Crime

May 17, 2024 19:25

• Rights defenders treat case of missing Movsar Umarov as typical for Chechnya

  The decision of the Grozny court to provide Eset Umarova with the materials of the case of her son Movsar's disappearance gives some hope to his family, but investigators are unlikely to make the hope true. The fate of Chechen residents who disappeared like Umarov often remains unknown, human rights defenders have pointed out.

May 16, 2024 22:49

• Defendants accused of patients’ deaths in Vladikavkaz hospital refuse to admit their guilt

  Vladimir Pliev and Oleg Morozov, the former head physician of the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital in Vladikavkaz and the institution’s equipment engineer, respectively, refused to plead guilty to the deaths of nine patients with coronavirus caused by an accident in the institution’s oxygen supply system.

May 16, 2024 17:47

• Woman from Maykop accused of damaging memorial in Krasnodar

  The case of a woman, a native of Maykop, the capital of Adygea, accused of damaging the Eternal Flame memorial in Krasnodar and desecrating a symbol of military glory has been brought to court, investigators have informed.

May 15, 2024 22:13

• Defence succeeds in seeking treatment for Zarema Musaeva

  Zarema Musaeva, who is serving her imprisonment term in a penal colony in Argun, is undergoing medical treatment in a day hospital, her advocate reports.

May 15, 2024 18:58

• Leila Gatagazheva's defence treats her return to SIZO as unjustified cruelty

  Leila Gatagazheva, who has been returned from house arrest to the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the second time in a row, needs medical treatment; her health was undermined back in the Iraqi prison, her relative and advocates assert.

May 14, 2024 22:57

• Three IS* supporters sentenced for preparing a terror act in Cherkessk

  In Karachay-Cherkessia, a court found three persons guilty of preparing a terror act and participating in the activities of the “Islamic State” (IS)*. The defendants were sentenced to 18.5 years of imprisonment in a high-security penal colony.

May 14, 2024 22:47

• In Ingushetia, court returns mother of two Leila Gatagazheva to SIZO

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Ingushetia has upheld an appeal filed by the prosecutor’s office against mitigation of a pre-trial restriction measure for Leila Gatagazheva, accused of involvement in groupings of Syrian militants. The young woman has been returned to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) for the second time.

May 13, 2024 20:11

• Contract serviceman from Adygea convicted of abandoning his unit

  The defence of Aliya Khalit, a contract serviceman, has challenged the verdict announced by the Maykop Military Court, pointing out that the reason for the serviceman's absence from service was in his health condition. However, the Southern District Military Court has upheld six year in jail for Aliya Khalit.

May 09, 2024 23:51

• Yulduz Kurashova, torture victim, challenges acquittal of policewoman

  Yulduz Kurashova, a woman from Khasavyurt, the victim in the torture case, intends to seek to bring Maya Akhmedova, an operative agent, to justice; she was acquitted by the court during the retrial of the case.

May 09, 2024 23:39

• Lawyer analyses findings of examination in journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova’s case

  When commenting on the criminal prosecution of journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova, advocate Timofei Shirokov has pointed out that psychological and linguistic examination has become a punitive tool and that, without clear criteria determined, investigators can easily use such examination to confirm the conclusions they need.

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