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September 01, 2023 22:15

• Rights defenders point to impunity of those responsible for enforced disappearances in Northern Caucasus

  During the second Chechen campaign alone, up to 5000 people fell victim of enforced disappearances, and over the past 30 years, about 8000 people have disappeared in Northern Caucasus.

September 01, 2023 20:38

• Two KBR law enforcers detained on suspicion of violence

  Two employees of the road-and-patrol service of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) (known as DPS) have been detained within the case of abuse of power. They demanded that a resident of Nalchik confess to drug dealing, and when he refused, they used force against him, investigators have suggested.

September 01, 2023 19:30

• Appeals in support of Dagestani coach Arslanbekov left without response

  Officials and law enforcement bodies did not respond to requests to close the criminal case against Timur Arslanbekov, a coach from Buynaksk, for attacking a law enforcer. The defence has repeatedly filed appeals against the refusals to investigate the beating of Timur Arslanbekov by the police, but has not succeeded in seeking an institution of a criminal case.

August 31, 2023 23:08

• Gamid Dataev, native of Dagestan, goes on hunger strike at SIZO

  Gamid Dataev, who was recognized by human rights defenders as a political prisoner, has gone on a hunger strike at the Yekaterinburg SIZO (pre-trial prison). He insists that the case of the terrorist community has been fabricated.

August 31, 2023 22:09

• Resident of Saint Petersburg fined for picketing in support of Zarema Musaeva

  In Saint Petersburg, law enforcers have detained and then fined Dmitry Kuzmin, a local resident, for violating the anti-COVID restrictions, when he went out to the city administration building with a picket in support of Zarema Musaeva.

August 31, 2023 19:51

• Court stops case against KBR resident on discrediting Russian Army

  The Elbrus District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has terminated the proceedings on the case of an administrative offense against Vladimir Kryachko due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

August 31, 2023 18:50

• Woman from Maykop arrested for protest against military operation

  A Maykop court has arrested Tatiana Moskalenko, a local resident, within the case of calls for protests against the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

August 31, 2023 16:47

• Volgograd court denies pacifist's right to alternative service

  The appellate instance has upheld the decision of the district court to refuse to recognize the right of Bogdan Letunov, a zoo activist and pacifist from Volgograd, to an alternative army service. The instance has failed to take into account the violation by the conscription commission of the requirements of the law on the alternative service, a human rights defender has pointed out.

August 30, 2023 23:24

• Resident of Kuban farm yard complains about being beaten by law enforcers

  Watchman Fyodor Valko from the Prikubansky farm yard was detained on suspicion of stealing a conveyor belt at a factory. The man was beaten and accused of failure to obey legal requests of law enforcers. In addition to abrasions and bruises, Fyodor Valko was diagnosed with closed vertebral fracture.

August 30, 2023 22:55

• Human rights defenders alarmed by Chechen Ombudsman’s report on visit to Suleimanova, who escaped from home

  In his report on his visit to Seda Suleimanova, who was delivered from Saint Petersburg, Chechen Ombudsman Mansur Soltaev posted not a video of their conversation, but only a photo in which human rights defenders noted a mark similar to a hematoma on the young woman’s neck, the “SK SOS Crisis Group”* reported.

August 30, 2023 21:18

• Conscript in Stavropol Territory punished for evading service

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has imposed a fine on a draftee for evading his military service.

August 30, 2023 20:47

• The court in Cherkessk closes activist Kase Kik's case

  The Cherkessk City Court has stopped the proceedings against Kase Kik, an activist, accused of discrediting the Russian Army, since the statute of limitations for bringing him to administrative responsibility has expired.

August 30, 2023 20:24

• KChR believer imprisoned conditionally

  A court in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) found Irina Perefilieva, a Jehovah's Witness*, guilty of extremism and sentenced her to a conditional prison term. In her last word, she refused to plead guilty.

August 30, 2023 19:47

• Chechen Ombudsperson reports on his meeting with Seda Suleimanova

  Seda Suleimanova, who was detained by Chechen law enforcers in Saint Petersburg, is now with her relatives; she is not in danger, Mansur Soltaev, the Chechen Ombudsperson, has stated.

August 30, 2023 17:35

• Abubakar Yangulbaev put on list of extremists and terrorists

  The "Rosfinmonitoring" (Federal Financial Monitoring Service of the Russian Federation) has added Abubakar Yangulbaev, a lawyer and one of Zarema Musaeva's sons, to the list of extremists and terrorists.

August 29, 2023 22:55

• Relatives of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev treat arguments in defence of accused as convincing

  Passers-by and car drivers actively reacted to a picket in support of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev, says picketer Magomed Magomedov, a colleague of the arrested journalist.

August 29, 2023 19:56

• Man accused in “case on fakes” in Dagestan sent for compulsory treatment

  In the Shamil District, a court sent local resident Shamil Magdiev for compulsory treatment to a psychoneurological dispensary. According to the investigators’ version, the man posted on a social network a video with false information about Russian militaries.

August 29, 2023 19:11

• Scientific journal deletes article due to invasion of pro-Kadyrov bots

  The scientific journal “TechInsider” removed an article about the Adam's apple after the bots praising the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, began posting massive comments on the journal’s pages in social networks.

August 29, 2023 17:10

• ECtHR awards compensations to Pussy Riot* members for Cossack attack in Sochi

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has treated the disruption by Cossacks of the performance of the Pussy Riot* group in Sochi as a violation of the right to the freedom of expression, and awarded the applicants compensations of 15,000 euros each.

August 29, 2023 15:36

• Dagestani villagers complain to authorities about land seizure

  Thirty years ago, residents of the village of Gimeidi in the Derbent District received land plots for the revival of the village; and after a while the land was unreasonably transferred to state ownership. This was stated by villagers in their video appeal to the head of Dagestan, Sergey Melikov.