Karachay-Cherkessia

January 12, 2025 23:23

• Ukraine's recognition of Circassian genocide encourages activists

  Circassian organizations and activists abroad have welcomed the recognition of the Circassian genocide by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and expressed hope that this will lead to the recognition of the genocide by other countries. The International Circassian Association has treated this decision as anti-Russian.

December 26, 2024 23:24

• Analysts dispute about aims of polygamy fatwa

  The withdrawal of the fatwa on polygamy does not cancel the fact that it is enshrined in the Koran; while its main purpose is to clarify the procedure and responsibility for concluding a religious marriage, a representative of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) and an Islamic scholar believe.

December 25, 2024 23:04

• Human rights defenders recall achievements of “Centre for Assistance to International Protection”

  The creation of the “Centre for Assistance to International Protection” organization 30 years ago was an important event for the development of human rights protection in Russia, and the “Centre” itself won hundreds of cases in the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) when defending people whose rights were violated.

December 25, 2024 20:53

• Public prosecutor requests over six years of imprisonment for Jehovah’s Witness* from Karachay-Cherkessia

  A public prosecutor requested six and a half years of imprisonment for Aleksei Pasynkov, a Jehovah’s Witness* from Karachay-Cherkessia, in a case on organizing extremist activity. Criminal cases have also been instituted against a wife and a mother of Aleksei Pasynkov, the “OVD-Info”* human rights project reports.

December 24, 2024 22:36

• Russian SAM revokes fatwa on permissibility of polygamy among Muslims

  The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has made a submission to the Chairman of the Russia Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) on the need to eliminate violations of the law in connection with the fatwa on the permissibility of polygamy. Citing this submission and the reaction of the public, the SAM has revoked the fatwa.

December 23, 2024 21:47

• Researchers name action motives and methods of Caucasian draft dodgers

  Researchers have found out how men who are in areas at risk of conscription and mobilization into the Russian Army, but would not take part in military operations, choose their life strategies. They have also compared the motives and methods of action of residents of Russian central regions with those in Northern Caucasus.

December 22, 2024 20:54

• Russian SAM names conditions for permissible polygamy for Muslims

  As follows from a fatwa (a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law (sharia), – note of the “Caucasian Knot”) of the Ulema Council of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) of Russia, polygamy is permissible for Muslim men in Russia, and a Muslim can be in a religious marriage with four women with fair and equal treatment of all his wives.

December 12, 2024 19:15

• “Caucasian Knot” correspondent faces deportation after his detention in Tbilisi

  In Georgia, after Beslan Kmuzov, a correspondent of the “Caucasian Knot”, had been detained at a protest in Tbilisi, the country’s migration service summoned him for a conversation. Meanwhile, the journalist has been legally living in the country since 2007.

December 09, 2024 20:44

• Journalist Guzel Kasimova arrested in Cherkessk

  The Cherkessk City Court has sent Guzel Kasimova, a journalist from Kazan, accused of knowingly making a false report about a terror act, to the SIZO (pre-trial prison until January 22, 2025. The defence intends to appeal against the court ruling.

December 03, 2024 23:56

• Activist Kasimova detained again in Cherkessk

  In Cherkessk, the police detained Guzel Kasimova, an activist from Kazan, who was released from a special detention facility after ten days of arrest. The woman was accused of knowingly making a false report of a terror act.

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