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October 25, 2024 18:46

• Blogger Guzenko’s case reaches court

  A criminal case against blogger Yegor Guzenko, who criticized the Russian authorities and Apti Alaudinov, the commander of the “Akhmat” special forces, has been transferred to the Kirovsky District Court of the Stavropol Territory. The court hearing is scheduled for November 5.

October 25, 2024 16:45

• Victims in case on slave labour in Rostov Region afraid to testify

  A detainee is suspected of holding eighteen people in slavery at one of the farms in the Aksaisky District. The investigating department, where a confrontation with the victims was being prepared, was approached by members of a Roma community, who started a scuffle on the spot.

October 24, 2024 18:09

• Ukrainian military man Denis Muryga recognized as political prisoner

  Human rights defenders have recognized Ukrainian military man Denis Muryga, who was sentenced by a Russian court to 16 years of imprisonment, as a political prisoner.

October 24, 2024 18:00

• Advocate seeks release of disabled man from Novocherkassk SIZO

  Investigators and the court refuse to release Pyotr Golovnyov, a 20-year-old disabled man, from the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Novocherkassk, despite his serious health condition and growing tumour, his advocate has stated, treating the charges against Golovnyov as falsified.

October 24, 2024 15:39

• New case against Sochi activist Vladimir Atamanchuk reaches court

  Vladimir Atamanchuk, an activist from Sochi, is serving a sentence within a slander case as a janitor at the hospital where he had worked as a doctor before retirement. A new case against Atamanchuk for contempt of the court will be heard on November 23.

October 24, 2024 15:36

• Inmate complains about absence of medical care in Volgograd colony

  Sergey Obodenko is serving his sentence in a penal colony located in the Volgograd Region. He suffers from multiple sclerosis, cannot move independently, and needs constant medical treatment, which, according to his wife and advocate, he is not receiving.

October 23, 2024 23:58

• Public prosecutor proposes to mitigate sentences of Gadjiev, Tambiev, and Rizvanov

  At trial, Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev claimed that the first instance court considered the purchase of airline tickets for 16,000 roubles as financing terrorism and completely ignored the findings of the forensic examination.

October 23, 2024 23:51

• Relatives of Dagestani native Dalgatov, who died at police station, speak out against pre-trial agreement with defendant

  Relatives of Makhachkala resident Kurban Dalgatov, who died at a police station after being detained, demanded to cancel the pre-trial agreement with one of the accused, Islam Atavov. At trial, the former law enforcer downplays his role in torturing Kurban Dalgatov, a lawyer presenting the interests of the deceased man’s family reports.

October 23, 2024 21:45

• Native of Chechnya accused of organizing an assassination attempt on Alikhadjiev

  A native of Chechnya, Bashir Omarkhodjaev, has been charged with organizing an assassination attempt on Sherip Alikhadjiev, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, and Vasily Konovalov, a citizen of Ukraine, has been accused of attempting to murder Alikhadjiev.

October 23, 2024 20:28

• Verdict to Chechen book publisher Ezhaev upheld despite defence's arguments

  The cassation instance has upheld the verdict to Aslambek Ezhaev, a Chechen book publisher, convicted of financing terrorism. The court found his defence's arguments and those put forward by the publisher himself about the signs of case fabrication as unconvincing.

October 22, 2024 23:46

• Defence criticizes extension of journalist Kevorkova’s arrest

  Investigators convinced the court to extend the arrest of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, although there was no need for that, an advocate states.

October 22, 2024 23:11

• In Saint Petersburg, activists use leaflets to draw public’s attention to kidnapping of Chechen native Seda Suleimanova

  In Saint Petersburg, activists posted leaflets dedicated to the search for Seda Suleimanova, who was kidnapped and taken to Chechnya.

October 22, 2024 23:05

• ECtHR finds Russian law on foreign agents as violating ECHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaints lodged by 107 individuals and organizations, including the "International Memorial"* and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, to be justified, concluding that inclusion of them into the register of foreign agents has violated their right to the freedom of expression and the freedom of association.

October 22, 2024 18:57

• Human rights defenders see low chances of punishment of law enforcers in Dagestan for torturing woman

  When commenting on the cancellation of the sentence of policemen in a case on torture of a woman from Khasavyurt, human rights defenders have noted that cases when law enforcers are being punished for using torture have become rare. The victim complains that she still has health problems.

October 22, 2024 17:51

• Defence succeeds in seeking hospitalization of Zarema Musaeva

  In Chechnya, a court postponed the consideration of the complaint lodged against the refusal to release Zarema Musaeva on conditional early relief (CER) because of her hospitalization, which the defence insisted on.

October 21, 2024 23:47

• Sentence of Ingush law enforcers in Timur Derbichev’s case mitigated

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia mitigated the sentence of former policemen Temirlan Yevloev and Khamzat Kotiev, convicted of accepting a bribe from relatives of Timur Derbichev.

October 21, 2024 23:45

• Blogger from Bashkiria convicted for video about "Motherland Calls!" monument

  The Volgograd Regional Court has sentenced Rasul Akhiyaretdinov, a blogger and a resident of Bashkortostan, to a year of forced labour, finding him guilty of rehabilitating Nazism in his video about the "Motherland Calls!" monument.

October 21, 2024 23:16

• Novosibirsk: activist demands inquiry into Seda Suleimanova's abduction

  Elena Tardasova-Yun, an activist from Novosibirsk, has held a solo picket demanding an investigation into the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova in Chechnya.

October 21, 2024 23:16

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of October 14-20, 2024

  Echo of threats voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, 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 14-20, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

October 21, 2024 21:58

• Advocate reports poor health condition after surgery of Zaripov, convicted of appealing to Kadyrov

  Zakhar Zaripov, convicted of appealing to the head of Chechnya, is feeling poor after the surgery he underwent for his stage four cancer, but despite this, he is being prepared for transfer to the SIZO (pre-trial prison). The defence's motions to transfer Zaripov to house arrest remained unanswered.