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July 31, 2024 22:38

• Mobilized man from Kabardino-Balkaria challenges sentence for evading military service

  Emran Usmanov, a military serviceman, mobilized from the Prokhladnensky District, sentenced to two years in colony for evading his service, has refused to plead guilty and appealed against the sentence.

July 31, 2024 21:57

• Rights defenders declare Vladimir Yarotsky, Krasnodar resident, as political prisoner

  The criminal case against Vladimir Yarotsky under the article on Nazism rehabilitation is politically motivated; and the article under which he is being prosecuted mismatches the Russian Constitution and international legal norms, the human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" has stated, demanding that Yarotsky be released.

July 31, 2024 21:38

• Kadyrov promises to shoot hijab opponents dead

  Those who oppose wearing hijabs are enemies of Islam, the head of Chechnya has declared, promising to shoot anyone who tells his daughter to take off her hijab dead.

July 31, 2024 19:38

• Contract soldier from Novorossiysk convicted of AWOL

  In Novorossiysk, a court sentenced contract soldier Alexei Parakhin to five years and three months of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony, finding him guilty of absence without official leave (AWOL) during mobilization.

July 30, 2024 23:49

• Defence refuses to challenge decision to deport Kamyshin activist to Ukraine

  The court of appeal upheld the decision to deport Ukrainian citizen Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross from Russia. The man attracted the attention of the law enforcement bodies after the announcement of a rally for accessibility of Kamyshin roads for people with disabilities.

July 30, 2024 23:08

• Analysts name nationalism growth factors in Southern Russia

  Activists of nationalist movements demonstrate complete loyalty to authorities and seek to cooperate with law enforcement bodies, but high-profile scandals, such as the march in Korenovsk, are interfering with these plans. At the same time, the xenophobia growth in the society has to do with some officials' statements and anti-migrant rhetoric, analysts have noted.

July 30, 2024 20:57

• Mother of Kevin Lik, convicted of treason, reports her son's disappearance from colony

  The administration of the colony in the Arkhangelsk Region has failed to deliver a parcel to Kevin Lik, a resident of Adygea, convicted of treason, since he had left the colony.

July 30, 2024 19:37

• Rights defender Nagavkin challenges verdict on disrupting SIZO work

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has appealed against the verdict passed on him by the Leninsky District Court of the Volgograd Region within the case of disorganizing the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), treating his conditional imprisonment as unjustified.

July 30, 2024 18:12

• Blogger Vadim Kharchenko* from Gelendzhik taken into custody

  The Krasnodar Territorial Court arrested blogger Vadim Kharchenko* charged in a case on public calls for extremism and discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

July 29, 2024 23:18

• Human rights defender Oleg Orlov* taken from SIZO to some unknown destination

  An advocate of Oleg Orlov* failed to visit the human rights defender at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Syzran.

July 29, 2024 23:16

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of July 22-28, 2024

  UFC fighter Khabib Nurmagomedov’s debts, prevention of a terror act, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, situation of journalists in the South Caucasus, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 22-28, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

July 29, 2024 22:58

• Convicted Dagestani resident complains about torture

  Asef Chubanov, a resident of Dagestan, sentenced to imprisonment for failure to report a crime allegedly committed by his fellow villager and possession of firearms, filed a complaint about falsification of his case, pressure, and torture. The court of cassation upheld the verdict.

July 29, 2024 20:58

• Ruslan Totrov, North-Ossetian journalist, treats his criminal prosecution as politically motivated

  The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has declared Ruslan Totrov, a journalist from North Ossetia, wanted. The day before, he was included into the database of terrorists and extremists run by the "Rosfinmonitoring" (Russian Federal Financial Monitoring Service).

July 29, 2024 20:48

• Lawyers treat it preferable for Zhuravel, Koran-burner, to stay at SIZO

  Serving his sentence at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) instead of a penal colony can ease the convict's situation; in particular, he is exposed to less risk from other convicts, lawyers and human rights defenders have noted in their comments on the situation with Nikita Zhuravel.

July 29, 2024 17:36

• Astrakhan public figures assess ban on wearing Muslim religious clothing

  Restrictions on wearing religious clothing and attributes are unconstitutional, Muslim Yunusov, a religious figure, believes. The issue of banning Muslim women from wearing religious clothing is being discussed in the society, but is not a subject of acute conflict, Oleg Shein, an MP of the Astrakhan Regional Duma, has noted.

July 28, 2024 21:59

• Three Chechen natives arrested in Belgium

  Belgian law enforcers have conducted an antiterrorist operation and detained seven natives from Chechnya. Three of them were arrested on charges of involvement in the activities of an international terrorist organization and preparing a terror act.

July 28, 2024 21:16

• Kuban Jehovah's Witness* Meleshko placed under administrative supervision

  Vasily Meleshko, a Jehovah's Witness* from the village of Kholmskaya (the Krasnodar Territory, also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) is prohibited from leaving the Abinsky District for three years without policemen's permit; he cannot stay outside the home at night, and must visit the local division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) four times a month.

July 27, 2024 23:36

• FSB reports on prevented terror acts in Dagestan

  Three residents of Kaspiysk were preparing a series of terror acts in Dagestan, including against law enforcement buildings and an Orthodox temple. The suspects have been detained.

July 27, 2024 21:34

• Advocates to challenge refusal to investigate attack on “Caucasian Knot” correspondent in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, investigators refused to institute a criminal case on an attack on Alyona Sadovskaya, a journalist of the “Caucasian Knot”, in October 2023.

July 27, 2024 19:56

• Tikhoretsk police respond to beating of Djalaganiya two weeks after incident

  Beaten animal rights activist Denis Djalaganiya was summoned to the Tikhoretsk police “for re-questioning” in the case on the attack. Based on a denouncing report against Denis Djalaganiya, the police summoned his colleague for questioning and checked the correspondence on her mobile phone, looking for “discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.”