Armenia: more than 800 prisoners amnestied

October 05, 2024 04:15

• Defendant in case on pogrom at Makhachkala airport pleads not guilty

  Magomednabi Shaikhslamov, involved as a defendant in a case on pogrom at an airport in Makhachkala, claimed that he ended up at the scene of the riots by accident, since he worked as a taxi driver. The video shows Magomednabi Shaikhslamov approaching the police, talking to them and leaving, but investigators accused the man of using violence against a public official.

October 04, 2024 22:56

• Nikita Zhuravel, who burned Koran, accused of high treason

  Nikita Zhuravel, a resident of Volgograd, convicted of burning the Koran, has been charged with high treason.

October 04, 2024 22:48

• Prisoner in Rostov penal colony to get compensation for improper medical treatment

  A court awarded former prisoner Igor Tkachenko 350,000 roubles in compensation, recognizing that medical officers at a tuberculosis hospital in Rostov-on-Don performed his surgery in an improper way, which caused his health to deteriorate.

October 04, 2024 21:18

• New expertise issue slows down consideration of murder case of 19-year-old Magomed-Ali Sultanov

  After a month of deliberation, the prosecutor has agreed to conduct a new examination of the body of Magomed-Ali Sultanov, 19, a resident of the Dagestani village of Kayakent. However, the judge postponed his decision on this issue for almost another month, explaining that he needed to study the previous data.

October 04, 2024 20:15

• Offenders' public apologies are self-promotion method for Astrakhan police

  By forcing offenders to publicly apologize to the video camera, Astrakhan law enforcers are trying to artificially increase the importance of their activities, while this humiliating measure has no intended prophylactic effect, analysts have noted.