Daghestan
Daghestani man awarded compensation for unlawful prosecution
A court in the Russian Republic of Daghestan has awarded a local man ₽800,000 ($12,000) in compensation for moral damages over his illegal criminal prosecution. The Sovietsky District Court in the Daghestani capital, Makhachkala, awarded the money to local resident Sultakhan Ibragimov. Ibragimov was cleared of two counts of murder by the Supreme Court of Daghestan in October 2017. Shamil Magomedov, a lawyer from Russian rights group Memorial who represented Ibragimov in court, told OC Med
