A Crimean Tatar political prisoner's health has deteriorated

Crimean Tatar Remzi Memetov, sentenced to eight years and nine months in prison and serving time in a Stavropol colony, suffers from high blood pressure. He is constantly dizzy and his right eye moves poorly, the political prisoner’s wife said.

In December 2018, Remzi Memetov was sentenced to nine years of maximum security on charges of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization and preparing for a violent seizure of power. In July 2019, the Supreme Court reduced the sentence to eight years and nine months.

According to investigators, Mamutov organized a cell of the Islamic organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, banned in Russia. Participants met, read the organization's literature, and discussed philosophical, religious, and political issues. The Memorial Human Rights Center has repeatedly noted that all members of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Crimea, according to criminal cases, did not prepare terrorist attacks, seize power or any violent actions and did not call for these actions.

Последние новости
Disappearances, raids and torture: what Anna Politkovskaya wrote about the second Russian-Chechen war
Chronicle of Wars and Crimes
Disappearances, raids and torture: what Anna Politkovskaya wrote about the second Russian-Chechen war
7 October 2026

Anna Politkovskaya was killed on 7 October 2006. Her articles, written from behind Chechnya’s blood-soaked information wall and barbed wire, became a voice of truth — the truth about what residents of the republic were experiencing as they became a convenient and powerless collective victim of the global “fight against international terrorism”.
Anna Politkovskaya’s name laid out in flowers in Oslo
Human rights
Anna Politkovskaya’s name laid out in flowers in Oslo
7 October 2026

Memorial events for Anna Politkovskaya are taking place in countries around the world today, marking 20 years since the murder of the journalist, who spent many years reporting on the war in Chechnya and human rights violations.

 
European Parliament Demands Withdrawal of Lawsuit to Ban Opposition Parties in Georgia
Politics
European Parliament Demands Withdrawal of Lawsuit to Ban Opposition Parties in Georgia
7 October 2026

In a draft resolution, the European Parliament has called on Georgian authorities to immediately withdraw the constitutional lawsuit seeking to ban opposition parties. The document is set for a vote on October 8, following a debate on the country's political situation taking place in Strasbourg on October 7.
On Putin’s birthday, Kadyrov speaks of the
Politics
On Putin’s birthday, Kadyrov speaks of the "special significance" of his name for Chechnya
7 October 2026

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov congratulated Vladimir Putin on his birthday and stated that the Russian president's name holds "special significance" for the Chechen people. According to Kadyrov, the region will "never forget" the support Putin extended to his father—Chechnya’s first president, Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov—"at a time when the future of the Chechen Republic depended on the decisions being made."