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June 22, 2024 18:47

• Journalist Zalina Marshenkulova challenges her arrest in absentia

  An appeal filed by Zalina Marshenkulova, a journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria, against her arrest in absentia in a case on justifying terrorism has been received by the Moscow City Court.

June 22, 2024 18:12

• Court upholds verdict against Ingush activists

  The court of cassation in Pyatigorsk upheld the verdict against the Ingush activists. About 20 people came to the Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia to support the defendants.

June 21, 2024 23:50

• Case of Jehovah's Witnesses* in Kalmykia fits into trend of persecuting believers in Southern Russia

  A court in Elista has conducted interrogations and again moved on to the debate on the case of local Jehovah's Witnesses*. In Southern Russia, a total of 109 believers have been convicted or are under investigation; the first case in Kalmykia has demonstrated the signs of conveyor-belt persecution inherent in other cases, Yaroslav Sivulsky, a representative of the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses*, has stated.

June 21, 2024 23:09

• Mitigation of Leila Gatagazheva's restriction measure encourages her advocates

  The court ruling to release Leila Gatagazheva under recognizance not to leave the place has given hope that the criminal prosecution on charges of links with militants in Syria would be dropped, her advocates have stated.

June 21, 2024 22:31

• Lawyers treat sentence to Krasnodar man for calls to terrorism to as lenient

  The verdict to Vladimir Yarotsky, a resident of Krasnodar, who was fined by 350,000 roubles within the case of calls for terrorism, was a very lenient punishment under this article, lawyers have noted.

June 21, 2024 21:48

• Detainee complains of violence at Rostov SIZO after hostage-taking

  Ekrem Krosh, accused of taking part in the "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami"*, held at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) No. 1 in Rostov-on-Don, has complained that law enforcers had beaten him up. He has linked their actions with the recent hostage-taking that occurred at this SIZO.

June 21, 2024 20:08

• Resident of North Ossetia achieves compensation from MIA for torture

  Soslan Dzidakhanov, who was subjected to bullying by a law enforcer, has claimed one million roubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) as compensation for moral harm, but the court in North Ossetia reduced this amount to 200,000 roubles.

June 21, 2024 17:28

• Investigators respond to complaint from Maria Smelaya, who fled from domestic violence

  In Krasnodar, the police released after detention a husband of Maria Smelaya, a native of Chechnya. No child was accompanying him. The man is suspected of unsanctioned actions with the use of violence.

June 20, 2024 23:48

• Tsomartova announces lack of progress in case on her daughter’s disappearance

  When entering the Russian presidential reception, Diana Tsomartova claimed the absence of results of the investigation into the disappearance of her daughter, who disappeared in Dagestan. The woman also filed complaints to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the FSB.

June 20, 2024 22:58

• Pyatigorsk resident complains to President Putin about investigators’ inaction

  A complaint about attempted robbery has not been investigated for more than a year, and the prosecutor’s office has not taken any actions, claims Miko Akopov, an injured resident of Pyatigorsk. The man has sent complaints about the investigators’ inaction to President Putin and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

June 20, 2024 22:10

• Teenager from Chechnya detained in France for promoting terrorism

  In the French city of Tours, the police detained a 15-year-old native of Chechnya after he posted videos on social network with instructions for manufacturing an improvised explosive device, beheading people, and with symbols of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”).

June 20, 2024 21:11

• Mother reports about health state of Krasnodar resident Manchenko, beaten by law enforcers

  Yevgeny Manchenko, a man with disability, got a serious leg injury after being beaten by law enforcers, and the injury prevents him from normal walking, claims his mother Snezhana Manchenko.

June 20, 2024 17:33

• Termination of murder case against Umazhat Guseinova upheld

  The appellate instance has recognized as legal the decision of the court in Makhachkala to stop the criminal prosecution of Tagir Velagaev, a pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of murdering his ex-wife Umazhat Guseinova. The human rights project "Travmpunkt", whose advocates represented the victim in court, has reported this in its Telegram channel.

June 19, 2024 22:55

• Kuban resident fined for calls to terrorism

  A court in Rostov-on-Don has found Vladimir Yarotsky, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), guilty of calls for terrorism and imposed a fine of 350,000 roubles on him, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has reported with reference to the press service of the court.

June 19, 2024 22:50

• Human rights defender Nagavkin complains about falsifications in his case

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has informed the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about falsifications in the case initiated against him about the theft allegedly committed by him in a jewellery store.

June 19, 2024 21:03

• Leila Gatagazheva, accused of having links with Syrian militants, was released under recognizance not to leave

  The term of house arrest of Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of links with Syrian militants, expired on June 17; and the court released her under recognizance not to leave the place, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence* has reported.

June 19, 2024 20:49

• Student from Taganrog convicted of treason

  The court has sentenced Vladislav Poruchikov, a student from Taganrog, to nine years in jail, finding him guilty of treason and attempting to get recruited into a terrorist organization.

June 19, 2024 19:10

• Relatives of Kevin Lik, convicted in case on high treason, alarmed by no information on his whereabouts

  Relatives of 18-year-old Kevin Lik from Maykop, sentenced for high treason, cannot obtain information about his whereabouts after he was transferred from Krasnodar to the Arkhangelsk Region, where he was supposed to serve his sentence, his mother says.

June 18, 2024 23:58

• Volgograd resident fined for posting rainbow flag on social media

  In Volgograd, a court fined a local resident 1000 roubles, finding her guilty of publicly displaying extremist symbols.

June 18, 2024 23:47

• ECtHR recognizes fine for picketing as violation of Oleg Orlov*’s rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that by detaining human rights defender Oleg Orlov* at a picket in support of Oyub Titiev and fining him for his protest action, the Russian authorities violated the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and judicial impartiality.