HRW representative Mathilda Bogner familiarizes herself with media situation in Azerbaijan

January 09, 2025 23:17

• Lawyers: court in Chechnya violates Musaeva’s right to defence

  A notification of an advocate an hour and a half before the start of the hearing at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, which left Zarema Musaeva in custody in the case on disorganization of the activities of the penal colony, violated the equality of the parties and the defendant’s right to defence.

January 09, 2025 22:56

• In Tbilisi, students of seven universities demand to hold new parliamentary elections

  In Tbilisi, students of seven higher education institutions hold protest actions with the demand to release the people arrested during protests against the suspension of Georgia’s European integration and to hold new parliamentary elections.

January 09, 2025 22:46

• Family of escaped Dagestani Zaira Pirova offers her to return home

  Zaira Pirova, a native of Dagestan, who fled to Georgia, has contacted her relatives, but was unable to convince them that she had left home voluntarily. She said that she missed her family. The girl's father gave her two days to think about it and promised that if she returned, she would be "treated specially."

January 09, 2025 21:14

• Near Georgian Parliament Participants protesters collect letters to detained comrades

  The collection of letters for those detained at protest actions was organized near the Georgian Parliament. Daily protests against the suspension of European integration have been held in Georgia for the 42nd day in a row.

January 08, 2025 23:34

• Rights defenders refute abduction version of Dagestani Zaira Pirova

  The father of Zaira Pirova, who fled from Dagestan to Georgia, claims that his daughter was abducted and is kept under a threat to execute her family. However, human rights defenders object stating that Zaira had left home voluntarily and left Russia because of her relatives' attempts to find her.