Volgograd Region

July 25, 2024 22:36

• After announcing a public event, court sends Ukrainian citizen to deportation centre

  Alexander Gongadze Volny Ross, a Ukrainian citizen, who has served his sentence for organizing a wheelchair run in the town of Kamyshin, will be deported from Russia. He and his wife were fined for violating migration laws; and their deportation is expected next week despite the possibility of persecution in their homeland due to their pro-Russian position.

July 23, 2024 17:51

• Expert's conclusion exposes custom nature of case against oppositional politician Alexander Yefimov

  The expert's conclusion by Inna Vasilenko, Doctor of Philosophy, which the Prosecutor's Office (PO) presented at the trial of Alexander Yefimov, a member of the federal bureau of the "Yabloko" Party, is of a custom nature, lawyers have stated.

July 21, 2024 22:14

• Woman from Volgograd Region receives suspended sentence for spoiling ballots with brilliant green

  The Volzhsky City Court has sentenced Ainura Amanbaeva, a local resident, who had poured brilliant green into a ballot box during the Russian presidential election, to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment.

July 18, 2024 18:16

• Court repeatedly fines Volgograd politician for his interview to “Golos”* movement

  The Volzhsky City Court repeatedly considered a case against Alexander Yefimov, a member of the federal bureau of the “Yabloko” Party, who was found guilty of giving an interview to the “Golos” (Vote)* movement. Alexander Yefimov was again found guilty and fined 15,000 roubles. Alexander Yefimov called the court’s decision a precedent and announced his intention to lodge an appeal against it.

July 15, 2024 20:34

• Volgograd student convicted to five years for fakes about Russian Army

  The court has sentenced Daniil Vodolagin, a Volgograd student, to five years of freedom deprivation, finding him guilty of spreading fake news about the Russian Army.

July 13, 2024 19:36

• Volgograd TV company distances itself from story authors about persecution of Navalny’s supporters

  At the trial in court regarding the disclosure of personal data of the people who laid flowers at the memorial to victims of repressions in memory of Alexei Navalny, an official of the "Volgograd-1" TV Company stated that the authors of the programme in which the story appeared were not its employees.

June 29, 2024 22:36

• Court in Volgograd finds search of home of "Caucasian Knot" correspondent legal

  The Volgograd Court of Appeal (CoA) has upheld the court ruling that found the search conducted at the apartment of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, as legitimate. The CoA has rejected the defence's arguments.

June 26, 2024 21:26

• Rights defender Igor Nagavkin sentenced conditionally

  A court in the Volgograd Region has sentenced Igor Nagavkin to two years probation, finding him guilty of disorganizing the work of the SIZO (pre-trial prison). He intends to seek recognition of his innocence.

June 22, 2024 20:30

• Blogger Alyona Agafonova recognized as political prisoner

  An article, under which Alyona Agafonova, a blogger from Samara, was sentenced to correctional labour for desecrating the monument “The Motherland is Calling!”, provides no clear definitions, and there is no official list of symbols of the Russia’s military glory, human rights defenders pointed out.

June 19, 2024 22:50

• Human rights defender Nagavkin complains about falsifications in his case

  Igor Nagavkin, a human rights defender, has informed the head of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) about falsifications in the case initiated against him about the theft allegedly committed by him in a jewellery store.

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