Georgia: court refuses to release Tsotne Gamsakhurdia for the period of investigation

June 16, 2024 19:05

• ECtHR finds violation of Astrakhan activist Doliev's rights

  Mikhail Doliev, an Astrakhan activist, has won the case versus Russia at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Two of his complaints concerned his detentions during protest actions.

June 15, 2024 23:10

• Relatives of incapacitated tourist complain to Kuban Prosecutor about his rights violation

  Galina Teryokhina, a Moscow resident, has sent a complaint to the Public Prosecutor of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) that the court had fined her incapacitated relative for sneaking onto a fenced beach.

June 15, 2024 22:55

• Lawyers doubt prospect of bills banning religious clothes

  The bills that intend to ban wearing religious clothing, including niqabs, in public places are causing a split in the society, which is especially negative amid the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine. Religious clothes are not widespread in the country, this issue is not relevant, therefore the bills to ban them will not be adopted, lawyers believe.

June 15, 2024 21:43

• Sentence to contract soldier from Stavropol Territory for evading service upheld

  The appellate instance has upheld the sentence of Arkady Tomilov, a contract serviceman from the Stavropol Territory, who was sentenced to six years in penal colony for leaving his military unit without permission.

June 15, 2024 19:53

• Kadyrov's nephew gets under UK sanctions

  The British authorities have included Yakub Zakriev, a nephew of the head of Chechnya, who now heads the "Danone Russia" Company, into the sanctions list.