27 November 2024, 22:55
Court stops prosecuting female rights defender from "Marem" Group
A court in the Moscow Region has found no violation in the words of Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, about the case of Seda Suleimanova. The reason for stopping the prosecution under the article on participation in an undesirable organization was in violations in the protocol, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that the administrative case against Ekaterina Neroznikova, accused of collaborating with an undesirable organization due to her comment on the Radio Liberty** about the case of the abducted native of Chechnya Seda Suleimanova, was transferred to court.
In August 2023, Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, was detained in Saint Petersburg and taken to Chechnya. Her friends and human rights defenders fear that she became the victim of an "honour killing". This April, it became known that the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) was investigating Suleimanova's disappearance under the article on murder. In June, her friend Elena Patyaeva said that three months after the case was opened, investigators failed to come to any conclusions.
*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.
**On December 5, 2017, the RFE/RL was included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation into the so-called register of "foreign agents". Along with 8 other American public channels, it became the first so-called "medium foreign agent."
This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on November 26, 2024 at 08:23 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.
Source: Caucasian Knot
