Committee in Defence of Political Prisoners protests against Armand Babadzhanyan's arrest in Armenia

May 15, 2024 23:24

• Daudov announces his resignation as Speaker of Chechen Parliament

  After a meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, Magomed Daudov, the chair of the Chechen Parliament, has announced the early termination of his powers.

May 15, 2024 22:13

• Defence succeeds in seeking treatment for Zarema Musaeva

  Zarema Musaeva, who is serving her imprisonment term in a penal colony in Argun, is undergoing medical treatment in a day hospital, her advocate reports.

May 15, 2024 21:13

• Rights defenders link kidnappings with car arson in Grozny

  In Grozny, an unknown person has set fire to a car with a DUSTUM license plate and the inscription K13 on the door. A resident of the Chechen capital was detained on suspicion of committing the arson; he surrendered himself after the kidnapping of his family, the Chechen oppositional Telegram channel has reported.

May 15, 2024 18:58

• Leila Gatagazheva's defence treats her return to SIZO as unjustified cruelty

  Leila Gatagazheva, who has been returned from house arrest to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the second time in a row, needs medical treatment; her health was undermined back in the Iraqi prison, her relative and advocates assert.

May 15, 2024 17:37

• Activist from KBR tries to sue FSB

  Olga Begretova, a female activist from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was subjected to forced fingerprinting by border guards, has demanded to treat the refusal of the republic's branch of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) to provide the information collected about as illegal and to oblige the branch to eliminate the violations.