Astrakhan Region

May 20, 2023 16:43

• Convicted native of Dagestan has his sentence toughened in case of terror acts

  The Astrakhan Regional Court has transferred Temirbulat Zubairov, a native of Dagestan, who is serving his 22-year term, to the prison regime because of the "prisoner's tendency to run away."

May 12, 2023 18:34

• ECtHR recognizes violation of Astrakhan activist Tyurin's rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg has awarded Alexei Tyurin, an Astrakhan activist, a compensation for his persecution after a rally in support of political prisoners.

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 12, 2023 18:21

• Astrakhan Region resident fined for discrediting Russian army

  Aslbek Aitakov, a resident of the Astrakhan Region, was fined 30,000 roubles for his comment on the social media criticizing the special military operation in Ukraine.

April 03, 2023 23:48

• Two Astrakhan residents fined for discrediting Russian Army

  Alexander Shinkorenko, an Astrakhan resident, has been fined for his comments posted in the social network; the court has also imposed a fine on Ksenia Tsulimova, a local resident. According to law enforcers, the above Astrakhan residents have discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

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 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 24, 2023 19:22

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay compensations to protesters in Southern Russia

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled on the claims of 15 activists who complained about the disproportionate measures taken by law enforcers during the dispersal of protests, as well as about subsequent arrests and fines.

March 21, 2023 23:57

• Employees of “Memorial” detained after searches in case on rehabilitation of Nazism

  The police came with searches to the house of Oleg Orlov, the co-chair of the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial”, who paid much attention to the problem of kidnappings in Northern Caucasus and victims among the civilian population in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

March 20, 2023 23:55

• Human rights defenders claim torture conditions in penal colony for Ingush native Albagachiev

  Prisoner Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is being kept under torture conditions in the penal colony of Astrakhan, the “Public Verdict” Foundation* claimed.

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