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July 29, 2024 20:48

• Lawyers treat it preferable for Zhuravel, Koran-burner, to stay at SIZO

  Serving his sentence at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) instead of a penal colony can ease the convict's situation; in particular, he is exposed to less risk from other convicts, lawyers and human rights defenders have noted in their comments on the situation with Nikita Zhuravel.

July 29, 2024 17:36

• Astrakhan public figures assess ban on wearing Muslim religious clothing

  Restrictions on wearing religious clothing and attributes are unconstitutional, Muslim Yunusov, a religious figure, believes. The issue of banning Muslim women from wearing religious clothing is being discussed in the society, but is not a subject of acute conflict, Oleg Shein, an MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, has noted.

July 28, 2024 21:59

• Three Chechen natives arrested in Belgium

  Belgian law enforcers have conducted an antiterrorist operation and detained seven natives from Chechnya. Three of them were arrested on charges of involvement in the activities of an international terrorist organization and preparing a terror act.

July 28, 2024 21:16

• Kuban Jehovah's Witness* Meleshko placed under administrative supervision

  Vasily Meleshko, a Jehovah's Witness* from the village of Kholmskaya (the Krasnodar Territory, also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) is prohibited from leaving the Abinsky District for three years without policemen's permit; he cannot stay outside the home at night, and must visit the local division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) four times a month.

July 27, 2024 23:36

• FSB reports on prevented terror acts in Dagestan

  Three residents of Kaspiysk were preparing a series of terror acts in Dagestan, including against law enforcement buildings and an Orthodox temple. The suspects have been detained.

July 27, 2024 21:34

• Advocates to challenge refusal to investigate attack on “Caucasian Knot” correspondent in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, investigators refused to institute a criminal case on an attack on Alyona Sadovskaya, a journalist of the “Caucasian Knot”, in October 2023.

July 27, 2024 19:56

• Tikhoretsk police respond to beating of Djalaganiya two weeks after incident

  Beaten animal rights activist Denis Djalaganiya was summoned to the Tikhoretsk police “for re-questioning” in the case on the attack. Based on a denouncing report against Denis Djalaganiya, the police summoned his colleague for questioning and checked the correspondence on her mobile phone, looking for “discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”

July 27, 2024 19:05

• SAM calls on Astrakhan women to abandon niqabs

  The Muslim clergy of the Astrakhan Region has recommended that local women refrain from wearing niqabs in public places.

July 27, 2024 18:35

• Court refuses to remove "Memorial" CHRD* from register of foreign agents

  The "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD)* has challenged its inclusion into the register of foreign agents, but the Moscow Zamoskvoretsky District Court has refused to overturn it.

July 26, 2024 23:17

• Nikita Zhuravel refuses to challenge verdict in case on burning Koran

  The deadline for filing an appeal in the criminal case against Nikita Zhuravel expired, and he did not lodge an appeal against the verdict.

July 26, 2024 22:56

• Advocates comment on ECtHR's decision on Barakh Chemurziev's complaint of Ingush activist

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the complaint of Barakh Chemurziev proves that innocent activists were convicted within the "Ingush case"; therefore, the ECtHR will make similar decisions on the statements of the other defendants, Chemurziev's advocates believe.

July 26, 2024 21:25

• Priest Viktor Pivovarov manages to defend his temple from authorities’ attempts to demolish it

  The court’s decision containing the refusal to demolish a temple in Slavyansk-on-Kuban has entered into force. The deadline for appeal by the authorities, who had earlier demanded that the temple be demolished, has passed.

July 26, 2024 18:50

• Krasnodar resident sentenced to long imprisonment term in high treason case

  A military court sentenced a resident of Krasnodar to eleven years of imprisonment for attempting to join a Ukrainian armed formation.

July 26, 2024 17:48

• Stavropol resident convicted of publishing photo with V symbol

  A resident of Stavropol, who had posted a photo from World War II with a V symbol in a social network, received a suspended sentence with two years of the trial period on charges of repeatedly demonstrating Nazi symbols.

July 25, 2024 22:36

• After announcing a public event, court sends Ukrainian citizen to deportation centre

  Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross, a Ukrainian citizen, who has served his sentence for organizing a wheelchair run in the town of Kamyshin, will be deported from Russia. He and his wife were fined for violating migration laws; and their deportation is expected next week despite the possibility of persecution in their homeland due to their pro-Russian position.

July 25, 2024 21:16

• Resident of Rostov Region arrested for six months for arson of military commissariat

  The Morozovsk District Court has placed Ivan Svistov in custody for six months, accusing him of hooliganism after attempting to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office).

July 25, 2024 19:31

• Four figurants in riots at Uytash Airport released

  Four persons accused within the case of riots at the airport that broke out in October 2023 have been released from the Makhachkala SIZO (pre-trial prison).

July 24, 2024 23:55

• Analysts treat Chechen authorities' demands for apologies as selective

  Vakhid Ilyasov's apologies for the incident on a Mariupol beach were caused by the pressure of Chechen authorities, while those from Ramzan Kadyrov's retinue rarely apologize for much more serious offences, analysts have pointed out, noting that not all incidents involving natives of Chechnya committed at resorts attract attention of republic's authorities.

July 24, 2024 23:33

• Richest woman in Russia Tatiana Bakalchuk denies Kadyrov’s words about raider takeover of her “Wildberries” Company

  In her video message, Tatiana Bakalchuk, a founder of the “Wildberries” marketplace, refuted the words of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov about the raider takeover and obstacles in communicating with her husband and children.

July 24, 2024 22:52

• Men accused of pogrom mention their motives for coming to Uytash airport

  Magomed Omaraskhabov, accused in a case on pogrom, came to the airport in Makhachkala for family reasons, while another defendant Anvarbek Ataev came there out of curiosity, advocates stated.