Dagestan

September 25, 2023 17:55

• Canada imposes sanctions against Children's Ombudspersons of two regions in Southern Russia

  Marina Yezhova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights (Ombudsperson) in Dagestan, as well as Svetlana Adamenko, her colleague from the Stavropol Territory, have got under Canadian sanctions.

September 21, 2023 18:17

• Judge's dissenting opinion encourages Gadjiev's relatives

  The dissenting opinion issued by Judge Rizvan Zubairov, in which he criticized the sentence passed to the "Chernovik" journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov, the head of the "Ansar" Fund, and Kemal Tambiev, an activist, may become the basis for their acquittal.

September 19, 2023 18:11

• Father of soldiers who perished in Ukraine complains to Putin about Melikov

  Dagestani authorities would not react to residents' requests to move the construction of the landfill from the Sarykum Dune; and it is impossible to get an appointment with Sergey Melikov about this. The father of two sons who perished in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine has stated this in a video appeal addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

September 18, 2023 20:35

• ECtHR’s decision highlights problems with safety of shelters

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on a complaint filed by Svetlana Anokhina and Maisarat Kilyaskhanova, against whom law enforcers used force in a shelter, should remind the authorities of Russia that the problem of the safety of shelters, especially in Northern Caucasus, has not been resolved, believe members of NGOs.

September 18, 2023 18:45

• Dagestani villagers call on Putin to intervene in their land conflict with authorities

  Residents of the village of Mutsalaul, Khasavyurt District, who had asked to be allocated the land plots due to them by the law, refused refusals, while authorities drew up a new general plan, in which land was allocated only for social facilities.

September 16, 2023 22:13

• Defence excludes any influence of ECtHR's decision on trial of Barzukaev and Kurbanov

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), which recognized the Derbent residents, Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov, as victims of torture, will not affect the outcome of the consideration of the appeal complaint, since Russia is no longer a party to the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), the convicts' advocate has indicated.

September 16, 2023 20:12

• Based on check outcomes, PO and Ombudsperson fail to confirm torture of Dagestani Ramazan Gadjiev

  The information of Ramazan Gadjiev, a prisoner from Dagestan, about torture in the Mordovian colony was not confirmed, the Prosecutor's Office (PO) has reported. The Ombudsperson for Mordovia, during his meeting with Gadjiev, also found no violations of any of the prisoner's rights.

September 16, 2023 17:51

• Witnesses tell the court about Orlov's human rights work in Dagestan and Chechnya

  At the trial, the defence witnesses have recalled the role of Oleg Orlov and of the "Memorial" he heads in the case of the Gasanguseinov brothers killed by law enforcers in Dagestan, and his work during the military campaigns in Chechnya.

September 16, 2023 17:13

• ECtHR awards Derbent resident Amakhanov compensation for beating by law enforcers

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the authorities of Russia to pay 26,000 euros to Temirkhan Amakhanov, a resident of Derbent, recognizing him as a victim of torture by law enforcers. The ECtHR’s decision was pronounced against the backdrop of the Russia’s refusal to implement the decisions of the Strasbourg Court.

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