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August 25, 2023 22:38

• Within 24 hours, rights activists failed to locate Seda Suleimanova

  The Saint Petersburg police have refused to clarify the fate of a native of Chechnya, Seda Suleimanova, who was detained on August 23, the SK SOS Crisis Group* has informed. Law enforcers gave contradictory information to Seda’s advocate and partner, who tried to find her.

August 25, 2023 21:57

• Human rights defenders achieve investigators’ attention to complaint filed by Anapa resident about torture

  An investigator refused to institute a criminal case on torture by law enforcers of Semyon Sukhinin, a resident of Anapa. The investigators even did not talk to the complainant and did not question him until lawyers of the “Team Against Torture” (TaT)* made an appointment with the chief of the investigation department.

August 25, 2023 20:38

• Ingush native Abdul-Malik Albagachiev goes on hunger strike in penal colony

  Abdul-Malik Albagachiev told his advocate that he went on a hunger strike after one of the prisoners was beaten by employees of a penal colony in Astrakhan. The advocate sent complaints to the supervisory and law enforcement bodies with requests to bring the employees of the penal colony to justice.

August 25, 2023 18:55

• Chechen woman who ran away from home detained in Saint Petersburg

  Policemen came to the 26-year-old Seda Suleimanova, who had fled from Chechnya, and her partner and took them to the police station. Then the young man was released, and the young woman was taken to the airport to be sent back to Chechnya, human rights defenders have informed.

August 25, 2023 18:10

• Sochi court refuses to dismiss a single father from Russian Army

  The Sochi Garrison Military Court has refused the contract soldier, Denis Neprokin, who is alone raising a child, to be dismissed from the Russian Army. The Court referred to the Russian presidential decree on mobilization.

August 24, 2023 23:11

• Court sends for reconsideration journalist Magomedov’s complaint about inaction of investigators

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan cancelled the court’s decision to refuse to recognize the inaction of investigators on a complaint filed by Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft).

August 24, 2023 21:59

• Makhachkala residents complain about aggravation of communal problems

  In Makhachkala, residents had problems with the supply of electricity and water earlier as well, but the problems have worsened this year, complain local residents. According to their stories, in order to ensure normal living conditions, people have to buy generators and water storage tanks, but they are not able to help under all circumstances.

August 24, 2023 20:47

• Abubakar Yangulbaev put on the federal wanted list

  The police have put Abubakar Yangulbaev, one of Zarema Musaeva's sons, on the federal wanted list.

August 24, 2023 20:13

• Acquaintances of Rostov activist Berezikov disbelieve suicide version

  Anatoly Berezikov, an activist, who has died at the special detention centre in Rostov-on-Don, was notable for his active life position; he was a volunteer at the Navalny's* office and a non-indifferent person, his acquaintances, who don’t believe that he could commit suicide, as law enforcers assert, have stated.

August 24, 2023 17:52

• In Nalchik, court recognizes participation in battles in Ukraine as a mitigating circumstance in drug cases

  In cases on drug trafficking, military Ibragim Polonkoev was sentenced to a fine of 15,000 roubles, and contract soldier Elbek Makaev – to a suspended sentence. Among the extenuating circumstances, the court mentioned the participation in the special military operation in Ukraine and departmental awards.

August 23, 2023 15:12

• Rostov woman fined for posting pacifist leaflets

  In Rostov-on-Don, a court fined Yevgenia Ryabova 30,000 roubles for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces in the leaflets she distributed.

August 22, 2023 22:47

• Photo session of two girls in mountains angers residents of Dagestan

  Laurita Karpova, a participant in the reality show "Patsanki” (Tomboys), has posted a photo session, which depicts her engagement to another girl. The photos were taken in the Sulak Canyon of Dagestan. After a wave of indignation in social networks, she declared that there was no relationship with the girl in the pictures.

August 22, 2023 21:46

• Dagestani court refuses to consider Idris Yusupov’s lawsuit about unjustified detention

  The Sovietsky District Court of Makhachkala has refused to consider a journalist Idris Yusupov's lawsuit against the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) about his unjustified detention in September 2022 during an anti-mobilization protest.

August 22, 2023 20:06

• Chechnya: video with Zakaev's nephew is propaganda element

  The nephew of Akhmed Zakaev, who had been sent to the special military operation (SMO) zone, has criticized his uncle, who supports Ukraine. 

August 22, 2023 19:32

• Chechen Ombudsperson evades answering rights defenders' questions

  At a meeting with Mansur Soltaev, the Ombudsperson for Chechnya, lawyers of the "Team against Torture" (TaT)* tried to find out how the security of the journalist, Elena Milashina, in Chechnya would be ensured, and how the inquiry into the beating of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, committed at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) was progressing. They failed to receive any specific answers to their questions.

August 22, 2023 18:06

• Colleagues of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev assess his chances for acquittal

  There are some chances for the acquittal of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, as well as of Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, accused of financing terrorism, although the share of acquittals under terrorist articles is extremely small, Gadjiev's colleagues have noted.

August 21, 2023 23:18

• Grozny woman detained for practicing witchcraft

  In Grozny, the police detained local resident Roza Tsaralieva, after which Adam Elzhurkaev, the chief of the Centre for Islamic Medicine, reprimanded the woman for practicing the occult services, follows from a report released by the “Grozny” ChGTRK (State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company).

August 21, 2023 22:54

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 14-20, 2023

  Tragedy in Makhachkala, Kadyrov beats a prisoner, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, victims of landslide 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 August 14-20, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

August 21, 2023 22:15

• Bagomedov brothers complain about torture in Dagestan

  Law enforcers tortured Mukhtar and Magomedrasul Bagomedov brothers, who were arrested in Makhachkala, to force them to confess to making explosives, their mother Gulnara Bagomedova complains.

August 21, 2023 19:49

• Imangazali Magomedov, native of Dagestan, manages to avoid deportation to Russia

  A year after his detention in Ukraine, Imangazali Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, has left the country for the European Union.