materials on the Titiev's case to the European Parliament, said Oleg Orlov, a member of the board of the HRC "Memorial".

In Iraq, a one-year-old girl was found, whose three brothers has been returned to Chechnya, the office of the head and the government of Chechnya has reported. However, public organizations of Chechnya assert that the return of women and children from the Middle East has stalled.

During the week of January 29-February 4, 2018, no one fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Today, Grozny is hosting a rally within the framework of the all-Russian action "Russia in My Heart". The state servants, funded from the budget, have stated that had received threats of firing for non-participation in the rally; and students told that they had come to the rally under the threat of non-admission to the examination session.

The criminal case initiated against the employee of the JSC "Chechengaz", accused of negligence, which caused an explosion of domestic gas in a private house and the death of three residents of the Nadterechny District, has been sent to the court.

Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russia's Ombudsperson, has appealed to the leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) asking them to transfer the case of Oyub Titiev, the head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", for investigating at the higher level – to the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

Today, the Russian FSB has reported that Faizbek Amangaziev and Arslan Valiev, sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for attacking paratroopers in Chechnya, were found due to the testimonies given by earlier sentenced attackers.