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13:58, 11 January 2024
Since 2019, Islam Albakov, a native of Chechnya, has been kept in a deportation prison in Belgium; his health condition has deteriorated greatly, he is almost blind, but does not receive full medical care, Fatima Gazieva, a human rights defender, has stated.
13:49, 11 January 2024
The musician, Eduard Sharlot, accused of rehabilitating Nazism and insulting believers' feelings, has apologized in court to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for "insulting" him, and to Vladimir Putin, whose portrait he had tore up.
18:24, 10 January 2024
In Grozny, a court granted the defence’s request and postponed a court hearing in the case against Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran.
16:12, 10 January 2024
The Czech police have sent inquiries to other countries as part of the investigation into the kidnapping of the horse owned by Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya. Besides, a genetic examination is underway to define the animal's DNA profile.
18:57, 9 January 2024
If deported to Russia, Salman Mukaev, a native of Grozny, risks persecution and violence, his defence has stated at a court session held in Yerevan. Mukaev himself said that threats to his relatives living in Chechnya stopped after the Chechen law enforcers became aware of his whereabouts.
16:08, 9 January 2024
Relatives of those residents of Chechnya who are suspected of extremism must be held accountable along with them as accomplices, Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya, has stated. Before that, on the eve of the New Year, he expressed threats to relatives of people suspected of extremism.
23:56, 8 January 2024
Repressions and presidential election in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, echoes of Nagorno-Karabakh, unabashed trolling and intensified repressions by Kadyrov, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 1-7, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
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16:39, 8 January 2024
Chechen authorities are continuously persecuting their critics and, in an attempt to finally suppress them, use such methods as pressure on their relatives.
23:58, 7 January 2024
Ramzan Kadyrov's proposal to lift sanctions in exchange for the release of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) was his personal initiative, not of the Kremlin, which is also confirmed by the attempt of the head of Chechnya to explain his words, analysts have pointed out, emphasizing that decisions about POWs are made in Moscow.
23:38, 7 January 2024
The proposal of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, to release 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs), if sanctions against his relatives are lifted, was criticized by a number of pro-government Russian bloggers. Kadyrov has treated this offer as "fat trolling" against American authorities.
23:23, 7 January 2024
A court in Chechnya has fined Ali Bakaev, a native of the republic living in Ukraine, in absentia, finding him guilty of inciting hatred against Kadyrov's supporters. Russian law enforcers plan to repeatedly seek his extradition to Russia, Bakaev himself has suggested.
20:04, 7 January 2024
Chechen authorities have long used intimidation of opponents' families in the fight against them, but Kadyrov's recent order to kill relatives of crime suspects could lead to real murders that will not be restrained by the practice of blood feud, human rights defenders have stated.
18:38, 7 January 2024
The head of Chechnya has stated that he is ready to release 20 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) if the sanctions introduced against his relatives, as well as his horses and aircrafts, are lifted.
16:17, 6 January 2024
Ramzan Kadyrov has well-established connections in the Middle East and could play an important role in involving the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to an exchange of prisoners of war (POWs) between Russia and Ukraine, political analysts believe.
23:59, 4 January 2024
In Chechnya, the law enforcement bodies threatened relatives of two persons with the use of violence, demanding to stop criticising the republic’s authorities, activists reported.