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January 13, 2023 23:51

• HRW points to human rights violations in Chechnya and Dagestan

  In 2022, amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, Chechen authorities continued suppressing the dissent, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) has noted. Its report also mentions the persecutions of opponents of mobilization in Dagestan.

January 13, 2023 23:50

• Advocate demands to return home mobilized Dagestani with many children

  Alibek Alibekov, a resident of Dagestan with many children, was denied a deferment from mobilization; his advocate has sent a complaint to the Russia's Commissioner for Children's Rights.

January 13, 2023 17:15

• SAM of Chechnya reports about training fighters

  Employees of the Chechen Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) and the republic's Imams are undergoing military training at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes in order to be ready for sending to the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine, the SAM (or the Muftiate) has informed.

January 13, 2023 16:59

• Ukrainian SBU accuses Kadyrov’s adviser Delimkhanov of justifying military operation

  The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russian State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov in absentia of encroaching on the territorial integrity of Ukraine and justifying the special military operation. Adam Delimkhanov said those accusations did not matter to him.

January 13, 2023 16:42

• Human rights defenders report a threat to security of Dagestani native Elina Ukhmanova

  Elina Ukhmanova, a resident of Dagestan, who claimed being persecuted for bisexuality and atheism, mentioned the parents’ plans to send her for treatment to the Chechen centre of Islamic medicine as the reason for her running away from home.

January 12, 2023 18:08

• Makhachkala townspeople complained about emergency services' inaction

  In Makhachkala, for more than 24 hours, municipal services fail to react to power and water supply outages, residents of the city have complained.

January 12, 2023 18:00

• Court refuses to release Zarema Musaeva

  Despite the medical documents about the deterioration of her health condition, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has upheld the extension of the arrest of Zarema Musaeva.

January 12, 2023 17:49

• Female refugee from Kherson fined in Kuban for discrediting army

  The Timashevsky District Court has fined Karina Terebetskaya, a refugee from Kherson, for discrediting the Russian Army.

January 12, 2023 17:38

• Authors of film “Fathers and Sons. And Torture” recall murder of Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan

  In the film “Fathers and Sons. And Torture”, the “Team Against Torture”* recalled the murder of the Gasanguseinov brothers in Dagestan, which has remained unsolved for more than five years already.

January 12, 2023 17:15

• Lawyers request courts to reconsider decisions on liquidation of “Memorials”*

  Lawyers from the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* and the “Memorial International”* (International Historical Educational Charitable and Human Rights Society “Memorial”) filed complaints to courts requesting them to examine for legality the liquidation of the above organizations and their inclusion in the register of foreign agents.

January 11, 2023 19:19

• Kadyrov announces number of Chechen fighters involved in SMO

  More than 21,000 Chechen fighters have taken part in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine; and over 9000 are currently on the frontlines there, the head of Chechnya has stated.

January 11, 2023 17:46

• Examination finds no extremism in Abdulmumin Gadjiev's articles

  At the court session on the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov, the outcomes of the examination of the articles written by Gadjiev a Dagestani journalist, for the "Chernovik" outlet were announced.

January 11, 2023 16:40

• Volgograd resident claims torture after setting fire to rug at FSB door in Krasnodar

  After detention, law enforcers tortured, including with the use of electric current, Igor Paskar, a resident of Volgograd, accused of committing a terror act attack and vandalism: he set fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar; he claimed torture at the trial at the Southern District Court.

January 11, 2023 16:25

• Lawyers treat as reasonable period for investigation into young man’s murder near Kayakent in Dagestan

  The case on the murder of 19-year-old Magomed-Ali Sultanov is at the stage of preliminary investigation, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports.

January 11, 2023 05:46

• ECtHR awards compensation to relatives of Dagestani natives killed in Chechnya

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized the law enforcers’ responsibility for the deaths of eight residents of Dagestan in Chechnya in October 2016 and awarded 27 complainants 609,000 euros in compensation.

January 10, 2023 23:56

• Court denies alternative service for Kuban resident instead of mobilization

  The Prikubansky District Court of Krasnodar has dismissed the claim lodged by Roman Volik, a resident of Kuban (the Krasnodar Territory), who tried to obtain alternative military service instead of mobilization, referring to his anti-war convictions.

January 10, 2023 23:50

• Dagestan: pensioner fined for discrediting Russian militaries

  The court has fined Khadis Gazimagomedov, a 63-year-old pensioner from Dagestan, by 15,000 roubles for posting pacifist photos in a social network.

January 10, 2023 23:46

• Dagestani villagers rally to discuss gas supply problems

  In the village of Avadan, Dokuzparin District, local residents tried to block the highway, demanding to solve their problem with gas supply. Heating boilers turn off because of low pressure in the gas system; the problem affects different villages of Dagestan, Telegram users have informed.

January 10, 2023 15:57

• Resident of Nalchik challenges South Korea's refusal to grant asylum

  The South Korean Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has denied asylum to Djashar Khubiev, a football player from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who had left Russia due to the threat of being sent to the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

January 10, 2023 15:48

• Makhachkala: law enforcers increase pressure on picketers

  Under absurd pretexts, law enforcers prevent pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" weekly outlet, by detaining picketers; and even an occasional female passer-by was taken to the police station, Dagestani journalists have informed.