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June 15, 2021 12:00

• Case against 13 law enforcers is punishment for prevented conflict at Magas rally

  In the spring of 2019, the police prevented a clash of law enforcers with protesters in Ingushetia, which would inevitably lead to bloodshed, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Magomed Shamilov, the chairman of the Dagestan police trade union, have noted.

June 15, 2021 11:58

• ECtHR demands information from Russia on Khalimat Taramova's case

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg gave 10 days to Russian authorities to answer the questions on the case of Khalimat Taramova, a Chechen girl, who, according to human rights defenders, was forcibly taken to Chechnya from the Makhachkala shelter for victims of domestic violence. The publicity helped to avoid a tragedy, but now the girl's fate is in her relatives' hands, human rights defenders believe.

June 15, 2021 11:56

• Twelve Baku protesters sentenced to conditional terms

  The court has found the participants in the unsanctioned march on July 15, 2020, in Baku, including four members of the presidium of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), guilty of violating the public order, using force against policemen and causing minor bodily harm.

June 15, 2021 00:10

• Social media users doubt Taramova’s words about observance of her rights in Chechnya

  In their comments under a video report released by the “Grozny” TV Channel, social media users noted that Khalimat Taramova behaved unnaturally during the video and could hardly answer the questions sincerely. Internet users doubt the young woman’s statement about the observance of her rights in Chechnya.

June 15, 2021 00:05

• Bishop Abuladze resigns as director of orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda

  The Georgian Catholicos-Patriarch holds the position of the director of the orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda after human rights defenders had criticized Bishop Spiridon Abuladze. The orphan boarding school still accommodates 23 children, and the institution will not close for at least another year, the Georgia’s Patriarchate announces.

June 14, 2021 23:59

• Colleagues of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev hold pickets on second anniversary of his arrest

  In Makhachkala, activists held solo pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an observer of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft). The Dagestani journalist’s arrest lasts for two years already.

June 14, 2021 23:55

• On June 7-13, 2021, one person injured in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of June 7-13, 2021, at least one person was injured in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No killed were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

June 14, 2021 23:52

• Azerbaijan updates list of autumn war casualties

  During the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2904 people were killed from the Azerbaijani side, and 10 soldiers are listed as missing in action, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

June 14, 2021 17:30

• Chechen authorities blame human rights defenders for what happened with Taramova

  Human rights defenders were involved in Khalimat Taramova's abduction, while Chechen law enforcers acted within the framework of the law, said Akhmed Dudaev, Minister for Nationalities' Matters of Chechnya. He reiterated the thesis of the Chechen and Russian authorities that there are no members of sexual minorities in the region.

June 14, 2021 17:24

• Azerbaijani court sentences mercenary from Lebanon to 20 years in prison

  The court has found Viken Euldjekzhiyan guilty of terrorism, mercenarism and illegal border crossing. He refused to plead guilty, claiming that he had led a peaceful life in Armenia and was captured on the Lachin highway.

June 14, 2021 17:22

• Pashinyan claims transfer of only "small part" of minefield maps to Baku

  The minefield maps that Yerevan has handed over to Baku in exchange for 15 militaries make an essential, but only small part of the information about minefields, Nikol Pashinyan, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, has stated.

June 14, 2021 17:14

• Social network users condemn law enforcer for disclosing Taramova's shelter

  Three video clips have been posted on the Instagram of the "Marem" project, which allegedly show the man who took testimony from Khalimat Taramova shortly before her detention and extradition to Chechnya. It was he who had informed Chechen law enforcers about the girl's whereabouts at the Makhachkala shelter, social network users have suggested.

June 14, 2021 17:00

• Activists demand to take all pupils out of Ninotsminda orphanage

  At the rally held in front of the Georgian Parliament, NGO activists demanded to let the Ombudsperson into the boarding school in Ninotsminda and to remove all the pupils from there. In his turn, the Church spokesman has stated that the Patriarchy is not going to close the boarding school.

June 14, 2021 14:53

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of June 7-13, 2021

  Kidnapping by law enforcers of a young woman who escaped from Chechnya and lived in a Makhachkala shelter for victims of domestic violence; fatal shooting of court marshals in Sochi; beginning of the election campaign in Armenia; resignation of the speaker of the Dagestani parliament, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 7-13, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

June 14, 2021 11:43

• Relative of pupil of Ninotsminda orphanage detained for threats

  An uncle of a witness in the case of child abuse at the boarding school named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda has been accused of threatening his nephew, the Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

June 14, 2021 11:33

• Remains of eight militaries found in Gadrut District

  The total number of remains of Armenian militaries found in the Karabakh conflict zone has reached 1576.

June 13, 2021 12:07

• Azerbaijan exchanges 15 Armenian militaries for minefield maps in Agdam

  Today, fifteen military servicemen held by Azerbaijan were handed over to Armenia in exchange for the maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines placed in the Agdam District, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.

June 13, 2021 11:32

• Volgograd picketers call the Day of Russia a tragic date

  In Volgograd, activists of the "Left-Wing Front" have held three solo pickets criticizing the collapse of the Soviet Union and the adoption of the Declaration of the Sovereignty of the Russian Federation, which is celebrated on June 12.

June 13, 2021 11:13

• Akhmed Pogorov's father urges Putin to release Ingush activists

  Sirazhudin Pogorov, an Ingush elder, has offered the Russian President to release, on the occasion of the Day of Russia, the arrested leaders of Ingush protests against the border agreement with Chechnya.

June 12, 2021 18:23

• Residents of Azerbaijan detained for violating ban on visiting Karabakh

  In the Kelbadjar District, policemen detained five residents who were trying to enter non-demined territories in the Karabakh conflict zone, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.