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September 04, 2024 23:08

• Dagestani blogger Askhabali Alibekov put on preventive registration at SIZO

  Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, accused of using violence against a law enforcer, has been put on preventive registration by the administration of a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Kazan as a person disseminating extremist ideology.

September 04, 2024 21:54

• Screwdriver attack in Magas shows state of armed underground

  Lone militants make use of surprise factor to attack law enforcers, but the use of improvised means in the attack on the traffic police post in Magas became evidence of the weakening of the armed underground, military experts and a Caucasus expert believe.

September 04, 2024 21:45

• Chechen Magomed Abubakarov claims being tortured by law enforcers

  Law enforcers tortured British citizen Magomed Abubakarov, a native of Chechnya, in attempts to force him to confess working for foreign intelligence agencies. Magomed Abubakarov is being denied medical care at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

September 04, 2024 21:35

• Makhachkala resident demands compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution

  Zainulabidin Mirzabekov spent 12 years proving that the charge of selling heroin brought against him was falsified, and he spent eight years in custody. The man requests court to oblige the state to pay 414 million roubles in compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution.

September 04, 2024 16:37

• Former hostages dispute about terrorism prevention centre opened in Beslan

  The opening of a terrorism prevention centre at the Beslan School has sparked a mixed reaction among the victims. The school territory should have been preserved, says Emma Tagaeva. In his turn, Misikov believes that the centre is necessary in order to preserve the memory of the terror act.

September 03, 2024 22:56

• Attack with bladed weapon on law enforcers is the first in Northern Caucasus in two years

  The attack on the traffic police post at the entrance to Magas, as a result of which policemen killed a man armed with a screwdriver, was preceded by a similar incident that occurred in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in November 2022.

September 03, 2024 21:38

• MIA refuses to confirm Kevin Lik's release

  Kevin Lik's conviction has not been expunged, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Adygea has informed.

September 03, 2024 21:13

• Law enforcers sentenced for beating Timur Derbichev and bribe-taking

  Idris Fargiev, a policeman, has been sentenced to five years in penal colony within the case of beating Timur Derbichev in the city of Magas (the capital of Ingushetia). Two other policemen were sentenced for bribe-taking for refusing to initiate a criminal case against Derbichev on charges of drug possession, to which he was forced to confess.

September 03, 2024 17:10

• Ingush Govt reacts to allegations of abusing mental hospital patients

  Appeals to the Prosecutor's Office (PO) in connection with the abuse of patients at the mental hospital located in the village of Psedakh (Malgobek District of Ingushetia) yielded no fruit, while there are still patients there, who have no relatives or whose families have no way to transfer them to another place.

September 03, 2024 15:58

• Rights defenders point to difficulties of recording kidnappings in Chechnya

  No kidnapping statistics is currently run in Chechnya, as relatives of missing people are afraid to make disappearances public, human rights defenders have pointed out. Illegal detentions in Chechnya continue, but only most resonant cases become known.

September 02, 2024 23:59

• Makhachkala residents interested in information about journalist Gadjiev’s case

  Many passers-by took pictures of the picket in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and scanned a QR code to learn more about his persecution, reported Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft). Abdulmumin Gadjiev continues to write articles under arrest and publish them in the “Chernovik”.

September 02, 2024 23:56

• Analysts associate Shoigu’s words about strengthening Sharia with criticism of republics’ leaders in NCFD

  The statements voiced by the Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergey Shoigu about radicals’ attempts to displace secular laws in Northern Caucasus with Sharia norms are a signal to the leaders and officials of the regions, analysts note.

September 02, 2024 23:28

• Journalists remind authorities about absence of inquiry results into Beslan terror act

  After 20 years, the authorities have still failed to give a specific answer to how terrorists managed to organize the school capture in Beslan in 2004, where more than three hundred people perished, journalists have stated.

September 02, 2024 23:14

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 26-September 1, 2024

  Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan, fires and drones in the Caucasus, parliamentary elections in Georgia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, anniversary of the terror act in Beslan, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 26-September 1, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

September 02, 2024 20:36

• Mourning events held in Beslan on the 20th anniversary of school capture

  Mourning events were held in North Ossetia to mark the 20th anniversary of school capture in Beslan. There, at School No. 1, the mourning ceremony began with the ringing of the school bell; its participants commemorated the victims of the terror act.

September 02, 2024 19:12

• Defence treats criminal prosecution of Naptugov and Kuzhev, Cherkessk residents, as unjustified

  The case materials on an extremist community contain no proofs of the guilt of Aslan Naptugov and Oleko Kuzhev, residents of the city of Cherkessk, their advocates have stated. Naptugov treats his criminal case as political persecution.

September 01, 2024 23:58

• Online conference discusses kidnapping practices in Northern Caucasus

  The practices of kidnapping and enforced disappearances in the regions of Northern Caucasus, primarily in Chechnya, are a legacy of two Chechen campaigns. This issue is very acute due to authorities' repressions, but the fight against these practices must be continued. This was stated by the participants of the online conference of human rights defenders, organized by the "Memory Project" team jointly with the "Vyorstka" (Layout)* outlet.

September 01, 2024 23:38

• MoJ repeatedly declares Kuban ecological NCO foreign agent

  The non-commercial organization (NCO) "Civil Initiative against Environmental Crime"* has been added to the register of foreign agents, the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has informed.

September 01, 2024 22:05

• Comments in social network result in fine imposed on resident of Slavyansk-on-Kuban

  The Slavyansk-on-Kuban City Court has fined a local resident by 30,000 roubles, treating his comments posted in the "VKontakte" social network as discredited the Russian Army.

August 31, 2024 23:36

• Verdict to KBR resident Andzor Kudaev upheld despite torture claim

  The cassation instance has upheld the sentence of Andzor Kudaev, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was sentenced to six years in penal colony on charges of aiding terrorism and possessing weapons. The instance has found the defence's arguments that Kudaev had confessed under torture to be untenable.