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November 23, 2024 21:59

• Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin goes on hunger strike at penal colony

  Human rights defender Igor Nagavkin declared a hunger strike after being placed to a punishment cell in a penal colony in Uryupinsk. Human rights defenders sent a request concerning the legality of the actions of the penal colony administration in relation to Igor Nagavkin.

November 23, 2024 21:17

• Cleansings in Chechnya are coercion element for sending to Ukraine

  Law enforcers are demanding from the men detained in Chechnya to sign contracts with the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD), since the republic lacks volunteers to send to the special military operation (SMO), analysts believe.

November 22, 2024 23:55

• Law enforcers draw up protocol against rights defender for her comment on Suleimanova's case

  Because of her comment on the case of Seda Suleimanova, an abducted Chechen woman, the administrative case against Ekaterina Neroznikova, a human rights defender, accused of collaborating with an undesirable organization, has been transferred to court.

November 22, 2024 23:29

• Court extends arrest of two figurants of preparing terror act in Kaspiysk

  A Moscow court has extended the arrest of Shakhromdjon Gadoev and Mustakim Soliev, who were detained in Dagestan and are accused of preparing a terror act in Kaspiysk and supplying weapons to the attackers on the Crocus City Hall, until the end of next February.

November 22, 2024 20:23

• Accusations against Gadjiev* to settle conflict between Kadyrov and Kerimov

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov and Senator Suleiman Kerimov found a way to end the story of the attempted assassination by attributing the authorship of the information to former Russian State Duma member Magomed Gadjiev*, Dagestani journalists suggested.

November 22, 2024 19:54

• Defender of Sochi gardeners' rights claims illegal prosecution

  Law enforcers have conducted a search of the home of Tatiana Polivanova, an activist, and her family members in Taganrog in connection with a fraud case with land plots of the Sochi National Park. The Polivanova's organization provided legal assistance to dozens of gardeners whose plots were seized by the court within this case.

November 21, 2024 23:59

• In France, activists protest against extradition of Chechen refugees

  Participants of the protest action spoke out in defence of Muslim Tsintsaev and Selima Khadisova.

November 21, 2024 23:58

• Moscow Region resident detained for desecrating Kadyrov monument

  A criminal case has been instituted against a resident of Sergiev Posad for desecrating a monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in Yuzhnoye Butovo.

November 21, 2024 23:37

• Court leaves Volgograd activist Ruslan Nurushev in custody

  The Volgograd Regional Court has approved the arrest of Ruslan Nurushev within the case of spreading fake news about the Russian Army, by neglecting the defence's arguments. The latter intends to challenge the activist's arrest.

November 21, 2024 20:30

• Ingush residents Bekov and Tsitskiev denied change of sentence for preparing terror act

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Russia refused to cancel the sentence to Ingush residents Aslan Bekov and Ruslan Tsitskiev, who were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for preparing a terror act during the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

November 21, 2024 18:14

• Pensioner from Astrakhan sentenced for pacifist statements

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has refused to soften the freedom restraint measure for Ramazan Rabadanov and left him behind bars.

November 20, 2024 23:58

• Activist surprised by being summoned to burnt-out courthouse in Sochi

  Vladimir Atamanchuk, an activist from Sochi, was summoned to a court hearing on his case to be held in a court building closed after a fire.

November 20, 2024 23:53

• Court increases compensation for three persons detained in Makhachkala shelter

  A court of appeal increased compensation for three women who were beaten by law enforcers during their detention at a shelter in Makhachkala when the police came to take away Chechen native Khalimat Taramova. Each of the victim will be paid the compensation increased from 3000 to 15,000 roubles.

November 20, 2024 21:11

• Ex-MP from Dagestan Gadjiev* named as author of version about assassination attempt on Kadyrov

  Two men have recorded a video message in which they named Magomed Gadjiev*, a former Russian State Duma MP from Dagestan, as the author of the version about the assassination attempt on the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

November 20, 2024 19:31

• Dagestani activist Rabadanov left in custody

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has refused to soften the freedom restraint measure for Ramazan Rabadanov and left him behind bars.

November 19, 2024 23:48

• Zarema Musaeva transferred to Grozny SIZO

  Zarema Musaeva, in volved as a defendant in a new case on an attack on a law enforcer, has been transferred to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Grozny. The woman uses crutches to walk, but is not taken to hospital.

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.