Karachay-Cherkessia

December 12, 2024 19:15

• “Caucasian Knot” correspondent faces deportation after his detention in Tbilisi

  In Georgia, after Beslan Kmuzov, a correspondent of the “Caucasian Knot”, had been detained at a protest in Tbilisi, the country’s migration service summoned him for a conversation. Meanwhile, the journalist has been legally living in the country since 2007.

December 09, 2024 20:44

• Journalist Guzel Kasimova arrested in Cherkessk

  The Cherkessk City Court has sent Guzel Kasimova, a journalist from Kazan, accused of knowingly making a false report about a terror act, to the SIZO (pre-trial prison until January 22, 2025. The defence intends to appeal against the court ruling.

December 03, 2024 23:56

• Activist Kasimova detained again in Cherkessk

  In Cherkessk, the police detained Guzel Kasimova, an activist from Kazan, who was released from a special detention facility after ten days of arrest. The woman was accused of knowingly making a false report of a terror act.

November 26, 2024 21:53

• Activist from Kazan placed to IVS in Karachay-Cherkessia

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, the law enforcement bodies suspected activist Guzel Kasimova from Tatarstan of posting leaflets about an impending terror act.

November 12, 2024 23:37

• Underground singer from Saint Petersburg fined for song about sex with natives of Caucasus

  Singer Albina Sexova has been fined 10,000 roubles under the article on incitement of hatred.

October 29, 2024 23:16

• Human rights defenders respond to Arashukov’s statements about torture

  The Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Orenburg Region will check a complaint filed by former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov about torture in the “Black Dolphin” penitentiary facility.

October 29, 2024 20:18

• On October 21-27, 2024, one person killed in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week from October 21 to 27, 2024, one law enforcer was killed and another was wounded during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot”, based on its own materials and the information from other open sources.

October 22, 2024 23:05

• ECtHR finds Russian law on foreign agents as violating ECHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found the complaints lodged by 107 individuals and organizations, including the "International Memorial"* and the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"*, to be justified, concluding that inclusion of them into the register of foreign agents has violated their right to the freedom of expression and the freedom of association.

October 19, 2024 23:53

• Former senator Arashukov refuses to reveal reasons for apologizing to Kadyrov

  Rauf Arashukov, a former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, did not want to explain what he apologized to Ramzan Kadyrov for and called the reasons for the apology “personal.”

October 19, 2024 21:46

• Analysts believe that Arashukov's appeal to Kadyrov aims to soften his sentence

  The appeal of the life-sentenced Rauf Arashukov to Ramzan Kadyrov was caused by his desire to gain support and achieve a verdict mitigation, analysts have suggested.

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