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April 05, 2024 19:57

• Pyatigorsk environmental activist Legkobitov sentenced to 7.5 years in colony

  A court in Pyatigorsk has sentenced Sergey Legkobitov, an environmental activist, to 7.5 years in penal colony, finding him guilty of mediation in bribery.

April 05, 2024 19:46

• In Volgograd, blogger Agafonova sentenced to forced labour

  A court in Volgograd has sentenced Alyona Agafonova, a blogger, to 10 months of forced labour, treating her video filmed near the "The Motherland Is Calling!" monument as desecrating the symbol of military glory.

April 05, 2024 18:50

• Kuban woman fined for LGBT* propaganda

  A court in the town of Slavyansk-on-Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) has obliged Darya Rashevskaya, a local resident to pay a fine of 900,000 roubles under an administrative article on LGBT* propaganda. The court has treated the film screenshots and clips posted in Darya's social network page as such propaganda.

April 05, 2024 17:56

• Jehovah's Witness* Pavel Sidorenko sentenced to conditional imprisonment

  A court in the town of Goryachy Klyuch (Krasnodar Territory) has found Pavel Sidorenko, a Jehovah's Witness*, guilty of taking part in an extremist organization and sentenced him to three years of conditional imprisonment (probation).

April 04, 2024 23:59

• Kuban Jehovah’s Witness* placed to punishment cell twice within month

  In the Krasnodar Territory, warders of a penal colony sent Jehovah’s Witness* Vasily Meleshko, convicted in a case on extremism, to a punishment cell twice within a month.

April 04, 2024 23:56

• Prosecutors attribute motive of hatred towards authorities to Balabanov, accused of setting fire on military registration and enlistment office

  Mikhail Balabanov, accused of preparing to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in the city of Nevinnomyssk, refused to answer questions in court and plead guilty under terrorism charges.

April 04, 2024 21:48

• Kuban authorities reach Russia's SC in dispute with repression victims over housing right

  The Ministry of Labour and Social Development of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) has filed a complaint with the Supreme Court (SC), asking that the demand of Ivan Panaetidi's family to receive free housing be declared unjustified.

April 04, 2024 21:39

• Human rights defenders doubt official version about death of Chechen natives detained after terror act at Crocus City Hall

  The version of suicide at a police department of Askhab Uspanov, a native of Chechnya, after his detention for an administrative offense looks absurd, human rights defenders emphasize. They point out that Moscow law enforcers repeatedly demonstrated their bias and unlawful actions against people from Chechnya.

April 04, 2024 21:03

• Israeli citizen detained in Kuban for plans to defect to Ukraine

  Law enforcers have detained and expelled from Russia Yuval Lanzman, a former Israeli Defence Force soldier, who had planned to go to Ukraine and fight against the Russian Armed Forces.

April 04, 2024 20:51

• Verdict for appealing to Kadyrov surprises rights defenders

  The court made a strange ruling by qualifying the appeal to the head of Chechnya by a resident of the Khabarovsk Territory, Zakhar Zaripov, as justification of terrorism, human rights defenders have stated.

April 04, 2024 19:50

• Volgograd activist complains about disclosure of his personal data

  Roman Melnichenko, who was fired from the Volgograd State University for his oppositional statements, has filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office against a local TV channel, which had disclosed his personal data and accused him of sabotage due to an action in memory of Alexei Navalny.

April 04, 2024 18:43

• Blogger Alibekov’s case on discrediting Russian Army sent for reconsideration

  In Krasnodar, the Court of Cassation cancelled the verdict to Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, under the article on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and sent his case for reconsideration, although the blogger had already served his sentence.

April 04, 2024 17:09

• Human rights defenders call to support Oleg Orlov*

  Colleagues of human rights defender Oleg Orlov* called on to write letters to him to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on the occasion of his birthday, but noted that uncoordinated actions of solidarity and excessive creativity could harm the convict.

April 03, 2024 23:17

• Police treat the death of Askhab Uspanov, detained after the terror act at Crocus City Hall, as suicide

  The detention of Askhab Uspanov had nothing to do with the terror act at Crocus City Hall; and law enforcers treat his death at the police station as suicide, the Chechen Ombudsperson has stated.

April 03, 2024 23:09

• Verdict to teenager from Adygea in case on high treason changed

  The court of appeal changed the verdict to Kevin Lik, an 18-year-old teenager from Maykop, sentenced in a case on high treason. The court excluded the term of restriction of freedom from the verdict, leaving in force the sentence of four years of imprisonment.

April 03, 2024 22:49

• Inquiry launched into disappearance of Chechen Seda Suleimanova

  In response to requests demanding to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova, a native of Chechnya, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has announced the start of a criminal investigation, the SK SOS Crisis Group* has informed.

April 03, 2024 22:27

• Advocate criticized expertise outcomes in murder of 19-year-old teen in Dagestan

  The expert had based her conclusions about the nature of the wounds inflicted on Magomed-Ali Sultanov, 19, a resident of the Dagestani city of Kayakent, on the data of her colleague, who had left Dagestan and could not be questioned, Ilyas Saidov, an advocate, has informed.

April 03, 2024 22:17

• Rights defender Orlov* has time for studying case files restricted

  A doctor has prescribed treatment for Oleg Orlov*, convicted in the case of discrediting the Russian Army, but the judge demanded that he complete his review of the case materials by April 5 inclusive; she has accused him of "protracting" the process, human rights defenders have informed.

April 03, 2024 20:45

• Pyatigorsk resident fined for pro-Ukrainian name of Wi-Fi network

  Artyom Galidi from Pyatigorsk used a Ukrainian slogan, recognized as extremist in Russia, as the name of his Wi-Fi network. The court fined him 4000 roubles for displaying in public the symbols of extremist organizations.

April 03, 2024 17:44

• Chechen native, detained after terror act at Crocus City Hall, dies at regional police station in Moscow

  Askhab Uspanov, a native of Chechnya, was detained in Moscow after the terror act at the Crocus City Hall concert hall and died several hours after the detention, his mother said. The woman claims that her son was tortured before his death.