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January 21, 2024 18:52

• Contract serviceman from Chechnya acquitted of killing his colleague

  A court in Novocherkassk has acquitted Zaindi Takaev, a military contractor from Chechnya, accused of murdering Magomed Shakhbanov, his colleague from Dagestan. The acquittal was based on the outcomes of two examinations, which did not confirm Takaev's guilt.

January 21, 2024 17:19

• Actions in memory of Markelov and Baburova held in Russian cities

  In Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Riga and other cities of Russia and Europe, rallies were held in memory of Stanislav Markelov, an advocate, and Anastasia Baburova, a "Novaya Gazeta", a journalist; they were shot dead in 2009.

January 20, 2024 19:06

• Lawyers assess chances of Ingush native for compensation for oppression in penal colony

  Vakha Tsurov, a convict from Ingushetia, has little chance of obtaining compensation in court from the administration of the penal colony for disciplinary sanctions imposed on him because of performing namaz (prayer), state lawyers.

January 20, 2024 19:03

• Four Krasnodar women fined for links with undesirable organizations

  A court in Krasnodar has imposed fines on four local residents, finding them to be members of a number of foreign organizations deemed undesirable in Russia.

January 20, 2024 18:55

• Convict from Dagestan reports Muslims' hunger strike in colony

  Inmates in the colony located in the Kurgan Region have gone on a hunger strike in protest against insults to believers' feelings and the seizure of their personal belongings, Omar Murtazaliev, a convict from Dagestan, has stated in a video appeal.

January 20, 2024 17:40

• Fifteen years pass since murder of advocate Markelov and journalist Baburova

  On the 15th anniversary of the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, Moscow activists called for laying flowers at the place of their deaths and announced the screening of a film about the murdered journalist.

January 20, 2024 17:27

• Resident of Dagestan found guilty of extremism

  In Makhachkala, a court found Ruslan Abdullaev guilty of involvement in a cell of the “USSR Citizens”* and sentenced him to imprisonment in a penal colony. However, taking into account the time spent under arrest, the defendant was released in the courtroom.

January 20, 2024 16:10

• Resonance of Gakaev's murder accelerates families' reconciliation

  The reconciliation of Abdurakhim Gakaev's relatives with the killer's family took place without any coercion; the apology is not a disgrace to the family and is usually accepted; and the promise of renouncing blood feud cannot be broken, experts on the Caucasus have indicated.

January 19, 2024 23:14

• "Ingush Independence Committee"* included into register of foreign agents

  The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has added the "Ingush Independence Committee"* to the list of foreign agents, justifying this decision with the calls for violating the territorial integrity of Russia and creating Russia's negative image.

January 19, 2024 23:12

• Dalgatov’s relatives express their indignation at leniency to those involved in case on his death

  Eleven law enforcers are involved in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov, and four of them are placed under house arrest, including Bulat Medjidov, whose pre-trial restriction measure was changed on January 17. A Kurban Dalgatov’s widow requested investigators to return all the defendants to a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

January 19, 2024 23:08

• Grozny resident manages to leave Russia after being tortured because of his sexual orientation

  Rizvan Dadaev, a resident of Grozny, who had been missing for a long time after his detention because of his sexual orientation, had been tortured in captivity for months. He has managed to leave Russia now.

January 19, 2024 19:50

• Second protocol on discrediting Russian Army drawn up against Natalia Dorozhnova

  Law enforcers have drawn up a second protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Natalia Dorozhnova, a Volgograd activist. The reason to persecute her was Dorozhnova's statements in an interview after the trial, which fined her under the same article, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

January 19, 2024 19:14

• Rights defenders hold Chechen authorities responsible for Gakaev's murder

  The authorities and law enforcers should have paid attention to Turpal-Ali Shamurzaev's posts about his fight against witches and react to them; this could have prevented the murder of Mullah Gakaev, human rights defenders have stated.

January 19, 2024 17:12

• Gakaevs reconcile with family of the man accused of killing Mullah

  The reconciliation of relatives of Turpal-Ali Shamurzaev, accused of killing the Mullah, Abdurakhim Gakaev, and the latter's family occurred in the village of Kadi-Yurt, a resident of the Gudermes District has informed.

January 19, 2024 14:50

• Zarema Musaeva reprimanded in penal colony

  The colony bosses have reprimanded Zarema Musaeva for not wearing a badge; she walked ten meters down the corridor without it. The reprimand may cause non-release of Musaeva under the conditional early relief (CER), an advocate has stated.

January 18, 2024 23:39

• AI urges authorities in European states to stop deportation of natives of Northern Caucasus

  Authorities in European states must immediately halt the transfer of refugees and asylum seekers from Northern Caucasus back to Russia where they are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment, the “Amnesty International” (AI) has declared.

January 18, 2024 22:38

• Norwegian Helsinki Committee remembers mass deportation of repressed peoples in USSR

  A series of articles reporting about the deportation of peoples during the years of Soviet power has been prepared by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. The articles contain, in particular, memories of Karachay and Kalmyk people about deportation from their native places and years in exile.

January 18, 2024 17:23

• Advocate points to violations during search at Vyacheslav Yaschenko

  The law enforcers' actions when conducting a search of the home of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" journalist, in Volgograd were at odds with the search order signed by the investigator, the advocate has stated.

January 18, 2024 17:17

• Law enforcers conduct searched at "Caucasian Knot" journalist

  Today, policemen have searched the home of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" journalist, and took away his laptop and storage media. They explained that the search was conducted within the case of the activist, Evgeny Kochegin*, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army.

January 18, 2024 17:02

• Defence claims falsification of riots case at Makhachkala Airport

  Gerei Djamalutdinov was detained after the riots at the Makhachkala Airport; law enforcers forced him to self-incriminate; and no the witness' interrogation data, who state that he saw Djamalutdinov at the airport could be found in the case files, the advocate has stated.