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April 17, 2023 18:17

• Five natives of Chechnya denied asylum in Croatia

  A court in Croatia has denied international protection to five natives of Chechnya, arguing that they may be Islamic extremists.

April 16, 2023 19:26

• Volgograd contract serviceman denied hospitalization again

  Alexei, a participant in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, who was diagnosed with a number of serious illnesses, was again denied hospitalization.

April 16, 2023 19:21

• Remorseful video released of Amir Bokov, suspected of attacking law enforcers in Ingushetia

  Amir Bokov, a resident of Ingushetia, who surrendered to law enforcers after a shootout in Zyazikov-Yurt, has explained in the video that after realizing the fallacy of his actions, he voluntarily came to the police so that there would be no new killings of law enforcers.

April 16, 2023 19:12

• Head of Ingushetia reports about four persons killed by law enforcers in CTO

  Four people were killed and two more were detained during the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Malgobek District, Makhmud-Ali Kalimatov, the head of Ingushetia, has announced.

April 16, 2023 15:15

• Kadyrov reports on check of video of burning Koran in Moscow

  Chechen experts, jointly with the FSB and the Moscow Mayoralty, are establishing the author of the video about the burning of the Koran near the White Lake, Ramzan Kadyrov has reported, emphasizing his personal participation in this check.

April 15, 2023 23:57

• Activist from Krasnodar complains about rights restriction due to absence of passport

  Tatiana Zakharova, an activist from Krasnodar, has complained that, due to the absence of a passport, which she has not had for almost two years, her rights are seriously limited, in particular, she cannot get registered at a hospital and fill out a report from the NGO she leads.

April 15, 2023 23:18

• Kadyrov's words failed to stop price rise on the eve of Eid al-Fitr

  The prices for a number of imported foodstuffs are rising on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, despite the statements of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, who compared the entrepreneurs, who had inflated prices, with drug dealers, local residents have stated.

April 15, 2023 23:14

• Law enforcers seize laptop and flash drive from the employees of TaT*

  At the Pyatigorsk office of the Team against Torture (TaT)*, law enforcers have taken away a laptop and a USB flash drive. They explained the need for the search by a case initiated in North Ossetia.

April 15, 2023 23:09

• Court extends arrest of defendants in case of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  The term of arrest of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov, and Kemal Tambiev, who have been in custody for about four years on the charges of financing terrorism, has been extended by other three months.

April 15, 2023 22:15

• Officials ignore complaints from residents of Ingush village of Zyazikov-Yurt about damage caused by CTO

  None of the officials examined the houses of residents of the Zyazikov-Yurt village, which were damaged during a shootout between law enforcers and suspected militants on April 5. The villagers were hiding in cellars of their houses during all night, an owner of one of the damaged houses said.

April 15, 2023 18:15

• ECtHR awards compensation to Krasnodar activist for his detention

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ordered the authorities of Russia to pay 4000 euros to Krasnodar activist Stanislav Chepachenko, who was detained in 2018, despite the Russia’s refusal to comply with the decisions pronounced by the ECtHR.

April 14, 2023 22:47

• Resident of Buynaksk fined under article about discrediting Russian Army

  The Buynaksk City Court has imposed a fine on Magomed Saidbekov, a local resident, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

April 14, 2023 22:22

• Court awards compensations to two Nalchik townspeople for torture at police

  The Nalchik City Court has obliged three convicted policemen to pay 150,000 and 300,000 roubles, to Alexander Knyazev and Valery Levdik, respectively, who claimed that they had been tortured. The victims disagree with the amount of compensations, Mr Knyazev has stated.

April 14, 2023 22:14

• Rights defenders send report on human rights violations in Chechnya and Dagestan to UN

  Human rights organizations have sent a report to the UN on the deteriorating of the human rights situation in Northern Caucasus and described cases of persecution of LGBT people in Chechnya and Dagestan.

April 14, 2023 18:58

• Lawyers confirm Ingush woman’s right to compensation after CTO

  The authorities are required by law to compensate for damages to a woman from the village of Zyazikov-Yurt, whose house was damaged during a counterterrorist operation, but to assess the damage, the woman needs to go to court, lawyers note.

April 14, 2023 18:41

• Blogger from North Ossetia fined for discrediting Russian army

  Alan Khasiev, a blogger from North Ossetia, was fined for a video posted on the social media.

April 13, 2023 19:37

• Pastor from Anapa convicted under article about undesirable organization

  The court sentenced Nikolai Bogoslavsky, the Pastor of the Evangelical Church of Christ the Saviour in Anapa, to a year in colony under the article on cooperation with an undesirable organization.

April 13, 2023 19:24

• ECtHR awards compensations to nine detainees at rally in Magas

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found violations in considering the cases of nine residents of Ingushetia detained at the venue of a rally in Magas in 2019.

April 13, 2023 19:16

• Astrakhan Region: prosecutor demands eight years in colony for three Jehovah's Witnesses*

  Rinat Kiramov, Sergey Korolyov, and Sergey Kosyanenko, the Jehovah's Witnesses*, whose case is being considered by the Akhtubinsky District Court, are under threat of long freedom deprivation terms under the charges of extremism. The prosecutor has demanded eight years in colony for each of them.

April 13, 2023 19:01

• Advocate Timur Idalov detained in Moscow

  The police reported about the detention of a Moscow advocate in a case on a threat of violence to a public officer during a court session. Timur Idalov, representing the interests of the Belkharoev family in the case on the murder of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the chief of the Ingush Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre “E”), was detained, and a search was conducted in the Timur Idalov’s house.