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January 19, 2024 19:50

• Second protocol on discrediting Russian Army drawn up against Natalia Dorozhnova

  Law enforcers have drawn up a second protocol on discrediting the Russian Army against Natalia Dorozhnova, a Volgograd activist. The reason to persecute her was Dorozhnova's statements in an interview after the trial, which fined her under the same article, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* has informed.

January 19, 2024 19:14

• Rights defenders hold Chechen authorities responsible for Gakaev's murder

  The authorities and law enforcers should have paid attention to Turpal-Ali Shamurzaev's posts about his fight against witches and react to them; this could have prevented the murder of Mullah Gakaev, human rights defenders have stated.

January 19, 2024 17:12

• Gakaevs reconcile with family of the man accused of killing Mullah

  The reconciliation of relatives of Turpal-Ali Shamurzaev, accused of killing the Mullah, Abdurakhim Gakaev, and the latter's family occurred in the village of Kadi-Yurt, a resident of the Gudermes District has informed.

January 19, 2024 14:50

• Zarema Musaeva reprimanded in penal colony

  The colony bosses have reprimanded Zarema Musaeva for not wearing a badge; she walked ten meters down the corridor without it. The reprimand may cause non-release of Musaeva under the conditional early relief (CER), an advocate has stated.

January 18, 2024 23:39

• AI urges authorities in European states to stop deportation of natives of Northern Caucasus

  Authorities in European states must immediately halt the transfer of refugees and asylum seekers from Northern Caucasus back to Russia where they are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment, the “Amnesty International” (AI) has declared.

January 18, 2024 22:38

• Norwegian Helsinki Committee remembers mass deportation of repressed peoples in USSR

  A series of articles reporting about the deportation of peoples during the years of Soviet power has been prepared by the Norwegian Helsinki Committee. The articles contain, in particular, memories of Karachay and Kalmyk people about deportation from their native places and years in exile.

January 18, 2024 17:23

• Advocate points to violations during search at Vyacheslav Yaschenko

  The law enforcers' actions when conducting a search of the home of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" journalist, in Volgograd were at odds with the search order signed by the investigator, the advocate has stated.

January 18, 2024 17:17

• Law enforcers conduct searched at "Caucasian Knot" journalist

  Today, policemen have searched the home of Vyacheslav Yaschenko, a "Caucasian Knot" journalist, and took away his laptop and storage media. They explained that the search was conducted within the case of the activist, Evgeny Kochegin*, accused of spreading fakes about the Russian Army.

January 18, 2024 17:02

• Defence claims falsification of riots case at Makhachkala Airport

  Gerei Djamalutdinov was detained after the riots at the Makhachkala Airport; law enforcers forced him to self-incriminate; and no the witness' interrogation data, who state that he saw Djamalutdinov at the airport could be found in the case files, the advocate has stated.

January 18, 2024 16:02

• KBR's POC announces check after arson in penal colony

  The prisoners who had set fire to mattresses in a colony in the Chegem District were placed into the dungeon (punishment cell) legally, a check is underway, the Department for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) and the local Public Oversight Commission (POC) have reported.

January 18, 2024 15:57

• Video with apologies from relatives of man suspected of Gakaev’s murder posted on Internet

  Relatives of a resident of Chechnya, suspected of murdering mullah Abdurakhim Gakaev, asked for forgiveness from relatives of the murdered man.

January 18, 2024 10:16

• Relatives of suspect in killing Mullah offer reconciliation to Gakaevs

  Relatives of the man accused of murdering the Mullah, Abdurakhim Gakaev, have stated that they were disgraced by their relative's actions and expressed a desire to reconcile with Mullah's relatives. It follows from the video record of the gathering that took place in the village of Komsomolskoye.

January 17, 2024 23:59

• Resident of Volgograd Region convicted for fakes about Russian Army

  The Kotelnikovsky District Court of Volgograd has sentenced Vasily Melnikov, a local resident, to five years in jail with a three-year-long ban on administering Internet sites within the case of spreading fakes about the Russian Army.

January 17, 2024 23:51

• At trial in Zhuravel’s case, court listens to testimonies of two prosecution witnesses

  A fellow student of Nikita Zhuravel has stated in his testimony that he did not ask the defendant about his attitude to Islam and does not know on whose instructions Nikita Zhuravel burned the Koran.

January 17, 2024 23:14

• In Dagestan, court upholds decision in activist Larisa Bochieva’s case

  A court of appeal upheld the decision to extend the pre-trial restriction measure for Larisa Bochieva, a resident of Makhachkala, accused of creating a cell of an extremist organization.

January 17, 2024 22:50

• Natives of Ingushetia suspected of kidnapping resident of Dagestan

  Two suspects have kidnapped, for mercenary reasons, a resident of Dagestan and held him in a Psychological Assistance Centre in Ingushetia, investigators have reported.

January 17, 2024 22:15

• Atmosphere of cruelty in Chechnya leads to Gakaev's murder

  The supposed killer of Imam Gakaev looks like an unhealthy person, who took a far-fetched motive as a guide to action, but with a similar motive of fighting against sorcerers, he had appealed to Chechen authorities and sought their support.

January 17, 2024 21:17

• Another policeman suspected of involvement in Dalgatov's death

  A court in Makhachkala has placed a policeman suspected in the death of the detainee, Kurban Dalgatov, under house arrest. He became the third law enforcer arrested in January in connection within this case.

January 17, 2024 18:10

• Journalist Magomed Magomedov treats his detention at picket as result of provocation

  The police have planned the detention of Magomed Magomedov, the deputy editor-in-chief of the Dagestani newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), at a picket in Makhachkala in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev by preparing a provocation, the journalist himself believes.

January 17, 2024 16:29

• Convicted activist Daria Polyudova not in contact with her family for six months

  Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova, who is serving her sentence in a penal colony in Kabardino-Balkaria, has not sent letters or called her relatives for six months already, her mother says.