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June 20, 2023 12:38

• Court upholds sentence of Dagestani resident in case on terrorism

  A court of cassation has upheld the sentence of Elnar Amirbekov, who was sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment on the charge of terrorism and preparation of an attack on a road-and-patrol police (known as DPS) checkpoint in Dagestan. The court found unfounded the arguments of the defence about the falsification of evidence.

June 19, 2023 23:53

• Makhachkala: solo picketer demands to release her detained brother

  A female resident of Dagestan has held a solo picket, demanding the release of her brother, who was detained by law enforcers.

June 19, 2023 23:18

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 12-18, 2023

  Disappearance of Adam Delimkhanov and contract between “Akhmat” units and Russian Ministry of Defence, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, Zarema Musaeva’s case, 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 June 12-18, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

June 19, 2023 22:21

• Krasnodar resident arrested for posting Ukrainian symbols in social media

  A court in Krasnodar has found the posting of a flag on a social network with a slogan glorifying Ukraine as a demonstration of extremist symbols and arrested Mikhail Lyakh, a local resident, for 15 days.

June 19, 2023 21:46

• Chechen authorities wage fight on violators of Chechen traditions in social networks

  Authorities of Chechnya will monitor social networks and identify residents of the republic who ignore Chechen traditions. Any deviation from traditional norms in social networks will be suppressed, Khamzat Kadyrov, an advisor to the head of Chechnya, has promised.

June 19, 2023 20:30

• Escape from family is a way to survive for North-Caucasian domestic violence victims

  In the BBC documentary "When I Fled", girls from Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan tell that domestic violence, forced marriages and death threats had forced them to run away from their families. For victims of domestic violence, such escape often becomes the only way to save their lives, human rights defenders have emphasized.

June 19, 2023 20:12

• Krasnodar journalist Alipat Sultanbegova ordered not to leave

  The investigator has chosen the recognizance not to leave as the freedom restraint measure for Alipat Sultanbegova, a Krasnodar journalist, who is a figurant in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Army, although she had already managed to leave Russia.

June 19, 2023 18:20

• Novocherkassk Military Court denies contract soldier's dismissal from military service

  The Novocherkassk Military Court has refused to satisfy the demand of Alexander Semenenko, a contract military serviceman, to be dismissed from military service, citing the presidential decree on the partial mobilization.

June 19, 2023 18:15

• Rostov citizen convicted of murdering his wife released from colony due to participation in SMO

  After taking part in the Russia's special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine Vladislav Biryukov, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, who had been sentenced to 16 years in colony for murdering his wife, has been amnestied.

June 17, 2023 23:33

• At debates, Zarema Musaeva denies charges

  During the debates held at a court session in Grozny, Zarema Musaeva has declared her innocence of fraud and assault on a law enforcer.

June 17, 2023 02:45

• Musaeva’s defenders treat prosecutors’ arguments ungrounded

  During the pleadings in court, advocates Alexander Nemov and Alexander Savin stated that investigators and public prosecutors did not provide evidence of Zarema Musaeva’s guilt in an attack on law enforcer and fraud.

June 17, 2023 02:40

• More than 600 people demand to investigate activist Berezikov’s death in SIZO

  An appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to check reports about torture of Anatoly Berezikov in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don, investigate the circumstances of his death, and institute a criminal case was published on the website “Change.Org”.

June 16, 2023 22:56

• Prosecutor failed to finish his speech at debates on Abdulmumin Gadjiev's case

  Speaking at the debates during the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, accused of financing extremist organizations, the prosecutor repeated the arguments earlier voiced out during the trial. It was expected that he would finish his speech in one session, but he had not enough time.

June 16, 2023 22:14

• Believer from Kalach-on-Don challenged in court forced consignment to military service

  Due to religious beliefs, at the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office), Anton Kuznetsov from the town of Kalach-on-Don fought for his right to alternative civilian service but was forcibly sent to a military unit.

June 16, 2023 19:55

• Chechen law enforcers criticized by Ramzan Kadyrov returned to special military operation zone

  Five fighters of the “Sever-Akhmat” regiment, who were released from the Ukrainian captivity, were returned to the zone of the special military operation. The fighters declared that they were ready to carry out any order.

June 16, 2023 19:15

• Court of Appeal toughens punishment for pastor from Anapa

  At an appeal filed by a public prosecutor, the Krasnodar Territorial Court imposed a seven-year ban on public activities on Nikolai Bogoslavsky, a pastor of the Evangelical Church. Earlier, Nikolai Bogoslavsky had been sentenced to a year of imprisonment in a penal colony.

June 15, 2023 16:13

• Dagestani authorities remind tourists of the need to dress modestly

  The Ministry of Tourism of Dagestan has issued a memo for the guests coming to the republic, advising them to wear "modest" clothes and follow the rules of behaviour in Dagestan.

June 15, 2023 15:40

• Zarema Musaeva tells about improvement of her well-being

  The administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where Zarema Musaeva is being kept, took her to hospital for examination, where doctors took tests from her. Musaeva has noted that she feels better.

June 15, 2023 15:03

• Natives of Dagestan convicted within case of IS* cell in Kalmyk colony

  The Southern District Military Court has found two residents of Dagestan guilty of heading a terrorist cell in a Kalmyk colony and sentenced them to 18 and 23 years of freedom deprivation, accordingly; five other figurants were sentenced to prison terms of 7.5-8 years.

June 15, 2023 14:56

• Lawyers loose contact with Chechen Selima Ismailova, who ran away from home

  After the return of Selima Ismailova to Chechnya, lawyers have been unable to find out her whereabouts. Human rights defenders did not find Selima Ismailova at the police station, where Chechen law enforcers were supposed to deliver her in a theft case.