Activists from Volny Aul gather for the meeting. Photo: OC Media.
A meeting scheduled to take place between land activists in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, and the city’s mayor failed to take place after the mayor changed the format of the meeting at the last moment including by banning journalists from attending. [Read more…]
A protest calling for the release of Musa Aliyev. Photo: Saida Vagbaova/OC Media
A couple in south-west Daghestan have accused the local police of torturing them into incriminating an innocent man for the rape of their 14-year-old daughter. Local residents of the Village of Mutsalaul, in Khasavyurt District, have protested demanding the suspect, who also says he was tortured, be released. [Read more…]
Askhabali Zairbekov is released. Photo: Kommersant.
On 26 November, a military court in Rostov-on-Don ruled that Askhabali Zairbekov receive compensation of ₽9.5 million ($150,000) and a public apology from the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian republic of Daghestan. The former police chief of the Kizilyurt District in central Daghestan had been charged and acquitted of armed robbery. [Read more…]
Ibragim Eldzherkiyev. Photo: Kavkaz.realii
Ibragim Eldzherkiyev, the head of the Centre for Combating Extremism in the Russian republic of Ingushetia, and his brother Akhmed Eldzherkiyev were shot dead on 2 November in Moscow in an apparent assassination. [Read more…]
Jehovah’s Witnesses from throughout Daghestan protested outside Makhachkala’s Sovietsky District Court on 23 September against the prosecution of four of their members. Photo: Saida Vagabova/OC Media.
Since 2017, the Jehovah’s Witnesses religious organisation has been banned in Russia — branded and ‘extremist sect’. With arrests and prosecutions taking place throughout the country since, the authorities have now turned their eyes to Daghestan, and after raids throughout the republic, four members are now on trial. [Read more…]
The Russian Supreme Court. Official picture.
Four rights groups operating in different republics of the North Caucasus may face closure due to a lawsuit filed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice in the Russian Supreme Court. The ministry is seeking to close down Russian rights movement Za Prava Cheloveka (‘for human rights’), of which the groups are members. [Read more…]
A road sign installed at the entrance to Kizlyar in June reading ‘Shelkovskaya District of Chechnya’. Photo: Chernovik.
A ruling by the Supreme Court of the Russian Republic of Daghestan over a disputed section of the Chechen–Daghestani border has now come to light — over three months after it was made. On 16 July, the court ruled in favour of the Daghestani town of Kizlyar over the Chechen authorities. [Read more…]
former Minister of Construction Mustafa Buruzhev. Photo: Crimerussia
The former head of the administration of the president of the Russian republic of Ingushetia and an ex-minister of construction of the republic are being prosecuted on charges of corruption. [Read more…]
Photo: Caucasian Knot
Officials at a detention centre in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have denied access to lawyers to three activists detained after March protests in Magas. The activists from the neighbouring republic of Ingushetia were fighting against a land deal between Ingushetia and Chechnya. [Read more…]
People in Moscow holding posters saying ‘Freedom to Zarifa’ and ‘Freedom to political prisoners in Ingushetia’. Photo: RFE/RL North Caucasus Service.
An online protest is demanding the release of Zarifa Sautiyeva, an activist against Ingushetia’s controversial land deal with Chechnya. Thousands of people from all over Russia have uploaded videos calling for her release. [Read more…]
