CPJ calls Azerbaijani authorities to release sick journalist

April 25, 2024 17:34

• Lawyers assess prospects of punishing "Kadyrov's general" Tsakaev

  General Alikhan Tsakaev should face administrative and criminal liability, but the outcomes of the check conducted by the Main Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has failed to fix the General's attempt to attack law enforcers, which is seen in the video.

April 24, 2024 22:24

• Stavropol resident detained for attempting to set fire to military registration and enlistment office

  A man has been detained for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Stavropol. Scammers took three loans in his name and promised to write off the debts after arson of the military registration and enlistment office, Vladimir Vladimirov, Governor of the Stavropol Territory, reports in his Telegram channel.

April 24, 2024 21:06

• Krasnodar woman sentenced to compulsory labour for dancing in cemetery

  Sofia Burger, a resident of Krasnodar, has been sentenced to 440 hours of compulsory labour. The Leninsky District Court has found her guilty of insulting believers' feelings by dancing in a cemetery.

April 24, 2024 20:54

• Rostov prison doctors try to convince court of victims’ unreliability

  Employees of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), who challenged the verdict in the case on torture of patients, called the testimonies of the victims unreliable, citing their illnesses, reports lawyer Rustam Khanmurzaev.

April 24, 2024 20:27

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin released from SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, whom the Volgograd Regional Court decided to release from custody, has left the territory of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and went home to the town of Kalach-on-Don, stating that he would seek full rehabilitation.