North-Caucasian Federal District

May 04, 2024 18:08

• Court releases Malgobek law enforcers accused of extortion

  Three policemen from Ingushetia, accused of using violence against a detainee and extortion, have been released. The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has explained that the period specified by law for the preliminary investigation had expired and their further detention is illegal.

May 03, 2024 23:08

• Karachay-Cherkessia marks National Revival Day with memorial events

  Participants of an official event in Karachaevsk, dedicated to the Karachay People Revival Day, paid tribute to the memory of those perished during the years of deportation. Book and photo exhibitions were opened in the republic on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the return of Karachay people from exile.

May 03, 2024 21:03

• ICRF reports detention of three suspects of insulting believers' feelings in Stavropol Territory

  Three residents of the town of Novoaleksandrovsk have been detained for publicly burning the New Testament down; they are suspected of insulting believers' feelings and hooliganism, investigators have reported.

May 03, 2024 19:48

• Native of Chechnya dies after being beaten in colony for life prisoners

  Arsan Mukaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of killing law enforcers, has died in his penal colony after being beaten up.

May 02, 2024 23:30

• Leila Gatagazheva transferred to house arrest

  A court decided to place under house arrest Leila Gatagazheva, a native of Ingushetia, accused of involvement in formations of Syrian militants. Leila Gatagazheva returned to Malgobek from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Pyatigorsk, human rights defenders reported.

May 02, 2024 21:56

• Case against policeman accused in Dalgatov’s death sent to prosecutor’s office

  The investigation into a case against one of the Makhachkala policemen accused of the detained Kurban Dalgatov’s death has been completed. The case materials have been transferred to the prosecutor’s office for approval of the indictment.

May 02, 2024 21:06

• Court finds Jehovah's Witness* Guschin not guilty of extremism

  A district court in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has acquitted Kirill Guschin, a Jehovah's Witness*, finding him not guilty of extremism.

May 01, 2024 23:41

• Website of “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” project blocked in Russia

  At a request of the General Prosecutor’s Office, the “Roskomnadzor” (Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Communications) has blocked access in Russia to the website of the “Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial” human rights project.

May 01, 2024 21:46

• Friend of Suleimanova, who went missing in Chechnya, questioned within murder case

  In Grozny, an investigator has interrogated Lena Patyaeva within the case of the murder of her friend Seda Suleimanova, who was taken away by her relatives from Saint Petersburg and stopped communicating.

May 01, 2024 21:06

• Analysts treat apologies of Circassian Elders' Board member for his words about Karachais as voluntary

  The apologies by Abu Banov, a member of the Board of Elders of Circassian People, for his words about Karachais were unlikely to be the result of coercion, as it happens in Chechnya, since forced apologies are not practiced in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), analysts have pointed out.

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