Volgograd Region

April 24, 2024 20:27

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin released from SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, whom the Volgograd Regional Court decided to release from custody, has left the territory of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) and went home to the town of Kalach-on-Don, stating that he would seek full rehabilitation.

April 23, 2024 23:11

• Rights defender comments on court ruling to release Nagavkin

  The court ruling to release Igor Nagavkin, a Volgograd human rights defender, from custody is due to the fact that the judicial system would not admit its mistakes, Yulia Evdokimova, a lawyer and human rights defender, has explained.

April 23, 2024 21:43

• Volgograd blogger detained for insulting Russian militaries

  Pavel Prokudin, a trash streamer from Volgograd, suspected of insulting fighters at the special military operation (SMO), has been detained in an apartment in Penza registered in someone else's name. He asked for forgiveness and explained that he was drunk.

April 22, 2024 22:35

• Volgograd blogger suspected of inciting hatred towards Russian Army

  Pavel Prokudin, a blogger from Volgograd, who spoke live about participants of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, became a suspect in a criminal case on inciting hatred and enmity.

April 20, 2024 16:47

• Prosecutor’s Office proposes to release human rights defender Nagavkin from punishment

  Volgograd human rights defender Igor Nagavkin should have his sentence commuted in the theft case and released from further punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, the Prosecutor’s Office states.

April 16, 2024 22:37

• Lawyers assess chances of man mobilized in Rostov Region to avoid prison

  Mobilized Dmitry Setrakov, a native of the Rostov Region, who was taken out of Armenia by Russian law enforcers, has agreed to cooperate with investigators, but this fact is unlikely to help him avoid criminal prosecution, notes an activist of the “Idite Lesom” (Get Lost!) project.

April 13, 2024 18:08

• PO reacts to Melnichenko's complaint about disclosure of his personal data

  The Prosecutor's Office (PO) of the Tsentralny District of Volgograd has invited the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to consider on the merits the appeal lodged of Roman Melnichenko about the disclosure of his personal data on air of the local TV Company.

April 12, 2024 23:58

• Rights defender Nagavkin achieves prosecutor's visit to SIZO

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, convicted within a theft case, has achieved a visit of a prosecutor's office employee and members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) of the city of Leninsk, where Igor is kept.

April 11, 2024 21:45

• Human rights defenders note stagy fight for legal migration after terror act at Crocus City Hall

  Migrants in the regions of Southern Russia complain about violations of their rights during police raids after the terror act at the Crocus City Hall, but those raids are not as large-scale as the raids on foreigners after political conflicts with post-Soviet republics, human rights defenders note.

April 11, 2024 15:44

• Volgograd activists demand to punish TV channel for disclosing personal data

  The interregional public organization of advocates and lawyers “Initiative 2018” sent an appeal to the UN and the investigating authorities of Russia concerning the disclosure of personal data and the harassment of activists, which was organized by the “Volgograd-1” TV Channel.

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