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The preparation in France of an assassination attempt on Mukhammed Mirzali, an oppositional Azerbaijani blogger, was another attempt to intimidate the authorities' critics living abroad, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are sure.

The authorities of France expelled Chechen natives to Russia at the slightest suspicion, and the mass deportation was stopped only with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, says Pascal Chaudot, the head of the “Chechen Committee” in France.

Natives of Chechnya, living in Europe, said that Diaspora members want to help Ukraine stop hostilities. At the same time, the foreigners who come to fight for Ukraine risk being prosecuted for mercenarism.

Today, a verdict against Vadim Krasikov, a citizen of Russia, found guilty of murdering Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, came into force. A court in Berlin stressed that an order for the murder had come “from the state bodies of Russia.” According to the Zelimkhan Khangoshvili’s family and members of the Chechen Diaspora abroad, critics of the authorities from among the Chechen migrants still face danger.

A man accused of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili deserves life imprisonment, but members of the Chechen Diaspora fear that even in case of such a sentence, the convict may be extradited to Russia.

The interview of Alexander Vodorez, a prosecution witness, will be announced at the trial of the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, since Vodorez's testimony in court differs from what he told reporters.

Blogger Said-Khusein Magomadov explains his rejection of the protection offered by the Austrian police by inconveniences at work, but he does not feel safe. Said-Khusein Magomadov called the failed assassination on him a political order of the Chechen authorities.

Mansur Ismailov, deported from France, risks his health and life in Russia, human rights defenders believe. They treat his extradition as illegal, since the man has been tortured in Chechnya, while the medicines he needs are available only in France.

During the attack in Nantes on Mukhammed Mirzali, an opposition blogger from Azerbaijan, they to cut off his tongue, Emin Akhmedbekov, a political emigrant, has reported. Mirzali is in grave condition under intensive care. Human rights defenders have accused Azerbaijani authorities of the attack and called on the authorities of France and other European countries to investigate such incidents.

A series of investigations conducted by the "Bellingcat" jointly with other media partners have established that the person accused of Khangoshvili's murder had passports on two different names. This suggests that he had collaborated with Russian special services, a classified witness said in court.

By taking part in a protest action in support of Alexei Navalny in Moscow, Said-Mukhammad Djumaev showed the Russian authorities that the Ramzan Kadyrov's ability to control natives of Chechnya was exaggerated, says human rights defender Ruslan Kutaev. An investigation into the Said-Mukhammad Djumaev's case will not be long, and the verdict is unlikely to be mild, lawyers predict.

The court has passed a guilty verdict in the case of the attempt on the life of Tumso Abdurakhmanov and treated his criticism of Chechen authorities as the crime motive. However, the role of Chechen authorities has not been studied in detail. Sweden can refuse to extradite the convicted Chechen if it finds his return to his homeland dangerous for him.

French law enforcers have released five persons detained under the murder case of teacher Samuel Paty, without charging them.

On December 3, in Vienna, members of the Chechen Diaspora and human rights defenders held an action to protest against the mass deportation of ethnic Chechens to Russia. By pronouncing such decisions, the Austrian authorities violate the Convention on Human Rights, suggests Svetlana Gannushkina, the chair of the NGO "Civic Assistance Committee".

At a court hearing in a case on the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, German policemen said that they almost missed the defendant during the detention. The court has not yet begun to consider evidence of the alleged involvement of the Russian authorities in the murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, explains Ekkehard Maass, the chairman of the German-Caucasian Society.