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June 21, 2024 20:08

• Resident of North Ossetia achieves compensation from MIA for torture

  Soslan Dzidakhanov, who was subjected to bullying by a law enforcer, has claimed one million roubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) as compensation for moral harm, but the court in North Ossetia reduced this amount to 200,000 roubles.

June 21, 2024 17:28

• Investigators respond to complaint from Maria Smelaya, who fled from domestic violence

  In Krasnodar, the police released after detention a husband of Maria Smelaya, a native of Chechnya. No child was accompanying him. The man is suspected of unsanctioned actions with the use of violence.

June 20, 2024 23:48

• Tsomartova announces lack of progress in case on her daughter’s disappearance

  When entering the Russian presidential reception, Diana Tsomartova claimed the absence of results of the investigation into the disappearance of her daughter, who disappeared in Dagestan. The woman also filed complaints to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the FSB.

June 20, 2024 22:58

• Pyatigorsk resident complains to President Putin about investigators’ inaction

  A complaint about attempted robbery has not been investigated for more than a year, and the prosecutor’s office has not taken any actions, claims Miko Akopov, an injured resident of Pyatigorsk. The man has sent complaints about the investigators’ inaction to President Putin and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

June 20, 2024 22:10

• Teenager from Chechnya detained in France for promoting terrorism

  In the French city of Tours, the police detained a 15-year-old native of Chechnya after he posted videos on social network with instructions for manufacturing an improvised explosive device, beheading people, and with symbols of the “Islamic State” (IS, a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, – note of the “Caucasian Knot”).

June 20, 2024 21:11

• Mother reports about health state of Krasnodar resident Manchenko, beaten by law enforcers

  Yevgeny Manchenko, a man with disability, got a serious leg injury after being beaten by law enforcers, and the injury prevents him from normal walking, claims his mother Snezhana Manchenko.

June 20, 2024 17:33

• Termination of murder case against Umazhat Guseinova upheld

  The appellate instance has recognized as legal the decision of the court in Makhachkala to stop the criminal prosecution of Tagir Velagaev, a pensioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), accused of murdering his ex-wife Umazhat Guseinova. The human rights project "Travmpunkt", whose advocates represented the victim in court, has reported this in its Telegram channel.

June 19, 2024 22:55

• Kuban resident fined for calls to terrorism

  A court in Rostov-on-Don has found Vladimir Yarotsky, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), guilty of calls for terrorism and imposed a fine of 350,000 roubles on him, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has reported with reference to the press service of the court.

June 19, 2024 22:50

• Human rights defender Nagavkin complains about falsifications in his case

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has informed the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about falsifications in the case initiated against him about the theft allegedly committed by him in a jewellery store.

June 19, 2024 21:03

• Leila Gatagazheva, accused of having links with Syrian militants, was released under recognizance not to leave

  The term of house arrest of Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of links with Syrian militants, expired on June 17; and the court released her under recognizance not to leave the place, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence* has reported.

June 19, 2024 20:49

• Student from Taganrog convicted of treason

  The court has sentenced Vladislav Poruchikov, a student from Taganrog, to nine years in jail, finding him guilty of treason and attempting to get recruited into a terrorist organization.

June 19, 2024 19:10

• Relatives of Kevin Lik, convicted in case on high treason, alarmed by no information on his whereabouts

  Relatives of 18-year-old Kevin Lik from Maykop, sentenced for high treason, cannot obtain information about his whereabouts after he was transferred from Krasnodar to the Arkhangelsk Region, where he was supposed to serve his sentence, his mother says.

June 18, 2024 23:58

• Volgograd resident fined for posting rainbow flag on social media

  In Volgograd, a court fined a local resident 1000 roubles, finding her guilty of publicly displaying extremist symbols.

June 18, 2024 23:47

• ECtHR recognizes fine for picketing as violation of Oleg Orlov*’s rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found that by detaining human rights defender Oleg Orlov* at a picket in support of Oyub Titiev and fining him for his protest action, the Russian authorities violated the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and judicial impartiality.

June 18, 2024 21:14

• Court extends arrest of five defendants in Makhachkala unrest case

  The arrest of five figurants in the riot case at Makhachkala Airport has been extended until December 30, 2024, the RIA "Novosti" has reported, citing the press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory.

June 18, 2024 20:49

• Court finds violation of detainees' rights in Makhachkala shelter

  The court has obliged the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to pay compensations to three women who were beaten up by law enforcers during detention at a shelter, where law enforcers came there to take Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, away.

June 18, 2024 17:54

• Court extends arrest of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova

  Nadezhda Kevorkova, a journalist, accused of justifying terrorism, has been left in custody until August 6, 2024.

June 17, 2024 23:43

• Human rights defenders comment on incident in Rostov SIZO

  The hostage-taking incident in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don may be the result of a provocation, human rights defenders note. According to their version, the dead prisoners had handcuffs on their hands, and numerous violations had earlier been recorded in the SIZO itself.

June 17, 2024 23:11

• Magomedov’s picket attracts attention of tourists to Dagestani journalist Gadjiev’s case

  In Makhachkala, tourists became interested in Abdulmumin Gadjiev’s case after noticing a solo picket in his support, reported journalist Magomed Magomedov.

June 17, 2024 22:57

• Military man from Adygea sentenced for desertion

  A court sentenced Vitaly Yanchenko, a contract soldier from Adygea, to six years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, finding him guilty of desertion from a military unit in Buynaksk.