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August 14, 2021 14:04

• Armenia claims shelling in direction of Gegarkunik

  Azerbaijani units have shelled the positions of the Armenian Armed Forces stationed in the Gegarkunik border section, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 14, 2021 13:51

• Defendants in case of "Sharia patrols" in KBR plead guilty

  Eleven residents of the village of Anzorei in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), whom investigators treated as members of the extremist community, have pleaded guilty in the case of the so-called "Sharia patrols".

August 14, 2021 12:16

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of its positions in two districts

  The Armenian Armed Forces opened fire on the positions of Azerbaijani militaries stationed in the Kelbadjar and Gadabay Districts of Azerbaijan, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 13, 2021 23:55

• Azerbaijani activist Alizamin Salaev transferred to medical unit in penal colony

  Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), convicted on the charge of defamation, has succeeded in seeking his transfer to a medical unit in the penal colony. The defence filed a complaint about the court’s refusal in conditional early relief for the oppositionist.

August 13, 2021 23:52

• Colleagues stand up for arrested comic Idrak Mirzalizade

  Dozens of artists recorded a video appeal in support of ethnic Talysh Idrak Mirzalizade, who was arrested for ten days for his joke about xenophobia in Moscow. Comics announced a concert in support of arrested Idrak Mirzalizade.

August 13, 2021 21:07

• Resident of Dagestan sentenced to 11 years of imprisonment for participation in IS

  In Rostov-on-Don, the Southern District Military Court found Murad Abdullagadjiev, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of swearing allegiance to the leader of a terrorist organization and participating in its activities. The defendant pleaded guilty, the press service for the Southern District Military Court reported.

August 13, 2021 21:03

• Arrest of advocate Marakov in Chechnya cancelled for formal violations, lawyers suggest

  The Supreme Court of Chechnya cancelled the decision to extend the arrest of advocate Sergey Marakov not because it considered the strict pre-trial restriction measure unreasonable, but because of formal violations, lawyers suggest. A wife and a 93-year-old mother of the defendant claimed they had not seen him since his detention.

August 13, 2021 20:52

• Georgian activists complain to prosecutor's office about wiretapping

  Activists of three Georgian NGOs have turned to the prosecutor's office with a complaint about the secret wiretapping of their telephone conversations by the Georgian State Security Service (SSS).

August 13, 2021 18:47

• Azerbaijan accused Armenia of shelling

  Armenian militaries have shelled, from the territory of Armenia and from positions located in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani positions stationed in the Lachin, Fizuli and Khodjaly Districts, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

August 13, 2021 12:55

• Authorities urge Askeran townspeople to help Stepanakert in overcoming water supply crisis

  The Mayoralty of Askeran has asked city residents to collect large empty bottles in order to use them for bringing drinking water to the districts of Stepanakert, which have water supply outages.

August 13, 2021 12:53

• Case of North-Ossetian Tumgoev sent to court

  At the court session on the case of Timur Tumgoev, a native of North Ossetia, accused of attacking an employee of a colony in the Saratov Region, prosecution witnesses are testifying.

August 13, 2021 12:48

• UNESCO links damage to Gelati Monastery with restorers' errors

  The ancient frescoes in the Gelati Monastery have been damaged by rainwater due to improper restoration of the roof, the UNESCO has claimed. The Georgia's Ministry of Culture has acknowledged the problem and promised to solve it.

August 13, 2021 12:40

• Investigators promise to follow up application on torture of Derbent residents

  For the tenth time, investigators have refused to initiate a criminal case against the law enforcers who had tortured three residents of Derbent, but the head of the Dagestani branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has assured that he would supervise the check, relatives of the Derbent residents have informed.

August 13, 2021 11:45

• Rights defenders tell details of queer girl's abduction by Chechen law enforcers

  The "Russian LGBT Network"* is concerned about the fate of the girl who was abducted a year ago by Chechen law enforcers, and is going to appeal against the decision of the Chechen Supreme Court (SC), which has found the investigator's refusal to investigate the abduction as legitimate. The refusal to investigate the abduction case is unlawful, the advocate has noted.

August 12, 2021 23:53

• Weapon hiding discovered in Ingush village

  A plastic canister with grenades, fuses, and cartridges was found in the village of Dattykh near the border with Chechnya. The canister presumably was hidden in the ground about six years ago, the Department for Ingushetia of the National Guard of Russia reports today.

August 12, 2021 23:46

• Rights defenders explain refusal of a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria to report torture

  After a refusal to file a complaint to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), a person convicted in a case on an attack on Nalchik does not even want to talk to human rights defenders by phone, a lawyer of the Human Rights Centre (HRC)“Memorial”* reports. Another complainant died in a penal colony, while the third complainant was transferred to a penal colony with tougher regime of detention.

August 12, 2021 19:25

• Prosecutor’s Office refuses to recognize organizers of gay pride in Tbilisi as victims

  Members of the “Ashamed” movement were not victims of attacks during the disruption of the gay pride parade in Tbilisi, and their office was not damaged, the Georgian Prosecutor’s Office declares. The Institute for the Study of Democracy criticizes investigators for the fact that none of the organizers of the riots has yet been detained.

August 12, 2021 19:23

• Nagorno-Karabakh claims Azerbaijanis’ attack on contact line

  Today, the Azerbaijani armed forces have tried to break through the line of contact of the troops, but the Defence Army threw them back to their initial positions, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

August 12, 2021 19:21

• Oppositionist detained in Baku on criminal case

  Policemen have detained Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), in connection with the inquiry into the case of wounding a Baku resident. Agil's wife has linked his detention with criticism of authorities.

August 12, 2021 19:16

• Analysts treat Azerbaijan's claims to Iran as justified

  The Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has served a note of protest to the Iranian ambassador for the passage of trucks through Nagorno-Karabakh without a Baku's permit. Iran should reckon with the position of Baku on the supply of goods to Karabakh, Azeri analysts have agreed.