Crime

March 15, 2025 22:39

• Defence voices out details of Dagestani Magomed Magomedov’s torture case

  The inquiry into the violence against Magomed Magomedov raises questions from the public in Dagestan, while advocates are preparing to fight the investigators’ refusal to open a case against the law enforcers involved, despite the traumas fixed on his body by the examination.

March 13, 2025 23:57

• Defence denied of investigation into torture of Dagestani native Magomedov

  Investigators refused to institute a criminal case against law enforcers for the torture of Dagestani native Magomed Magomedov.

March 13, 2025 23:15

• Kabardino-Balkarian resident sentenced to suspended imprisonment for post on social media about SMO

  The law enforcement bodies considered that a resident of Nalchik was distributing on a social networking service the calls for extremist activities in connection with the special military operation (SMO).

March 13, 2025 22:57

• Court fines journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova

  A Moscow court has found journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova guilty of justifying terrorism and sentenced her to a fine of 600,000 roubles.

March 13, 2025 22:50

• Blogger Kharchenko* sentenced to seven years in colony

  A court in Gelendjik has found blogger Vadim Kharchenko* guilty of repeated discrediting the Russian Army, slander, insulting believers’ feelings, and calls for extremism, and sentenced him to seven years in penal colony. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of the Krasnodar Territory in its Telegram channel.

March 13, 2025 21:48

• EU and rights defenders criticize verdict to Azerbaijani activist Yagublu

  Tofig Yagublu was convicted of criticizing corruption and human rights violations in Azerbaijan and should be released, like other arrested opposition figures and journalists, representatives of the European Union (EU) and the Amnesty International (AI) have stated.

March 12, 2025 21:38

• Relatives of Chechen natives accused in “Wildberries” shooting case plead them being not guilty

  Relatives of Chechen natives accused in the case on shooting in front of the “Wildberries” Company’s office in Moscow, as a result of which two natives of Ingushetia were killed, have claimed that those arrested are not guilty.

March 08, 2025 22:56

• Ulker Gashimova recognized as a political prisoner

  The verdict in the case against Derbent native Ulker Gashimova is disproportionate to the degree of public danger of her statements and has signs of political persecution, human rights defenders have pointed out. They request the court to reconsider the Ulker Gashimova’s case.

March 06, 2025 23:32

• Lawyer Ruslan Nurushev faces torture conditions during his trial

  International principles for the protection of prisoners’ rights were violated when Ruslan Nurushev was delivered to a court in Volgograd, claims lawyer Roman Melnichenko.

March 06, 2025 22:17

• Rights defender Legkobitov treats his criminal prosecution as intimidation attempt

  The criminal case against the human rights defender from Yessentuki, Georgy Legkobitov, accused of slandering an officer of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), was opened after his statement about violations in the case of his son Sergey, who was convicted in a bribery case.

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