Human rights

September 28, 2023 19:07

• Four residents of Dagestan sentenced to long terms within "prison jamaat" case

  While serving their sentences in a colony, Rasul Magomedov, Biybolat Kukuev, Abdusamad Miriev and Murad Israpilov, natives of Dagestan, took part in a terrorist organization, the court has established and sentenced them to prison terms from 18 to 24 years.

September 28, 2023 17:17

• Wheelchair user from Poltavskaya fined for calling for protests

  Law enforcers brought seriously ill activist Yuri Trubachyov to court, where he was fined 15,000 roubles due to his participation in a video against a landfill.

September 28, 2023 17:00

• Journalist Nozdrinov pleads not guilty in his final speech

  Alexander Nozdrinov, a journalist from the Krasnodar Territory, called a criminal case on fakes about the Russian army fabricated. In his final speech, the journalist emphasized that he was not guilty. The case file contains no evidence of Alexander Nozdrinov’s guilt, reports the defence.

September 28, 2023 08:10

• Contract serviceman convicted in Nalchik for evading service

  The Nalchik Garrison Military Court has sentenced Khizir Kugotov, a contract soldier, to a year in colony, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

September 28, 2023 04:04

• Court finds investigators' inaction in journalist Magomedov's case

  A court in Makhachkala has obliged investigators to check the actions of the policemen, who had detained journalist Magomed Magomedov during his solo picket.

September 28, 2023 03:58

• Head of North Ossetia reacts to conflict of mobilized persons with military policemen

  A man mobilized from North Ossetia has accused military policemen of beating and torture, and of nationality-based insults. Sergey Menyailo, the head of North Ossetia, has treated this attitude towards military servicemen as unacceptable.

September 27, 2023 22:54

• Rights activists find testimonies in Batykaev's case proofless

  The testimonies of victims in the death case of Pskov paratroopers are used in every criminal case on this incident, and are not related to a specific defendant. Human rights defenders have stated this when commenting on testimonies at the trial of the case of Alavdi Batykaev, a native of Chechnya.

September 27, 2023 21:42

• Gadjiev’s colleague notes special reaction of Makhachkala residents to demand to release journalist

  A solo picket held by journalist Idris Yusupov with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev provoked an active reaction from passers-by and drivers.

September 27, 2023 19:50

• Russian Ombudsperson comments on beating by Kadyrov’s son of Volgograd resident who burned Koran

  When commenting on the beating by a son of the leader of Chechnya of Nikita Zhuravel, who was arrested in a case on burning Koran, Russian Ombudsperson Tatiana Moskalkova has declared that a person who has broken the law should be brought to court to answer for his or her actions, and that person should be kept in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in accordance with the established regulations.

September 27, 2023 17:48

• Journalist Ksenia Sobchak tells about Kadyrov's warning not to write about his family

  Ksenia Sobchak has stated that after her publications that Ramzan Kadyrov's son had beaten up Nikita Zhuravel, a Volgograd resident, who had burned the Koran down, at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), the head of Chechnya called her and warned her not to write about his family members.

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