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November 29, 2023 23:56

• Kabardino-Balkarian SC sides with advocate Tsipinova

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to grant a public prosecutor’s appeal and upheld the acquittal of advocate Diana Tsipinova, who was accused of attacking a law enforcer.

November 29, 2023 23:54

• First group of forced migrants from Palestine arrives in Chechnya

  More than 50 residents of Palestine arrived in Chechnya. Adult migrants will be offered jobs, and children will go to schools, announce the republic’s authorities.

November 29, 2023 17:18

• On November 20-26, one person perished and one was wounded in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week on November 20-26, 2023, at least one person perished and another one was wounded during the ongoing armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

November 29, 2023 17:00

• Roman Kharitonov treats attention from law enforcers and social protection officers as pressure on his family

  Law enforcers took Roman Kharitonov to a police station and drew up a protocol against him for insulting the president of Russia. Roman Kharitonov considered a visit of social protection officers to his 92-year-old grandmother an element of pressure on his family.

November 28, 2023 23:57

• Refugees from Palestine report their needs to Dagestani officials

  Residents of Palestine who arrived in Dagestan asked to be provided with cellular communications and the Internet, as well as to draw up necessary documents. Some of them intend to obtain Russian citizenship. All refugees are accommodated at a recreation centre not far from Makhachkala.

November 28, 2023 23:13

• Victims figuring in Zhuravel's case on burning down Koran speak at trial

  The act of Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, who burned down the Koran, has offended Muslims' feelings and inflicted harm to them harm. This was stated by Imams of local mosques, who act as the suffered party in the case, considered by the Visaitovsky District Court of Grozny.

November 28, 2023 21:43

• Posts in social network result in criminal case against KBR resident

  After being fined for posting extremist symbols in a social network, a resident of the Baksan District, has placed another post with similar content. A criminal case has been opened against him, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has reported.

November 28, 2023 20:14

• After summoning activist, Gelendjik military commissar loses his post

  Igor Ogorodnikov, an election observer from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF), who was given a summons at the polling station, has learned from the acting military commissar of the Krasnodar Territory that the Gelendjik military commissar had been transferred to a lower position.

November 28, 2023 17:16

• Mansur Movlaev leaves Kyrgyzstan due to threat of being sent to Chechnya

  After being released from custody, Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, left Kyrgyzstan to avoid deportation to his homeland.

November 27, 2023 23:13

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 19-26, 2023

  Authorities against journalists in Azerbaijan, armed conflict in Northern Caucasus, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, refugees from Nagorno-Karabakh, Caucasus and Palestine, 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 November 19-26, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

November 27, 2023 22:53

• KBR activists treat investigators' reaction to defence of scientists as intimidation

  The increased investigators' attention to the signatories to the appeal in defence of scientists is a continuation of pressure on the Kabardino-Balkarian Institute for Humanitarian Studies (known as KBIGI), Valery Khatazhukov, a human rights defender, has pointed out.

November 27, 2023 21:25

• Native of Ingushetia claims falsification of his case in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, Alan Khamkhoev, a native of Ingushetia, has been sentenced to a year in penal colony for illegal possession of a pistol with cartridges that he had found. Alan has stated that Chechen investigators falsified the materials of his criminal case.

November 27, 2023 20:55

• Complaint about refusal to investigate torture of actor Timur Debishev returned to Grozny court

  The Supreme Court of Chechnya has found that a district court in Grozny unreasonably dismissed a complaint filed about the investigators’ refusal to institute a case on torture of actor Timur Debishev. The complaint has been returned to the first instance court.

November 27, 2023 17:47

• Post in social network results in fine imposed on resident of Ingushetia for discrediting Russian Army

  Ismail Pliev, a resident of Ingushetia, has been fined by 30,000 roubles for his post placed in a social network.

November 27, 2023 14:31

• Krasnodar priest fined for discrediting Russian Army

  Jonah (Ilya Sigida), a Hieromonk of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC), earlier arrested for two days on charges of resisting law enforcers during a search in his church, was fined by 30,000 roubles. The court has treated his article as discrediting the Russian Army.

November 26, 2023 18:54

• Accusation of Dagestani native of setting fire to military commissariat sparks rights defenders' scepticism

  Shamil Aliev-Gasanov, a native of Dagestan, is charged with terrorism in connection with the arson of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in Murmansk. Such accusations are intended to intimidate initiators of pacifist actions, human rights defenders have pointed out.

November 26, 2023 17:47

• Rights defenders assess chances of Musaeva's CER

  Zarema Musaeva has a chance for the conditional early relief (CER), but the decision depends on Chechen authorities, the human rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

November 26, 2023 13:16

• Number of administrative cases against Makhachkala rioters exceeds 500

  Dagestani courts have received administrative cases against 515 people, on whom protocols had been drawn up on various offenses committed during the anti-Semitic action and riots in Makhachkala.

November 26, 2023 11:18

• Adding journalist Yusupov* to foreign agents surprises Telegram users

  The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has included Idris Yusupov*, a Dagestani journalist, into the register of foreign agents under dubious pretext; this decision is a persecution manifestation of dissidents, Telegram users have indicated.

November 25, 2023 22:16

• Court slightly changes verdict to book publisher Ezhaev

  The appellate court has amended the sentence of Chechen book publisher, Aslambek Ezhaev, pointing out significant violations, but upheld the sentence of 17 years of freedom deprivation on charges of financing terrorism.