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Staff members of the Committee against Torture are not engaged in human rights activities, and they themselves have provoked the attack on their office "in order to receive more US grants." This was stated by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Four staff members of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of the Committee against Torture, which office in Grozny was attacked by unidentified men in masks, are out of danger. This was reported by one of them.

YouTube has blocked because of copyright infringement the film "The Family" about Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov prepared by the "Open Russia", a public organization led by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. According to the "Open Russia", the film has been viewed more than 900,000 times during a week.

In the case of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov, the case materials include no murder weapon. The advocates are not aware of the allegedly appointed examination. This was declared by Shamsudin Tsakaev, an advocate of Zaur Dadaev.

Systematic deductions are made from salaries of doctors, teachers and policemen, while the final recipients of the deduced money are unknown, said the Chechen residents working in the budget-funded sector interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot".

A conflict of the youth of one of Chechen villages with local power agents broke put after three girls in hijabs were beaten up there, locals have reported, asserting that during the incident, power agents opened spontaneous fire into the air.

The Chechen leader and his retinue keep control over a multimillion flow of funds, aimed at realization of all major initiatives in the republic; it is done through the fund named after Akhmat Kadyrov and its affiliated organizations, the "Kommersant" reports.

The case files now have new videos, picturing all the suspected figurants in the crime, in particular, Zaur Dadaev and Ruslan Geremeev.

During the week from May 25 to May 31, 2015, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus claimed at least three human lives; while no wounded persons were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources. All the casualties are the persons, involved, according to law enforcement bodies, in the activities of the armed underground in Dagestan.

While being on duty at the centre of the United State Examination (USE) in Chechnya, law enforcers beat up a 16-year-old schoolboy, broke his nose, and injured his jaw. This was reported by a relative of the teenager. Local residents have confirmed the information.