The State Duma, in agreement with the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, proposed to cancel the indirect elections of the heads of a number of regions of the Russian Federation, including Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Cherkessia.

Well-known human rights activist denied release from pre-trial detention center in Azerbaijan

The Baku Court of Appeal dismissed the complaint about the extension of the term of arrest of human rights activist and public activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev.

A resident of the KChR could not be fined for discrediting the army due to failure to appear in court

A court in Cherkessk terminated an administrative case against a local resident, Ramazan Mkhtse, who is charged with criticizing the war in Ukraine.

The alleged member of the Basayev and Khattab detachments was sentenced to thirteen and a half years in prison

Chronicle of Wars and Crimes

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Tenali Kanaev to 13.5 years in a strict regime colony. He was found guilty under Art. 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (encroachment on the life of military personnel).

Mass hunger strike of Chechen refugees in Ingushetia and new abductions in their homeland

The head of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center (CRC) called the main reasons for the persecution of the Crimean Tatars by the Russian Federation

Alexander Mikhailovich Lyuboslavsky, editor-in-chief of the All-Russian magazine of regional human rights organizations "Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms" joined the hunger strike, started by the forced migrant from Chechnya Makhmud Abdulshaidov and then acquired a mass character.

Politics

Informal employment in the North Caucasus Federal District has decreased due to mobilization and the war with Ukraine

The vast majority of political prisoners in Crimea are Crimean Tatars. Since the first days of the occupation of the peninsula, since 2014, they have been showing a pro-Ukrainian position, for which the Russian authorities continue to persecute them.

Economy

The level of informal employment in the North Caucasus Federal District in the first quarter amounted to 38.2%, having decreased by 5% compared to last year, according to Rosstat.

Abdulmumin Hajiyev recalled the fabrication of his criminal case

The Southern District Military Court of Rostov-on-Don continued the debate on the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, a journalist from the Dagestan newspaper Chernovik, accused of financing terrorism and participating in the activities of terrorist organizations.

In Chechnya, a man was sentenced to eight years for murder, despite the involvement of the security forces in it

The Nozhai-Yurtovsky District Court in Chechnya sentenced Said-Magomed Omarov, a taxi driver from Grozny, to eight years and two months in a strict regime penal colony. He was convicted of the murder in 2017 of a resident of Dagestan.

Head of the “Team Against Torture”: “The investigation into the case of the attack on a journalist and a lawyer must be transferred from Chechnya to another region”