New charges presented to rights defender Djafarov in Azerbaijan

May 07, 2024 17:02

• Practice of public apologies is commonplace for Chechen authorities

  Authorities of Chechnya have initiated the practice of public apologies; however, now law enforcers and ordinary residents in different Russian regions are resorting to this practice, analysts have commented on the video with an apology of a girl from Krasnodar and the author of a joke about Chechen women.

May 06, 2024 23:33

• Journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova detained for post about attack on Nalchik

  Investigators have accused Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, a defence witness in the case of the attack on Nalchik, of justifying terrorism. The reason was in her repost of the journalist Orkhan Djemal's text about this attack and her publication about the "Taliban"* movement.

May 06, 2024 22:03

• Parents of missing athlete Tsomartova ask to move inquiry to Moscow

  Investigators in Dagestan are inefficient in investigating the disappearance of the athlete Anna Tsomartova, the girl's parents have stated in their appeals to the director of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) and the senator from North Ossetia; they have asked to transfer the case to investigators in Moscow.

May 06, 2024 20:45

• Convicted journalist Alexander Nozdrinov transferred to a colony in Kuban

  Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist and blogger from Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), convicted of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, was transferred to a colony in the town of Khadyzhensk. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"*.

May 06, 2024 18:59

• Rights defenders declare Leniye Umerova as political prisoner

  The criminal prosecution of Leniye Umerova, a Crimean Tatar woman, detained at a checkpoint in North Ossetia and accused of espionage, contradicts the Geneva Convention for the Protection of Civilians, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated.