The Supreme Court of Chechnya decided to refer the criminal case of torture of actor Timur Debishev for a new examination. Thus, the highest regional court did not support another refusal to investigate the crime.

The Supreme Court of Russia confirmed five years of imprisonment to the native of Dagestan Murad Dadashev. Such a term was given to him for posting on the Internet clips with supporters of the independence of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and photos of field commander Shamil Basayev. The accused himself claimed that he had not published anything.

The Association «Vaifonda» has received a notification from the Commission for the Control of Files of Interpol on the withdrawal of Dagestan preacher Israel Akhmednabiyev, better known as Abu Umar Sashilinsky, from the international search. The Commission concluded that the political or religious objectives prevailed in the Ahmednabiyev case and therefore did not satisfy the requirements of article 3 of the Interpol Statute. There are also witnesses in the case file who testified under torture.

On April 18, the Supreme Court of Chechnya returned to the first instance the refusal decision on the application of actor Timur Debishev, who demands that a criminal case be opened regarding the torture used against him.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the sentence of 9 years for Dagestan native Abdul Akayev on charges of aiding terrorism. According to the investigation, he transferred money to his brother, who was a member of the banned ISIS organization.

Timur Yalkabova, wife of a political prisoner, complained to the Human Rights Commissioner in the Ulyanovsk region about the actions of the colony administration in Dimitrovgrad. She told me that her husband had been unjustifiably placed in the SHIZ, had his personal belongings confiscated, humiliated. 

Criminal proceedings were instituted against a 40-year-old resident of Tidib village, Shamil district, Dagestan, for the dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Russian Armed Forces (art. 207.3, para. 1).

The day before the media reported that the Georgian Airways will operate a Moscow-Tbilisi flight. The reason was his appearance on the board of the Moscow airport Vnukovo.

Apti Visayev, a Chechen national, illegally accused of preparing a terrorist attack, reported lawlessness in Khabarovsk-1 detention centre. According to him, cell 364 of the Detention Centre is torture and the competent authorities should check the matter.

In January-March 2023, the Russian authorities carried out 83 arrests in Crimea on politically motivated cases. Of these, 54 were against members of the Crimean Tatar people. In addition, 21 searches were carried out, 19 of them in the homes of Crimean Tatars.