Legal Case of the Week: Seven Ingush protest leaders sentenced to long terms of imprisonment on ‘baseless’ charges

Week-ending 17 December 2021 On 15 December 2021 a court in Yessentuki sentenced seven Ingush protest leaders to terms of imprisonment of between seven and a half and nine years.…

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Legal Case of the Week: Eight political activists on trial or awaiting trial in Ingushetia for leading a peaceful protest campaign in 2018 and 2019

Week-ending 3 December 2021 Eight political activists are on trial or awaiting trial in Ingushetia (Southern Russia) for leading a peaceful protest campaign in 2018 and 2019. They are facing…

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Memorial Human Rights Centre: Akhmed Pogorov, a protest leader in Ingushetia, is a political prisoner

28 April 2021  Former Interior Minister of Ingushetia Akhmed Pogorov is accused of organising violence against law enforcement officers and of membership of an ‘extremist group.’ Source: Memorial Human Rights…

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Lev Ponomarev: On the latest developments in the ‘Ingush case’

19 March 2021 by Lev Ponomarev, human rights defender and member of the Moscow Helskinki Group Source: Moscow Helsinki Group [original source: Эхо Москвы] "THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND DISTRIBUTED…

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Remember the Date: Deportation of Chechen and Ingush peoples on 23 February 1944

Photo of the Chechens and Ingush being loaded onto trains for the deportation (Wikipedia) On 23 February 1944 the Soviet authorities deported the Chechens and Ingush to Central Asia. The expulsion…

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