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June 10, 2024 19:13

• Sirius resident fined for protesting against SMO

  A court in Adler has fined Sergey Libin, a resident of the town of Sirius (Krasnodar Territory) by 40,000 roubles, treating his pacifist inscription in a public place as discrediting the Russian Army.

June 10, 2024 18:50

• Akhtubinsk resident fined for statements in memoirs

  The court has fined Yuri Novak, a resident of Akhtubinsk, treating his statements in the memoirs he had passed on to his acquaintances as inciting hatred and enmity.

June 10, 2024 18:10

• Zarema Musaeva denied release from colony

  A court in Shali has rejected the defence's motion to release Zarema Musaeva from the colony settlement for her health reasons. The judge took into account the arguments of the medical commission that Musaeva's health allows her to continue serving her sentence, her advocate, Alexander Savin, has informed.

June 09, 2024 18:17

• Kadyrov boasts about his son's meeting with Putin

  Vladimir Putin invited Ali Kadyrov to a personal meeting, at which he congratulated him on his upcoming marriage, Ramzan Kadyrov has announced.

June 09, 2024 18:07

• Stavropol Navalny's supporter wins case at ECtHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found a violation of the rights of Artyom Gavrilov, a Stavropol resident, who was fined for supporting Alexei Navalny.

June 09, 2024 17:06

• Rights defenders dispute about aims of anti-migrant raids in Southern Russia

  The anti-migrant raids, similar to the checks conducted in the Volgograd and Rostov Regions, pursue the aim of identifying migrants who have received Russian citizenship but are not registered for military service, and send them to serve under conscription or persuade them to sign a contract, some human rights defenders have suggested.

June 09, 2024 16:14

• ECtHR finds rights violation of activist from Prokhladny

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ordered Russian authorities to pay compensation to Anastasia Emelianova, an activist, who was fined within the case of calls for a protest action. The decision was made amid Russia's refusal to enforce ECtHR's decisions.

June 08, 2024 23:10

• Court in Elista refuses to transfer HIV-positive convict to correctional labour

  Yuri Mikhailov, who became HIV infected after staying at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Krasnodar Territory and in colonies in Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, has asked the court to replace the remaining part of his forced labour for freedom restriction and correctional labour.

June 08, 2024 19:51

• Man convicted for assassination attempt on Chechen Premier Daudov wins at ECtHR

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found a right violation to adequate medical care of Idris Mezhidov, a native of Chechnya, who was convicted within the case of the 2009 attempt on the life of Magomed Daudov.

June 08, 2024 19:08

• Oleg Orlov* reports to court violation of his rights after verdict

  The transfer to Syzran after the verdict complicated consultations with a Moscow advocate and became a violation of the right to defence, complained Oleg Orlov*, the co-chair of the “Memorial” Centre for Human Rights Defence*. An advocate of the human rights defender requested court to return Oleg Orlov* to Moscow.

June 08, 2024 18:58

• Resident of Gorodischensky District fined for discrediting Russian Army

  A court fined Yevgeny Omelchenko, a resident of the Gorodischensky District, 30,000 roubles, recognizing the man’s pacifist entry posted on a social network as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

June 07, 2024 23:24

• ECtHR recognizes violation of Sochi judge Novikov’s rights

  In Strasbourg, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) awarded the compensation of 9750 euros to former Sochi judge Dmitry Novikov, recognizing his long detention and the use of a metal cage in the courtroom as ungrounded.

June 07, 2024 21:48

• KChR resident convicted of using nickname in an online game

  Experts have treated the pro-Ukrainian nickname that a resident of Cherkessk used to call himself in an online game as a demonstration of extremist organizations' symbols.

June 07, 2024 20:33

• Kuban resident sentenced to term in colony under treason case

  A court in Crimea has sentenced a resident of the Krasnodar Territory (also known as Kuban by the name of the main river) to 6.5 years in penal colony, finding him guilty of trying to get to Ukraine to take part in hostilities against Russian troops.

June 07, 2024 18:37

• Defence of Kalmyk Jehovah's Witnesses* points to unproved accusations

  The prosecutor has demanded from the Elista court to find Jehovah's Witnesses* Kishta Tutinova, Tsagan Khalgaeva and Ekaterina Menkova guilty of extremism and sentence them to various suspended (conditional) prison terms. The defence has demanded to acquit the defendants.

June 07, 2024 16:14

• Dagestani journalist Idris Yusupov* faces new claims from law enforcers

  The police drew up a protocol against Idris Yusupov*, a journalist from Makhachkala, for ignoring the restrictions arising from the status of a foreign agent.

June 07, 2024 15:56

• Man accused in case on riots at Makhachkala airport transferred to house arrest

  Shakhban Magomedov, a resident of Dagestan, accused in a case on mass unrest at an airport in Makhachkala, has been transferred from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) to house arrest in connection with his disability and the need for medical treatment.

June 06, 2024 22:58

• 18-year-old Kevin Lik, convicted of treason, convoyed to colony

  Kevin Lik, 18, a Maykop resident, convicted of treason, has been transferred to serve his sentence from Adygea to a penal colony located in the Arkhangelsk Region.

June 06, 2024 22:44

• Maria Smelaya, escapee from her Chechen husband, reports problems with inquiry into child kidnapping

  The police refused to take an application about kidnapping of her child by her husband, a native of Chechnya Sh., but the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has got interested in the case, Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident, has informed.

June 06, 2024 22:06

• Islamic scholars and rights defenders treat draft to ban religious clothes in schools as discriminatory

  The proposal put forward by Vladislav Davankov, the Russian State Duma Deputy Speaker, to ban religious clothing in schools is populist and discriminatory from the viewpoint of the law and is aimed against the Russian Muslim community, Islamic scholars, lawyers and human rights defenders have stated.