Yelena Barzukayeva and Shakhnazat Rabadanova (/Chernovik)
Two women whose sons were detained on 15 June for ‘illegal weapons possession’ are beginning their third week on hunger strike in the Russian Republic of Daghestan. The women say their sons were framed and tortured into giving false confessions. They are demanding their sons’ release.
'Freedom to Abdulmumin Gadzhiyev'. (Saida Vagavova / OC Media)
An editor and journalist from Chernovik, an independent newspaper in the Russian republic of Daghestan, has been arrested on suspicion of financing terrorism and participating in a terrorist organisation. [Read more…]
(Chernovik)
People from the Russian Republic of Daghestan have dismantled a road sign reading ‘Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya’ near the entrance to the Daghestani city of Kizlyar. The next morning, chair of the Chechen Parliament Magomed Daudov visited the scene and the authorities of Daghestan convened an emergency meeting. [Read more…]
The protest in Makhachkala (Caucasian Knot)
Three activists were briefly detained in the Russian Republic of Daghestan after they held an unsanctioned rally in support of a Meduza journalist and a Circassian activist, both of whom were arrested in recent days on drug charges. [Read more…]
Buynaksk (Russiantowns.livejournal.com)
Four teenagers detained in Daghestan on terror charges have accused the authorities of forcing them to swear allegiance to the Islamic State at gunpoint. [Read more…]
Protest of State Pedagogical University students in Makhachkala. (OC Media)
A protest by students from the Daghestan State Pedagogical University (DSPU) against acting rector Aslan Radzhabov is about to enter its third week. [Read more…]
(Saida Vagabova/OC Media)
Around 200 nurses from the state central city hospital in Buynaksk, Daghestan, went on strike on 26 April, protesting against low wages. [Read more…]
(vesti95.ru)
Chechnya and Daghestan have suspended the border demarcation process between the two Russian republics a month after Chechnya ‘unilaterally’ registered parts of Daghestan as within their own territory. [Read more…]
Ziyavudin Ashikov (Perviy Kaspiysky)
The acting police chief of Kaspiysk, a city on Daghestan’s Caspian coast, has been arrested on suspicion of ordering an assassination attempt against the then–deputy head of the republic’s Criminal Investigation Department. [Read more…]
Omar Abdurashidov (right) (Saida Vagabova/OC Media)
A court in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has remanded two former senior officials into two months of pre-trial detention on suspicion of financing terrorist activities. [Read more…]
