This 2002 report from Nezavisimaya Gazeta describes a 'judicial conveyor' of secret trials held within a Pyatigorsk pre-trial detention center against Karachay-Cherkess militants and Chechen separatists. Key figures including Khyzyr Salpagarov and Ramazan Gochiyayev were sentenced for an attempted armed coup in Karachay-Cherkessia and organizing terrorist acts in Stavropol. The document highlights the exclusion of journalists and the public from these proceedings, despite legal challenges regarding the Russian Criminal Procedure Code. It also details the trial of Said-Magomed Chupalaev (Titanic), an associate of Basaev and Maskhadov, regarding his leadership roles during the 1999 Chechen campaign and the 1996 capture of Grozny. While primarily focused on Stavropol market bombings and regional insurrections, the document illustrates the legal crackdown on the militant networks active during the period of the 1999 apartment bombings.