The Fourth Cassation Court of Krasnodar has upheld the sentence of human rights defender Igor Nagavkin from the town Kalach-on-Don, and refused to assign him a real prison term as demanded by the Prosecutor's Office (PO). Nagavkin insisted on overturning the verdict; he intends to appeal against it at the Supreme and Constitutional Courts.

Niqabs can be a good camouflage for criminals, given that there are no systems to identify who is underneath it, Amir Kolov, a retired Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), asserts. In his turn, Sergey Goncharov, the president of the Association of Veterans of the "Alpha" Antiterrorist Unit, has objected that niqabs were earlier used as a camouflage, including during the Chechen campaigns, but modern systems make it possible to identify the person hiding under a niqab.

Law enforcers tortured Magomed Shamsudinov, a resident of the village of Tlokha in the Botlikh District, to obtain a confession from him in a criminal case. Magomed Shamsudinov has been held in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) for four months, his fellow villagers state in their video message to Sergey Melikov, the leader of Dagestan.

The Central District Court of Sochi has ordered compulsory medical treatment for a local resident, against whom the law enforcement bodies instituted a criminal case for disseminating fakes about the Russian Armed Forces.

Raids to identify migrants who received Russian citizenship but did not register for military service were carried out in the Volgograd Region. Twenty-five people were taken to military registration and enlistment offices.

The decision of the cassation court, which has overturned the acquittal, will be appealed against at the Supreme Court (SC), Diana Tsipinova, an advocate from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), accused of attacking a law enforcer.

Magomed Magomedov and Amir Makhmudov, residents of the village of Gergebil, filed complaints to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about the use of torture by law enforcers, human rights defenders reported.

The combined “Akhmat” battalion, commanded by Apti Alaudinov, is staffed with fighters from different regions, including volunteers and former fighters from the “Wagner” PMC (Private Military Company), experts say.

After his complaining about being kept in a damp basement of the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and absence of medical care, Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger from the city of Gelendjik, was transferred to more favourable custody conditions.

The memorial stones to prisoners of the Solovetsky Special Purpose Camp (SSPC), including those dedicated to repressed Chechens and Ingushes, have been damaged.

The case against Eduard Ataev, a Dagestani activist, was fabricated; it has to do with his active struggle for compliance with the law at all election levels, activists and journalists have stated after human rights defenders recognized Ataev as a political prisoner.

Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Maria Borzova, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), for criticizing the participants of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine during a live broadcast on the Internet.

A Rostov resident, who is a servicewoman of one of the units of the Southern Military District, used to transfer information about military facilities that are part of the District to the Ukrainian side, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has informed.

Igor Karnaukhov, a resident of Krasnodar, has been detained for posting stickers of "The Other Russia of E. V. Limonov"; in his actions, law enforcers saw a demonstration of extremist symbols.

In Volgograd, a court sentenced 34-year-old Dmitry Zubkov to one and a half years of imprisonment in a penal colony for calling for violent actions against citizens of Russian nationality because of the special military operation in Ukraine.

A report from the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs about the search for a terrorist hiding his identity using a niqab continues the trend of fighting against religious clothing, Dagestani journalists suggest.

Five-Day War, twenty-five years since Basaev and Khattab’s invasion, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, early parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, 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 August 5-11, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.