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No less than seven inmates kept at the Taganrog SIZO (pre-trial prison) are being tortured to extract confessions within the case of the riot at the Rostov SIZO; and Muslims are prohibited from practicing their religion.

Investigators have stopped the criminal prosecution of Ilyas Yakubov, a Chechen athlete, who signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) while at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and departed to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

An attack on a car with fighters of the “Rosgvardia” (National Guard of Russia) in Chechnya was preceded by an attack on a policeman in the Achkhoi-Martanovsky District in February. The information about the attack on a police checkpoint in Gudermes in early October has not been officially confirmed.

A native of Chechnya, Bashir Omarkhodjaev, has been charged with organizing an assassination attempt on Sherip Alikhadjiev, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, and Vasily Konovalov, a citizen of Ukraine, has been accused of attempting to murder Alikhadjiev.

The cassation instance has upheld the verdict to Aslambek Ezhaev, a Chechen book publisher, convicted of financing terrorism. The court found his defence's arguments and those put forward by the publisher himself about the signs of case fabrication as unconvincing.

In Saint Petersburg, activists posted leaflets dedicated to the search for Seda Suleimanova, who was kidnapped and taken to Chechnya.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaints lodged by 107 individuals and organizations, including the "International Memorial"* and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, to be justified, concluding that inclusion of them into the register of foreign agents has violated their right to the freedom of expression and the freedom of association.

In Chechnya, a court postponed the consideration of the complaint lodged against the refusal to release Zarema Musaeva on conditional early relief (CER) because of her hospitalization, which the defence insisted on.

Elena Tardasova-Yun, an activist from Novosibirsk, has held a solo picket demanding an investigation into the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova in Chechnya.

Echo of threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, parliamentary elections 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 October 14-20, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Zakhar Zaripov, convicted of appealing to the head of Chechnya, is feeling poor after the surgery he underwent for his stage four cancer, but despite this, he is being prepared for transfer to the SIZO (pre-trial prison). The defence's motions to transfer Zaripov to house arrest remained unanswered.

Ramzan Kadyrov has announced the receipt of a jubilee medal in connection with the 25th anniversary of re-establishment of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) Branch in Chechnya, emphasizing that his medal is No. 1.

The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has forwarded Elena Patyaeva's request to take the case of Seda Suleimanova or to investigate it in Saint Petersburg, where Seda was detained under the federal control, to the its Chechen Branch.