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September 18, 2023 17:37

• Pregnant servicewoman from KBR convicted of evading service

  The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don has upheld the verdict of the first-instance court, which had found Corporal Madina Kabaloeva from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of failure to appear for her military service.

September 17, 2023 19:46

• Advocates treat Musaeva's CER as realistic

  The prosecutor has offered to commute Musaeva's sentence due to her state of health and the injustice of the sentence passed by the first-instance court. After sentence mitigation, Musaeva has every reason to ask for the conditional early relief (CER), Natalia Dobronravova, an advocate, believes.

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.

September 15, 2023 23:57

• Strasbourg Court recognizes violation of Kuban pensioner’s rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized that Kuban pensioner Klavdiya Kushnikova suffered after the unjustified use of force by the police, being injured in her home.

September 15, 2023 23:09

• Chechen Mansur Movlaev asks asylum in Kyrgyzstan

  Mansur Movlaev, a native of Chechnya, who was arrested in Kyrgyzstan in connection with illegal border crossing, has requested temporary asylum, his advocate has informed.

September 15, 2023 22:14

• Kuban resident complains about torture

  By using torture, law enforcers obtained a confession of theft from Oleg Nosov, a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river), who is under arrest. Human rights defenders have appealed the refusal of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) to investigate the use of violence by law enforcers.

September 15, 2023 20:48

• In interview about his fate with "Minval.Az", Chechen ex-minister praises Kadyrov

  Elkhan Suleimanov, a former Minister of Public Health and Deputy Chairman of the Chechen Government, stated that he had resigned of his own free will and left for another country for personal reasons. At the moment of his resignation, Suleimanov treated Kadyrov's health condition as satisfactory and voiced praise for the head of Chechnya.

September 15, 2023 19:51

• ECtHR recognizes violations of rights of Derbent residents Barzukaev and Kurbanov

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Russian authorities to pay 26,000 euros to each of Derbent residents Islam Barzukaev and Gasan Kurbanov in compensation, recognizing that law enforcers forced them to confess to crimes under torture.

September 15, 2023 19:37

• Commutation of sentence gave Musaeva a chance for CER

  After the Supreme Court of Chechnya commuted her sentence, Zarema Musaeva has the right to take into consideration the time served by her in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), as well as to ask for conditional early relief (CER), noted human rights defenders.

September 15, 2023 14:47

• Activist Aslan Iritov achieves ECtHR's decision on compensation for persecution by law enforcers

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay compensation of EUR 26,000 to Aslan Iritov, a resident of Nalchik, recognizing him as a victim in the case of torture by law enforcers.

September 14, 2023 23:44

• Court refuses to consider Dagestani resident's lawsuit about payments for the wound received in SMO zone

  A resident of Dagestan is seeking social benefits for his wound received in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine. The Khasavyurt District Court has returned to him the lawsuit filed against the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office).

September 14, 2023 22:08

• ECtHR recognizes violation of rights of Dagestani female rights defenders

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pointed to a violation of the article prohibiting torture and degrading treatment, and obliged Russia to pay EUR 26,000 to each of the human rights defenders, Svetlana Anokhina and Maisarat Kilyaskhanova, who were in the Makhachkala shelter during the visit of law enforcers, who forcibly took away Khalimat Taramova, a native of Chechnya, and also Iraida Smirnova, who was also hiding in the shelter.

September 14, 2023 16:48

• Sochi blogger requests police to return money seized from him during search

  Almost six months after his release from a penal colony, Alexander Valov, a blogger from Sochi, still has not succeeded in seeking the return of the money seized from him during a search. Meanwhile, according to Alexander Valov, he intended to use the mentioned money to pay off a fine and compensate for moral damage to MP Yuri Napso.

September 14, 2023 15:46

• Igor Paskar recognized as political prisoner

  The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Igor Paskar, convicted of setting fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar, as a political prisoner, demanding his release and an investigation into his allegations of torture.

September 13, 2023 23:05

• Despite statements about torture, residents of Chechnya sentenced to seven years in prison

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has confirmed the conviction of Khusein Batalov and Yusup Dauev in the case of preparing murder motivated by religious hatred. Their defence alleged torture, but the court found these arguments unjustified.

September 13, 2023 22:10

• Friends of journalist Gadjiev are stunned by severe sentence

  An acquittal for Abdulmumin Gadjiev was unlikely, but given the absence of proofs in the charges, there was hope for a minimum sentence; therefore, the court's decision turned out to be unexpectedly harsh, friends of the Dagestani journalist have stated. In their opinion, appealing the verdict will not lead to the acquittal or any significant reduction in the prison term.

September 13, 2023 21:46

• Rights defenders recall unpunished kidnappings in Chechnya

  During the years of the counterterrorist operation (CTO) and the rule of Ramzan Kadyrov, thousands of people disappeared in Chechnya, but Russia failed to take measures to investigate their disappearances, says the report by Oleg Orlov and Alexander Cherkasov, human rights defenders.