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18:00, 25 June 2010
Ombudsperson in Dagestan Ummupazil Omarova went to hospital to visit lawyer Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten by employees of Khasavyurt GOVD (City Interior Department). According to Ms Omarova, President of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov has ordered to bring those guilty persons to responsibility.
23:30, 24 June 2010
The verdict of the Moscow Regional Court to Khavazhi Yusupov, a native of Chechnya, which sentenced him to 8.5 years of imprisonment for his attempt on businessman Isa Yamadaev - a brother of earlier assassinated ex-deputy of the Russian State Duma Ruslan Yamadaev and ex-commander of the "Vostok" battalion "East" Sulim Yamadaev, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court of Russia.
23:10, 24 June 2010
The today's session at the trial on the attack on power agencies of Nalchik on October 13, 2005, started with an incident: lawyer Zalim Dzagashtov refused to present his bag for inspection at the entrance to the courtroom, left it at the securities, entered the room without documents and made a declaration about his impossibility to defend his clients.
18:00, 24 June 2010
Andrei Babushkin, head of the Committee for Civil Rights and a member of the Public Council at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), said in the course of the roundtable on the medical aspect of torture applied in prisons and isolation facilities that his Committee receives many applications from North-Caucasian inmates complaining that their rights as prisoners are restrained, including on the basis of their religious affiliation.
23:50, 23 June 2010
The criminality in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) is under effect of the nationalist-extremist underground groupings, which use different methods but have one aim - destabilization of situation. This was stated today by Arthur Makhov, deputy public prosecutor of the republic at the sitting of the Public Chamber of the KBR.
23:10, 23 June 2010
Lately, more than twenty applicants from Chechnya, whose cases were supported by the International Advocacy Support Centre, received compensations under decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). This was reported on June 22 by the head of the Centre Karina Moskalenko. In her opinion, justice in Russia faces huge obstacles.
23:10, 23 June 2010
The case of Sapiyat Magomedova, who was beaten in Khasavyurt, is considered by the investigatory division on especially important cases of the Prosecutor's Office of Dagestan, which refuses to give any comments on the course of inquiry. According to the head of the Khasavyurt OVD (Interior Division) Shamil Temigereev, lawyer Magomedova attacked militiamen herself.
22:00, 23 June 2010
The Moscow City Court (MCC) held a closed preliminary hearing on the case on murdering in September 2009 of the ex-deputy of the State Duma, Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadaev.
21:00, 23 June 2010
A well-informed source in Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot" that soon the recruiter of militants Alkhazur Bashaev, who was liquidated in November 2009, may be announced by the investigation to be the murderer of Natalia Estemirova, an employee of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", while the motive of her murder could possibly be found in the report of human rights activists, where Bashaev was mentioned. The employees of the HRC "Memorial" are afraid that this version may conceal real customers of the murder from responsibility.
19:00, 23 June 2010
The case initiated on the death of Vaan Khalafyan, 24, has been transferred to the general jurisdiction court of the Kotaik Region. Four employees of the police saw their charges.
23:00, 22 June 2010
The international organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) has stated that Russian authorities should investigate the beating by militiamen in Dagestan of lawyer-rights defender Sapiyat Magomedova and bring those guilty to responsibility.
22:00, 22 June 2010
Leonid Slutskiy, deputy head of the Russian delegation to the PACE and the first deputy chair of State Duma committee for international matters, has noted a great importance of the discussion by European MPs of the resolution on situation with human rights in Northern Caucasus. The head of the Russian delegation to the PACE Konstantin Kosachov finds the adopted resolution to be objective and well-balanced.
19:00, 22 June 2010
Today, the Valdai District Court of the Novgorod Region refused to release Maksharip Khidriev, a native of Ingushetia and a figurant in the first case of blowing up the "Neva-Express" train in 2007.
18:00, 22 June 2010
The investigation of human rights violations in Chechnya is sabotaged by local inspectors. This was stated by Igor Kalyapin, Chairman of the Nizhniy Novgorod Inter-Regional Committee against Torture and Coordinator of the Public Commission on Chechnya, on June 20 in his interview to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
23:50, 21 June 2010
Kazbek Budtuev, a defendant in the Nalchik attack case, whose custody was replaced today by home arrest, can communicate only with his mother and advocate. The court ruling especially emphasizes that Kazbek Budtuev has no right to communicate with journalists and make statements.