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August 31, 2024 20:04

• Rights defenders link detainees' falls from windows with fear of torture at police

  Cases of detainees jumping from windows of police buildings are rare in Russia and are associated with the fear of becoming a victim of torture, human rights defenders have stated after an incident at the Makhachkala police station.

August 31, 2024 18:13

• Alexei Schus, accused in case on fakes about Russian Army, complains about conditions of detention in SIZO

  Alexei Schus, an engineer from Sochi, accused of disseminating fakes about the Russian Army and making a weapon, has complained that the conditions of detention at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Krasnodar are torture. There are not enough sleeping places for prisoners, and they are not taken out for walks.

August 30, 2024 23:38

• After hostage-taking in Surovikino and Rostov-on-Don, law enforcers point to FSIN's blunders

  The institutions of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) have staff deficit; and those who work there with great overloads have modest salaries, which contributes to corruption and violation of safety rules for personal gains. This was stated by law enforcers in their comments on the hostage-taking incidents that occurred in Surovikino and Rostov-on-Don.

August 30, 2024 23:38

• Arrest of Zaur Magomedov, accused of militants' attacks in Dagestan, extended by three months

  The court has extended the custody of Zaur Magomedov, accused of involvement in the militants' attacks committed in Derbent and Makhachkala, by three months. It was done despite the complaints from Magomedov's defence that the proofs in the case had been falsified, the advocate has stated.

August 30, 2024 22:54

• Stavropol Territorial Court changes sentence for ecologist Sergey Legkobitov

  In the Stavropol Territory, following the reconsideration of appeals, a court has changed the article under which ecologist Sergey Legkobitov was found guilty from attempted bribery to the transfer of a bribe, an advocate reports.

August 30, 2024 22:23

• Father and advocate of Alexei Schus consider charge of fake news about Russian Army far-fetched

  Alexei Schus, an engineer from Sochi, has deleted his posts on a social network that the law enforcement bodies considered dissemination of fake news about the Russian Army, and the weapon the man was accused of making was a modification of a slingshot, an advocate reports.

August 30, 2024 21:28

• Journalists treat incident with niqab in Dagestan as not typical

  A woman, whose niqab a man tried to remove because of a temporary ban by the muftiate, lodged a complaint to the police. There are opponents of wearing niqab in Dagestan, but no such aggressive actions have ever happened earlier, journalists note.

August 30, 2024 20:04

• Blogger Maria Borzova fined for discrediting Russian Army

  A court in the city of Abinsk in the Krasnodar Territory has fined Maria Borzova, a streamer, by 40,000 roubles, concluding that the criticism of Russian militaries she expressed during a live broadcast on the Internet discredited the Russian Armed Forces.

August 29, 2024 23:37

• Video showing aggression against Makhachkala woman in niqab outrages residents of Dagestan

  In Dagestan, social network users are discussing the video showing an attack of an aggressive passerby on a woman wearing a niqab in Makhachkala. The man motivated his attempts to take the niqab off her by the Muftiate's ban on this type of religious clothing.

August 29, 2024 22:55

• Woman from Dagestan is forced to go to court to get medicines for her daughter

  The court has obliged the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) to provide the due medication to the minor daughter of a local resident, who suffers from a disease affecting organs and bones.

August 29, 2024 22:14

• Investigators take formal actions to react to protests by friends of disappeared Chechen native Seda Suleimanova

  The fate of Seda Suleimanova remains on everyone’s lips thanks to pickets and information activity. The law enforcement bodies had to institute a criminal case in connection with the Seda Suleimanova’s disappearance, although there has been no progress in the investigation, activists believe.

August 29, 2024 21:46

• Shoigu reports about radicals’ attempts to introduce Sharia norms in Northern Caucasus

  In the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) , radicals are attempting to displace secular laws, replacing them with Sharia norms, and also to replace traditional Islam with its radical movements, reports Sergey Shoigu, Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

August 29, 2024 19:38

• Woman from Cherkessk fined for prohibited symbols

  The Cherkessk city court has fined Madina Karaketova, a local resident, for her avatar placed in a messenger, which was treated as demonstration of prohibited symbols.

August 29, 2024 17:30

• Kuban police finds illegal migrants in prayer room

  During a raid of a prayer room in the city of Gelendjik (the Krasnodar Territory, or Kuban), the police have found 20 foreigners including five citizens of Uzbekistan, who had violated the rules of stay in Russia.

August 28, 2024 23:30

• Human rights defenders explain radicalization of prisoners in penal colony in Surovikino

  The penal colony No. 19 in Surovikino, where prisoners took warders hostage, is known for its extremely poor conditions of detention and the practice of provocations against Muslims, which could lead to a riot, human rights defender Igor Nagavkin notes.

August 28, 2024 23:10

• Krasnodar resident fined for discrediting Russian Army and posting prohibited symbols

  In Krasnodar, a court fined local resident Ilya Kharchenko 61,000 roubles under two protocols on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and a protocol on demonstrating prohibited symbols.

August 28, 2024 22:40

• Searches conducted at houses of Jehovah’s Witnesses* in Stavropol and Karachay-Cherkessia

  The police conducted searches at the homes of residents of the Kardonikskaya village in Karachay-Cherkessia, including at houses of Tatiana Pasynkova, Maria Ogoreva and her daughter Svetlana Ogoreva, a Jehovah’s Witness*. Searches were also conducted in Stavropol at an apartment of Alexei Pasynkov, a Jehovah’s Witness*.

August 28, 2024 22:10

• Dagestani journalist Idris Yusupov* fined for pickets in support of Palestine and Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  A court in Makhachkala has treated the pickets in support of Palestine and demanding to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, held by journalist Idris Yusupov*, as a violation of the law on foreign agents, and fined him by 30,000 roubles.

August 28, 2024 17:40

• Schoolgirl from Nevinnomyssk suspected of committing terror act left at SIZO

  The Stavropol Territorial Court has refused to soften the freedom restriction measure for a 15-year-old ninth-grade schoolgirl from Nevinnomyssk, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison). Together with her peer, she is suspected of setting fire to mobile operator stations.

August 27, 2024 23:20

• Suleimanova's girlfriend demands inquiry into law enforcers' actions

  Law enforcers detained Seda Suleimanova in Saint Petersburg and allowed her to be sent to Chechnya despite the girl's words about the threat of repressions there, Lena Patyaeva, a Seda's friend, has stated and demanded from the Investigating Committee of Russian Federation (ICRF) to open a criminal case.