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May 19, 2024 14:52

• Rights defenders give number of kidnapped people in Chechnya

  At least 80 residents of Chechnya have been kidnapped after a car with a DUSTUM license plate was set on fire; volunteers have identified the names of a number of them. In the village of Starye Atagi, Urus-Martan District, about 50 members of the Saif-Islam Elmurzaev family, suspected of setting the above car on fire, have been kidnapped; and about 30 people have been kidnapped in the Shali District, the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD)* has reported.

May 18, 2024 23:54

• Rights defenders announce Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev as political prisoners

  The case against Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev is politically motivated, human rights defenders have stated. They recognized Rizvanov and Tambiev as political prisoners, demanding that the criminal prosecution of those convicted on charges of financing terrorism be stopped and that they be released, as well as an inquiry into the torture of Kemal Tambiev.

May 18, 2024 23:46

• Escaped Chechen native Zaurbekova frightened by promise of Kadyrov’s associates to return her to her family

  Liya Zaurbekova, a native of Chechnya, who fled the country, asked not to look for her and stated that she feared a forced return to her family, since her escape attracted the attention of Adam Delimkhanov.

May 18, 2024 22:46

• Court doubles compensation to Dagestani Amakhanov for being beaten by police

  A court of appeal has increased the amount of compensation for grievous bodily harm to Temirkhan Amakhanov, a resident of Derbent, who was beaten by the police, from 400,000 to 800,000 roubles. The above news has been reported by the “Traumpunkt” human rights project on its Telegram channel.

May 18, 2024 21:33

• Journalist Marshenkulova arrested in absentia on charges of justifying terrorism

  In Moscow, a court granted an investigators’ request to arrest in absentia Zalina Marshenkulova, a journalist from Kabardino-Balkaria, who was wanted on charges of justifying terrorism.

May 18, 2024 19:59

• Armed incident in KChR is third in 25 days

  The shootout in the Nogai District, where law enforcers killed an alleged member of a terrorist organization, was preceded by attacks on police squads in Karachaevsk on April 22 and in the village of Mara-Ayagy on April 29 this year.

May 18, 2024 19:23

• Journalist Vishnevetskaya files cassation complaint against her arrest in Dagestan

  The defence of Yulia Vishnevetskaya, a journalist, has pointed out the absence of proofs of her participation in anti-mobilization protests in Makhachkala. Vishnevetskaya's rights to a fair trial were violated, the complaint states.

May 18, 2024 17:47

• Advocate confirms departure of Chechen Zaurbekova from Russia

  Liya Zaurbekova, a native of Chechnya, who escaped from her relatives, has left Russia and is in safety, her advocate has confirmed the information of a member of the Human Rights Council about the woman's departure from Russia.

May 17, 2024 23:13

• Prosecution demands nine years in jail for Mikhail Balabanov for commissariat arson

  At the Southern District Military Court, the prosecutor has demanded to sentence Mikhail Balabanov, 21, to nine years in jail on charges of preparing to set fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in Nevinnomyssk. Balabanov's guilt has not been proven; there are signs of falsification in the case, his defence has pointed out, demanding to acquit the defendant.

May 17, 2024 19:25

• Rights defenders treat case of missing Movsar Umarov as typical for Chechnya

  The decision of the Grozny court to provide Eset Umarova with the materials of the case of her son Movsar's disappearance gives some hope to his family, but investigators are unlikely to make the hope true. The fate of Chechen residents who disappeared like Umarov often remains unknown, human rights defenders have pointed out.

May 17, 2024 18:11

• Police promise to protect Chechen woman Liya Zaurbekova, who escaped from domestic violence

  The police promised human rights defenders and an advocate to ensure the safety of Liya Zaurbekova, a 19-year-old native of Chechnya, who fled from her family living in the Moscow Region. Liya Zaurbekova said she feared reprisals.

May 16, 2024 22:49

• Defendants accused of patients’ deaths in Vladikavkaz hospital refuse to admit their guilt

  Vladimir Pliev and Oleg Morozov, the former head physician of the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital in Vladikavkaz and the institution’s equipment engineer, respectively, refused to plead guilty to the deaths of nine patients with coronavirus caused by an accident in the institution’s oxygen supply system.

May 16, 2024 21:10

• Human rights defenders report danger for Chechen native, who escaped from her family

  The family of a 19-year-old native of Chechnya, who ran away from her family because of permanent pressure and the risk of being killed, put the girl on the wanted list and found her in Moscow. The girl was taken to a police station, and members of her family gathered around the building.

May 16, 2024 18:57

• Court of Appeal upholds fine imposed on Mikhailovsk resident for discrediting Russian Army

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has considered the appeal complaint lodged by Vitaly Fedorenko, a resident of the town of Mikhailovsk, against a fine imposed on him within the case of discrediting the Russian Army and upheld the punishment.

May 16, 2024 17:47

• Woman from Maykop accused of damaging memorial in Krasnodar

  The case of a woman, a native of Maykop, the capital of Adygea, accused of damaging the Eternal Flame memorial in Krasnodar and desecrating a symbol of military glory has been brought to court, investigators have informed.

May 15, 2024 23:24

• Daudov announces his resignation as Speaker of Chechen Parliament

  After a meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, Magomed Daudov, the chair of the Chechen Parliament, has announced the early termination of his powers.

May 15, 2024 22:13

• Defence succeeds in seeking treatment for Zarema Musaeva

  Zarema Musaeva, who is serving her imprisonment term in a penal colony in Argun, is undergoing medical treatment in a day hospital, her advocate reports.

May 15, 2024 21:13

• Rights defenders link kidnappings with car arson in Grozny

  In Grozny, an unknown person has set fire to a car with a DUSTUM license plate and the inscription K13 on the door. A resident of the Chechen capital was detained on suspicion of committing the arson; he surrendered himself after the kidnapping of his family, the Chechen oppositional Telegram channel has reported.

May 15, 2024 18:58

• Leila Gatagazheva's defence treats her return to SIZO as unjustified cruelty

  Leila Gatagazheva, who has been returned from house arrest to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the second time in a row, needs medical treatment; her health was undermined back in the Iraqi prison, her relative and advocates assert.

May 15, 2024 17:37

• Activist from KBR tries to sue FSB

  Olga Begretova, a female activist from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who was subjected to forced fingerprinting by border guards, has demanded to treat the refusal of the republic's branch of the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) to provide the information collected about as illegal and to oblige the branch to eliminate the violations.