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June 20, 2023 23:58

• Gadjiev's colleagues note growing interest in his case

  Residents of Dagestan are increasingly reacting to pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, the solo picketers, Idris Yusupov and Magomed Magomedov, have noted. Believers and the progressive part of the population are interested in Gadjiev's case, Djambulat Gasanov, an activist, has added.

June 20, 2023 23:49

• Dagestani's advocate claims identification falsification in robbery case

  The defence of Nurmagomed Labaev, a native of Dagestan, has appealed against the extension of his arrest in the robbery case, claiming numerous violations in the case. According to the advocate, the victim described the criminal as having a Slavic appearance, while Labaev has a characteristic Caucasian one.

June 20, 2023 23:11

• Decision to liquidate CEBP upheld

  The court of appeal in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has refused to satisfy the appeal complaint against the decision to liquidate the Council of Elders of the Balkar People (CEBP).

June 20, 2023 22:47

• ICRF reports on check after three sisters' death in KBR

  Investigators are considering several versions of the death of three sisters in the Chegem District, including suicide and an accident. The women died after a conflict with their relatives, sources report.

June 20, 2023 12:55

• Court appoints forensic psychiatric examination of Kuban activist Sokolov

  In the Scherbinovsky District of the Krasnodar Territory, a court granted a public prosecutor’s request and appointed a new forensic psychiatric examination of activist Maxim Sokolov, who had earlier been forcibly placed in a psychiatric clinic.

June 20, 2023 12:43

• Delay in case on restricting parental rights of Dagestani native angers her relatives

  In Kaliningrad, a court takes an unreasonably long time to consider a claim to restrict the parental rights of Nina, a native of Dagestan, and that prevents the children from leaving for the republic with their father’s family, woman’s relatives point out.

June 20, 2023 12:38

• Court upholds sentence of Dagestani resident in case on terrorism

  A court of cassation has upheld the sentence of Elnar Amirbekov, who was sentenced to 17 years of imprisonment on the charge of terrorism and preparation of an attack on a road-and-patrol police (known as DPS) checkpoint in Dagestan. The court found unfounded the arguments of the defence about the falsification of evidence.

June 19, 2023 23:53

• Makhachkala: solo picketer demands to release her detained brother

  A female resident of Dagestan has held a solo picket, demanding the release of her brother, who was detained by law enforcers.

June 19, 2023 22:21

• Krasnodar resident arrested for posting Ukrainian symbols in social media

  A court in Krasnodar has found the posting of a flag on a social network with a slogan glorifying Ukraine as a demonstration of extremist symbols and arrested Mikhail Lyakh, a local resident, for 15 days.

June 19, 2023 21:46

• Chechen authorities wage fight on violators of Chechen traditions in social networks

  Authorities of Chechnya will monitor social networks and identify residents of the republic who ignore Chechen traditions. Any deviation from traditional norms in social networks will be suppressed, Khamzat Kadyrov, an advisor to the head of Chechnya, has promised.

June 19, 2023 20:30

• Escape from family is a way to survive for North-Caucasian domestic violence victims

  In the BBC documentary "When I Fled", girls from Chechnya, Ingushetia and Dagestan tell that domestic violence, forced marriages and death threats had forced them to run away from their families. For victims of domestic violence, such escape often becomes the only way to save their lives, human rights defenders have emphasized.

June 19, 2023 20:12

• Krasnodar journalist Alipat Sultanbegova ordered not to leave

  The investigator has chosen the recognizance not to leave as the freedom restraint measure for Alipat Sultanbegova, a Krasnodar journalist, who is a figurant in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian Army, although she had already managed to leave Russia.

June 19, 2023 18:20

• Novocherkassk Military Court denies contract soldier's dismissal from military service

  The Novocherkassk Military Court has refused to satisfy the demand of Alexander Semenenko, a contract military serviceman, to be dismissed from military service, citing the presidential decree on the partial mobilization.

June 19, 2023 18:15

• Rostov citizen convicted of murdering his wife released from colony due to participation in SMO

  After taking part in the Russia's special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine Vladislav Biryukov, a resident of Rostov-on-Don, who had been sentenced to 16 years in colony for murdering his wife, has been amnestied.

June 17, 2023 23:33

• At debates, Zarema Musaeva denies charges

  During the debates held at a court session in Grozny, Zarema Musaeva has declared her innocence of fraud and assault on a law enforcer.

June 17, 2023 02:45

• Musaeva’s defenders treat prosecutors’ arguments ungrounded

  During the pleadings in court, advocates Alexander Nemov and Alexander Savin stated that investigators and public prosecutors did not provide evidence of Zarema Musaeva’s guilt in an attack on law enforcer and fraud.

June 17, 2023 02:40

• More than 600 people demand to investigate activist Berezikov’s death in SIZO

  An appeal to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) with a request to check reports about torture of Anatoly Berezikov in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Rostov-on-Don, investigate the circumstances of his death, and institute a criminal case was published on the website “Change.Org”.

June 16, 2023 22:56

• Prosecutor failed to finish his speech at debates on Abdulmumin Gadjiev's case

  Speaking at the debates during the trial of the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev, accused of financing extremist organizations, the prosecutor repeated the arguments earlier voiced out during the trial. It was expected that he would finish his speech in one session, but he had not enough time.

June 16, 2023 22:14

• Believer from Kalach-on-Don challenged in court forced consignment to military service

  Due to religious beliefs, at the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office), Anton Kuznetsov from the town of Kalach-on-Don fought for his right to alternative civilian service but was forcibly sent to a military unit.

June 16, 2023 19:55

• Chechen law enforcers criticized by Ramzan Kadyrov returned to special military operation zone

  Five fighters of the “Sever-Akhmat” regiment, who were released from the Ukrainian captivity, were returned to the zone of the special military operation. The fighters declared that they were ready to carry out any order.