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A court concluded that an investigation into the case on a car hitting Sergey Sopnev, a resident of the Predgorny District, who as a result got his leg amputated and became disabled, was conducted ineffectively and led to a violation of the victim’s rights.

The court has fined Pavel Prokudin, a Volgograd blogger, by 60,000 roubles under administrative charges of discrediting the Russian Army and petty hooliganism.

In Sochi, a court imposed a fine on pensioner Elena Yanmurzina in a criminal case for attempting to spoil ballots at a polling station.

Alina Alekseitseva, the wife of a Chechen resident, has complained to human rights defenders that he was beating her and their children. Earlier, the man's other wife, Maria Smelaya, made similar complaints.

Rinat Kiramov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Akhtubinsk, who is serving his sentence for extremism, has complained that his cellmates had tortured him for several days, demanding that he slander other believers.

Employees of the military commissariat (registration and enlistment office) have detained Alexei Gaun, a Volgograd resident, for unauthorized abandonment of his military unit, when he tried to undergo a medical examination after being seriously wounded in the special military operation (SMO) zone in Ukraine.

The consideration of the lawsuit lodged by Yuri Mikhailov, who was HIV infected while being kept at the Novorossiysk SIZO (pre-trial prison) and the colonies of Kabardino-Balkaria and Kalmykia, was again postponed due to the fact that SIZO bosses failed to provide the documents requested by the court.

The pensioner is accused under the criminal article on discrediting Russian militaries.

An author of the study “Forcibly Married” indicated that when she and her colleagues were preparing the study they had to operate only with the information on early marriages released by the “Rosstat” (Federal State Statistics Service), although in many cases, only a religious marriage is being concluded.

Georgian parliament overcomes presidential veto, flooding in the Lori Province, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, news from Ingushetia, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 27-June 2, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

Alexei Motorny from the Rostov Region was detained and forcibly sent to the special military operation zone, despite a heart attack he suffered, claimed his spouse Svetlana. The woman is seeking her husband’s return home.

Activist Marina Melikhova, who was sentenced for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces, was released from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on June 1, the “OVD-Info”* reports.

Even if the court rules to leave a child with the mother, fathers from North-Caucasian regions often kidnap their children and take them to their homeland, from where it is then difficult to return them, human rights defenders have in their comments on the story of Maria Smelaya, a Krasnodar resident.

A court in Volgograd has fined Stanislav Terentiev, a former editor-in-chief of the "Kolokol" (Bell) newspaper, finding him guilty of publicly displaying Nazi symbols. Stanislav refused to plead guilty and appealed against the court ruling.

A court in Kizlyar (a city in Dagestan) has fined Saadula Zakaryaev, a local resident, for violating the rules of organizing a rally after he had posted an invitation in a social network for his subscribers to take part in filming a video about cars.

The expertise, on the basis of which the court found Salikh Osmanov, a resident of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), guilty of attempted sabotage, was conducted with gross violations, the complaint lodged against Osmanov's verdict asserts. He has accused law enforcers of fabricating the case against him.

Marina Melikhova, an activist from Kuban (Krasnodar Territory), remains at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), although her prison term has expired, her advocate has stated demanding from the SIZO to release Marina.

Oksana Voronina from Tikhoretsk and Yulia Vaganova from Sochi have been fined for their comments in social networks, which were treated by the court as discrediting the Russian Army. Yuri Boretsky, a Sochi resident, was ordered to pay a fine for his statements made during a conversation with his colleagues.

The problem of early and forced marriages in Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia is still there, although there are no reliable statistics on this issue. The problem is rarely brought into the public sphere amid girls' confidence in their own defencelessness, absence of working laws and gender discrimination characteristic of the patriarchal structure inherent in these republics.

A court in Voronezh has sentenced Alexander Shevchenko, a resident of the Rostov Region, to 24 years and four months of freedom deprivation. He tried to enter the territory of Ukraine aiming to tae part in hostilities against Russian troops there, the FSB (Russian Federal Security Service) has informed.