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February 13, 2022 12:28

• Dagestani believers ignore restrictions on Friday prayers

  On February 11, collective Friday prayers were held in Makhachkala mosques, despite the recommendation of the "Rospotrebnadzor" (Russian Federal Service for Supervision in the Field of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) not to hold worship services with believers' crowds.

February 13, 2022 12:25

• Health condition of Ingush elders worsens at SIZO

  The Ingush activists convicted within the Magas protest case are studying the case files in order to challenge the verdict, their advocates have informed. Malsag Uzhakhov has new health problems while at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), while Akhmed Barakhoev's chronic illness has worsened, the advocates have added.

February 12, 2022 19:28

• Yerevan: activists hold action in support of political prisoners

  At the building of the representative office of the European Union (EU) in Yerevan, several dozen activists of the youth wing of the ARF (Armenian Revolutionary Federation) "Dashnaktsutyun" have held an action, expressing support for political prisoners and urging the EU to pay attention to the human rights situation in Armenia.

February 12, 2022 19:25

• Azerbaijani President approves Shusha declaration

  Ilham Aliev has signed a law approving the Shusha declaration on alliance with Turkey. The Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has also approved the document, which includes an agreement on mutual military assistance.

February 12, 2022 18:58

• Number of signatories to petition demanding Kadyrov's resignation exceeds 200,000

  Within a week, the electronic petition addressed to Vladimir Putin and demanding the resignation of the head of Chechnya gained more than 200,000 signatures.

February 12, 2022 18:51

• After refusal to soften Musaeva's freedom restriction measure, Yangulbaev shames judges

  In Chechnya, judges rule under orders received from Ramzan Kadyrov's administration; and there is completely no judiciary in the republic, Saidi Yangulbaev, a retired Russian federal judge, has commented on the refusal of the Chechen Supreme Court (SC) to transfer his wife, Zarema Musaeva, under house arrest.

February 12, 2022 18:28

• Houses of two Nagorno-Karabakh communities damaged by shelling

  On Friday (February 11), Azerbaijani militaries shelled residential buildings in the communities of Tagavard and Karmir Shouka (Red Bazaar), in which they damaged windows, roofs and walls; however, the situation in the villages is calm, Gegam Stepanyan, the Nagorno-Karabakh Ombudsperson, has informed.

February 12, 2022 15:29

• Osechkin reminds Delimkhanov about Chechens' torture in jails

  Akhmed Dudaev, the Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information of Chechnya, has treated the statement about the impending assassination attempt on Vladimir Osechkin as absurd. In his turn, Osechkin thanked the Chechens, who had informed him about the prepared attempt, and invited Adam Delimkhanov to personally discuss the claims against the work of human rights defenders.

February 12, 2022 15:21

• Musaeva assesses her health condition as pre-mortal

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has ignored the words of Zarema Musaeva, who asked to place her under house arrest due to her poor health. The arrest of Musaeva, who suffers from severe diabetes, is against Russian law, her son Abubakar Yangulbaev has stated.

February 12, 2022 04:14

• Supporters of Kadyrov respond with a flash mob to a petition for his resignation

  About 400 posts with the hashtag # YapekhotinetsKadyrova (“I’m Kadyrov’s infantryman) appeared on Instagram as part of a flash mob launched by an assistant to the leader of Chechnya. The petition for the Ramzan Kadyrov’s resignation has already gained 200,000 signatures.

February 12, 2022 04:11

• Prosecutor requests long terms of imprisonment for Chechen gays Magamadov and Isaev

  A public prosecutor requested the court to sentence Salekh Magamadov to 8.5 years and Ismail Isaev to 6.5 years of imprisonment in a case on aiding and abetting a militant. The prosecutors’ version has not been even indirectly confirmed, and there is no evidence that the brothers were familiar with the militant, their advocate notes.

February 12, 2022 04:06

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of a shelling attack on positions in Kelbadjar

  The Armenian military forces shelled the positions of the Azerbaijani army in Kelbadjar, there are no casualties in personnel, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

February 12, 2022 04:01

• Father of Dagestani native denies accusation of violence against his daughter in Moscow

  Relatives did not try to kidnap a native of Dagestan in Moscow, her father said. According to him, the parents did not have conflicts with their daughter, since it was not planned to force her to marry.

February 11, 2022 23:58

• Townspeople of three Georgia cities hold protests

  The Georgian cities of Gori, Zugdidi and Telavi has hosted protest actions demanding better living conditions, abolition the increase of electricity tariffs and decrease taxes. The Georgian opposition has reproached authorities for their inefficient countering social problems.

February 11, 2022 23:53

• Armenian rights defenders worried about army non-combat losses

  The increase in the count of non-combat losses in military units indicates systemic problems in the Armenian Army, while authorities refuse to involve the civil society in protecting militaries' rights, the participants in the discussion held in Yerevan have stated.

February 11, 2022 10:59

• Azerbaijan: media law creates new obstacles for journalists

  The approval of the new law "On Media" has strengthened Azeri authorities' control over media and restrictions on their professional activities, journalists have stated. Their concerns are shared by international structures.

February 11, 2022 10:53

• Rights defenders doubt link of North-Ossetian woman's disappearance with occultism

  In Chechnya, persecution of people involved in occultism usually resorts to public scolding, while in Ingushetia and North Ossetia there have been no persecutions of fortune-tellers in recent years, lawyers and human rights defenders have pointed out in their comments on the version voiced out by a relative of Rimma Gagloeva, a missing resident of North Ossetia, who was engaged in fortune telling and removing an evil eye.

February 11, 2022 10:47

• Human rights defenders voice out law enforcers' violations in death case of detained Yeysk resident

  The father of Ilya Smolin, who was kept at the temporary isolation facility (known as the IVS) in the city of Yeysk, has learned about his son's death from strangers; for more than a week, he was not allowed to examine his son's body in the morgue.

February 11, 2022 10:41

• Dagestani authorities react to protest of Kakashura villagers

  Residents of the village of Kakashura, demanding to allocate land to them, achieved a meeting with Batyr Emeev, the Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan. If the land plot, which caused the villagers' conflict with district officials, is free, it will be transferred to villagers, Batyr Emeev has promised.

February 11, 2022 10:33

• Book about fates of 13 Caucasian women presented in Moscow

  The book, prepared with the support of the Heinrich Böll Fund, tells about lives of the women, whose example can inspire and destroy stereotypes about the hard situation of women in the society of Northern Caucasian.