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November 08, 2024 22:43

• KBR convict proves to ECtHR violation of his rights in colony

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the round-the-clock video surveillance in a Krasnoyarsk colony as a violation of the rights of Murat Kanikhov, a convict kept there. However, no compensation was awarded.

November 08, 2024 20:16

• Decision to send him to SMO breaks agreement with defendant in Dalgatov case

  The decision of the court in Makhachkala, which allowed Marat Babaev to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone, contradicts the pre-trial agreement in the case of the death of the detained Kurban Dalgatov.

November 08, 2024 17:16

• Lawyer Ruslan Nurushev detained in case on fakes about Russian Army

  Volgograd lawyer Ruslan Nurushev was detained in a case on fakes about the Russian Army for an entry he posted on a social network.

November 07, 2024 23:56

• Dagestani activist Rabadanov’s son asks President Putin to investigate his father’s detention

  Staying in the special military operation zone, a son of detained Dagestani activist Ramazan Rabadanov appealed to the Russian president to take control over the situation.

November 07, 2024 23:16

• Court repeatedly acquits Krasnodar law enforcers in case on beating a disabled person

  The text of the second acquittal of law enforcers in the case on beating a disabled person Yevgeny Manchenko is almost identical to the first court’s verdict, human rights defenders note.

November 07, 2024 20:18

• Believer from Krasnodar Territory suspected of involvement in extremist organization

  A resident of the Vyselkovsky District has become a suspect within a criminal case for active participation in the religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses"*.

November 07, 2024 19:16

• Activist detained in Dagestan

  In Makhachkala, law enforcers have placed Ramazan Rabadanov, an activist, into the isolation facility. He intended to go to the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories to observe the trials within the case of the riots at the Uytash Airport.

November 07, 2024 10:58

• Court dismisses cassation appeal of Dagestani journalist Idris Yusupov* in case on his detention

  In Pyatigorsk, a cassation court refused to recognize the detention of journalist Idris Yusupov* at a rally against mobilization in Makhachkala as illegal.

November 06, 2024 23:31

• Drone attack becomes first in Dagestan since beginning of SMO

  An attack with a drone shot down in Kaspiysk has become the first incident in Dagestan since the beginning of the special military operation (SMO). The incident occurred eight days after Chechnya was attacked by a drone for the first time during the hostilities in Ukraine.

November 06, 2024 21:59

• Court allows figurant in Dalgatov's death case to go to SMO zone

  A court in Makhachkala has allowed Marat Babaev, one of the defendants in the case of the death of Kurban Dalgatov, who was detained by law enforcers, to go to the special military operation (SMO) zone.

November 06, 2024 19:02

• Denial of medical care to disabled man in Novocherkassk highlights problem of violation of detainees' rights

  The court has refused to satisfy the complaint about the denial of medical care to Pyotr Golovnyov, a disabled person arrested in the city of Novocherkassk. A human rights defender and a lawyer have treated this as a manifestation of the systemic problem of violation of detainees' rights.

November 06, 2024 12:18

• Human rights defenders report about “cleanups” in Chechnya after attack on law enforcers

  After an attack on a column of the “Rosgvardia” (National Guard of Russia), law enforcers in Chechnya detain men and offer them to go to the special military operation. Dozens of such cases have been reported by people. The detention of Rizvan Batyrov, a disabled resident of Argun, was explained by law enforcers by the contents of his mobile phone.

November 05, 2024 23:56

• Kabardino-Balkarian Minister of Resorts comments on dress code for tourists

  The introduction of a dress code for tourists in Kabardino-Balkaria is a forced measure. Such recommendations had to be issued after local residents saw two topless young women sunbathing on a bank of a river.

November 05, 2024 23:38

• Rights defenders declare Laurent Vinatier*, French researcher, who wrote about Chechnya, a political prisoner

  The human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" has pointed out the politically motivated nature of the prosecution of Laurent Vinatier*, a French researcher, and demanded his release.

November 05, 2024 23:08

• Woman from Astrakhan publicly apologizes for violating traffic rules

  The Astrakhan Regional Branch of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has posted a video in which a local woman publicly apologized for the fact that, while driving her child to the hospital, she was in a hurry and failed to give way to pedestrians.

November 05, 2024 22:16

• Colleagues of journalist Gadjiev announce stopping their weekly pickets

  After the decision pronounced by the cassation court, colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), refused to hold weekly solo pickets. The activists explained that they decided to use other measures of support.

November 04, 2024 23:48

• Songs of Rostov musicians anger pro-government activists

  After musicians from the “Kasta” band from Rostov-on-Don presented their new album, the “Veterans of Russia” public movement found a reason to request an investigation into the musicians’ activities for their alleged assistance to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

November 04, 2024 23:47

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 28-November 3, 2024

  Explosion in Cherkessk, drone attacks, Gadjiev’s case, parliamentary elections in Georgia, 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 October 28-November 3, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

November 04, 2024 23:39

• Kadyrov cancels his order not to take POWs in SMO zone

  Ramzan Kadyrov has explained the cancellation of his ban on taking prisoners of war (POWs) in the special military operation (SMO) zone by numerous requests from residents of Ukraine.

November 04, 2024 23:13

• Protraction of murder case of 19-year-old Sultanov in Dagestan outrages his relatives

  The court that considers the murder case of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, 19, a resident of Dagestan, has again postponed the decision on conducting an expertise, which has outraged the casualty's relatives.