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April 29, 2021 08:18

• One person killed in a shootout with law enforcers in Ingushetia

  A car driver was shot dead in Nazran after he put up armed resistance to law enforcers, law enforcement sources have reported.

April 28, 2021 23:05

• HRC “Memorial”* recognizes Akhmed Pogorov as a political prisoner

  The criminal proceedings against Akhmed Pogorov, like other Ingush activists, are of political reasons and aimed at stopping public criticism of the authorities. Human rights defenders demand the immediate release of the Ingush activists, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”* reports today.

April 28, 2021 22:47

• Natives of Caucasus stop their hunger strike after concessions from colony administration

  Ten prisoners, including three residents of Dagestan and a native of Azerbaijan, stopped their protest in one of the penal colonies of the Smolensk Region. Some of the prisoners’ demands have already been met, their relatives say today.

April 28, 2021 18:19

• Court leaves Magamadov and Isaev in custody

  Today, the Supreme Court of Chechnya has refused to grant an appeal filed by the defence against the decision to arrest Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev. Advocates from the “Russian LGBT Network” insist that the Ismail Isaev’s term of detention expired weeks before the decision on his arrest.

April 28, 2021 17:31

• Disputes over pardoning law enforcers exacerbate political conflict in Georgia

  The law enforcers who took part in the harsh dispersal of a rally in Tbilisi in June 2019 should be pardoned only with the consent of victims of their actions, the Georgian opposition states. During the rallies, people suffered both from the police actions and from the actions of the opposition, MPs from the ruling “Georgian Dream” Party argue.

April 28, 2021 13:45

• Refugees in Nagorno-Karabakh complain about difficulties in obtaining housing

  The authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh are providing temporary housing to refugees from the territories that have passed over to Azerbaijan on time; however, they are protracting the provision of permanent housing, refugees have complained.

April 28, 2021 13:19

• Nagorno-Karabakh's Ombudsperson complains about pilgrims' non-admission to Dadivank

  The Azerbaijani party has not allowed a group of pilgrims to visit the Dadivank Christian Monastery on their way to the ordination ceremony of ministers of the Artsakh Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Ombudsperson of Nagorno-Karabakh has claimed.

April 28, 2021 12:02

• Analysts welcome idea of holding talks on Ingush-Chechen border

  Any negotiations on the disputed territories on the Ingush-Chechen border are better than confrontation, said the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" in their comments on the prepared meeting of leaders of "Mekhk-Khel" with Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament.

April 28, 2021 11:23

• UN experts call on Azeri authorities to release Gusein Abdullaev

  The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Arrests has demanded to immediately release Gusein Abdullaev, a former Azerbaijani MP, who is serving his term in a colony.

April 28, 2021 08:34

• Rights defenders achieve revision of Kardashov's disappearance case

  The Chechen Supreme Court (SC) has supported the human rights defenders who demanded to reconsider the conditional sentences passed to two employees of the "Rosgvardia" (Russian National Guard), accused of exceeding their powers when detaining Alexei Kardashov, a resident of Dagestan, and ruled to send the case for a new trial.

April 28, 2021 08:20

• Armenian Ombudsperson urges to create buffer zone near border villages

  The villages in the Syunik Region of Armenia should be separated from Azerbaijani border posts by a special security zone, since a resident of one of Armenian communities was attacked, Arman Tatoyan, the Armenian Ombudsperson, has stated.

April 27, 2021 22:40

• President Aliev voices “last warning” for Armenia

  While commenting on an incident with a shelling attack in the direction of the village of Seyidlyar, Ilham Aliev has said that Azerbaijani border guards will fire for effect in case of new shelling attacks on the border with Armenia.

April 27, 2021 22:07

• Chechen resident reports about forced vaccination for law enforcers

  In the Nadterechny District of Chechnya, the police personnel were vaccinated against coronavirus infection without finding out if some of them had any contraindications, a local resident reports.

April 27, 2021 18:19

• Investigators re-open case on attack on human rights defender in Dagestan

  The investigation into a case on beating in Makhachkala of Sirazhudin Datsiev, an employee of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial”*, has been resumed after the defence lodged a complaint to the court about the ineffective work of the investigators, human rights defenders report today.

April 27, 2021 17:54

• Ogtai Gyulyalyev faces threat of being left without nursing care

  Azerbaijani human rights defender Ogtai Gyulyalyev is recovering from surgeries he had undergone in Turkey, but still needs constant nursing care, his son says. According to the young man, the nurses caring for his father are not paid salaries and Ogtai Gyulyalyev risks being left without their care.

April 27, 2021 15:48

• Activists urge USA not to admit amnesty for Georgian law enforcers

  The United States should influence the Georgian authorities to prevent pardoning, along with political prisoners, of the law enforcers, who had taken part in the harsh dispersal of the rally, protesters in Tbilisi stated on April 26.

April 27, 2021 15:26

• Peacemakers escort group of pilgrims to Amaras Monastery

  75 pilgrims from Stepanakert and its environs have visited the Amaras Monastery, accompanied by peacemakers, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

April 27, 2021 11:27

• Journalists' inquiry raises topic of child abuse in Georgia

  A three-year-old pupil of a kindergarten in Tbilisi was beaten up by an educator; earlier inmates of an orphanage in Kodjori complained about systematic violence and psychological pressure, says an investigation conducted by the "Rustavi-2" TV Channel. The Office of Georgian Ombudsperson has reported similar cases of violence against pupils of a boarding school in Ninotsminda.

April 27, 2021 11:13

• Three Azerbaijani residents blown up by a mine

  Residents of the Agdjabedi District tried to enter the territories that passed under Azerbaijan's control after the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict, and got blown up by a mine. One of them died.

April 27, 2021 11:02

• Over 300 Stepanakert townspeople visit exhibition of lost Armenian monuments

  The exhibition in Stepanakert presents photographs of 46 Armenian historical and cultural monuments that have remained in the territories transferred to Azerbaijan after the 2020 autumn war.