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December 22, 2023 22:55

• ICRF refuses to investigate threats from Chechnya against advocate

  The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has found no elements of the crime in the threats that advocate Tatiana Solomina received from a mother of her client from Chechnya. Investigators have refused to institute a criminal case. Tatiana Solomina intends to file an appeal against the ICRF’s decision.

December 22, 2023 19:31

• Orientalists and activists comment on idea of teaching Arabic in schools in Caucasus

  Although the proposal to introduce Arabic into the school curriculum is politically motivated, it will be received positively in the republics of Northern Caucasus, where many parents of schoolchildren want their children to study Arabic.

December 22, 2023 16:01

• Chechen native arrested in London for preparing attack on Iranian oppositionists

  In London, a court arrested Magomed-Khusein Dovtaev, a native of Chechnya, finding him guilty of attempting to collect information for a subsequent attack on employees of the “Iran International” opposition TV Channel. The native of Chechnya states that he had been “put under fire.”

December 21, 2023 21:37

• Two Stavropol residents sentenced to imprisonment as participants in Basaev’s raid on Dagestan

  In Dagestan, a court sentenced Stavropol residents Arifulla Avezov and Akhmet Terekbaev to 14 years of imprisonment, recognizing them as participants in an armed attack of the militant groupings led by Basaev and Khattab on the republic in 1999.

December 21, 2023 21:16

• Human rights defenders secure prosecutors’ attention to problems of people with disabilities in Dagestan

  The prosecutor’s office issued a complaint to the Pension and Social Insurance Fund of Dagestan due to the untimely provision of people with disabilities with the rehabilitation means to be provided to them under the law, the “Patient Monitor” human rights organization reported.

December 21, 2023 20:26

• In Kuban, beating of watchman results in three criminal cases against law enforcers

  Investigators instituted a criminal case on falsification of a police protocol against district police inspector Yevgeny Samonov, accused of beating Kuban resident Fyodor Valko and forgery.

December 21, 2023 10:01

• Human rights defenders report harsh sentences to men for leaving military units without permissions

  Leaving a military unit without permission by a mobilized man is regarded as a crime, and there is a tendency towards tougher punishment. When commenting on the sentence of mobilized Adam Ivanov, convicted by a military court in Nalchik for leaving his military unit without permission, human rights defenders have noted that courts more often sentence deserters to five or more years of imprisonment.

December 20, 2023 21:12

• Advocate Nemov refuses to travel to Chechnya to testify

  Advocate Alexander Nemov, who was beaten in Chechnya, considered it unsafe for him to go there to testify in his case, reported Henry Reznik, the head of the lawyer’s commission. According to him, colleagues of Alexander Nemov have no illusions that the crime will be solved soon.

December 20, 2023 17:49

• Mobilized resident of Kuban sentenced to imprisonment for desertion

  In Sochi, a court sentenced mobilized Maxim Sukhobrus to seven years of imprisonment, finding him guilty of leaving without permission a military unit in the special military operation zone and desertion.

December 20, 2023 16:29

• Chechen Ali Bataev released from deportation centre in Zurich

  Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, who was facing deportation from Switzerland to his homeland, has been released from the deportation centre, human rights defenders have informed.

December 20, 2023 15:25

• At Nikita Zhuravel's trial, court completes questioning suffered party

  At a court session in Grozny, the last three of the 13 imams recognized as the suffered party in the case of the burning of the Koran by Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, were interrogated. One of the Imams has stated that Zhuravel's act caused him moral harm.

December 20, 2023 12:49

• Kabardino-Balkarian authorities ignore activists’ appeals in defence of scientists

  Authors of the appeal in defence of the scientists of the Institute for Humanitarian Research sent it to the leader and the government of Kabardino-Balkaria, the republic’s Investigating Department of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the prosecutor’s office, but received no response from all the above-mentioned institutions.

December 19, 2023 22:53

• ECtHR awards compensation to activists from Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensations to the following activists from Rostov-on-Don: Olesya Bakhtiyarova, Konstantin Maklyak and Maxim Murugin; to activists from Volgograd, Vladimir Lygin and Vladimir Doronin; and Oleg Ivanov, an activist from Stavropol.

December 19, 2023 21:28

• Rights defenders declare resident of Volgograd Region as political prisoner

  The prosecution of Vasily Melnikov, a resident of the Kotelnikovsky District, on charges of spreading fake news about the Russian Army is unlawful and politically motivated. This was stated by the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial", demanding to release the arrested man.

December 19, 2023 21:04

• Chechen authorities announce launching date of mass production of "Jihad" vehicles

  The start of mass production of "Jihad" vehicles for the needs of the special military operation (SMO) is planned in 2024 at the "Chechenavto", Chechen authorities have reported.

December 19, 2023 17:21

• Resident of Volzhsky challenges decision to draft him into army

  A conscript from Volzhsky filed a claim to court against the decisions of the military registration and enlistment offices, which declared him fit for military service, despite his serious illnesses.

December 18, 2023 23:50

• Law enforcers ask Gadjiev's acquaintances about their presence at picket venue

  Policemen have demanded explanation from Abdulmumin Gadjiev's friends and colleagues, who came to the venue of the solo picket in Makhachkala held by Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet. The law enforcers' reaction to the picket itself was calm, Mr Magomedov has noted.

December 18, 2023 23:16

• Residents of village near Makhachkala complain to Putin about absence of water

  In the village of Bogatyryovka, due to the lack of running water supply, people have to buy drinking water or use technical water from wells, while local authorities do not solve the problem. That has been reported by villagers in their appeal to President Putin.

December 18, 2023 22:47

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 11-17, 2023

  Intensifying repression and presidential election in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, Zarema Musaeva’s case, Temur Karbaya’s death, 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 December 11-17, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

December 18, 2023 22:29

• Journalist Gadjiev's colleague holds picket in Makhachkala

  Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet, has held a solo picket in Makhachkala demanding the release of the convicted Abdulmumin Gadjiev.