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15:42, 22 January 2016
Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court found Pyotr Parpulov, a Sochi pensioner, guilty of high treason. His defence announced its intention to appeal against the verdict.
14:55, 22 January 2016
On January 21, Fariz Namazly, an advocate of Khadija Ismayilova, visited his client in the women's colony No. 4 in the territory of Azerbaijan. However, the prison officials did not allow him to carry in the documents related to communication on three Ismayilova's complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
13:29, 22 January 2016
Today, Armenia has started the next court hearing in the criminal case against Valery Permyakov, accused of killing seven members of the Avetisyan family.
13:00, 22 January 2016
The North-Caucasian Military Court has sentenced Visit Tazbaev, a Russian citizen, detained in Sochi, to two years of imprisonment for his intention to join militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia.
12:59, 22 January 2016
On January 21, the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) continued the appeal consideration of the case on the attack on Nalchik. The next session is scheduled for January 25. The defendant Rasul Kudaev, sentenced to life imprisonment, has an alibi, but his rights were violated by the first-instance court, said the rights defender Oleg Orlov.
22:54, 21 January 2016
The Russian federal authorities "must respond to a series of barely veiled threats against several prominent rights defenders, media figures and politicians, pronounced by the political leadership of the Chechen Republic." "Such threats should be taken seriously," says a statement posted on the website of the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).
15:51, 21 January 2016
Today, the participants of the action in support of Gevorg Safaryan and Yke Kyuregyan, who are on hunger strike in Nubarashen Prison, have appealed to the diplomatic corps asking to pay attention to the problem of political prisoners in Armenia.
14:16, 21 January 2016
Nils Muiznieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CE), has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the complaint of the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova against her illegal arrest, says the statement of the Commissioner's office, received today by the "Caucasian Knot".
14:01, 21 January 2016
The court has dismissed the appeals filed against the sentences to Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev, and Mikhail Volkov, who were sentenced in the criminal case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known in Russia as BORN).
13:29, 21 January 2016
Yesterday, on January 20, the investigating bodies of Kalmykia reported that a criminal case was instituted against officials from the penal colony No. 1 of the Department for the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).
13:03, 21 January 2016
Zhanna Nemtsova, a daughter of Boris Nemtsov, does not agree with the statement made by Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), who reported that the murder of Boris Nemtsov had been solved. Zhanna Nemtsova believes that the ICRF does not intend to solve the crime completely.
06:44, 21 January 2016
On January 25, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will discuss the possibility of the use of the tools of international law to find the persons responsible for the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Members of the Boris Nemtsov' family and his associates are invited to attend the hearing, the "Kommersant" reports.
20:20, 20 January 2016
Gevorg Safaryan, a supporter of the National Salvation Front "New Armenia" and member of the "Constituent Parliament", accused of using force against a power official, protests against his transfer to another prison cell.
20:10, 20 January 2016
The murder of the opposition politician Boris Nemtsov was solved in 2015, said Alexander Bastrykin, Chairman of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF).