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August 07, 2021 23:44

• Azerbaijani activist, Alizamin Salaev stops hunger strike after meeting colony boss

  On August 6, Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has ended his hunger strike after the colony bosses assured him that in the coming days he would be transferred to a medical unit or prison hospital.

August 07, 2021 23:41

• Results of Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev contest organized by "Caucasian Knot": in 2021, we see more nominees

  In 2021, the jury of the annual contest named in honour of the assassinated journalist of the "Caucasian Knot", Akhmednabi Akhmednabiyev, considered 50 materials about the Caucasus. The first place was awarded to Alexei Pivovarov for the video report "Why Dagestan has become a hot spot on the epidemic map".

August 07, 2021 11:31

• Georgian rights defenders demand to check information about wiretapping of activists

  The "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel has reported that the State Security Service (SSS) was wiretapping politicians and activists, after which human rights defenders demanded from the Prosecutor's Office to conduct an investigation. The Georgian Parliament should take the work of special services under its control, the Georgian NGOs have demanded.

August 07, 2021 11:30

• Inquiry into CaT's activities alerts rights defenders

  The persecution of the "Committee against Torture" (CaT) and Igor Kalyapin, the head thereof, is a consequence of the work of this organization engaged in investigating human rights violations, including those committed in Northern Caucasus, human rights activists said.

August 07, 2021 11:27

• Russian peacemakers are the only guarantor of status quo in Nagorno-Karabakh

  The Nagorno-Karabakh Army is unable to fulfil its functions, since it has lost a significant part of its military equipment, Tigran Grigoryan, a political analyst, has noted. It is beneficial for Armenia to attract UN or OSCE peacemakers to the region, but Russia is hindering this, Naira Airumyan, a political observer, believes.

August 07, 2021 11:25

• Doctors treat condition of Ogtai Gyulyalyev, Azeri rights defender, as stably grave

  Ogtai Gyulyalyev was transferred to the intensive care unit; he is very weak, his son has informed. Clinics are afraid of responsibility for his health condition; as public attention is riveted to him, said Mekhman Aliev, the director of the "Turan" News Agency.

August 06, 2021 23:59

• Azerbaijani opposition leader Alizamin Salaev denied CER

  The court dismissed a motion for conditional early relief (CER) filed by Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), and the defence of the oppositionist will challenge the above court’s decision. Alizamin Salaev said that he was on hunger strike for the third day because of the lack of medical assistance.

August 06, 2021 23:57

• Chechen native sentenced to life imprisonment for murder of blogger criticizing Kadyrov

  In Austria, a court sentenced Sarali Akhtaev to life imprisonment in a case on the murder of Mamikhan Umarov, a blogger, well-known for criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov.

August 06, 2021 19:02

• Affinity with Kadyrov’s friend helps Chechen law enforcer detained in Dagestan

  On suspicion of illegal possession of firearms, a person may be detained for at least three days, but in the case of a Chechen law enforcer in Khasavyurt, his relationship with the Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya played its role, veterans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) suggested.

August 06, 2021 18:57

• Armenia and Azerbaijan exchange accusations of shelling attacks

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported about a shelling attack in the direction of the Yeraskh village, while the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan claimed a shelling attack on its positions in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

August 06, 2021 18:53

• Azerbaijani sapper wounded by mine explosion

  An employee of the Azerbaijani Demining Agency has suffered at an anti-personnel mine explosion in the Karabakh conflict zone.

August 06, 2021 15:46

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of border shelling

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Armenia reported about a shelling attack in the direction of the Yeraskh village, while the Ministry of Defence of Azerbaijan claimed a shelling attack on its positions in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic (NAR).

August 06, 2021 11:29

• Ingush activist Magomed Khamkhoev is back at large

  Magomed Khamkhoev, an activist, convicted of inciting an attack on law enforcers during mass protests in Magas, has been released from the Pyatigorsk SIZO (pre-trial prison).

August 06, 2021 11:26

• Armenian journalists demand to return Lilian Galstyan's accreditation in parliament

  The deprivation of Lilian Galstyan, a photojournalist of the "Panorama.am", of her accreditation at the Armenian Parliament indicates authorities' attempts to restrict the freedom of speech, Armenian journalist and public organizations have stated.

August 06, 2021 01:48

• Health condition of rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev worsens sharply

  Ogtai Gyulyalyev, an Azerbaijani human rights defender, who has been in a coma since November 2019, has been placed into the intensive care unit of a Baku hospital. Doctors assess his condition as critical.

August 06, 2021 01:33

• Fellow villagers report repeated disappearance of Ibragim Musaev

  Ibragim Musaev, a resident of the village of Sernovodsky, who returned home two days ago after his disappearing in June, disappeared again on August 4. His fellow villagers saw a police car with North-Ossetian license number plates near Musaev's house, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has informed.

August 05, 2021 23:13

• Defence claims attempts to conceal materials proving Ingush activists not guilty

  Advocates of the leaders of the Ingush protests have obtained the involvement in the case of the experts who did not find any extremist appeals in the statements voiced by the defendants. The defence claims that investigators concealed the results of the expert examinations.

August 05, 2021 22:56

• Stavropol law enforcers refuse to accept a symbolic golden toilet bowl

  After an arrest of the chief for the GIBDD (Road Police) Department for the Stavropol Territory, artist Alexander Chaplygin offered the police department an installation with a golden toilet bowl as a reminder of the punishment for bribery. Alexander Chaplygin was detained and complained that law enforcers threatened to institute against him a case for insulting a public officer.

August 05, 2021 19:39

• Two residents of Azerbaijan detained for violating ban on visiting Karabakh

  In the Kelbadjar District, the police detained two residents who tried to enter the areas not cleared of mines in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan reports.

August 05, 2021 19:24

• Sochi hoteliers claim outflow of tourists

  In Sochi, after the requirement of the vaccination had been imposed for tourists, the hotel occupancy rate has decreased by almost 1.5 times, and about a third of the resort’s guests refuse to be vaccinated, hotel owners complain.