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November 19, 2024 23:16

• Nagavkin placed to punishment cell after criticizing penal colony

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender from Kalach-on-Don, has been placed to a punishment cell in a penal colony where he is serving his sentence for disrupting the operation of a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

November 19, 2024 21:51

• Protests against extradition of Chechen native held in Belgium and Austria

  The Chechen native detained in France faces deportation to his homeland; and members of the local Diaspora have held rallies in his defence.

November 19, 2024 21:33

• Mobilized man from Adygea convicted of desertion

  A court in Maykop has sentenced Ramazan Bidanok, a mobilized local resident, to seven years in custody, finding him guilty of desertion and unauthorized abandonment of his military unit.

November 18, 2024 23:31

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria punished for his posts on social media

  A court fined a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, finding him guilty of calling for terrorist and extremist activity.

November 18, 2024 23:10

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of November 11-17, 2024

  Crisis in Abkhazia, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, new criminal case against Nikita Zhuravel, echo of the parliamentary elections in Georgia, 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 11-17, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

November 18, 2024 22:48

• Court cancels lenient sentence to Sochi policemen for extorting bribe

  The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi sentenced criminal investigator Yefrem Kesyan to seven years of probation, finding him guilty of accepting a bribe from a detainee. The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia found the sentence unreasonably lenient.

November 18, 2024 21:38

• Rights defender Nagavkin calls to conduct check in colony

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has complained about custody conditions in the penal colony, located in the Volgograd Region, where he is serving his sentence, and demanded to conduct an inspection there.

November 18, 2024 19:33

• Version of Sunzha Imam's ties with underground called into question

  No radical views have been found in the Imam of the Sunzha mosque, Abdulrashid Gardanov, while law enforcers are simulating a fight against the underground in order to improve their performance, analysts assert.

November 17, 2024 16:35

• Desecration of monument to Kadyrov in Moscow is message to Chechen leader

  The derogatory inscription on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Moscow was caused by hostility towards the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, human rights defenders have suggested.

November 16, 2024 23:31

• Activists treat attempt to detain Dagestani political analyst Khalidov as intimidation

  While trying to detain Denga Khalidov, a Dagestani political analyst, before a round table in support of Ramazan Rabadanov, law enforcers wanted to put pressure and intimidate activists.

November 16, 2024 22:48

• Policemen convicted in Dagestan for beating detainee up

  After finding them guilty of beating up a detainee and falsifying proofs within a criminal case, the Nogai District Court has sentenced the police chief of the town of Yuzhno-Sukhokumsk (Dagestan) and three of his subordinates to colony terms.

November 16, 2024 19:35

• Native of Chechnya fined twice for discrediting Russian Army

  In Surgut, a court found two entries posted on a social network by local resident Marina Lolokhaeva to be discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. The woman was obliged to pay a fine of 70,000 roubles.

November 15, 2024 23:30

• Journalist Kevorkova*’s case sent to prosecutor’s office

  A case against journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova*, accused of justifying terrorism, has been sent to the prosecutor’s office for approval of the indictment. Kaloi Alkhigov, an advocate of Nadezhda Kevorkova*, suggested that the investigation may be delayed due to the political nature of the case.

November 15, 2024 23:07

• Case of Zhuravel, who burned down Koran, evidences voluntary law interpreting

  The treason case of Nikita Zhuravel is being considered at the place where the alleged crime was committed, although the case of burning the Koran was transferred from Volgograd to Chechnya. The voluntary nature of Zhuravel's testimonies on treason remains in question, but the closed nature of the trial does not allow his statements to be heard.

November 15, 2024 22:23

• Makhachkala rioters offered removal from prophylactic register for contracts with MoD

  At a meeting with participants in the riots at the Makhachkala Airport, the head of the Karabudakhkent District threatened negative consequences of prophylactic registration for their families and offered to remove from the register those who would sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) to participate in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

November 15, 2024 19:32

• Dagestani activists complain about attempt to disrupt roundtable in defence of Rabadanov

  Law enforcers attempted to detain activist Denga Khalidov, who organized a roundtable in defence of blogger Ramazan Rabadanov, who was detained in Dagestan. Activists accepted an appeal to the law enforcement bodies, despite the fact that they had to change twice the location of their meeting.

November 14, 2024 23:18

• Young people apologize for desecrating “Eternal Glory” memorial in Nevinnomyssk

  A video of four young people apologizing for desecrating the “Eternal Glory” memorial in Nevinnomyssk has been posted on Telegram.

November 14, 2024 22:45

• Claims from tax authorities draw attention to charitable fund of Khabib, UFC champion from Dagestan

  Khabib Nurmagomedov, the ambassador of the "Tooba" charity crowd-funding application, was publicly supporting the Makhachkala football club. However, no information about any assistance to mountain villages, low-income people, or children's clubs appeared in the public space.

November 14, 2024 22:40

• Kuban resident fined for pacifist post on Telegram

  The court has fined Anton Timoshenko, a resident of the Pavlovsky District of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), for a pacifist video placed by him in a Telegram channel criticizing the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

November 14, 2024 19:39

• Vandals write insult on monument to Kadyrov in Moscow

  Vandals have painted a derogatory inscription on the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Moscow. It was erased by utility workers.