The Investigative Committee refused to open criminal proceedings against a serviceman from Nalchik, Dmitry Akhmaev. This is reported by the media project “Kavkaz. Realities".

The human rights center "Memorial" has published a regular report on the human rights situation in the North Caucasus Federal District. The new bulletin, entitled "The North Caucasus: the view of human rights activists," focuses on events in Chechnya.

A conscript from Karachay-Cherkessia, Rezuan Bostanov, refused to take the summons and was fined 100,000 rubles for evading the army. This is reported by the media project “Kavkaz. Realities".

A native of Ingushetia, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, who was serving time in the Astrakhan correctional colony No. 6, used the traditional way of protesting prisoners - sewing up his mouth.

In November 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Alexander Kalashnikov. This happened after a scandal caused by the publication of video recordings of torture of prisoners in pre-trial detention centers, colonies and a prison hospital in the Saratov region. However, experts believe that the director of the FSIN "suffered" not for the outrages committed in his department, but for allowing a leak.

On July 4, unknown assailants brutally beat up lawyer Alexander Nemov of the Team Against Torture and journalist Elena Milashina of Novaya Gazeta, who had arrived in Grozny for the announcement of the verdict of Zarema Musayeva. The attackers demanded that they not come to the republic again and threatened to kill them. The crime caused a stir not only in human rights circles, but also among officials in Moscow. A criminal case was opened on the fact of obstruction of the journalist's professional activities and violent actions in connection with the administration of justice, but the perpetrators were never found.

In the capital of Dagestan, another solitary action took place against repressions against the editor of the Dagestan newspaper Chernovik, Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. However, this time the geography of the pickets has expanded to the US state of California. This is reported by “Kavkaz. Realities".

On July 15, the Memorial Human Rights Center published information on the practice of using preventive accounting in Dagestan in 2023. According to human rights activists, if previously the police registered mainly adherents of the Salafi branch of Islam who attend “unreliable” mosques as potential extremists, now relatives of convicted persons and women wearing a niqab are included in the classified lists of criminal records.

On July 4, the Akhmatovsky District Court of Grozny announced the verdict for Zarema Musaeva. The court found her guilty of fraud and violence against a police officer and sentenced her to 5.5 years in a general regime colony. That's exactly what the prosecutor asked for her. Musaeva and her lawyers intend to appeal the verdict.

On August 29, Rosfinmonitoring added lawyer, human rights activist, former employee of the "Committee Against Torture" Abubakar Yangulbaev, son of Zarema Musayeva, to the list of terrorists and extremists. He is a defendant in two criminal cases - on organizing extremist activity and on calls for terrorism.