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February 01, 2024 18:48

• Makhachkala court stops proceedings on complaint of journalist Sevrinovsky against investigators

  The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has stopped proceedings on the complaint lodged by Vladimir Sevrinovsky, a journalist, about investigators' inaction. For more than a year they refused to register his application about his illegal detention in September 2022, at an anti-mobilization rally.

February 01, 2024 18:09

• Irina Skorovarova, accused of discrediting Russian Army, left under house arrest

  The appellate instance has upheld the ruling to place Irina Skorovarova, a resident of Taganrog, under house arrest; she is accused within a criminal case of discrediting the Russian Army. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"* with reference to Sergey Kovalevich, Irina's advocate.

February 01, 2024 17:36

• Rights defenders call to help Darya Polyudova, activist, kept in colony

  In the penal colony, where she is kept, Darya Polyudova is subject to pressure from the administration and other prisoners; one of cellmates had beaten her up, human rights defenders have reported, announcing fundraising aimed at legal help to Darya.

February 01, 2024 16:37

• Pyatigorsk court sentences military serviceman to six years in colony for being absent from his unit

  In Pyatigorsk, the garrison military court has sentenced a military serviceman to six years in penal colony for his three-month absence from his military unit.

January 31, 2024 23:55

• Prosecutors submits to court psychiatric examination of Zhuravel, who burned Koran

  Public prosecutors have submitted to a court in Grozny, as evidence of guilt, the results of a forensic psychiatric examination that found Nikita Zhuravel, a resident of Volgograd, accused of burning the Koran, mentally healthy.

January 31, 2024 23:11

• Lawyer Arapova* blames authorities for inefficient inquiry into murders of journalists Akhmednabiev and Kamalov

  Authorities are responsible for the inefficient investigation of journalists' murders; the atmosphere of impunity gives a free hand to those who disagree with sharp journalistic publications, Galina Arapova*, a lawyer, has commented on the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the claims lodged by relatives of the murdered journalists, Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev and Khadjimurad Kamalov.

January 31, 2024 21:17

• Sentence to Volzhsky pensioners for extremism approved

  The Volgograd Regional Court has upheld the sentence of three pensioners, members of the Volzhsky branch of the "Russia's Security Committee", convicted to three years of freedom deprivation each within the case of taking part in an extremist community.

January 31, 2024 19:53

• Rights defender Orlov criticizes expertise conclusions in his case

  The investigator has announced the completion of the re-investigation in the case of Oleg Orlov; and the motives of hatred and enmity have been added to the imputed charges of discrediting the Russian Army.

January 31, 2024 19:46

• Case against priest Pivovarov comes to court

  A criminal case against Viktor Pivovarov, Archbishop of the Slavyansk-on-Kuban and South Russian Russia’s Orthodox Church, has been submitted to the Slavyansk-on-Kuban City Court for consideration.

January 31, 2024 18:18

• ECtHR awards compensation to son of murdered journalist Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev

  The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg recognized a violation of the right to life and obliged Russia to pay compensation of 26,000 euros to relatives of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiev, a “Caucasian Knot” correspondent in Dagestan, who was shot dead in 2013.

January 31, 2024 17:27

• Blogger from Adygea listed as extremist and terrorist

  The "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service) has included Sofia Angel-Barokko, a female blogger from Maykop (the capital of Adygea), accused of insulting believers' feelings and justifying terrorism, into the list of extremists and terrorists.

January 30, 2024 23:50

• Deputy head of FSIN's hospital convicted in Rostov-on-Don for torture

  A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced Alexander Lyakh, a former deputy head of the tuberculosis hospital of the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service), to 7.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of organizing patients' torture.

January 30, 2024 22:54

• Rights defenders note increase of domestic violence cases in Northern Caucasus

  The situation with women's rights defence in the republics of Northern Caucasus is deteriorating, the participants of the conference "New trends in domestic violence situation in Northern Caucasus" have noted, especially stressing Ingushetia in this regard.

January 30, 2024 21:09

• Maikop blogger complains about lack of medical care at SIZO

  The administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar denies a medical examination of Sofya Angel-Barokko, a blogger from Maikop, who suffers from asthma and who has been arrested in the case on insulting the feelings of believers and justifying terrorism.

January 30, 2024 19:14

• Journalist Yusupov* claims interference with his solo picket in support of Gadjiev in Makhachkala

  Journalist Idris Yusupov* traditionally went out on a solo picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, but the police interfered with the protest action three times until it had to be stopped, since another man unfolded a similar poster next to the picketer.

January 30, 2024 16:29

• In Kaspiysk, managers of brick factory suspected of using slave labour

  Information about labour slavery of a Belarusian resident at a brick factory located in the Dagestani city of Kaspiysk has been confirmed, and a criminal investigation has been launched, investigators report.

January 29, 2024 22:14

• Woman from Nalchik demands to protect her grandson from bullying in family after his mother's death

  A 59-year-old resident of Nalchik, the mother of a famous female athlete, is seeking guardianship over her seven-year-old grandson after her daughter's death. Psychologists and witnesses gave written testimonies that the boy was afraid of his father and complained of beatings and sexual violence. Despite this, the court refused to hand the child over to his grandmother.

January 29, 2024 21:58

• Mobilized man from Kuban convicted of evading service

  A court in Maykop has sentenced Vladimir Litenkov, a military service man from the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban), to five years in a penal colony, finding him guilty of leaving his unit without permission.

January 29, 2024 21:47

• Pensioner from Rostov Region sentenced to colony for fakes about Russian Army

  A court has sentenced the 72-year-old Evgenia Maiboroda to 5.5 years in penal colony, finding her reposts placed in a social network as fakes about the Russian Army and calls for extremism.

January 29, 2024 19:13

• Residents of Dagestan treat Melikov's criticism of report on school problem as inappropriate

  The contractor has suspended building a school in the village of Shinaz because of the discovery of a historical burial ground. Authorities refused the contractor to extend the construction term and abandoned the contract; it follows from the information on the government procurement website and the file of arbitration cases.