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March 31, 2023 19:38

• Native of Dagestan claims torture in court

  Adilkhan Amambaev, who was sentenced to nine years in prison within the case of recruitment to the IS*, has stated in his complaint that his case had been falsified and his confession of guilt was obtained under torture. However, the Russian Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the verdict.

March 31, 2023 18:56

• Human rights defenders criticize official version of events in Gudermes

  According to human rights defenders, the staging of special operations and forgery of the results of counterterrorist activities have long been common in Northern Caucasus, the Chechen law enforcement bodies do not have a task of proving the guilt of those killed, so it is not worth to trust the official version of the incident in Gudermes.

March 31, 2023 18:53

• Astrakhan citizen sentenced in case on incitement to extremism

  In the Astrakhan Region, a court has pronounced a real sentence to a man whose posts on the social media were considered by the law enforcement bodies to be calls for violence against public officers.

March 31, 2023 16:42

• Blogger Adam Khamchiev, who criticized officials, beaten up in Ingushetia

  Adam Khamchiev, a blogger, who criticized officials, was hospitalized after several unidentified men attacked and beat him in Malgobek.

March 31, 2023 15:18

• Resident of Stavropol Territory achieves compensation for illegal stay in colony

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has partially satisfied the lawsuit lodged by Sergey Kalashnikov, who demanded a million roubles from the state for being kept in a colony with a serious illness for more than a year. Kalashnikov was awarded 30,000 roubles.

March 30, 2023 16:48

• Court mitigates punishment of Nalchik resident for attacking law enforcers

  The court has reduced the prison term for Andrei Baryshev, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a figurant in the case of an attack on law enforcers. He had claimed that law enforcers themselves had beaten up and slandered him.

March 30, 2023 15:43

• Analysts doubt importance of blogger Magomadov’s move to Kadyrov’s side

  The move of blogger Said-Khusein Magomadov from opponents of the Chechen authorities to the camp of Ramzan Kadyrov’s supporters does not matter for the leader of Chechnya, since the blogger’s authority is not high, analysts point out.

March 30, 2023 15:39

• One of four residents of Ingushetia put on wanted list found dead

  The FSB Department for Ingushetia announced the search for four residents of Ingushetia, including Mikail Moshkhoev, Ramazan Eldiev, Amir Bokov, and Amirkhan Gurazhev, in a case on the preparation of terror acts.

March 30, 2023 15:30

• Kadyrov voices out his version of incident in Gudermes

  Chechen law enforcers blocked two militants and offered them to surrender, but they threw a grenade, and both were killed by return fire, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated.

March 30, 2023 05:27

• Attack on law enforcers committed in Gudermes

  Two unidentified men have attacked the police post located near the cemetery in the city of Gudermes (one of Chechen district centres). Both attackers were shot dead in the shootout, sources report.

March 29, 2023 18:21

• In North Ossetia, law enforcers first attacked within nine months

  An incident at a checkpoint of the post-and-patrol police service (known as DPS) became the first attack on law enforcers in North Ossetia within almost nine months. The previous attack on law enforcers took place in the Alagirsky District in July 2022.

March 29, 2023 17:53

• ECtHR communicates complaints about torture from residents of Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) communicated 14 complaints from citizens of Russia who were subjected to torture in the regions of the Southern Federal Districts (SFD) and North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD).

March 29, 2023 15:50

• Compensation to Salakh Vakhaev is unique for Chechnya

  Although the compensation awarded to Salakh Vakhaev for unlawful prosecution has been halved, the very fact thereof is a precedent for Chechnya, Oyub Titiev, a human rights defender, has noted.

March 29, 2023 14:13

• Attack on DPS post in Ingushetia is first in more than three years

  The attack on a road-and-patrol police post (known as DPS) committed in the Nazran District of Ingushetia, where one policeman was wounded, was the first such armed incident in the republic in 39 months. The previous similar incident occurred in Magas in December 2019.

March 29, 2023 08:12

• Priest from Krasnodar Territory fined for discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  The archbishop from the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban was fined for his statements in a church, which a court recognized as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

March 28, 2023 20:05

• ECtHR communicates complaints of lawyer Mikhail Benyash* about being beaten and arrested by law enforcers

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded from Russian authorities to answer the questions concerning the complaints submitted by the Krasnodar lawyer, Mikhail Benyash, about being beaten by law enforcers after detention and for arrest.

March 28, 2023 19:52

• Makhachkala: townspeople's interest in pickets in Gadjiev's support inspires his colleagues

  During another series of solo pickets regularly held by Abdulmumin Gadjiev's colleagues, residents of Makhachkala were very actively interested in the journalist's case, Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet, has informed.

March 27, 2023 23:56

• Relatives of Ingush native Albagachiev alarmed by his health state in penal colony

  The administration of the penal colony, in which native of Ingushetia Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is being kept, refuses to let him have surgery for a metal plate to be removed from his collarbone, advocate Irina Biryukova reports.

March 27, 2023 23:12

• Life-sentenced Chechen native Mansur Razhaev awarded compensation for violation of his rights

  In Pyatigorsk, the Fifth Court of Cassation sided with Mansur Razhaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to life imprisonment in a case on involvement in militant groupings, in his dispute with a penal colony and awarded him compensation for violation of the conditions of his detention.

March 27, 2023 19:14

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 20-26, 2023

  Persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, sentence of General Muzraev, continuation of the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh, case on Inal Djabiev’s death, official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 20-26, 2023, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.