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June 01, 2024 22:43

• Resident of Rostov Region found guilty of treason

  A court in Voronezh has sentenced Alexander Shevchenko, a resident of the Rostov Region, to 24 years and four months of freedom deprivation. He tried to enter the territory of Ukraine aiming to tae part in hostilities against Russian troops there, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has informed.

June 01, 2024 20:42

• Maria Smelaya, who escaped from her Chechen husband, complains about death threats to her relatives

  Maria Smelaya, a resident of Krasnodar, explains that her decision to refuse to make public an attack on a shelter was caused by her fears for the relatives’ lives because of the threats voiced by her former husband. The woman has decided to file a complaint to the police in connection with the kidnapping of her son.

June 01, 2024 18:01

• Forensic expert reports to court unnoticed wound on body of murdered 19-year-old man

  A criminal case on the murder of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, a 19-year-old resident of Kayakent, should be sent for additional investigation after a forensic expert admitted that an earlier forensic report did not describe all the wounds on the young man’s body. The above has been reported by a family’s lawyer.

June 01, 2024 17:52

• Lawyers assess prospects of Abdurakhmanov’s case after his recantation of testimony

  The testimony that Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, declared falsified, was the base for the charges of terrorism, pointed out Felix Wertegel, an advocate of Boris Goncharenko. In similar cases, courts usually adhere to an accusatory bias, noted lawyer Dmitry Zair-Bek.

June 01, 2024 16:44

• Kuban resident accused of discrediting Russian Army

  The Gelendjik City Court has received a criminal case opened against Vasily Romanyuta, accused of discrediting Russian militaries.

May 31, 2024 22:59

• Maria Smelaya, who ran away from her Chechen husband, asks rights defenders to return her son to her

  After complaints of domestic violence in the family of a native of Chechnya and a subsequent refutation, Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident, has again turned to human rights defenders, claiming that her husband had forcibly taken away her 1.5 year old child.

May 31, 2024 22:06

• Singer who apologized to Kadyrov declared political prisoner

  The fifth criminal case has been opened against the singer Sharlot, who in January apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov. The project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has announced him as a political prisoner.

May 31, 2024 21:55

• Three Kalmyk Jehovah's Witnesses* claim in court freedom of religion

  On May 29, at a court session, Kishta Tutinova, Tsagan Khalgaeva and Ekaterina Menkova rejected charges of extremist activities and stated that the actions they were accused of were their exercise of the constitutional right to profess any religion.

May 31, 2024 19:56

• Native of Nazran wanted in case on financing terrorism

  The police have put on the wanted list a native of Nazran who left for Syria eight years ago. According to the investigators’ version, the woman joined a terrorist organization and was raising money for its needs.

May 31, 2024 15:23

• Volgograd student's arrest in case of fakes about Russian Army extended

  A court in Volgograd has extended the arrest of Daniil Vodolagin, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army, by three months, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

May 30, 2024 21:58

• Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to military registration and enlistment office, recants his testimony

  At trial, Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, accused of setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office, claimed that he did not give the testimony that was read out earlier, but it had been written by an investigator.

May 30, 2024 21:34

• Defrauded real estate investors from Nalchik outraged by indifference of local authorities

  The lack of progress in the investigation and support from local officials has forced people to write down an appeal to President Putin, claim real estate investors who have been waiting for several years for the delivery of an apartment building in Nalchik.

May 30, 2024 19:12

• Defence calls Russian MoJ’s arguments in Oleg Orlov’s* lawsuit unconvincing

  The arguments of the Russian Ministry of Justice, presented at the today’s court hearing considering the claim filed by Oleg Orlov* to challenge his status of a foreign agent, contain no specific reasoning and are unconvincing, so, the decision to refuse to exclude the human rights defender from the register of foreign agents will be challenged, an advocate has announced.

May 30, 2024 18:58

• Human rights defender Oleg Orlov* remains on register of foreign agents

  The court did not grant a claim filed by Oleg Orlov*, the co-chair of the “Memorial” Centre for Human Rights Defence*, and left him on the register of foreign agents.

May 30, 2024 15:15

• Krasnodar resident fined for discrediting militaries

  A resident of Krasnodar has been fined by 30,000 roubles for shouting Ukrainian slogans.

May 29, 2024 21:06

• Court refuses to commute sentences of three Ingush activists

  Barakh Chemurziev, Ismail Nalgiev and Bagaudin Khautiev, who had already served most of their eight-year sentences, have asked the court to replace their remaining prison terms with some sanction not related to freedom deprivation. The court in the Stavropol Territory, where they are in a penal colony, has refused to grant their motions.

May 29, 2024 18:49

• ECtHR awards compensations to members of Yangulbaev family

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russian authorities to pay compensations to Zarema Musaeva, Saidi Yangulbaev, her husband and a former Russian federal judge, and their daughter Aliya Yangulbaeva.

May 29, 2024 16:26

• Court fails to consider CER for Musaeva

  A court hearing in Grozny, at which the issue of conditional early relief for Zarema Musaeva was to be considered, was disrupted as she was not brought to court.

May 28, 2024 22:58

• Public prosecutor challenges acquittal of Jehovah’s Witness* Guschin

  In a case against Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah’s Witness* from Kabardino-Balkaria, a public prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of the believer. The prosecutor requests a new trial with a different composition of judges.

May 28, 2024 21:59

• Human rights defenders report on Chechen convict's hunger strike

  Beslan Gadaev, a native of Chechnya, has gone on a hunger strike after being transferred to a Karelian colony due to pressure from the colony staff, human rights defenders report, adding that Gadaev is constantly kept in the dungeon (punishment cell); and he hasn't seen his relatives since his detention in 2006.