Human rights

April 30, 2025 14:13

• Zarema Musaeva’s detention period extended

  According to the ruling of the Shali District Court, Zarema Musaeva will remain in custody in the case on disrupting the operation of the penal colony until August 26. The defence will lodge an appeal against the above ruling of the Shali District Court.

April 29, 2025 16:38

• Over 3000 demand from ICRF to investigate Seda Suleimanova’s case

  More than 3000 applications have been sent to the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) demanding that the disappearance case of Seda Suleimanova, a Chechen native, be investigated under the federal control. Seda's friend continues seeking justice for her, although she is almost certain that the girl is dead.

April 29, 2025 16:33

• Rights defenders start fundraising for Polyudova's advocate

  Darya Polyudova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), faces pressure in the Kostroma colony; and her advocate helps her in defending her rights.

April 29, 2025 16:03

• Krasnodar Territorial Court refuses to rehabilitate Valery Bailo

  The Court of Appeal has ruled to terminate the criminal case against Valery Bailo due to his death, although the son of the deceased Jehovah's Witness* insisted on his father’s rehabilitation.

April 29, 2025 15:58

• Defence asks for Tofig Yagublu’s urgent transfer to house arrest

  The Baku Court of Appeal has refused to urgently consider the defence’s motion to transfer Tofig Yagublu, an oppositional politician, to house arrest. On the 28th day of his hunger strike, the Yagublu's health condition remains serious.

April 29, 2025 15:55

• Maria Smelaya seeks to find her son after court ruling

  An investigator promised to "bring" her son to Maria Smelaya, a resident of Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), when she receives a court ruling obliging to return her son to her. Maria intends to file an application on searching her child, whom his father had earlier taken to Chechnya.

April 28, 2025 18:07

• Court values prisoner’s torture in Rostov prison hospital at 100,000 roubles

  A court in Rostov-on-Don has valued the moral suffering of a prisoner who spent 71 days roped to a bed at the FSIN (Russian Federal Penitentiary Service) tuberculosis hospital at 100,000 roubles. Other prisoners who were tortured there are also seeking compensations, but the court ordered the FSIN to pay them 50,000 roubles each.

April 26, 2025 18:01

• Cassation Court cancels decision on compensation for activists of “Marem” shelter

  In Pyatigorsk, the Fifth Cassation Court has cancelled the decisions on compensation for employees of the “Marem” shelter in Dagestan.

April 25, 2025 23:58

• Shahada case against Chechen native sets dangerous precedent for Muslims

  The arrest of a Chechen native for placing the text of the shahada on the windshield of his car threatens all Muslims in Russia, who may also be subject to persecution. An Islamic scholar should act as an expert in the case, experts suggest.

April 25, 2025 23:17

• Girl’s death in Kaspiysk highlights problem of violence against children

  Cases of violence against children in Northern Caucasus have become more public and attract people’s attention, but their number is not decreasing, since cruelty and beating children “for educational purposes” have been considered in society as a norm.

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