Crime

March 22, 2023 21:53

• Oleg Orlov released after interrogation

  After being interrogated as a witness within the case of Nazism rehabilitation, law enforcers released Oleg Orlov, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Centre for Human Rights Defence. Orlov refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement and was unable to obtain a copy of the search protocol.

March 21, 2023 17:24

• Court of Appeal points to violations in Ingush Daud Mamilov's case

  The Court of Appeal has returned the case of Daud Mamilov, a native of Ingushetia, who was found guilty of involvement in the activities of the "Islamic State"* and sentenced to eight years in prison.

March 21, 2023 16:19

• Chechen police report two militants killed in 2022

  In Chechnya, law enforcers uncovered a terrorist cell and killed two militants, the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) stated in a 2022 report, although Ramzan Kadyrov announced back in 2021 that the armed underground in Chechnya had been liquidated.

March 21, 2023 16:15

• KBR court mitigates sentence to law enforcer for beating up two people

  The court of appeal has reduced the sentence and decided to release Beslan Kagermazov, a former policeman from the Prokhladnensky District, who was convicted of beating two persons and extorting a bribe.

March 21, 2023 16:11

• Journalists tell about aims of pickets in support of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev

  Pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev remind of his case and the demand of his colleagues-journalists to release him from custody, Magomed Magomedov, one of the picketers, have stated.

March 20, 2023 23:55

• Human rights defenders claim torture conditions in penal colony for Ingush native Albagachiev

  Prisoner Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is being kept under torture conditions in the penal colony of Astrakhan, the “Public Verdict” Foundation* claimed.

March 20, 2023 20:10

• Court halves compensation to resident of Chechnya for his illegal criminal prosecution

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has halved Salakh Vakhaev's compensation for several years of illegal criminal prosecution – from 300,000 roubles down to 150,000 roubles.

March 20, 2023 19:58

• Inquiry into plotting by native of Chechnya attack on Berlin synagogue stopped

  The German General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has closed the consideration of the case on plotting a terror act on a Berlin synagogue, initiated against Zelimkhan Baisagurov, the "Vayfond" Chechen Human Rights Association has informed.

March 18, 2023 21:17

• Transfer of Visaev's case to Khabarovsk creates problems for his relatives

  The case of Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, who is accused of plotting a terror act, has been transferred from Krasnoyarsk to the military court in Khabarovsk, his wife has informed and complained that paying for advocates' travels to the trial would hurt the family's budget.

March 18, 2023 17:14

• After a complaint to presidential envoy, woman from KBR arrested

  Larisa Baragunova, the head of the NGO entitled "Union SSR Trade Union", who had complained about a search in her apartment to the presidential envoy in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), has been arrested for two months.

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