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April 02, 2021 10:57

• Law enforcers block car with Ibragim Gadjiev

  The court in Makhachkala found no violations in the actions of Ibragim Gadjiev, a witness in the case against the policemen, Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, who was accused of disobeying law enforcers during the search. After the court session, Gadjiev was set free, but law enforcers did not allow him to drive away from the courthouse, insisting on interrogation at the police station.

April 02, 2021 08:41

• Verdict in case of attack on Tumso in Sweden revised

  The Court of Appeal has increased the sentence for the man convicted of attacking the Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, up to 12 years in prison. The charge against his female accomplice was re-qualified under a milder article; her sentence was reduced from eight years to one and a half years.

April 02, 2021 08:23

• Posner's opponents desecrate monument to Griboyedov in Tbilisi

  The monument to Russian writer and diplomat, Alexander Griboyedov, in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia, has been desecrated with an anti-Russian inscription and an insult to journalist Vladimir Pozner.

April 01, 2021 23:51

• Elchin Mamed's health worsens in penal colony, his mother reports

  Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed suffers from pain in his legs and has difficulties with walking. He needs a medical examination, the mother of the prisoner reports.

April 01, 2021 23:12

• Ecologists report threat of construction works on unique plateau in Adygea

  The Russian government allowed capital construction on biosphere testing grounds, and there is a threat of destruction of unique plants and landscapes on the Lago-Naki Plateau, ecologist Dmitry Shevchenko claims.

April 01, 2021 19:21

• Georgian opposition experiences criticism after incident with Pozner

  Members of the opposition “United National Movement” Party used an uncivilized manner to speak against the visit of Russian journalist Vladimir Pozner to Georgia, and their act damaged the country’s image, claim Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Mamuka Mdinaradze, a member of the ruling the “Georgian Dream” Party.

April 01, 2021 18:55

• Report on nomination of Kadyrov for Nobel Prize causes public outcry on Instagram

  Ramzan Kadyrov has been nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. This was announced by Vyacheslav Tyutyunnik, the president of the International Nobel Information Centre (INC) located in Tambov.

April 01, 2021 14:28

• Posner leaves Georgia amid protests

  The Russian journalist, Vladimir Pozner, has flown out of Tbilisi amid the protests organized by citizens demanding from him to leave the country. A similar demand was voiced at the protest action held this night by Batumi townspeople.

April 01, 2021 14:14

• Grozny state servants forced to take part in community clean-up events

  Employees of Grozny kindergartens and schools have received instructions from officials to take part in subbotniks (community clean-up works), which, according to the decision of city authorities, begin on April 1.

April 01, 2021 11:07

• Tbilisi protesters demand to expel Russian journalist from Georgia

  The journalist Vladimir Pozner, who came to Georgia with a Russian delegation to celebrate his birthday, must leave the country, as he spoke out against its territorial integrity, oppositionists have stated at an action in Tbilisi.

April 01, 2021 10:53

• Rights defenders claim torture of Ibragim Gadjiev

  The ambulance doctors who came to Ibragim Gadjiev, a detained witness in the case against policemen Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, fixed traces of beatings and use of electric current on his body, said Uma Askerkhanova, a member of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan.

April 01, 2021 08:42

• Volgograd picketers demand to set Navalny free

  In Volgograd, three activists have held solo pickets supporting the "Strategy-31" campaign. The picketers called on to observe the norms of the Constitution and demanded to release Alexei Navalny.

April 01, 2021 08:32

• Kadyrov's relative approved as Mayor of Grozny

  By the outcomes of secret ballot, Khas-Magomed Kadyrov has been appointed Mayor of Grozny, the City Duma has informed.

April 01, 2021 08:18

• Polad Aslanov complains about pressure in colony

  The journalist, Polad Aslanov, convicted in Azerbaijan within the case of high treason, is in a cell with 17 other prisoners and is exposed to pressure, his wife said and called on the Ombudsperson to help preventing the violation of Aslanov's rights in the colony

March 31, 2021 23:32

• Defence sees a real threat to lives of Magamadov and Isaev in SIZO

  Salekh Magamadov and Ismail Isaev, arrested in Chechnya, should be taken under increased protection after the reports that there were attempts to persuade their relatives to commit so-called “honour killings,” an advocate reports.

March 31, 2021 23:13

• Russian singer starts promoting Ramzan Kadyrov and his nephew on Instagram

  Singer and popular Instagram blogger Olga Buzova announced a car giveaway. To participate in it, a person should follow the accounts of Ramzan Kadyrov, Idris Cherkhigov, the chief of the GIBDD (road police) Department for Chechnya, and UFC fighter Khamzat Chimaev.

March 31, 2021 18:52

• "Sobesednik" calls scientific testing ground in Adygea a resort for Vladimir Putin

  In Adygea, a chalet accompanied with three kilometres of ski slopes and cable cars is used as a personal winter resort for the first person of the state; the chalet was built with budget money and is being guarded by the Federal Security Service, the magazine “Sobesednik” (Interlocutor) reports.

March 31, 2021 18:33

• Five persons sentenced for transporting weapons from Karabakh to Armenia

  Today, the Armenian Prosecutor’s Office has reported that the court sentenced the people accused of illegal transportation of weapons from Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia, to 1-4 years of imprisonment.

March 31, 2021 18:16

• Advocate demands to protect rights of witness in Ashikov brothers’ case

  Today, in Makhachkala, armed people have taken Ibragim Gadjiev, a witness in a case against policemen Raip and Ziyavudin Ashikov, away from his house. The armed people were seconded law enforcers, Sapiyat Magomedova, an advocate in the Ashikov brothers’ case, suggested.

March 31, 2021 14:28

• Azerbaijani rights defenders urge to transfer Mamed from colony to hospital

  The verdict of the Azerbaijani journalist and human rights defender, Elchin Mamed, has been appealed against at the Supreme Court (SC). Rights defenders have also appealed to the Azerbaijan Ministry of Justice (MoJ) with a demand to transfer Mamed to a medical institution of the Penitentiary Service – a subordinate to the MoJ.