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March 21, 2023 17:30

• Court in Chegem refuses to consider case of discrediting army

  The Chegem District Court of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has returned the administrative protocol on discrediting the Russian Army back to the police due to identified shortcomings.

March 21, 2023 17:24

• Court of Appeal points to violations in Ingush Daud Mamilov's case

  The Court of Appeal has returned the case of Daud Mamilov, a native of Ingushetia, who was found guilty of involvement in the activities of the "Islamic State"* and sentenced to eight years in prison.

March 21, 2023 16:19

• Chechen police report two militants killed in 2022

  In Chechnya, law enforcers uncovered a terrorist cell and killed two militants, the republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) stated in a 2022 report, although Ramzan Kadyrov announced back in 2021 that the armed underground in Chechnya had been liquidated.

March 21, 2023 16:15

• KBR court mitigates sentence to law enforcer for beating up two people

  The court of appeal has reduced the sentence and decided to release Beslan Kagermazov, a former policeman from the Prokhladnensky District, who was convicted of beating two persons and extorting a bribe.

March 21, 2023 16:11

• Journalists tell about aims of pickets in support of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev

  Pickets in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev remind of his case and the demand of his colleagues-journalists to release him from custody, Magomed Magomedov, one of the picketers, have stated.

March 20, 2023 23:59

• Activists consider liquidation of “Council of Elders of Balkar People” illegal

  The court’s decision to liquidate the “Council of Elders of the Balkar People” is groundless, since the organization complied with its charter provisions, members of the council emphasize. They intend to file an appeal against the court’s decision.

March 20, 2023 23:55

• Human rights defenders claim torture conditions in penal colony for Ingush native Albagachiev

  Prisoner Abdul-Malik Albagachiev is being kept under torture conditions in the penal colony of Astrakhan, the “Public Verdict” Foundation* claimed.

March 20, 2023 20:10

• Court halves compensation to resident of Chechnya for his illegal criminal prosecution

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has halved Salakh Vakhaev's compensation for several years of illegal criminal prosecution – from 300,000 roubles down to 150,000 roubles.

March 20, 2023 19:58

• Inquiry into plotting by native of Chechnya attack on Berlin synagogue stopped

  The German General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has closed the consideration of the case on plotting a terror act on a Berlin synagogue, initiated against Zelimkhan Baisagurov, the "Vayfond" Chechen Human Rights Association has informed.

March 19, 2023 18:43

• Kadyrov's threats to Koran burners remind social media users of extrajudicial executions

  The promise announced by Ramzan Kadyrov to reward for killing or capturing the authors of the Koran-burning video has opened up wide opportunities for punishing those who had nothing to do with the filming of the video, while the mass executions of residents of Chechen during military campaigns went unpunished, social media users have pointed out.

March 19, 2023 17:04

• KBR resident suspected of discrediting militaries

  Law enforcers have drawn up a protocol on discrediting the Russian Armed Forces against Islam Mambetov, a resident of the Zolsky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR). The case has been sent to court.

March 18, 2023 21:17

• Transfer of Visaev's case to Khabarovsk creates problems for his relatives

  The case of Apti Visaev, a native of Chechnya, who is accused of plotting a terror act, has been transferred from Krasnoyarsk to the military court in Khabarovsk, his wife has informed and complained that paying for advocates' travels to the trial would hurt the family's budget.

March 18, 2023 17:14

• After a complaint to presidential envoy, woman from KBR arrested

  Larisa Baragunova, the head of the NGO entitled "Union SSR Trade Union", who had complained about a search in her apartment to the presidential envoy in the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), has been arrested for two months.

March 18, 2023 17:10

• Khutmat Kadyrova's artificial post emphasizes clannish nature of power in Chechnya

  The post of a curator, to which the 20-year-old Khutmat Kadyrova has been appointed to oversee, on behalf of her father, the decisions of the Chechen Ministry of Public Health, does not exist in the Russian system of state administration, analysts assert, not ruling out that one of Kadyrov's children could succeed him in his post even before the age of 30.

March 18, 2023 16:49

• Human rights defenders report about deaths of two Chechen residents after their detentions by law enforcers

  Residents of Chechnya Gilani Dukhaev and Akhmed Gataev were detained by law enforcers in late 2022, and after some time their bodies were returned to their relatives, the Human Rights Protection Centre “Memorial” reported.

March 18, 2023 16:43

• Kadyrov promises reward for execution of participants in video about burning of page from Koran

  The leader of Chechnya promised to pay 5 million roubles for the “liquidation” of participants in the video, in which a page from the Koran was used to light a fire, and 10 million roubles for their capturing alive.

March 17, 2023 17:15

• Ingush MPs offer to deprive schools of right to define pupils' dress code

  The members of the Parliament of Ingushetia have supported the idea of making amendments to the law "On Education" that prohibit the educational establishments from restricting the pupils' right to wear clothes in accordance with their religion.

March 17, 2023 17:10

• Court abolishes Balkar nation's Council of Elders

  The public organization "Council of Elders of the Balkar People" has failed to hold congresses and keep its records, while its leader, Ismail Sabanchiev, made an extremist call; therefore, the Nalchik City Court has declared the organization liquidated.

March 17, 2023 16:08

• Resident of Ingushetia suspected of discrediting the Russian Army

  The suspect is accused of posting statements in a social network aimed at discrediting the use of the Russian Armed Forces; this became the reason for initiating a criminal case against him.

March 17, 2023 15:48

• Kadyrov equates those who do not want to go to Ukraine to unbelievers

  Residents of Chechnya should be ready to participate in the special military operation in Ukraine in any military unit, and the reluctance to go there indicates a lack of faith, Ramzan Kadyrov states.