Krasnodar Territory

November 13, 2019 20:28

• Dagestani singer Ruslan Adjiev faces problems because of police prevention registration

  The police assured Ruslan Adjiev, a singer performing Kumyk songs, that he was not put on a police prevention registration list as an extremist. However, during a trip to Kuban, the singer was stopped and requested to explain the purpose of leaving Dagestan, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" reports.

November 08, 2019 08:13

• Antonova's defence claims threat of censorship

  If the court convicts the Krasnodar activist, Yana Antonova, this will mean an actual introduction of censorship in Russia, her defence has stated.

November 06, 2019 11:13

• Investigation by Navalny's office about Remezkov ignored by supervisory bodies

  Neither the Prosecutor's Office, nor the State Duma's commission for monitoring the reliability of income data, have reacted, within the past week, to the information about the real estate and business of the MP, Alexander Remezkov, released by Navalny's Krasnodar office.

November 04, 2019 11:04

• Cases of Ingush activists and Shevchenko from Rostov are examples of political repression

  The intensification of political repressions is noted throughout the country as a whole, and in Southern Russia, in particular, human rights defenders stated at a roundtable held in Moscow, citing the cases of Ingush activists and Anastasia Shevchenko from Rostov-on-Don as an example.

October 31, 2019 11:18

• Human rights defenders note threat of POC's commercialization in Southern Russia

  Compositions of Public Oversight Commissions (POCs) for monitoring human rights in penitentiary institutions in Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Adygea, the Rostov Region, and the Krasnodar Territory have been changed almost completely, and people who are far from human rights activities enter the POCs.

October 23, 2019 18:00

• Court supports Kuban resident in case on torture

  The court found Nikita Khatskevich, a resident of the town of Gulkevichy, not guilty of disorderly conduct and confirmed the illegality of his detention by law enforcers. Lawyers from the Committee against Torture (CaT) claim they will seek an investigation into a case on torture about which Nikita Khatskevich complained and a punishment of law enforcers for the illegal administrative prosecution.

October 23, 2019 11:39

• Journalist Gleb Pyanykh reports his detention in Krasnodar Territory

  Law enforcers have detained Gleb Pyanykh in the village of Dinskaya, where he filmed the construction of some bureaucrats' summer cottage, the journalist himself said.

October 22, 2019 18:30

• Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria hit rock bottom in terms of family income

  Kabardino-Balkaria and the Stavropol Territory are among the ten regions with the highest percentage of families in which income is enough only for food. Ingushetia has become an outsider of the rating prepared by the "Rosstat" (Federal Service for State Statistics) in terms of the number of families which can only afford to buy food and clothing for their income.

October 22, 2019 14:21

• Court extends arrest of one of Jehovah's Witnesses* detained in Sochi

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court left Nikolai Kuzichkin, a Jehovah's Witness* from Sochi, in custody until November 24. The consideration of the appeal filed by Vyacheslav Popov, another detained believer, is postponed. According to advocate Anton Bogdanov, after the detention, Nikolai Kuzichkin was not allowed to be visited by his wife and son.

October 21, 2019 14:12

• In Sochi, arrests of Jehovah's Witnesses* become an act of intimidation

  Jehovah's Witnesses* from Sochi plead not guilty of participating in an extremist organization, and their arrests are an act of intimidation of believers, notes advocate Anton Bogdanov.

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