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November 13, 2021 13:31

• Elene Khoshtariya's health condition worsens

  Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, who has been on a hunger strike for the tenth day, needed to be given a drip. She also agreed to take medication if necessary.

November 13, 2021 13:18

• Defence treats compensations to Caucasians-torture victims in colony as meagre

  Reacting to complaints of tortured natives of the Caucasus in the Yaroslavl colony, the court has appointed compensation of 65,000 roubles to Khasdin Murtazaliev, and 50,000 roubles – to Arthur Gukasyan. Their defence will appeal against the meagre compensations to victims of torture, one of the advocates has stated.

November 13, 2021 08:50

• Azerbaijani checkpoint creates problems for Syunik residents

  Armenian drivers can move along the 21-kilometre road by paying the customs duties established by Azerbaijan for this road section. Not a single dwelling settlement in Armenia was in blockade; however, the alternative roads to the three villages are currently unpaved.

November 13, 2021 08:36

• "Memorial"* treats accusations of justifying terrorism as absurd

  The Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has demanded to liquidate the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* for justifying extremism and terrorism. Human rights defenders have objected that recognition of a member of a banned organization as a political prisoner does not mean agreement with his views.

November 13, 2021 08:23

• One of the persons wounded in Ameterkmakhi dies

  Doctors have failed to save one of the victims of the shooting in the village of Ameterkmakhi, the spokesman for the Dagestani Ministry of Public Health (MPH) has informed. The attacker of the Imam had a land conflict with the Imam's brother, the Dagestan Muftiate has explained.

November 12, 2021 22:05

• Krasnodar activist holds a solo picket in support of “Memorial”*

  Today, Yana Antonova has come to the central square of Krasnodar. In her hands, the activist was holding a poster reading: “Hands off Memorial”.

November 12, 2021 21:46

• Murder of an imam becomes first armed incident in Dagestan for a month

  The shooting in the village of Ameterkmakhi has become the first armed incident in Dagestan within 32 days. The previous incident was the counterterrorist operation (CTO) conducted in the Buynaksk District.

November 12, 2021 18:23

• Shocking video contradicts no torture report of Saratov prison hospital

  According to a video received by human rights defenders, a native of Azerbaijan was sexually assaulted in a prison hospital in the Saratov Region. A deputy chief of the prison hospital claims no violence was used against the prisoner.

November 12, 2021 18:07

• Dudaev announces a ban on selling Medina Mirai’s book in Chechnya

  The authorities of Chechnya stopped the distribution of the Medina Mirai’s book “Syntonyms”, considering it immoral, and will not allow its sales in the republic, announces Chechen Minister for National Policy Akhmed Dudaev. According to him, the book promotes values alien to the Chechen society.

November 12, 2021 14:41

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Rzaev claims torture in isolation facility

  Malik Rzaev, an oppositionist accused of drug dealing, has stated that he was tortured after detention. His complaint about torture was forwarded to the Sumgait Prosecutor's Office, said his advocate.

November 12, 2021 14:19

• Ombudsperson treats posting video with Saakashvili as humiliation of his dignity

  The release of a video in which the prison staff is rudely treating Mikhail Saakashvili is violating his right to privacy and insults his honour and dignity, Nino Lomdjariya the Georgia's Ombudsperson, has stated.

November 12, 2021 12:38

• At action in Tbilisi, oppositionists demand to release activists

  In Tbilisi, the opposition held a protest action, where the participants spoke out against the detention of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili's supporters. At the rally, two persons received traumas from the stones thrown at them.

November 12, 2021 12:23

• Timur Tumgoev sentenced to eight months in colony

  The court has sentenced Timur Tumgoev, a native of North Ossetia, to eight months in a colony within the case of disrupting the work of the correctional institution.

November 12, 2021 08:51

• Prosecutor demands 10 years in prison for oppositionist Gumbatov

  In Baku, the prosecutor has asked to sentence Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) to 10 years in prison. Gumbatov has protested to the state prosecutor and announced the falsification of his criminal case.

November 12, 2021 08:37

• New campaign to change toponyms launched in Chechnya

  It is suggested to rename five Grozny dwelling settlements in honour of heroes of the Chechen nation, or to return their old names, Magomed Daudov, the Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, announced on November 11.

November 11, 2021 23:20

• General Prosecutor’s Office files a claim to liquidate “International Memorial”*

  The Supreme Court of Russia notified the NGO “International Memorial”* about the consideration of the claim filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office with a request to liquidate the NGO due to the lack of marking on the status of a foreign agent. Human rights defenders considered the claim filed by the General Prosecutor’s Office a political decision.

November 11, 2021 22:59

• Daudov proposes to ban any mention of criminals’ nationality

  After an incident in New Moscow, the Chechen parliament prepared for submission to the State Duma of Russia a bill banning the mention in the media and social media of information on the ethnic and religious affiliation of criminals.

November 11, 2021 22:28

• Saakashvili agrees to stop his hunger strike

  Mikhail Saakashvili has decided to stop his hunger strike, his advocate Nika Gvaramiya reports today.

November 11, 2021 17:41

• Armenian opposition tries to prevent Azerbaijan’s customs checkpoint on road from Goris to Kapan

  At a protest action in Yerevan, about 200 oppositionists demanded to prevent installation of an Azerbaijani customs checkpoint on the road from Goris to Kapan. After the protesters tried to break into the government building, 16 of them were detained, the police reported.

November 11, 2021 17:17

• Residents of Azerbaijan demand to return home people from a camp in Dagestan

  At least 30 Azerbaijani citizens have to rent housing in Dagestan while waiting for the opening of the border, and others live at their relatives’ places and in a temporary accommodation centre, human rights defender Afig Allakhverdiev reports. Former residents of a camp in Dagestan believe the people cannot return from Dagestan to their homeland, since the Azerbaijani authorities ignore their problems.