North Caucasus

January 22, 2025 21:56

• Human rights defenders treat court’s decision in missing Chechen Umarov’s case as unlawful

  In Grozny, a court has dismissed a complaint about the investigator’s refusal to present for examination the materials of a criminal case on disappearance of Movsar Umarov. The investigators are not interested in investigating cases that could prove the law enforcers’ involvement in the disappearances of people, human rights defenders suggest.

January 22, 2025 20:45

• Verdict to blogger Askhabali Alibekov mitigated

  The court has educed the freedom deprivation term of Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from Novorossiysk, convicted within the case of attacking a policeman, by four months.

January 21, 2025 23:56

• Chechen advocate lIdalov demands to punish judge for unjust verdict

  Timur Idalov, an advocate from Chechnya, has been released from forced labour, since the order to enforce his sentence was revoked. The statute of limitations for the case has already expired. Idalov asked the Supreme Court (SC) to hold the judge who had sentenced him accountable.

January 21, 2025 21:57

• Convicted pensioner Baragunova complains about her rights violation at SIZO

  Larisa Baragunova, a pensioner from the city of Tyrnyauz, convicted for attacking law enforcers, has complained that the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) bans her from call home, and her cellmates put pressure on her.

January 20, 2025 23:47

• Memorial events for Markelov and Baburova held in Russia and other countries

  On the 16th anniversary of the murder of advocate Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, a journalist of the “Novaya Gazeta” newspaper, memorial events were held in various cities in Russia, as well as France, Germany, Thailand, and other countries.

January 20, 2025 21:49

• Defence points to violations of Chechen lawyer Timur Idalov's rights

  The court has overturned the ruling to enforce the sentence passed to Timur Idalov, a Chechen lawyer. The decision to keep him in custody after announcing the verdict is contrary to the law, his defence has stated.

January 18, 2025 18:17

• Analysts: abnormal birth rate in Chechnya on December 31 could be provoked by manipulations

  In order to receive the payment promised by the leader of Chechnya for naming newborns after national heroes, pregnant women could resort to labour stimulation or caesarean section, as well as manipulation of the birth date. The abnormal number of boys born on December 31 confirms the above assumptions, analysts believe.

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