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June 05, 2024 19:24

• Court recognizes investigators’ inaction in case of Stavropol Territory resident hit by a car

  A court concluded that an investigation into the case on a car hitting Sergey Sopnev, a resident of the Predgorny District, who as a result got his leg amputated and became disabled, was conducted ineffectively and led to a violation of the victim’s rights.

June 05, 2024 18:51

• Volgograd blogger Prokudin fined

  The court has fined Pavel Prokudin, a Volgograd blogger, by 60,000 roubles under administrative charges of discrediting the Russian Army and petty hooliganism.

June 05, 2024 16:20

• Pensioner fined for damaging a ballot in Sochi

  In Sochi, a court imposed a fine on pensioner Elena Yanmurzina in a criminal case for attempting to spoil ballots at a polling station.

June 04, 2024 23:52

• Second wife of Chechen resident accuses him of beating

  Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.

June 04, 2024 21:57

• Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk complains of torture in custody

  Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.

June 04, 2024 21:09

• Attempt to pass medical examination after being wounded turns into detention for Volgograd resident

  Employees of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) have detained Alexei Gaun, a Volgograd resident, for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, when he tried to undergo a medical examination after being seriously wounded in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

June 04, 2024 18:52

• Lawyer points to protracting infection case of Kuban prisoner

  The consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Yuri Mikhailov, who was HIV infected while being kept at the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, was again postponed due to the fact that SIZO bosses failed to provide the documents requested by the court.

June 04, 2024 18:09

• Case of pensioner from Gelendjik about discrediting Russian Army comes to court

  The pensioner is accused under the criminal article on discrediting Russian militaries.

June 03, 2024 23:49

• Nikah becomes cover up for early marriages in Northern Caucasus

  An author of the study “Forcibly Married” indicated that when she and her colleagues were preparing the study they had to operate only with the information on early marriages released by the “Rosstat” (Federal State Statistics Service), although in many cases, only a religious marriage is being concluded.

June 03, 2024 22:57

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of May 27-June 2, 2024

  Georgian parliament overcomes presidential veto, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, news from Ingushetia, 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 May 27-June 2, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

June 03, 2024 22:44

• Rostov Region resident claims her sick husband forcibly sent to SMO zone

  Alexei Motorny from the Rostov Region was detained and forcibly sent to the special military operation zone, despite a heart attack he suffered, claimed his spouse Svetlana. The woman is seeking her husband’s return home.

June 03, 2024 21:47

• Activist Marina Melikhova released from SIZO

  Activist Marina Melikhova, who was sentenced for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on June 1, the “OVD-Info”* reports.

June 03, 2024 18:08

• Rights defenders report that fathers from Northern Caucasus ignore court rulings in children-related disputes

  Even if the court rules to leave a child with the mother, fathers from North-Caucasian regions often kidnap their children and take them to their homeland, from where it is then difficult to return them, human rights defenders have in their comments on the story of Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident.

June 03, 2024 17:55

• Volgograd journalist fined for his posts in social network

  A court in Volgograd has fined Stanislav Terentiev, a former editor-in-chief of the "Kolokol" (Bell) newspaper, finding him guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. Stanislav refused to plead guilty and appealed against the court ruling.

June 02, 2024 23:38

• Post in social network turns into fine imposed on Kizlyar resident

  A court in Kizlyar (a city in Dagestan) has fined Saadula Zakaryaev, a local resident, for violating the rules of organizing a rally after he had posted an invitation in a social network for his subscribers to take part in filming a video about cars.

June 02, 2024 21:38

• KBR resident complains about criminal case fabrication

  The expertise, on the basis of which the court found Salikh Osmanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of attempted sabotage, was conducted with gross violations, the complaint lodged against Osmanov's verdict asserts. He has accused law enforcers of fabricating the case against him.

June 02, 2024 18:51

• Defence demands to release activist Marina Melikhova from SIZO

  Marina Melikhova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), remains at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although her prison term has expired, her advocate has stated demanding from the SIZO to release Marina.

June 01, 2024 23:55

• Three residents of Krasnodar Territory fined for discrediting Russian Army

  Oksana Voronina from Tikhoretsk and Yulia Vaganova from Sochi have been fined for their comments in social networks, which were treated by the court as discrediting the Russian Army. Yuri Boretsky, a Sochi resident, was ordered to pay a fine for his statements made during a conversation with his colleagues.

June 01, 2024 23:53

• Researchers discuss early and forced marriages in Northern Caucasus

  The problem of early and forced marriages in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is still there, although there are no reliable statistics on this issue. The problem is rarely brought into the public sphere amid girls' confidence in their own defencelessness, absence of working laws and gender discrimination characteristic of the patriarchal structure inherent in these republics.

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.