Azerbaijani journalist receives Gerd Bucerius Award

October 10, 2024 22:39

• Kadyrov threatens blood feud to Kerimov, Barakhoev and Kurbanov

  The head of Chechnya, while speaking about the conflict around the Wildberries Company, mentioned Suleiman Kerimov, Russian Senator from Dagestan, and Bekkhan Barakhoev and Rizvan Kurbanov, Russian State Duma MPs, calling on them to prove their non-involvement in the order to kill Kadyrov himself, and warned them of his readiness to declare blood feud to them.

October 10, 2024 22:10

• Rights defenders declare Sergey Dudchenko and Nikolai Murnev as political prisoners

  The proofs of the guilt of Sergey Dudchenko and Nikolai Murnev, accused of preparing to set fire to a military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in Pyatigorsk, were fabricated by investigators; and law enforcers forced them to sign confessions under torture, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated.

October 10, 2024 21:30

• Human rights defender Nagavkin challenges his verdict before transportation to penal colony

  In his appeal, human rights defender Igor Nagavkin pointed out violations committed during the consideration of the case on disorganization of the operation of a SIZO (pre-trial prison) and requested court to cancel the verdict.

October 10, 2024 18:23

• Lawyers criticize amendments about military contracts for defendants

  New laws signed by President Vladimir Putin have given defendants the chance to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence. Earlier, only persons under investigation or convicts could do the above. The new laws violate the rights of victims who will not be able to obtain justice in court, lawyers note.

October 10, 2024 13:42

• Arrest of Goncharenko and Abdurakhmanov in case on arson of military registration and enlistment office extended by three months

  In Rostov-on-Don, a military court has extended for three months the arrest of Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, defendants in a case on arson of a military registration and enlistment office in the town of Goryachy Klyuch.