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February 16, 2024 18:55

• Actions in support of human rights defender Oleg Orlov* held in Europe

  On the eve of the court session on the case of Oleg Orlov*, a co-chairman of the "Memorial" Human Rights Defence Centre, three Italian cities, Milan, Rovato and Borgoricco, as well as Lisbon, Portugal, have hosted pickets demanding to stop persecuting Oleg Orlov*, accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian Army.

February 16, 2024 17:55

• Police conduct searches of activists of radical movement in Stavropol Territory

  Searches took place at the premises of activists Maria Karnaukhova in Stavropol and at Stalina Erlenbach in Nevinnomyssk.

February 16, 2024 17:18

• Murad Shuaibov, convicted of killing "Chernovik" founder, found dead in colony

  Murad Shuaibov, a resident of Dagestan, one of those convicted for the murder of Khadjimurad Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" outlet, was found dead in the penal colony located in the city of Segezha in Karelia.

February 16, 2024 11:21

• Armed incident in Chechnya becomes first within 11 months

  A shootout in the Achkhoi-Martan District, in which law enforcers killed three suspects who exchanged fire with them, was preceded by a similar incident in Gudermes in March 2023.

February 15, 2024 22:55

• Defender of "Memorial"* and Oyub Titiev arrested in absentia in Moscow

  Ilya Novikov*, an advocate, who defended the liquidated Human Rights Centre "Memorial"** at trials, has been arrested in absentia.

February 15, 2024 22:39

• Rights defenders doubt Zhuravel's testimonies

  The testimonies of Nikita Zhuravel, accused of burning the Koran, must be questioned given the conditions in which he is kept in Chechnya, human rights defenders believe.

February 15, 2024 22:01

• Sentence of journalist from Kadmykia Badmaev angers his supporters

  There is no crime in the actions of Valery Badmaev, the editor-in-chief of the “Sovremennaya Kalmykia” (Modern Kalmykia): he was convicted for reposting a video, but did not voice his opinion, advocates emphasized in the Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia.

February 15, 2024 19:57

• Volgograd resident fined for his status in messenger

  Sergey Lomako from Volgograd posted flags of Ichkeria and Ukraine on WhatsApp* and was fined 1000 roubles for displaying prohibited symbols.

February 15, 2024 16:04

• Kabardino-Balkarian teenager apologizes for his video criticizing Koran

  Khazrataly Dzasezhev, the chair of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Kabardino-Balkaria, has talked to a teenager who made a video with derogatory statements about the Koran. After the conversation, the teenager has apologized for his offense.

February 14, 2024 23:18

• Woman from Volgograd Region demands inquiry into death of her son, a contract soldier

  Nailya Tulekeshova, a resident of the Pallasovsky District, has asked Alexander Bastrykin, the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), to initiate an investigation into the death of her son in a military unit stationed in the Nizhny Novgorod Region.

February 14, 2024 22:54

• Lawyers treat property confiscation for fakes about Russian Army as punishment for dissent

  Under the new law signed by President Putin, the property of those found guilty of spreading fake news about the Russian Army can be confiscated, but this sanction cannot apply to those convicted under this article before the law was signed, lawyers have explained, adding that the new law is aimed to further intimidate dissidents.

February 14, 2024 21:45

• Activist Polyudova’s mother visits her daughter in penal colony

  Tatiana Polyudova has said that she succeeded in seeking a visit to her daughter, activist Daria Polyudova, who is serving her sentence in a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria on an extremism case. Tatiana Polyudova notes that her daughter is still being kept in strict detention conditions.

February 14, 2024 18:58

• Dagestani native faces threat of deportation from Turkey

  The authorities of Turkey are preparing to deport from the country Ibragim Askerov, a native of Dagestan. The Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has put the man on the wanted list for his involvement in the extremist organization “At Takfir wal-Hijra”*, sources report.

February 14, 2024 18:39

• Court reduces fine for advocate from Kabardino-Balkaria Ratmir Zhilokov

  The court of cassation halved, to 50,000 roubles, a fine imposed on Ratmir Zhilokov, an advocate from Kabardino-Balkaria, in a case on an attack on a law enforcer.

February 14, 2024 17:33

• Prosecutor demands nine years in colony for Jehovah's Witness* from Adygea

  Inver Siyukhov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Maykop (the capital of Adygea), who has been held under arrest at a detention centre for almost three years, should be sentenced to nine years of freedom deprivation, the prosecutor has stated.

February 13, 2024 23:50

• Zarema Musaeva left in Argun penal colony

  Alexander Savin, an advocate, has managed to meet Zarema Musaeva at the colony-settlement located in the city of Argun; she will stay there for the near future.

February 13, 2024 22:21

• Lawyers assess legality of persecution for video with Motherland Monument

  Symbols of military glory include any monuments related to the Great Patriotic War (WW II), lawyers have noted. In their opinion, although the blogger, Alyona Agafonova, has committed no real actions against the monument "The Motherland Calls!" in Volgograd; however, her persecution fit into the established practice.

February 13, 2024 18:56

• Dagestani resident Amakhanov disagree with compensation amount for law enforcers' attack on him

  The amount of 400,000 roubles awarded by the court as compensation for being beaten up by law enforcers will not even cover the treatment cost, Temirkhan Amakhanov, the suffered Derbent resident, has complained. His defence will seek payment of 5 million roubles to Amakhanov, his advocate has promised.

February 13, 2024 16:38

• Makhachkala: passers-by support Magomedov's demand to release his colleague Gadjiev

  The residents of Makhachkala, who witnessed Magomed Magomedov's solo picket, expressed solidarity with the journalist's demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev. Law enforcers wrote the picketer's personal data down, but did not interfere with his solo picket.

February 13, 2024 16:08

• Seda Suleimanova, who escaped from domestic violence, returned to Chechnya voluntarily, prosecutor’s office reports

  After checking a complaint about the detention of Seda Suleimanova by Chechen law enforcers, the prosecutor’s office announced that the young woman voluntarily left for Chechnya from Saint Petersburg, human rights defenders reported.