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April 29, 2023 04:43

• Law enforcers conduct searches at homes of employees of “Team Against Torture”*

  In Nizhny Novgorod, the office of the “Team Against Torture”* and three lawyers from the human rights organization were searched on Friday. The police explained the searches with a criminal case instituted in North Ossetia.

April 28, 2023 23:58

• After chatting, Sochi resident fined for discrediting Russian Army

  The court has fined a resident of Sochi, whom the police detained at his work after he wrote in a chat on what was happening in Ukraine, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has reported.

April 28, 2023 23:56

• AI points UN to human rights violations in Chechnya

  The situation with human rights violations in Russia has worsened, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated in a submission to the UN High Commissioner, highlighting the cases of persecution of critics of the authorities and human rights defenders in Chechnya.

April 28, 2023 23:50

• Female natives of Northern Caucasus go on hunger strike in Iraqi prison

  About 30 natives of Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Ingushetia and Chechnya, convicted under terrorist articles, are on hunger strike in a Baghdad prison, demanding a revision of their cases and return to Russia.

April 28, 2023 19:33

• Politico cites the number of Chechens fighting for Ukraine

  Some 150-200 Chechens are fighting on the side of Ukraine in hostilities there; they are mostly descendants of former militants who fought against federal troops in the first and second Chechen campaigns; they are among the personnel of three units, the Politico, an US-based outlet, reports.

April 28, 2023 19:25

• Rights defenders tell about fate of kidnapped Alkhan-Kala villagers

  After kidnapping, residents of the village of Alkhan-Kala were accused of links with militants, Oyub Titiev, a human rights defender, has stated.

April 28, 2023 18:12

• ECtHR recognizes violations of rights of activists from three cities in Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) considered the claims filed by six residents of Rostov-on-Don, Volgograd, and Sochi, who were detained at protest actions in 2017-2018, and obliged Russia to pay them compensation for their illegal detentions and lack of fair trials.

April 28, 2023 16:13

• Court decides to liquidate “SOVA” Centre*

  In Moscow, a court pronounced a decision to liquidate the “Sova” Centre*, engaged in dealing with problems of xenophobia and nationalism.

April 27, 2023 18:09

• Defence of Ingush protest leaders demands disqualification of judges

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has begun considering an appeal in the case of seven leaders of Ingush protests, despite the absence of several advocates for valid reasons. The activists' defence demanded to remove the judges, because they communicated with the prosecutors outside the trial.

April 27, 2023 17:06

• Rights defenders and bloggers argue about Kadyrov's role in staging deaths of critics of Chechen authorities

  In his comment on the article by Elena Milashina, in which she stated that Tumso and Khasan Khalitov were materially interested in staging their deaths on the order of Chechen authorities, the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has objected that Elena had failed to present any proofs that the intermediary was associated with Ramzan Kadyrov.

April 27, 2023 15:56

• Analysts assess degree of Kadyrov's influence on FSB

  The head of Chechnya, who has appointed his nephew, Khamzat Kadyrov, as his assistant for the power bloc of agencies, enjoys a special status among Russian governors and can influence the Russian power structures, including the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service), Amir Kolov, a Colonel at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), has stated.

April 27, 2023 15:04

• Krasnodar journalist Alipat Sultanbegova suspected of discrediting Russian army

  The police drew up a protocol against Alipat Sultanbegova, a journalist from Krasnodar, on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces because of her post in stories a pacifist slogan.

April 27, 2023 13:36

• Court orders to reconsider decision in case against law enforcers beating a disabled person from Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, the Court of Cassation returned a case on beating of Yevgeny Manchenko by law enforcers for a new consideration.

April 27, 2023 00:00

• Resident of Nevinnomyssk claims fabricated criminal case

  Batyr Laipanov, a former policeman, has achieved cancellation of his sentence in a criminal bribe case after having served a part of his term, but at retrial, the prosecution demanded a harsher sentence for him. Laipanov treats the bribe case as falsified, pointing to his conflict with agents of special services.

April 26, 2023 23:58

• Court in Chechnya refuses to add evidence about Kardashov's disappearance to case files

  Representatives of the suffered party in the case of the disappearance of Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan, have asked to add the testimony of Said-Magomed Omarov to the case files, although it contradicts the version of the "Rosgvardiya" (Russian National Guard) fighters from Chechnya accused of illegally detaining Kardashov.

April 26, 2023 23:56

• Pyotr Parpulov, Sochi resident, convicted of treason, left at large

  A court in Tambov has ruled in favour of Pyotr Parpulov, a Sochi resident, sentenced to 12 years in prison within a treason case, admitting that he could not be in jail with such diseases.

April 26, 2023 23:52

• Resident of Chechnya charged with attacking Pskov paratroopers

  A charge of attacking Pskov paratroopers in 2000 has been put forward against Alavdi Batykaev, a Chechen resident. He denies his guilt, and his advocate states that there are no proofs of his participation in the attack, the "Memorial" Human Rights Defence Centre reports.

April 26, 2023 19:16

• Kadyrov's nephew appointed adviser-assistant to head of Chechnya for power bloc

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has appointed his nephew, Khamzat Kadyrov, as his adviser-assistant for the power bloc.

April 26, 2023 09:43

• SMO participants from Dagestani village complain to Putin about seizure of land

  The residents of the Dagestani village of Kurush, who take part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, have recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin complaining about the unjustified seizure of pasture land from villagers in favour of the national park.

April 25, 2023 23:58

• Pickets of journalists remind residents of Makhachkala about Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case

  Residents of Makhachkala expressed their active support to colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), during their solo pickets. The picketers demanded to release their colleague.