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January 17, 2023 16:12

• Ingush resident Leyla Chemurzieva’s case to be considered by court

  In Magas, a court began considering a case against Leyla Chemurzieva, who was accused of possessing an explosive device. The testimony which investigators insisted on was given by Leyla Chemurzieva after torture and threats, the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial” reported.

January 16, 2023 20:51

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 9-15, 2023

  Continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, news about the Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case, threat to the life of Mikhail Saakashvili, verdict to Ingush activists and hunger strikes of Azerbaijani oppositionists, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of January 9-15, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

January 16, 2023 20:29

• Krasnodar activist manages to challenge the fine imposed for filming in pacifist clip

  The Krasnodar Court of Cassation has cancelled the decision to prosecute Alexei Mandrigelya, an activist.

January 16, 2023 20:24

• Dagestan SC cancels fine imposed on local resident for discrediting army

  Nazhmudin Abdurakhmanov, a resident of Khasavyurt, has challenged at the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan the fine of 40,000 roubles imposed on him for his pacifist posts in social networks.

January 16, 2023 20:21

• Anti-mobilization protester convicted in Makhachkala

  The court sentenced Gafar Isaev, a participant in a protest rally against mobilization held in September 2022 in Makhachkala, to two years of conditional imprisonment after finding him guilty of using violence against a law enforcer.

January 16, 2023 10:53

• KBR scientists have their things seized at searches back

  In the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), law enforcers have returned to the scientists the things seized during searches, but they gave no explanations about the reasons for the searches, one of the scientists have stated.

January 15, 2023 20:42

• Complaint to Putin about power supply problems in Dagestan sparks criticism of local authorities

  An open letter with a complaint about problems with power supplies in Dagestan was sent to the President of Russia by Polad Nametullaev, a deputy of the City Assembly of Derbent. After that, residents of Dagestan criticized the republic's authorities in the social network.

January 15, 2023 18:44

• Experts' conclusions prove defence's version of journalist Gadjiev's innocence

  At the trial, an expert of the forensic examination centre of the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has confirmed the conclusions of his colleagues about the absence of any crime attributes in the publications by Abdulmumin Gadjiev; and this corresponds to the version of the journalist's innocence, his defence asserts.

January 15, 2023 18:43

• Dagestani villagers urge Melikov to intervene in land conflict

  Without owners' consent, they are planning to give the land plots belonging to villagers in the Rutulsky District into long-time lease, local residents have complained in their video appeal to Sergey Melikov, the head of Dagestan.

January 15, 2023 18:40

• Court holds session on "Ingush case" behind closed doors

  The court has explained its decision not to allow journalists to attend the consideration of the appeal lodged by the activists convicted within the case of the rally in Magas by the absence of vacant seats in the courtroom.

January 15, 2023 11:33

• Decision on paying compensations to residents of Chechnya for destroyed housing cancelled

  The appellate instance has overturned the decision of the Grozny court, which had obliged authorities to pay compensations for the lost housing to the residents of the Shali District who had suffered from the earthquake.

January 14, 2023 23:50

• Chechen driver publicly reprimanded for dangerous driving

  A video depicting a young man being reprimanded at a police station has posted on social media. The resident of the Gudermes District grossly violated the road traffic regulations, the law enforcement bodies reported.

January 14, 2023 23:39

• Wife of mobilized Kuban resident reports loss of his documents by military office

  After returning from the special military operation zone, Alexei Abramov, a resident of Krasnodar, who was mobilized although he had got spinal injuries, was sent to Dagestan to undergo a medical examination. The military office lost documents about the Alexei Abramov’s illnesses, his wife said.

January 13, 2023 23:53

• ECtHR awards compensations to four convicts from Rostov Region

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has taken the side of four residents of Taganrog and awarded them compensations from 2100 to 9750 euros, after finding the period of their pre-trial detention as unreasonably long.

January 13, 2023 23:51

• HRW points to human rights violations in Chechnya and Dagestan

  In 2022, amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Chechen authorities continued suppressing the dissent, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted. Its report also mentions the persecutions of opponents of mobilization in Dagestan.

January 13, 2023 23:50

• Advocate demands to return home mobilized Dagestani with many children

  Alibek Alibekov, a resident of Dagestan with many children, was denied a deferment from mobilization; his advocate has sent a complaint to the Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights.

January 13, 2023 17:15

• SAM of Chechnya reports about training fighters

  Employees of the Chechen Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) and the republic's Imams are undergoing military training at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes in order to be ready for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, the SAM (or the Muftiate) has informed.

January 13, 2023 16:59

• Ukrainian SBU accuses Kadyrov’s adviser Delimkhanov of justifying military operation

  The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in absentia of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and justifying the special military operation. Adam Delimkhanov said those accusations did not matter to him.

January 13, 2023 16:42

• Human rights defenders report a threat to security of Dagestani native Elina Ukhmanova

  Elina Ukhmanova, a resident of Dagestan, who claimed being persecuted for bisexuality and atheism, mentioned the parents’ plans to send her for treatment to the Chechen centre of Islamic medicine as the reason for her running away from home.

January 12, 2023 18:08

• Makhachkala townspeople complained about emergency services' inaction

  In Makhachkala, for more than 24 hours, municipal services fail to react to power and water supply outages, residents of the city have complained.