On the night of January 21, a detainee died in the police department of the Sovetsky district of Makhachkala. Relatives reported torture. An investigation is underway into the case of “exceeding official authority, which negligently resulted in the death of the victim.”

On January 20, exactly a year after Zarema Musaeva was detained, her son, Chechen activist and blogger Abubakar Yangulbaev recorded a video message in which he invited the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to exchange himself for his mother.

On January 19, the European Court of Human Rights issued a decision in the case of the death of Chechen-Kist Temirlan Machalikashvili during a special operation in the Pankisi Gorge in 2017. The court declared the investigation into the case ineffective and awarded his family 25 thousand euros in compensation.

On January 17, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced four residents of Ingushetia who were found guilty of participating in the international terrorist organization “Islamic State” and of planning to blow up the buildings of police units in the city of Sunzha. Three of the convicts were minors at the time of the crime.

On January 16, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don handed down another sentence to a native of Ingushetia, Ali Taziev, a militant commander known as “Amir Magas.” He was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special regime colony for several serious crimes committed in 2009-2010.

On January 13, the Makhachkala Garrison Court released information about the completion of the trial in the case of contract soldier from Dagestan Pirbudag Alikhanov. A serviceman from a military unit stationed in Buinaksk received a concussion and frostbite on his legs during a military operation in Ukraine, but was unable to receive payments because his commander did not fill out the documents properly. He filed an administrative claim against the commander, after which the command conducted an investigation, recognized Alikhanov as a combat veteran and sent documents to the leadership of the Southern Military District to formalize this status.

On January 12, the leadership of the Novocherkassk Medical College in the Rostov region expelled five Muslim students for “violating internal regulations.” Wearing a hijab was considered a violation.