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August 20, 2023 18:50

• Because of water and power outages, Makhachkala townspeople block the street

  Residents of the "Nauchny Gorodok" (Scientific Settlement) micro-district in Makhachkala have blocked motor traffic along Akushinsky Avenue, demanding from authorities and power engineers to solve the long-term problem with the supply of water and electricity to their homes.

August 20, 2023 15:46

• Igor Paskar, Volgograd resident, complains about beating at SIZO

  Igor Paskar from Volgograd, sentenced to 8.5 years in prison for setting fire to a rug near the FSB building in Krasnodar, has been transferred to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Novocherkassk. The SIZO staff has placed him into a cell with supporters of the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, who beat him up on the very first day, human rights defenders have informed.

August 19, 2023 23:51

• Native of Dagestan complains about torture at Mordovian colony

  Ramazan Gadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, has complained that employees of the colony in Mordovia, where he is serving his sentence, are poisoning him with bleach, dousing him with liquid from a fire extinguisher and spraying him with pepper spray.

August 19, 2023 22:07

• Kadyrov's associates approve beating up of Volgograd man arrested for burning Koran

  The Chechen officials close to Ramzan Kadyrov have praised his son after reports that he had beaten Nikita Zhuravel at the Grozny SIZO (pre-trial prison); Nikita was arrested in connection with the burning down of the Koran.

August 19, 2023 20:55

• Witnesses in Orlov's case speak about importance of his work

  The witnesses interrogated at trial have recalled Oleg Orlov's human rights and legislative work, as well as the fact that in Budyonnovsk he voluntarily offered himself as a hostage to Basaev in order to free the prisoners.

August 19, 2023 19:23

• Abubakar Yangulbaev reports two criminal cases against him

  A criminal case under a terrorist article has been opened against Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer, who had earlier become a suspect in an extremism case. He believes that his comment about Akhmat Kadyrov's fate was the reason for initiated the new case.

August 19, 2023 17:08

• Activists call on Makhachkala residents to complain about blackouts

  Residents of Makhachkala should fight more actively for their rights with the help of official complaints about power outages, state activists. During a meeting with residents of the Reduktorny village, they explained the procedure for filing complaints to supervisory authorities.

August 18, 2023 23:34

• Relatives of prisoner Abdul-Malik Albagachiev in Ingushetia alarmed by his condition

  Being in a penal colony, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev suffers from more and more frequent epilepsy attacks, his condition is affected by the consequences of torture to which he was subjected by law enforcers, claim relatives of the native of Ingushetia.

August 18, 2023 22:46

• Court denied motion of Oleg Orlov's defence to question investigator

  A court in Moscow has refused to grant the defence's request to interrogate the investigator who was in charge of the case of Oleg Orlov, a human rights defender, about discrediting the Russian Army.

August 18, 2023 22:13

• Blogger from Vladikavkaz fined for discrediting Russian Army

  A court in Vladikavkaz has found Batraz Tigiev, a blogger from Vladikavkaz, guilty in absentia of discrediting the Russian Army and fined him by 45,000 roubles. The blogger has stated that he was deprived of the right to defence, as he was not informed about the court session.

August 18, 2023 19:59

• Court refuses to treat Magomedov's detention at picket as illegal

  In court, the police have explained the detention of Magomed Magomedov, a deputy editor-in-chief of the "Chernovik" outlet by the concern for his safety because of a possible brawl. Idris Yusupov, a journalist, has fully confirmed Magomedov's testimony, but the court sided with the defendant and refused to recognize the police's actions as illegal.

August 18, 2023 19:39

• Zarema Musaeva returned to SIZO after hospital treatment

  Zarema Musaeva underwent two weeks of medical treatment and examination in a Grozny hospital, after which she was returned to a SIZO (pre-trial prison), the “Team Against Torture”* reports. In a letter to her son, Zarema Musaeva wrote that her health state improved significantly, and doctors prescribed a surgery.

August 18, 2023 15:23

• Residents of Makhachkala demand to resume electricity supply

  On August 17, residents of the Semender village and Akushinsky Avenue blocked the streets in Makhachkala to protest against interruptions in the electricity supply. On Akushinsky Avenue, the supply of electricity has been restored, and the protest action has been stopped, the authorities report.

August 17, 2023 23:58

• Dagestan: two protesters against mobilization fined

  After an anti-mobilization action held in Makhachkala, Magomed Ubaidulaev and Murat Aligadjiev were accused of using violence against a law enforcer, but their defence succeeded in reclassifying the criminal case and imposing a court fine on both of them.

August 17, 2023 23:52

• Remark to neighbours turns into protocol "on discrediting" against Krasnodar woman

  In Krasnodar, law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting Russian militaries against Elena Kurochkina, a local resident, who reprimanded her neighbours for weaving camouflage nets for militaries in the children's playground.

August 17, 2023 23:32

• Chechen Ombudsperson reports on check of Zhuravel's complaint about beating up by Kadyrov's son

  Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, has reported about the meeting with Nikita Zhuravel after the latter's complaint about the beating by Kadyrov's son and stated the need to involve investigating bodies to the check.

August 17, 2023 22:09

• Journalist Kostyuchenko reports threat from Kadyrovites

  Elena Kostyuchenko, a journalist of the newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”, said that in the spring of 2022, she received reports of an impending attack by the Kadyrovites on her, and in the autumn of that year she was poisoned in Germany.

August 17, 2023 20:54

• Human rights defenders register law enforcers’ activity in Ingush village of Zyazikov-Yurt

  In the Ingush village of Zyazikov-Yurt, where a counter-terrorist operation (CTO) legal regime has been in place since April, law enforcers’ raids have become more frequent. Law enforcers inspect cars and conduct searches in houses, reports the “Memorial” Centre for Defence of Human Rights.

August 17, 2023 19:48

• Volgodonsk resident punished for pro-Ukrainian slogans at Day of Russia celebration

  The court has fined Nikolai Zakroev, a resident of Volgodonsk, by 30,000 roubles under the article about discrediting the Russian Army.

August 17, 2023 15:48

• Man arrested for burning Koran complains about beating up by Kadyrov's son

  Nikita Zhuravel, arrested within the case of burning down the Koran, has stated that he was beaten up by the son of the head of Chechnya at the Grozny SIZO (pre-trial prison), Tatiana Moskalkova, the Russian Ombudsperson, has reported.