Abubakar Yangulbaev put on list of extremists and terrorists

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.