Human rights

June 17, 2025 17:32

• Alaudinov's call to declare mobilization is in conflict with law

  According to the Russian law, the Israeli-Iranian hostilities are no ground for declaring mobilization in Russia, but if necessary, authorities can declare it because of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, analysts have pointed in their comments on Apti Alaudinov's calls to mobilize at least 500,000 people.

June 17, 2025 15:06

• Kuban police report closing illegal prayer rooms

  As a result of the police raid, law enforcers discovered ten illegal migrants from the Central African Republic (CAR) and brought the spiritual leader of the prayer room to justice.

June 17, 2025 15:03

• Human rights defenders explain transfer of prisoners from Chechnya closer to home

  The law limits the right of the persons convicted under articles on terrorism and extremist to serve the sentences closer to their home, although all prisoners may request such a transfer. However, in the case of convicted natives of Chechnya, the position of the republic’s authorities often plays a decisive role.

June 16, 2025 18:02

• Grozny law enforcers put Seda Suleimanova on wanted list

  Seda Suleimanova, who was taken by her relatives to Chechnya and stopped communicating in 2023, has been put on the wanted list as a missing person.

June 16, 2025 17:46

• Georgia: on 200th day of protests, they burn down Russian flag

  Several marches were held in Tbilisi on the 200th day of pro-European protests. Torchlight marchers, whose faces were hidden by masks, have burned down a Russian flag in front of the Georgian Parliament.

June 16, 2025 15:50

• Volgograd residents demand to stop urban development on Volga River bank

  At a rally against the urban development, residents of Volgograd have claimed that the construction of a high-rise residential complex on the Volga River bank threatens the safety of nearby houses and violates environmental standards. The activists addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Russian Investigating Committee, with the demand to bring to responsibility the officials who approved the urban development in the region.

June 15, 2025 16:30

• Human rights defenders assess Movlaev's chances of avoiding extradition

  To record the torture to which Mansur Movlaev was subjected in Chechnya, an examination of internal organs and psychological examinations may be conducted.

June 14, 2025 17:11

• ICRF to investigate death of a minor girl in Morozovsk orphanage

  Investigators are engaged in checking the circumstances of the death in an orphanage in Morozovsk of a 15-year-old girl who was subjected to domestic violence. Teachers and officials were aware of the teenager’s troubles, but failed to take any appropriate actions, investigation suggested.

June 14, 2025 16:57

• Eleven people freed from labour slavery in Kuban

  Volunteers, with the help of the police, freed eleven people who were kept at an enterprise in the Slavyansky District of the Krasnodar Territory. The Prosecutor’s Office of the Krasnodar Territory has launched an inspection.

June 13, 2025 18:26

• Law enforcers force protesters off Tbilisi street

  Policemen have forced protesters who spent the night near the university in Tbilisi to leave the roadway.

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