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March 14, 2024 16:12

• Rights defenders declare Oleg Orlov* as prisoner of conscience

  The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has declared Oleg Orlov*, who was sentenced to a colony term on charges of discrediting the Russian Army, as a prisoner of conscience and demanded his release.

March 13, 2024 23:37

• Law enforcer detained in case on Dalgatov’s death, sources report

  One more law enforcer has been detained in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov at the Makhachkala police department, sources report.

March 13, 2024 18:59

• Heroines of video with kiss fined in Krasnodar

  Two residents of Krasnodar were fined 50,000 roubles each because of a video in which they were kissing in a cafe.

March 13, 2024 18:46

• Sochi activist Atamanchuk complains about falsification of court records

  The defence requested the protocols of court hearings in the case against Vladimir Atamanchuk, a 72-year-old activist from Sochi, since the protocol, which the defence had already managed to get for examination, contained words with an accusatory slant that were not voiced during the court hearing.

March 13, 2024 17:37

• Accused within robbery case in Anapa claims physical pressure

  At the trial of workers of a wholesale and retail base in Anapa, accused of robbery, Alexei Sveshnikov has testified. He was treated as the suffered party; then he was accused of complicity in committing the above crime. Sveshnikov has stated that earlier, under law enforcers' pressure, he wrote a confession.

March 12, 2024 23:47

• Relatives of Chechen Djumaev refuse to challenge toughening of his conditions in colony

  A native of Chechnya, Said-Mukhamad Djumaev, convicted of beating up law enforcers at a protest rally, has one year and four months left to serve in custody, a source close to his family has informed.

March 12, 2024 22:53

• Rally for Putin in Chechnya starts presidential election frauds

  It is impossible to verify the number of participants in the rally in support of Putin held in Grozny, but those who attended came under duress, experts on the Caucasus have noted.

March 12, 2024 21:49

• Parents of teens from North Ossetia apologize for their jokes on Internet

  The press service of Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, has posted an apology of the parents of the teenagers who had filmed a video mocking those mobilized. Some social network users have sympathized with the parents; others demanded that the teens be publicly punished.

March 12, 2024 21:17

• Defence appeals against Oleg Orlov's* verdict

  The defence has filed an appeal complaint against the verdict passed to human rights defender, Oleg Orlov*, who was sentenced to 2.5 years in penal colony on charges of discrediting the Russian Army. After the quarantine, Orlov* was transferred to another SIZO (pre-trial prison), his colleagues have informed.

March 12, 2024 20:51

• Fighter from Ingushetia explains his video criticizing authorities by "hasty conclusions"

  Residents of the Ingush village of Nizhnie Achaluki recorded a video complaint against local authorities to President Putin while disregarding the fact that officials needed time to solve the problems with water and electricity supplies, Murat Esmurziev, a fighter at the special military operation (SMO), has explained.

March 12, 2024 18:56

• Rights defender Nagavkin announces endless hunger strike at SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has lodged a statement to the Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office (PO) stating that he had been on an endless hunger strike already for four days in protest against rights violations of those kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Leninsk.

March 12, 2024 15:41

• Chechen native Djumaev, convicted of beating law enforcer at protest action, has his conditions of detention in penal colony tightened

  Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, convicted of beating law enforcers at a protest action, has been transferred to a unified cell-type room, the “OVD-Info”* human rights project reports on its Telegram channel.

March 11, 2024 23:16

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 4-10, 2024

  Ilham Aliev was only provoked by the presidential election, Inal Djabiev’s case, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Zarema Musaeva’s cassation, unsafe shelters, 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 March 4-10, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

March 11, 2024 21:16

• Colleagues of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev continue campaign in his defence

  For more than four years, Dagestani journalists have been picketing to support Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an editor of the newspaper “Chernovik”, who was accused of financing terrorists and sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment*.

March 11, 2024 19:55

• Fighter from Ingushetia complains to Putin about water and electricity problems in his village

  Residents of the village of Nizhnie Achaluki suffer from absence of water electricity and gas supplies, but Ingush authorities only promise to address the problem, Murad Esmurziev, a fighter at the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, has stated in his video appeal to President Putin.

March 11, 2024 18:16

• Blogger Alibekov placed into Kazan SIZO

  Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from Novorossiysk, suspected of using violence against a policeman, has been placed into the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Kazan, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed in his Telegram channel.

March 11, 2024 17:48

• Family of athlete Tsomartova, who went missing in Dagestan, files complaint against investigators

  After studying the materials of the disappearance case of the athlete, Anna Tsomartova, in Dagestan, her relatives came to the conclusion that investigators had failed with doing their work properly, and filed a complaint against them, Anna's mother has informed.

March 11, 2024 17:35

• Chechen authorities report 150,000 participants in rally for Putin

  In Grozny, about 150,000 people took part in a march in support of Vladimir Putin’s candidacy in the upcoming presidential election, the authorities of Chechnya announce.

March 10, 2024 16:38

• Relatives of blogger Alibekov report his beating up by law enforcers

  After his detention in Kazan, law enforcers beat Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan and the author of the YouTube channel "Wild Paratrooper", so that he had large bruises, his daughter, Zalina Alibekova, has reported.

March 10, 2024 16:36

• In Kuban, election commission member fined for discrediting Russian Army

  A court in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban has sentenced Victor Yevdoshenko, a member of the local election commission, to a fine of 30,000 roubles, finding him guilty of discrediting Russian militaries.