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The European Court of Human Rights ordered the payment of compensation to the participants of the Natalia Estemirov memorial campaign in Moscow.
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The European Court of Human Rights ordered the payment of compensation to the participants of the Natalia Estemirov memorial campaign in Moscow.
Published: 10 February 2023

The European Court awarded compensation for moral and material damage ranging from 1,000 to 3,900 euros to 59 Russians detained for participating in various actions and rallies. One of the applicants is a member of the Council of the CSDH «Memorial» Alexander Cherkasov, who was detained on July 15, 2019 in memory of Natalia Estemirov.
A Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffering from serious illnesses died in a Russian remand centre.
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A Crimean Tatar political prisoner suffering from serious illnesses died in a Russian remand centre.
Published: 10 February 2023

A 60-year-old political prisoner, Crimean Tatar Cemil Gafarov, died in Novocherkassk prison. He was consistently denied a medical examination. 
In the case of torture of the father and son from Dagestan, the court recognized as illegal the refusal to open a criminal case.
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In the case of torture of the father and son from Dagestan, the court recognized as illegal the refusal to open a criminal case.
Published: 9 February 2023

The Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow recognized as illegal the 24th refusal of the UK to open a criminal case against the SD officers. In 2016, they broke into the apartment of the natives of Dagestan, the son and father of Murad and Firuddin Ragimov and brutally tortured them. Murada, according to relatives, planted drugs and sentenced to 3.5 years of imprisonment.
The investigation twice refused to investigate the abduction of Zarema Musayeva.
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The investigation twice refused to investigate the abduction of Zarema Musayeva.
Published: 9 February 2023

«The Team against Torture» submitted more than 60 petitions and complaints against the actions of the policemen, who were forcibly taken from Nizhny Novgorod to Chechnya Zarema Musaeva. Two lawyers were refused to initiate criminal proceedings against the security forces.
In the North Caucasus, prisoners are threatened if they refuse to participate in the Ukrainian «special operation».
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In the North Caucasus, prisoners are threatened if they refuse to participate in the Ukrainian «special operation».
Published: 9 February 2023

Russian prisoners, including in the colonies and prisons of the Collective Security Council, are threatened with opening new criminal cases if they refuse to join the PMK "Wagner" for further transfer to the CRS zone. This was told by the lawyer of the fund "In defense of the rights of prisoners" Yana Helmel
Another trial of Batalkhadzhin residents has begun in Rostov-on-Don
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Another trial of Batalkhadzhin residents has begun in Rostov-on-Don
Published: 8 February 2023

On February 8, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don began considering the case of the assassination attempt on the head of the Ingush Center for Combating Extremism, Ibragim Eldzharkiev.
Суд отказал жительнице Ингушетии в привлечении силовиков за пытки.
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Суд отказал жительнице Ингушетии в привлечении силовиков за пытки.
Published: 8 February 2023

Нальчикский военный суд отказал в иске жительнице Ингушетии Танзиле Картоевой. Она пыталась добиться возбуждения уголовного дела на сотрудников правоохранительных органов. По ее словам, они подкинули ей наркотики и пытали.
Страдающего эпилепсией уроженца Ингушетии пытают в астраханской колонии.
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Страдающего эпилепсией уроженца Ингушетии пытают в астраханской колонии.
Published: 8 February 2023

В ИК-10 Астрахани содержат в пыточных условиях жителя Ингушетии Абдул-Малика Албагачиева. Он страдает эпилепсией, которая появилась после истязаний, сообщило издание «Общественный вердикт».
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A native of Chechnya fears an assassination attempt in a Kazakh pretrial detention center
12 June 2025

Mansur Movlaev, who is being held in a pretrial detention center in Kazakhstan and was previously put on the wanted list in Russia, fears an assassination attempt by another prisoner. According to his lawyer, a murder suspect, an ethnic Ingush, was placed in his cell.
More than 150 convicted natives of Chechnya transferred to colonies in Stavropol and the Chechen Republic
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More than 150 convicted natives of Chechnya transferred to colonies in Stavropol and the Chechen Republic
12 June 2025

More than 150 prisoners - natives of Chechnya - were transferred to Stavropol Krai and the Chechen Republic this year from colonies in other regions of Russia, including the most remote ones. According to the results of 2022-2023, there were 112 such convicts. This was reported by the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic Mansur Soltayev.
The Kabardino-Balkarian authorities sent recommendations to Moscow to amend the law on the repatriation of Circassians
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The Kabardino-Balkarian authorities sent recommendations to Moscow to amend the law on the repatriation of Circassians
12 June 2025

Numerous complaints and appeals from human rights defenders, activists and cultural figures from Adygea, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia have yielded their first results. The Kabardino-Balkarian Ministry of Nationalities sent recommendations to the Russian government to revise the federal bill on the repatriation of Circassians and other peoples of the North Caucasus to Russia. The law was previously criticized for its discriminatory nature due to the mandatory requirement to speak Russian.
A resident of Ingushetia who was captured by the
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A resident of Ingushetia who was captured by the "SVO" spoke about threats and torture
11 June 2025

Previously convicted native of Nazran Khadzhibikar Barkinkhoev was captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces and told how he was forcibly recruited to participate in the "SVO". According to him, he was tortured.