Crime

April 22, 2025 19:45

• Defendants in two resonant cases in Rostov Region decide to go to SMO

  Three of the defendants in the case on the shootout between Chechen farmers in the Chernozubov farm yard have already left for the special military operation (SMO), and Anastasia Potorochina, a former psychiatrist of the Rostov tuberculosis hospital of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) wrote a letter asking for permission to conclude a military contract.

April 21, 2025 23:55

• More than 1000 people request ICRF to take control of Seda Suleimanova’s case

  Activists have sent 1011 appeals to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with the demand to take control over the investigation into the Seda Suleimanova’s case. Signatures are being collected in Russian cities under an appeal to the country’s presidential administration in connection with the Seda Suleimanova’s disappearance in Chechnya.

April 19, 2025 23:17

• Vitaly Zhuravlyov’s new case sent to court

  Vitaly Zhuravlyov, a resident of Akhtubinsk, has been charged with two episodes of repeated discrediting of the Russian Armed Forces for his comments posted on a social network.

April 19, 2025 22:43

• Analysts assess popularity of detained Ingush Imams

  The Ingush Imams, Mukhammad Tamaskhanov and Magomed Sultygov, were released after detention under recognizance not to leave the place. Both of them are popular among the followers of Salafi Islam.

April 18, 2025 23:58

• Vitaly Zhuravlyov, accused of discrediting Russian Army, declared political prisoner

  Human rights defenders have recognized Vitaly Zhuravlyov, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, convicted under the article on repeated discrediting the Russian Army, as a political prisoner and demanded that his criminal prosecution be stopped and he be released.

April 18, 2025 23:56

• Imams report about pressure on Tamaskhanov

  Law enforcers used brute force to detain Imam Magomed Tamaskhanov and used pressure to get a confession from him concerning his alleged ties to a terrorist grouping, religious leaders claimed. They demanded from the Ingush authorities to intervene in the situation.

April 18, 2025 23:16

• Lawyer names criteria for prosecuting Astrakhan teens under sabotage article

  Schoolboys from the Astrakhan Region have pleaded guilty to committing a sabotage act. In order to prosecute them under this article, investigators must prove that the aim thereof was to undermine the country’s economic security, a lawyer has emphasized.

April 16, 2025 22:56

• Volunteers report collection of signatures for investigation into Suleimanova’s kidnapping

  The Seda Suleimanova’s support group has begun collecting signatures for an appeal demanding a fair investigation into her case. Almost 1300 electronic signatures were collected during the first day of the campaign. The appeal is planned to be submitted to the Russian presidential administration.

April 16, 2025 21:18

• Human rights defenders warn society of consequences after displaying body of participant in attack on law enforcers in Chechnya

  A rally with a public display of the body of a teenager who killed a law enforcer in Achkhoi-Martan is an act of medieval savagery that has nothing in common with Chechen customs, activists of the “Memorial”* Centre for Human Rights Defence (CHRD) note.

April 14, 2025 21:13

• Rights defenders explain decision to arrest Musaeva

  By May 1 this year, the court must issue a decision on a new freedom restriction measure for Zarema Musaeva in the case of disrupting the work of the colony. If they fail to decide by this date, it will be considered that no measure has been chosen for Musaeva.

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