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Ruslan Kasheshov (Memorial)
A court in Rostov-on-Don has sentenced a man to 11 years in prison for aiding to the Islamic State, as well as on drugs and weapons charges. The court found that Ruslan Kasheshov, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria, had transferred ₽8,000 ($130) to a member of the group. [Read more…]
A still from a second video released by the Daghestani Interior Ministry, in which the whole image is blurred.
Daghestan’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has published a video on social media of a 14-year-old girl testifying to facing years of sexual abuse at the hands of her neighbours. [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…]
Mass arrests during protests ahead of Eurovision Song Contest in Baku in 2012 (Picture: Telegraph.co.uk)
The latest report by the Institute for Democratic Initiatives, independent Azerbaijani NGO, shows a spike in the number of administrative arrests, which are used as a ‘tool of political pressure’ in the country.
The Grotniki refugee centre (Marcin Stępień /Agencja Gazeta)
Mass executions, murders, abductions, rape, torture, intimidation, extortion, forged criminal proceedings, monstrous corruption — this is what Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya looks like today. The Russian republic is completely disconnected from the Russian legal system — with the consent of the Russian authorities.
Ruslan Kasheshov (Memorial)
Rights group Memorial has published a report detailing the alleged torture of a local businessman in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the summer of 2018. [Read more…]
Ingushetia’s capital of Magas (Photo: Dominik K. Cagara / OC Media)
An activist against Ingushetia’s controversial land deal with Chechnya and a local journalist have been detained. According to his lawyer, journalist Rashid Maysigov, who is accused of drug possession and treason, is being tortured by the authorities.
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…]
Khasavyurt (Wikipedia)
A man in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has been tortured into confessing to murder, his lawyer says. Sapiyat Magomedova told OC Media she believes police in the city of Khasavyurt intended to pin other unsolved crimes on her client, Kamil Khayrudinov, as part of a drive to improve crime statistics. [Read more…]
Abutalib Shakhruyev (OC Media)
A man from the Russian Republic of Daghestan has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over torture he says he was subjected to at Daghestan’s Centre for Countering Extremism. Abutalib Shakhruyev was sentenced to 11 years in prison in March for ‘aiding and financing members of illegal armed formations’. [Read more…]
