Russia

March 21, 2025 22:59

• Inscription "Navalny" turns into criminal case against Stavropol schoolgirl

  An underage pupil of a Stavropol school has become a defendant in a criminal case of vandalism after being detained on the anniversary of Alexei Navalny's death.

March 21, 2025 21:47

• Rights defenders doubt of any fruit from prisoners' complaint to Kadyrov

  There have been no mass complaints to human rights defenders from the colony in Chechnya, whose prisoners complained about the staff’s actions, and their appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov may result in additional punishments.

March 20, 2025 23:48

• Parents claim violation of blogger Vadim Kharchenko*'s rights

  The court has refused to satisfy the appeal complaint lodged by Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger from the city of Gelendjik, against his arrest under the slander case against an advocate. Vodim’s parents have stated that publications about their son's sentence violate his rights.

March 20, 2025 20:40

• North-Ossetian Ombudsperson calls for investigation into torture of Batraz Gogaev

  North-Ossetian Human Rights Commissioner Tamerlan Tsgoev has called for a review of the refusal to institute a criminal case against law enforcers accused of torturing Batraz Gogaev.

March 19, 2025 22:40

• Stand-up comedian from Yeysk accused of insulting SMO fighter

  A criminal case was opened against Artemy Ostanin, a stand-up comedian from the city of Yeysk, after his performance in which he joked about a disabled person who had stepped on a mine. Investigators saw his words as an insult to a participant in the special military operation (SMO), but Ostanin himself claims that he was joking about a simple beggar.

March 17, 2025 21:56

• Woman from Stavropol Territory sentenced to imprisonment in penal colony in case on fakes about Russian Army

  In the Stavropol Territory, a court sentenced local resident Anna Vorobyova to six years of imprisonment in a penal colony, recognizing her entries posted on a social networking service as dissemination of false information about the actions of the Russian Armed Forces.

March 15, 2025 22:39

• Defence voices out details of Dagestani Magomed Magomedov’s torture case

  The inquiry into the violence against Magomed Magomedov raises questions from the public in Dagestan, while advocates are preparing to fight the investigators’ refusal to open a case against the law enforcers involved, despite the traumas fixed on his body by the examination.

March 14, 2025 22:48

• Tuapse resident sentenced to forced labour for fakes about Russian Army

  The court has sentenced Ilya Yuzhakov, a resident of the city of Tuapse, to three years of forced labour, finding him guilty of distributing fakes about the Russian Army. After the detention, law enforcers had forced Yuzhakov to record a video with “repentance".

March 07, 2025 22:19

• Search of lawyer Kuznetsova's home in Yessentuki declared illegal

  The court has found illegal the search of the home Ekaterina Kuznetsova, a lawyer, who figures in the case against her colleague Georgy Legkobitov, who was accused of slandering a law enforcer. Despite the ruling, policemen have not returned the confiscated belongings to Ekaterina.

March 05, 2025 23:47

• CTO regime introduced in Dagestan for the first time since June 2024

  The counterterrorist operation (CTO) introduced in the settlement of Semender was preceded by the CTO regime on June 23, 2024, announced in Makhachkala and Derbent.

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