Prizes for protection of human rights, freedom of speech awarded in Azerbaijan

January 10, 2025 21:45

• Resident of Stavropol Territory convicted of repeated discrediting Russian Army

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has sentenced a local resident to nine months of probation, finding him guilty under a criminal article on repeated discrediting of Russian militaries.

January 10, 2025 21:44

• Azerbaijani activist Rail Abbasov sentenced to freedom deprivation

  A court in Baku has sentenced Rail Abbasov, an activist, to 6.5 years in jail, finding him guilty in a fraud case.

January 10, 2025 20:43

• Kadyrov demands to tighten fight against tinted car windows

  The head of Chechnya has called tinting of any car windows in Chechnya unacceptable and suggested that those who are afraid of raids "stay at home."

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.