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September 06, 2024 21:46

• Dagestani blogger Alibekov rejects charge of intentionally attacking law enforcer

  In Kazan, a court extended the arrest of Dagestani native Askhabali Alibekov by three months. The blogger claims that he hit a law enforcer not intentionally, when policemen were twisting his arms.

September 06, 2024 17:08

• Journalist Svetlana Anokhina reports about law enforcers’ visit to her mother

  The police came to a 95-year-old mother of journalist and human rights defender Svetlana Anokhina to take a saliva sample from her. The human rights defender has called the police actions intimidation of the elderly woman.

September 05, 2024 23:55

• Three Jehovah's Witnesses* accused of extremism in Krasnodar Territory

  Residents of the village of Vyselki, Vladimir Lepsky, Irina Ushakova and Natalia Novoseletskaya participated in meetings and training events in order to continue the activities of the banned religious organization "Jehovah's Witnesses of the Vyselkovsky District", investigators assert.

September 05, 2024 23:37

• Resident of Rostov Region sentenced for trying to help Ukrainians

  The Rostov Regional Court has sentenced Novitsky, a 61-year-old local resident, to 3.5 years in colony, finding him guilty of attempting to cooperate with a foreign state.

September 05, 2024 22:38

• Mikhail Benyash* demands return of his lawyer status

  Mikhail Benyash*, a lawyer, has filed a lawsuit against the Krasnodar Territorial Bar Association and the Russian Federal Bar Association, demanding that the deprivation of his lawyer status be declared illegal.

September 05, 2024 22:14

• Dagestani PMC’s chair reports details about suspects detained in case on Djabrailov’s death

  Two detained inspectors of the patrol-and-post police service (known as PPS) have been suspected of abuse of power in connection with the death of Akhmed Djabrailov at a police station, reports Shamil Khadulaev, the chair of the Public Monitoring Commission of Dagestan. He has also mentioned the suspects’ names.

September 05, 2024 21:45

• Visitors to Beslan School find it necessary to preserve terror act memory

  It is hard to visit Beslan and reminisce about what happened 20 years ago, but it is a must in order to preserve the memory of the victims and support their relatives, visitors to Beslan School No. 1 have stated.

September 05, 2024 20:38

• Two law enforcers detained in connection with Djabrailov's death at police station

  Investigators have detained two patrol-and-post officers in connection with the death of Akhmed Djabrailov, a participants in the special military operation (SMO), on July 9, at in the Sovietsky police station in Makhachkala, Shamil Khadulaev, the head of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan, has informed.

September 05, 2024 19:38

• Activist Larisa Baragunova sentenced to three years in colony

  The court has found Larisa Baragunova, a pensioner from the city of Tyrnyauz, guilty of attacking law enforcers and sentenced her to three years in penal colony. In her final statement, she stated that her prosecution had to do with the activities of the "USSR Trade Union"* organization.

September 04, 2024 23:47

• Case of Chechen MMA fighter Yakubov shows danger of quoting Basaev

  The inclusion of Ilyas Yakubov, a Chechen MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter, into the list of terrorists and extremists has restricted some of his rights. In order for a person to be charged with justifying terrorism, it is not necessary for him/her to justify it literally.

September 04, 2024 23:08

• Dagestani blogger Askhabali Alibekov put on preventive registration at SIZO

  Askhabali Alibekov, a native of Dagestan, accused of using violence against a law enforcer, has been put on preventive registration by the administration of a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Kazan as a person disseminating extremist ideology.

September 04, 2024 21:54

• Screwdriver attack in Magas shows state of armed underground

  Lone militants make use of surprise factor to attack law enforcers, but the use of improvised means in the attack on the traffic police post in Magas became evidence of the weakening of the armed underground, military experts and a Caucasus expert believe.

September 04, 2024 21:45

• Chechen Magomed Abubakarov claims being tortured by law enforcers

  Law enforcers tortured British citizen Magomed Abubakarov, a native of Chechnya, in attempts to force him to confess working for foreign intelligence agencies. Magomed Abubakarov is being denied medical care at a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

September 04, 2024 21:35

• Makhachkala resident demands compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution

  Zainulabidin Mirzabekov spent 12 years proving that the charge of selling heroin brought against him was falsified, and he spent eight years in custody. The man requests court to oblige the state to pay 414 million roubles in compensation for unlawful criminal prosecution.

September 04, 2024 16:37

• Former hostages dispute about terrorism prevention centre opened in Beslan

  The opening of a terrorism prevention centre at the Beslan School has sparked a mixed reaction among the victims. The school territory should have been preserved, says Emma Tagaeva. In his turn, Misikov believes that the centre is necessary in order to preserve the memory of the terror act.

September 03, 2024 22:56

• Attack with bladed weapon on law enforcers is the first in Northern Caucasus in two years

  The attack on the traffic police post at the entrance to Magas, as a result of which policemen killed a man armed with a screwdriver, was preceded by a similar incident that occurred in Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, in November 2022.

September 03, 2024 21:38

• MIA refuses to confirm Kevin Lik's release

  Kevin Lik's conviction has not been expunged, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Adygea has informed.

September 03, 2024 21:13

• Law enforcers sentenced for beating Timur Derbichev and bribe-taking

  Idris Fargiev, a policeman, has been sentenced to five years in penal colony within the case of beating Timur Derbichev in the city of Magas (the capital of Ingushetia). Two other policemen were sentenced for bribe-taking for refusing to initiate a criminal case against Derbichev on charges of drug possession, to which he was forced to confess.

September 03, 2024 17:10

• Ingush Govt reacts to allegations of abusing mental hospital patients

  Appeals to the Prosecutor's Office (PO) in connection with the abuse of patients at the mental hospital located in the village of Psedakh (Malgobek District of Ingushetia) yielded no fruit, while there are still patients there, who have no relatives or whose families have no way to transfer them to another place.

September 03, 2024 15:58

• Rights defenders point to difficulties of recording kidnappings in Chechnya

  No kidnapping statistics is currently run in Chechnya, as relatives of missing people are afraid to make disappearances public, human rights defenders have pointed out. Illegal detentions in Chechnya continue, but only most resonant cases become known.