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May 20, 2024 22:50

• Blogger from Tatarstan publicly apologizes for insulting Dagestani residents

  A blogger from Tatarstan, who insulted residents of Dagestan, has recorded a video appeal, in which he has apologized to them.

May 20, 2024 21:11

• Stavropol resident fined by 30,000 roubles for social network post

  The court has found Artyom Babin, a Stavropol resident, guilty of discrediting the Russian Army for his pacifist post in the "VKontakte" social network.

May 20, 2024 18:11

• Volgograd blogger Prokudin accused of discrediting Russian Army

  Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on the article of discrediting the Russian Army against the Volgograd blogger, Pavel Prokudin, who was arrested under a criminal case for inciting hatred towards Russian militaries.

May 19, 2024 22:52

• Rights defender Nagavkin complains about violations during expertise of his case

  The linguistic expertise, which has formed the basis of the case of disorganizing the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), was conducted with violations, Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, has stated this in his complaint and asked that the experts be held accountable.

May 19, 2024 22:43

• ECtHR finds violations of rights of Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don residents

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled to pay compensations to participants in protest actions in Krasnodar and Rostov-on-Don, recognizing a violation of their right to an impartial trial.

May 19, 2024 22:22

• KBR native suspected of treason

  Criminal cases of spreading fakes about the Russian Army and treason have been opened against Muaz Kibishev, a native of the Kabardino Balkarian Republic (KBR), who is participating in hostilities against the Russian Army, human rights defenders have informed.

May 19, 2024 19:56

• Rights defenders assess level of public attention to Liya Zaurbekova's case

  The case of Liya Zaurbekova, an ethnic Chechen, who ran away from her relatives, has attracted attention of quite a lot of concerned people, human rights defenders have noted. Some came to the police station; others expressed their opinions on social networks, they have added.

May 19, 2024 14:52

• Rights defenders give number of kidnapped people in Chechnya

  At least 80 residents of Chechnya have been kidnapped after a car with a DUSTUM license plate was set on fire; volunteers have identified the names of a number of them. In the village of Starye Atagi, Urus-Martan District, about 50 members of the Saif-Islam Elmurzaev family, suspected of setting the above car on fire, have been kidnapped; and about 30 people have been kidnapped in the Shali District, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD)* has reported.

May 18, 2024 23:54

• Rights defenders announce Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev as political prisoners

  The case against Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev is politically motivated, human rights defenders have stated. They recognized Rizvanov and Tambiev as political prisoners, demanding that the criminal prosecution of those convicted on charges of financing terrorism be stopped and that they be released, as well as an inquiry into the torture of Kemal Tambiev.

May 18, 2024 23:46

• Escaped Chechen native Zaurbekova frightened by promise of Kadyrov’s associates to return her to her family

  Liya Zaurbekova, a native of Chechnya, who fled the country, asked not to look for her and stated that she feared a forced return to her family, since her escape attracted the attention of Adam Delimkhanov.

May 18, 2024 22:46

• Court doubles compensation to Dagestani Amakhanov for being beaten by police

  A court of appeal has increased the amount of compensation for grievous bodily harm to Temirkhan Amakhanov, a resident of Derbent, who was beaten by the police, from 400,000 to 800,000 roubles. The above news has been reported by the “Traumpunkt” human rights project on its Telegram channel.

May 18, 2024 21:33

• Journalist Marshenkulova arrested in absentia on charges of justifying terrorism

  In Moscow, a court granted an investigators’ request to arrest in absentia Zalina Marshenkulova, a journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria, who was wanted on charges of justifying terrorism.

May 18, 2024 19:59

• Armed incident in KChR is third in 25 days

  The shootout in the Nogai District, where law enforcers killed an alleged member of a terrorist organization, was preceded by attacks on police squads in Karachaevsk on April 22 and in the village of Mara-Ayagy on April 29 this year.

May 18, 2024 19:23

• Journalist Vishnevetskaya files cassation complaint against her arrest in Dagestan

  The defence of Yulia Vishnevetskaya, a journalist, has pointed out the absence of proofs of her participation in anti-mobilization protests in Makhachkala. Vishnevetskaya's rights to a fair trial were violated, the complaint states.

May 18, 2024 17:47

• Advocate confirms departure of Chechen Zaurbekova from Russia

  Liya Zaurbekova, a native of Chechnya, who escaped from her relatives, has left Russia and is in safety, her advocate has confirmed the information of a member of the Human Rights Council about the woman's departure from Russia.

May 17, 2024 23:13

• Prosecution demands nine years in jail for Mikhail Balabanov for commissariat arson

  At the Southern District Military Court, the prosecutor has demanded to sentence Mikhail Balabanov, 21, to nine years in jail on charges of preparing to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in Nevinnomyssk. Balabanov's guilt has not been proven; there are signs of falsification in the case, his defence has pointed out, demanding to acquit the defendant.

May 17, 2024 19:25

• Rights defenders treat case of missing Movsar Umarov as typical for Chechnya

  The decision of the Grozny court to provide Eset Umarova with the materials of the case of her son Movsar's disappearance gives some hope to his family, but investigators are unlikely to make the hope true. The fate of Chechen residents who disappeared like Umarov often remains unknown, human rights defenders have pointed out.

May 17, 2024 18:11

• Police promise to protect Chechen woman Liya Zaurbekova, who escaped from domestic violence

  The police promised human rights defenders and an advocate to ensure the safety of Liya Zaurbekova, a 19-year-old native of Chechnya, who fled from her family living in the Moscow Region. Liya Zaurbekova said she feared reprisals.

May 16, 2024 22:49

• Defendants accused of patients’ deaths in Vladikavkaz hospital refuse to admit their guilt

  Vladimir Pliev and Oleg Morozov, the former head physician of the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital in Vladikavkaz and the institution’s equipment engineer, respectively, refused to plead guilty to the deaths of nine patients with coronavirus caused by an accident in the institution’s oxygen supply system.

May 16, 2024 21:10

• Human rights defenders report danger for Chechen native, who escaped from her family

  The family of a 19-year-old native of Chechnya, who ran away from her family because of permanent pressure and the risk of being killed, put the girl on the wanted list and found her in Moscow. The girl was taken to a police station, and members of her family gathered around the building.