No less than 190 people were detained during last purges in Chechnya

September 05, 2024 19:38

• Activist Larisa Baragunova sentenced to three years in colony

  The court has found Larisa Baragunova, a pensioner from the city of Tyrnyauz, guilty of attacking law enforcers and sentenced her to three years in penal colony. In her final statement, she stated that her prosecution had to do with the activities of the "USSR Trade Union"* organization.

September 04, 2024 23:47

• Case of Chechen MMA fighter Yakubov shows danger of quoting Basaev

  The inclusion of Ilyas Yakubov, a Chechen MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter, into the list of terrorists and extremists has restricted some of his rights. In order for a person to be charged with justifying terrorism, it is not necessary for him/her to justify it literally.

September 04, 2024 23:08

• Dagestani blogger Askhabali Alibekov put on preventive registration at SIZO

  Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, accused of using violence against a law enforcer, has been put on preventive registration by the administration of a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Kazan as a person disseminating extremist ideology.

September 04, 2024 21:54

• Screwdriver attack in Magas shows state of armed underground

  Lone militants make use of surprise factor to attack law enforcers, but the use of improvised means in the attack on the traffic police post in Magas became evidence of the weakening of the armed underground, military experts and a Caucasus expert believe.

September 04, 2024 21:45

• Chechen Magomed Abubakarov claims being tortured by law enforcers

  Law enforcers tortured British citizen Magomed Abubakarov, a native of Chechnya, in attempts to force him to confess working for foreign intelligence agencies. Magomed Abubakarov is being denied medical care at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).