Crime

October 11, 2024 16:50

• Kadyrov's critic Alikhadjiev hospitalized with two wounds

  Sherip Alikhadjiev, a former Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia, was hospitalized with two gunshot wounds; a case of attempted murder has been opened. According to the source, the assassination attempt on Alikhadjiev, whom Ramzan Kadyrov declared a criminal, was pre-planned.

October 10, 2024 22:39

• Kadyrov threatens blood feud to Kerimov, Barakhoev and Kurbanov

  The head of Chechnya, while speaking about the conflict around the Wildberries Company, mentioned Suleiman Kerimov, Russian Senator from Dagestan, and Bekkhan Barakhoev and Rizvan Kurbanov, Russian State Duma MPs, calling on them to prove their non-involvement in the order to kill Kadyrov himself, and warned them of his readiness to declare blood feud to them.

October 10, 2024 21:30

• Human rights defender Nagavkin challenges his verdict before transportation to penal colony

  In his appeal, human rights defender Igor Nagavkin pointed out violations committed during the consideration of the case on disorganization of the operation of a SIZO (pre-trial prison) and requested court to cancel the verdict.

October 10, 2024 18:23

• Lawyers criticize amendments about military contracts for defendants

  New laws signed by President Vladimir Putin have given defendants the chance to sign a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence. Earlier, only persons under investigation or convicts could do the above. The new laws violate the rights of victims who will not be able to obtain justice in court, lawyers note.

October 10, 2024 13:42

• Arrest of Goncharenko and Abdurakhmanov in case on arson of military registration and enlistment office extended by three months

  In Rostov-on-Don, a military court has extended for three months the arrest of Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov, defendants in a case on arson of a military registration and enlistment office in the town of Goryachy Klyuch.

October 09, 2024 19:22

• Dagestani blogger Askhabali Alibekov sentenced to colony term

  A court in Kazan has found Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from Novorossiysk, guilty of attacking a policeman and sentenced him to two years and four months in a maximum security penal colony. This was reported by the human rights project "OVD-Info"*.

October 08, 2024 23:31

• Dagestani activist Ulker Gashimova convicted for calls for terrorism and extremism

  The Rostov-on-Don Military Court has found Ulker Gashimova, an activist from Derbent, guilty of calls for terrorism and extremism and sentenced her to 4.5 years and six months in a penal colony. This was reported by the project "Support of political prisoners. Memorial" with reference to her advocate.

October 08, 2024 21:21

• Teacher Zhabrailov from Chechnya apologizes to Christians

  Mansur Zhabrailov, a teacher, has admitted that he was wrong to insult Christianity and apologized to all Orthodox Christians. This is reported by a Chechen TV Company. A law enforcer has added that Zhabrailov's actions will be legally qualified after a check.

October 07, 2024 21:48

• Blogger Guzenko arrested in Stavropol Territory

  A court in Stavropol has arrested Yegor Guzenko, a blogger, who is a suspect in a criminal case on the use of violence against a state official, for two months.

October 07, 2024 21:09

• Activists commemorate Anna Politkovskaya

  On the 18th anniversary of the murder of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya, activists laid flowers at her home and grave in Moscow, as well as to monuments to repression victims in a number of Russian cities.

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