The Supreme Court of Dagestan has ordered that former police officers Shamil Aliyev and Ramazan Saypulayev—convicted for the torture of Yulduz Kurashova and the fabrication of a criminal case against her—be sent to a penal colony. On October 14, the court converted their suspended sentences into actual prison terms, according to the human rights organization "Team Against Torture." The case had been under review for the fourth time.

In May, Aliyev had been given a three-and-a-half-year suspended sentence, and Saypulayev a three-year suspended sentence. They must now serve their time in a general-regime penal colony. At the same time, the court reduced the duration of the ban on them holding positions in law enforcement agencies from three years to one and a half years.

The third defendant in the case, former operative Maya Akhmedova, received the same penalty as before: a fine of 150,000 rubles.

Kurashova was taken to a police station in March 2020. According to human rights advocates, she was beaten, extorted for money, threatened with death, and told that drugs would be planted on her. She was released the following morning only after signing a confession. That same day, a criminal case was initiated against her, which was later dropped due to the absence of a criminal offense.

A forensic medical examination revealed that Kurashova had sustained a closed craniocerebral injury, a concussion, and numerous bruises.

The initial verdict in the case was handed down in December 2022, at which time Aliyev and Saypulayev were given actual prison sentences. Subsequently, the ruling was overturned twice, and upon a later review, the punishment for the former police officers was changed to a suspended sentence.