Azerbaijani activists launch campaign against torture

March 20, 2025 22:48

• Stand-up comedian apologizes after detention for his joke about disabled person

  During his interrogation, Artemy Ostanin, a stand-up comedian from Yeysk, apologized for his joke about a disabled person without legs.

March 20, 2025 22:15

• Prisoners in high-security penal colony deprived of food after complaining to Kadyrov*

  Prisoners in a high-security penal colony addressed Ramzan Kadyrov with a complaint against the penitentiary institution’s administration. As a result, the convicts have been subjected to repression and deprived of food.

March 20, 2025 20:40

• North-Ossetian Ombudsperson calls for investigation into torture of Batraz Gogaev

  North-Ossetian Human Rights Commissioner Tamerlan Tsgoev has called for a review of the refusal to institute a criminal case against law enforcers accused of torturing Batraz Gogaev.

March 19, 2025 22:40

• Stand-up comedian from Yeysk accused of insulting SMO fighter

  A criminal case was opened against Artemy Ostanin, a stand-up comedian from the city of Yeysk, after his performance in which he joked about a disabled person who had stepped on a mine. Investigators saw his words as an insult to a participant in the special military operation (SMO), but Ostanin himself claims that he was joking about a simple beggar.

March 19, 2025 22:24

• Georgian journalist Amaglobeli fined for insulting policeman

  A judge has obliged Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of “Batumelebi” and “Netgazeti” outlets, to pay a fine within an administrative case of insulting a police officer. At the hearing on the criminal case of the attack on the police officer, the journalist's defence demanded to challenge the judge, but the motion was dismissed.