Kabardino-Balkaria

November 23, 2023 22:55

• Defenders of Institute for Humanitarian Research in Kabardino-Balkaria report pressure

  Human rights defenders and activists who came out in support of the Institute for Humanitarian Research in Kabardino-Balkaria after searches at scientists’ houses have been summoned by the police to write explanation letters about the alleged dissemination of slander.

November 21, 2023 23:51

• Resident of Kabardino-Balkaria fined for pacifist inscription on backpack

  In Nalchik, a court recognized a pacifist inscription on a backpack as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and fined a local resident 30,000 roubles. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”*.

November 21, 2023 17:35

• Activist Larisa Baragunova’s arrest extended

  A public prosecutor managed to convince a court of the need to extend the arrest of Tyrnyauz activist Larisa Baragunova, accused of attacking a police officer. Activist’s relatives claim that Larisa Baragunova does not receive the necessary medical treatment in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

November 18, 2023 23:57

• Lawyers and rights defenders criticize arson version of commissariat in Prokhladny

  Lawyers and human rights defenders have found distrustful the version that instructions from some curator were found in the phone of the person detained for setting fire to the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) in the town of Prokhladny.

November 18, 2023 23:15

• KBR: soldier convicted for evading service

  A court in Nalchik has sentenced Isa Malsagov, a military serviceman, to five years of conditional freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of leaving his military unit without permission.

November 18, 2023 16:55

• Human rights defenders treat report on victims of domestic violence in Northern Caucasus as relevant

  Human rights defenders have noted that among the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), the problem with evacuation of victims of domestic violence is most acute in Dagestan, Ingushetia, and Chechnya, since in those republics, the authorities and the law enforcement bodies take the side of family aggressors.

November 17, 2023 16:34

• HRW criticizes authorities’ leniency towards participants in anti-Semitic protests in Caucasus

  The authorities of Russia did not recognize the anti-Semitic nature of the riots at an airport in Makhachkala and the arson of the Jewish cultural centre under construction in Nalchik, noted the international organization “Human Rights Watch” (HRW).

November 11, 2023 15:11

• Experts on Caucasus dispute about motives for awarding Adam Kadyrov

  The decoration of Adam Kadyrov, 15, with the highest awards of Karachay-Cherkessia and Kabardino-Balkaria was dictated by the desire of the republics' heads to show their respect to his father, Akhmet Yarlykapov has suggested.

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