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November 21, 2023 23:51

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria fined for pacifist inscription on backpack

  In Nalchik, a court recognized a pacifist inscription on a backpack as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and fined a local resident 30,000 roubles. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”*.

November 21, 2023 22:37

• Authorities of Dagestan promise to accept Palestinian refugees

  Dagestan is ready to accept up to 200 Palestinian refugees, and places in a sanatorium have been prepared for their accommodation. That is reported by the administration of the republic’s leader.

November 21, 2023 20:15

• Picketers compare Makhachkala townspeople's reaction to actions in support of Gadjiev and Palestinians

  The events in the Gaza Strip have distracted for some time the attention of Makhachkala townspeople from sentencing of the journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev. The actions in support of Palestinians evoke more responses, but the injustice against Gadjiev continues outraging people, the solo picketers, Idris Yusupov and Magomed Magomedov, have noted.

November 21, 2023 17:35

• Activist Larisa Baragunova’s arrest extended

  A public prosecutor managed to convince a court of the need to extend the arrest of Tyrnyauz activist Larisa Baragunova, accused of attacking a police officer. Activist’s relatives claim that Larisa Baragunova does not receive the necessary medical treatment in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

November 21, 2023 15:50

• Contract soldier from Sochi sentenced for leaving military unit

  Alexander Chechel, a contract soldier from Sochi, was sentenced to 6.5 years of imprisonment in a penal colony for leaving his military unit twice.

November 20, 2023 23:35

• Dagestani activist Sirazhudinova treats denunciation on support for anti-Semitic actions as slander

  Saida Sirazhudinova, an activist, has called the Anna Korobkova's denouncement of Saida's support for anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan to be slander and information distortion.

November 20, 2023 23:27

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 13-19, 2023

  Protests in Georgia, echoes of the riots in Makhachkala, Adam Kadyrov’s new awards, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, trial in the Nikita Zhuravel’s case, 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 13-19, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

November 20, 2023 23:12

• Case of Dagestani law enforcers on abductions and torture sent for reconsideration

  After verdict overturning, the district court of Dagestan has the case of five policemen accused of kidnapping and torturing a female detainee returned.

November 20, 2023 22:15

• Court denies Volgograd resident's claim about torture in colonies

  The Volgograd Regional Court has rejected the lawsuit lodged by Vladimir Khlyntsev, a serviceman for the "Wagner" Private Military Company (PMC) against two penal colonies and the Russian Ministry of Finance (MoF) concerning torturous custody conditions.

November 20, 2023 20:13

• Details of Magomedova's administrative case of discrediting Russian Army released

  Asiyat Magomedova, a resident of Kizlyar, was fined under the article on discrediting the Russian Army for watching Ukrainian TV channels and posting a video on the WhatsApp* about the situation in Avdeevka.

November 20, 2023 18:55

• Court in Bishkek liberates Chechen Mansur Movlaev

  Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, has been released after a court hearing held in the city of Bishkek, but the decision to expel him from Kyrgyzstan was upheld, his advocate has informed.

November 20, 2023 15:47

• After Makhachkala riots, over 400 people brought to responsibility

  Dagestani courts have received administrative cases against 412 people accused of offenses during the anti-Semitic action and riots at the Makhachkala Airport. This was reported by the "Mediazona"*.

November 19, 2023 21:14

• Rights defenders explain Chechen Imams' failure to appear at trial of Zhuravel's case

  Chechen Imams have become the suffered party in Nikita Zhuravel's case against their will, and ignore court sessions, because they received no instructions on their testimonies, Svetlana Gannushkina* believes.

November 18, 2023 23:57

• Lawyers and rights defenders criticize arson version of commissariat in Prokhladny

  Lawyers and human rights defenders have found distrustful the version that instructions from some curator were found in the phone of the person detained for setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in the town of Prokhladny.

November 18, 2023 23:15

• KBR: soldier convicted for evading service

  A court in Nalchik has sentenced Isa Malsagov, a military serviceman, to five years of conditional freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

November 18, 2023 22:33

• Twenty-seven complaints against arrests after mass unrests in Makhachkala arrive in courts

  At least 27 people have been arrested within a criminal case regarding mass riots in Makhachkala, who have appealed against their arrest in the Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan. The SC has already upheld arrests on 17 complaints.

November 18, 2023 21:22

• Comment about unrests in Makhachkala causes denunciation of Saida Sirazhudinova

  After posting her comment on anti-Semitic actions in Dagestan for some Western editions, Saida Sirazhudinova, the President of the Centre for Studying Global Modernity Issues and Regional Problems "Caucasus. World. Development", has attracted attention of a well-known informer.

November 18, 2023 19:25

• After beating up Zhuravel, Adam Kadyrov adds public medal to his collection of awards

  Activists of the all-Russian organization "Russia's Labour Valour" have decorated Adam Kadyrov, a son of the head of Chechnya, who had beaten up the arrested Nikita Zhuravel, with their public award. Adam has also received the medal "For Contribution to Development of Russian Special Forces University".

November 18, 2023 17:35

• Activist from Sochi fined for insulting Russian president

  In Sochi, a court fined activist Anna Kolmagortseva 40,000 roubles under the article on petty hooliganism for posting a video allegedly insulting the Russian president. The court’s decision will be challenged, since the video was filmed and posted by another user, the activist states.

November 18, 2023 16:55

• Human rights defenders treat report on victims of domestic violence in Northern Caucasus as relevant

  Human rights defenders have noted that among the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the problem with evacuation of victims of domestic violence is most acute in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya, since in those republics, the authorities and the law enforcement bodies take the side of family aggressors.