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January 23, 2024 22:11

• Activist Marina Melikhova complains about custody conditions at SIZO

  Marina Melikhova, an activist, convicted of discrediting Russian militaries, has complained about the problems with heating at the SIZO-2 (pre-trial prison) in Armavir.

January 23, 2024 20:55

• Scandal at Derbent school reminds about teachers' and officials' responsibility for children

  The incident when schoolgirls of the Derbent school received insults and threats for allegedly inappropriate clothes and appearance could not have happened if the school administration had introduced school uniforms, and officials had paid more attention to educating and upbringing young people. This is what Dagestani political analyst, educator and lawyer assert.

January 23, 2024 19:43

• Posts in messenger result in fine imposed on Grozny resident

  A court in Grozny has fined Magomed-Emi Saidov, a local resident, concluding that his posts placed in the Telegram messenger were aimed at discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

January 22, 2024 23:57

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of January 15-21, 2024

  Pressure on journalists in Azerbaijan, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, murder of imam in Chechnya, fire in an art gallery, explosion in a furniture workshop, destroyed cemeteries in Nagorno-Karabakh, 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 January 15-21, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

January 22, 2024 23:10

• Human rights defender Nagavkin enters into settlement agreement with SIZO administration

  Volgograd human rights defender Igor Nagavkin managed to negotiate a settlement agreement with the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison), but the trial in the case on disorganization of the SIZO’s operation was not closed.

January 22, 2024 20:39

• Irina Skorovarova accused in criminal case on discrediting Russian Army

  Investigators filed a criminal charge on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against Irina Skorovarova, a resident of Taganrog. That was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”* with reference to Sergey Kovalevich, an advocate of Irina Skorovarova.

January 22, 2024 18:19

• Fight for morality at Derbent school results in prosecutor's check

  The Dagestani Prosecutor's Office (PO) has reported about a check conducted in connection with the information about violations of schoolchildren's rights in Derbent. High school students at one of the schools were persecuting teenagers whose clothes and appearance, in their opinion, were immoral.

January 22, 2024 17:07

• Law enforcers unsuccessfully tried three times to fine Tuapse resident for discrediting Russian Army

  A Tuapse district court for the third time returned to the police the protocol about discrediting the Russian Army, drawn up against Asker Allolo, a resident of the Tuapse District of the Krasnodar Territory.

January 21, 2024 21:39

• Child suffers at wedding party in KChR

  A seven-year-old girl was wounded during a shooting at a wedding party in the Ust-Dzhegutin District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR). A resident of Rostov-on-Don, detained after the incident, has pleaded guilty.

January 21, 2024 18:52

• Contract serviceman from Chechnya acquitted of killing his colleague

  A court in Novocherkassk has acquitted Zaindi Takaev, a military contractor from Chechnya, accused of murdering Magomed Shakhbanov, his colleague from Dagestan. The acquittal was based on the outcomes of two examinations, which did not confirm Takaev's guilt.

January 21, 2024 17:19

• Actions in memory of Markelov and Baburova held in Russian cities

  In Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Riga and other cities of Russia and Europe, rallies were held in memory of Stanislav Markelov, an advocate, and Anastasia Baburova, a "Novaya Gazeta", a journalist; they were shot dead in 2009.

January 20, 2024 19:06

• Lawyers assess chances of Ingush native for compensation for oppression in penal colony

  Vakha Tsurov, a convict from Ingushetia, has little chance of obtaining compensation in court from the administration of the penal colony for disciplinary sanctions imposed on him because of performing namaz (prayer), state lawyers.

January 20, 2024 19:03

• Four Krasnodar women fined for links with undesirable organizations

  A court in Krasnodar has imposed fines on four local residents, finding them to be members of a number of foreign organizations deemed undesirable in Russia.

January 20, 2024 18:55

• Convict from Dagestan reports Muslims' hunger strike in colony

  Inmates in the colony located in the Kurgan Region have gone on a hunger strike in protest against insults to believers' feelings and the seizure of their personal belongings, Omar Murtazaliev, a convict from Dagestan, has stated in a video appeal.

January 20, 2024 17:40

• Fifteen years pass since murder of advocate Markelov and journalist Baburova

  On the 15th anniversary of the murder of Stanislav Markelov and Anastasia Baburova, Moscow activists called for laying flowers at the place of their deaths and announced the screening of a film about the murdered journalist.

January 20, 2024 17:27

• Resident of Dagestan found guilty of extremism

  In Makhachkala, a court found Ruslan Abdullaev guilty of involvement in a cell of the “USSR Citizens”* and sentenced him to imprisonment in a penal colony. However, taking into account the time spent under arrest, the defendant was released in the courtroom.

January 20, 2024 16:10

• Resonance of Gakaev's murder accelerates families' reconciliation

  The reconciliation of Abdurakhim Gakaev's relatives with the killer's family took place without any coercion; the apology is not a disgrace to the family and is usually accepted; and the promise of renouncing blood feud cannot be broken, experts on the Caucasus have indicated.

January 19, 2024 23:14

• "Ingush Independence Committee"* included into register of foreign agents

  The Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has added the "Ingush Independence Committee"* to the list of foreign agents, justifying this decision with the calls for violating the territorial integrity of Russia and creating Russia's negative image.

January 19, 2024 23:12

• Dalgatov’s relatives express their indignation at leniency to those involved in case on his death

  Eleven law enforcers are involved in a criminal case on the death of Kurban Dalgatov, and four of them are placed under house arrest, including Bulat Medjidov, whose pre-trial restriction measure was changed on January 17. A Kurban Dalgatov’s widow requested investigators to return all the defendants to a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

January 19, 2024 23:08

• Grozny resident manages to leave Russia after being tortured because of his sexual orientation

  Rizvan Dadaev, a resident of Grozny, who had been missing for a long time after his detention because of his sexual orientation, had been tortured in captivity for months. He has managed to leave Russia now.