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April 04, 2021 12:21

• Five thousand come to rally against curfew in Georgia

  The curfew is inefficient as a measure against coronavirus spread; and the fines imposed for appearing in the street at night are excessively high, the rally outside the Georgian Parliament has stated.

April 04, 2021 11:38

• Construction works of Namakhvan HPP resumed under police protection

  The preparatory works for the construction of the Namakhvan cascade of hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) have resumed today despite Georgian authorities' promises. The police did not allow protesters to enter the construction site.

April 04, 2021 10:46

• Volgograd activists demand to provide Navalny with medical care

  Oppositionist Alexei Navalny is kept in colony in torturous conditions, Volgograd solo picketers assert.

April 03, 2021 17:13

• Son reports worsening health condition of Azerbaijani oppositionist Salaev

  The health condition of Alizamin Salaev, an activist of the Salyan district branch of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has deteriorated sharply in the colony; however, he receives no medical care, his son has informed.

April 03, 2021 16:18

• Peacemakers escort column with humanitarian aid to Martuni District

  The essentials, medical equipment and a set of textbooks and literature for the local school have been brought with peacemakers' help to the Tagavard village of the Martuni District, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.

April 03, 2021 15:34

• Doctors and rights defenders decide to convince the Armenian residents of vaccination safety

  Overcoming the COVID-19 epidemic is possible only with the help of vaccinations; and for this, we should convince the population of the vaccine safety, Armenian experts assert.

April 03, 2021 15:05

• Polad Aslanov's defence appeals against verdict at Supreme Court

  The defence insists on Polad Aslanov's innocence, since no reliable proofs of his espionage for Iran, the advocate has noted.

April 03, 2021 12:37

• TV story about wearing masks in Chechnya turns into complaint to Russian watchdog

  Valery Rashkin, a State Duma MP from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, has demanded to check the veracity of the story from the programme "Healthy Life" by Elena Malysheva from Chechnya, which spoke about the absence of the effect of mask-wearing on the coronavirus infection frequency, and about the advantages of cancelling the mask regime.

April 03, 2021 12:05

• Muftiate and Batumi Mayoralty argue about prayer rooms for Muslims

  There are enough places in Batumi, where Muslims can pray, an official from the city Mayoralty stated in court, justifying the Mayoralty's refusal to sanction the construction of a new mosque. About 2000 believers have to pray outdoors due to a deficit of room in mosques, the Adjara Muftiate has objected.

April 03, 2021 11:44

• Rights defenders list law violations in Ibragim Gadjiev's persecutions

  Law enforcers have blocked Ibragim Gadjiev in a car outside the courthouse in Makhachkala with no legal grounds, detained him again and didn't let his advocate and members of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) to enter the police station, Sapiyat Magomedova, an advocate, Uma Askerkhanova, a POC member, have stated.

April 03, 2021 09:03

• Relatives report kidnapping of native of Chechnya after deportation from Germany

  People in civilian clothes took away Nurmagomed Mamuev, a native of the Urus-Martan District, who had been deported from Berlin, to some unknown place, his wife said. She turned to human rights defenders asking to help in finding him, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial"* has reported.

April 03, 2021 08:48

• Fifteen activists detained at office of "Georgian Dream" Party

  The detention of activists outside the office of the Georgian ruling party began after Giya Volsky, a member of the "Georgian Dream" Party, made an obscene gesture towards the protesters.

April 03, 2021 08:33

• Russian rights defenders find commonalities of wars in Syria and Chechnya

  In Syria, Russian armed forces are using the methods earlier tested in Chechnya, including indiscriminate bombing and cleansings, Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya, Director of the Centre for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, has stated.

April 02, 2021 23:58

• Police refuse to let advocates visit Gadjiev

  Ibragim Gadjiev, a witness in a case against police officers Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, was brought to a police station in Makhachkala. Law enforcers refused to let advocates visit him.

April 02, 2021 23:34

• Georgian authorities and opposition accuse each other of provoking political crisis

  The Georgian opposition’s reluctance to abandon the idea of holding repeat parliamentary elections has led to a threat to disrupt Georgia’s Euro-Atlantic integration, members of the ruling “Georgian Dream” Party suggest. The restriction of EU funding will hit the entire Georgia, although only the country’s authorities should be responsible for the political crisis, the opposition argues.

April 02, 2021 19:07

• MIA to investigate beating of Gadjiev by law enforcers

  The Department for Dagestan of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) scheduled a check after receiving reports about unreasonable beating of Ibragim Gadjiev by the police during his detention, the MIA reports.

April 02, 2021 18:49

• Russian human rights defenders release a report on human rights violations in Syria

  The actions of the Russian troops in Syria result in bombing victims and human rights violations. After resettlement to Russia, Syrian Circassians face financial and social problems, the human rights defenders note in a joint report.

April 02, 2021 13:22

• Ibragim Gadjiev spends night in car near courthouse

  Ibragim Gadjiev, a witness in the case of the policemen, Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, has spent the night in the passenger car blocked by law enforcers in a cordoned-off area near the building of the Kirov District Court of Makhachkala.

April 02, 2021 13:09

• Armenian political analysts assess risks to peacemakers' image after attacks on cars

  The Russian militaries should investigate the incident with the vehicle transporting the bodies of perished Armenian servicemen, otherwise the efficiency of the peacemaking mission in Nagorno-Karabakh will be questioned, political analysts believe.

April 02, 2021 11:21

• Tumso disagrees with CoA's findings about attack on him in Sweden

  The decision of the Court of Appeal (CoA) in Sweden, which found the link of the attack on Tumso Abdurakhmanov with the Chechen authorities unproved, will be appealed against, the blogger has stated.