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December 25, 2021 17:02

• Three nightclubs closed in Tbilisi for violating anti-covid restrictions

  With the support of law enforcers, local authorities have sealed up the popular nightclubs "Bassiani", "Khidi" and "Mtkvarze" in Tbilisi for violating the anti-covid restrictions. The club owners and their supporters tried to hamper the officials' actions, which led to clashes with policemen.

December 25, 2021 16:16

• Instruction to Mishustin to deal with energy crisis encourages Dagestani residents

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has instructed Mikhail Mishustin, the country's Prime Minister, to deal with the problems in Dagestan with the supplies of water, gas and electricity. After the instruction, the situation with long-standing problems will probably get off the ground, residents of Dagestan have suggested on the Instagram.

December 25, 2021 15:32

• Akhmed Pogorov's arrest extended by two months

  The Yessentuki City Court has extended the custody of Akhmed Pogorov, a co-chairman of the World Congress of the Ingush People, until February 25, 2022. His defence has treated the ruling as unjustified and will appeal against it.

December 25, 2021 11:52

• Mansur Sadulaev's activeness drop fails to save his relatives from kidnapping

  Mansur Sadulaev, the founder of the "Vayfond" Association that is in opposition to Kadyrov, has stated that during the last year he significantly reduced his activeness in social networks, but Chechen law enforcers have still kidnapped his maternal relatives.

December 25, 2021 11:30

• Armenia's CC forbids imposing payment for PCR tests on employees

  The Constitutional Court (CC) of Armenia has declared unconstitutional the provision of the order issued by the Ministry of Public Health (MPH), which obliges unvaccinated employees to pay for PCR tests.

December 25, 2021 08:41

• Emigrant Aslan Artsuev reports kidnapping of his relatives in Chechnya

  Aslan Artsuev, the director of the organization "Human Rights Centre Ichkeria", has stated that Chechen authorities are trying to exert pressure on him by kidnapping four relatives, but this won't affect his political position and actions.

December 25, 2021 08:29

• Tbilisi: opponents of gay parade demand to release rioters

  On December 24, central Tbilisi hosted a march demanding to release until the trial all those arrested within the case of beating up journalists at a protest against the gay parade.

December 24, 2021 22:52

• Akhmed Dudaev settles scores with critics of regime contrary to President Putin’s position

  Chechen Press and Information Minister Akhmed Dudaev has insulted critics of the authorities for lack of respect for Ramzan Kadyrov and his followers. Thus, he has ignored the President Putin’s statement about the unacceptability of settling scores.

December 24, 2021 22:19

• Blogger Tumso reports about kidnapping of his wife’s female relatives in Astrakhan

  Today, a mother and a sister of a Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov’s wife have been kidnapped in Astrakhan, and three of earlier kidnapped relatives are also being held hostage in Chechnya, the blogger reports.

December 24, 2021 22:03

• Participants of protest action in Baku urge to revise draft law “On Media”

  At a protest action in Baku, activists say the provisions that infringe on the rights of journalists to receive and publish information should be excluded from the draft law “On Media”.

December 24, 2021 18:47

• Magamadov and Isaev feel worse during hunger strike

  On the fourth day of their hunger strike in a SIZO (pre-trial prison), brothers Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev look exhausted, but they intend to continue their protest against the court’s refusal to send their case to a court outside Chechnya, employees of the “SK SOS” Crisis Group report.

December 24, 2021 18:12

• Georgian authorities report about allocation of housing to forced migrants

  In Georgia, more than 7000 families of temporary displaced persons have received new housing during the past two years, reports Ekaterine Tikaradze, Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia.

December 24, 2021 14:32

• Khasan Khalitov reports about kidnapping of his relatives in Chechnya

  Khasan Khalitov, a critic of Chechen authorities living in Turkey, has reported today about the kidnapping of at least five his relatives living in Northern Caucasus.

December 24, 2021 14:09

• Tumso reports about liberation of his six relatives in Chechnya

  Six out of the nine relatives of Tumso Abdurakhmanov kidnapped in Chechnya have been set free; the whereabouts of his uncle, cousin and nephew remain unknown, the blogger has informed today.

December 24, 2021 12:28

• Turkish media point to Kadyrov's tactlessness

  In their publications about Ramzan Kadyrov's statement addressed to Recep Erdogan regarding the opening of the Dudaev Park, Turkish media have emphasized the tactless tone of the head of Chechnya.

December 24, 2021 10:01

• Tumso rejects Kadyrov people's ultimatum

  Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a blogger, has refused to stop criticizing Chechen authorities, despite repression threats against his kidnapped relatives.

December 24, 2021 08:42

• Court refusal to question defence-invited witnesses from the Caucasus angers "Memorial"* supporters

  The refusal to interrogate within the "Memorial"* case those who founded this organization and is working therein, as well as the witnesses from Northern Caucasus declared by the defence, indicates the court's unwillingness to impartially delve into the essence of the case, human rights defenders have commented on the outcomes of the next court session.

December 24, 2021 08:25

• Journalists ignore Tumso's request to ask Putin about kidnappings in Chechnya

  Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen blogger, had asked journalists to ask Russian President, Vladimir Putin, at his annual press conference held on December 23, about kidnappings of relatives, but this issue was not raised there.

December 24, 2021 00:04

• Human rights defenders analyze context of kidnapping of relatives of blogger Tumso and other critics of Ramzan Kadyrov

  Kidnapping of relatives of blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov and other critics of the Chechen authorities was committed against the background of the trials against the “Memorials”* NGOs, when the main attention of Russian and foreign human rights defenders is focused on those trials and somewhat distracted from Chechnya, human rights defenders note. They call the kidnapping of relatives a historically alien practice in the Caucasus.

December 23, 2021 23:46

• At trial, “Memorial”* reminds of importance of its activities in Northern Caucasus

  Today, in a case on the liquidation of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial’*, the defence reminded the court that people affected by construction of the Irganai hydroelectric power plant (HPP) and migrants from Chechnya to Ingushetia received support from “Memorial”* in defending their rights in court.