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September 23, 2020 09:34

• Amid relatives' hunger strike, Tbilisi prisoners cut themselves

  In Tbilisi, three inmates have wounded themselves after being denied cigarettes and tea, the Penitentiary Service has informed. The wife of one of them, who is on a hunger strike demanding a large-scale amnesty, doubted this version.

September 22, 2020 22:59

• Chechen resident to get compensation for torture and unfair sentence

  The European Court of Human Rights ruled to pay 67,000 euros to Chechen native Muslim Chudalov, who, being tortured, confessed to be a militant and was sentenced to 21 years of imprisonment.

September 22, 2020 22:54

• Investigators find photos from place of Georgian programmer Bachaliashvili's murder unreliable

  A lawyer hired by the family of programmer Tamar Bachaliashvili, who deceased in Georgia, is suspected of falsifying photos from the place of her murder. The lawyer treats the investigators' version as an attempt to discredit or intimidate him.

September 22, 2020 19:21

• Nephew of Chechen leader appointed supervisor of two districts

  Ramzan Kadyrov appointed Idris Cherkhigov, the chief of the Chechen road police department (known as GIBDD), to be a supervisor of the Gudermes and Shelkovsky Districts to replace Ruslan Alkhanov, the Chechen Minister of Internal Affairs. At the first meeting, Idris Cherkhigov suggested that heads of the villages organized subbotniks (voluntary clean-up work days).

September 22, 2020 19:16

• Ingush village elders impose fine for long wedding party corteges

  In the village of Kantyshevo, wedding party corteges should consist of a maximum of four cars, imams of mosques and elders in the Nazran District of Ingushetia decide. They threatened violators of the new regulation with a fine of 50,000 roubles.

September 22, 2020 19:07

• After start of his hunger strike, Salaev, PFPA activist, transferred to another colony

  Alizamin Salaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), who had complained about beatings in the colony and went on a hunger strike, was transferred, after appealing to the Ombudsperson and the Penitentiary Service, to another colony located in a suburb of Baku. In the new place, the oppositionist has no complaints of harassment, said Salaev's son.

September 22, 2020 17:52

• Azerbaijani soldier wounded near Armenian border

  As a result of a shelling attack on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, a soldier was wounded, who was at a combat post in the village of Agdam, Tovuz District.

September 22, 2020 13:53

• Brother of missing Chechen Movsar Umarov believes he was killed

  Movsar Umarov, a resident of Grozny, declared as runaway after detention by law enforcers, has failed to contact his relatives and is hardly still alive, his brother believes. An Umarov's relative feared for his life after a telephone conversation with the Chechen minister.

September 22, 2020 13:46

• Conflict with Armenia prevents Azerbaijan from participating in "Kavkaz-2020" exercises

  The participation in the large-scale military exercises "Kavkaz-2020" conducted in Southern Russia and Southern Caucasus is important for Armenia as Russia's strategic ally, analysts believe, and explain that the Baku's refusal to take part n the exercises has to do, in particular, with the July aggravation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.

September 22, 2020 11:53

• Police finds no extremism in Russian journalist's words about Circassians

  Asker Sokht, an activist, has posted the received response of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), which found his demand to prosecute Mikhail Leontiev, the press secretary of the "Rosneft" Company, for speaking out about Circassians groundless. Mr Sokht called on Circassians to achieve Leontiev's punishment.

September 22, 2020 11:48

• Over 1000 Azerbaijanis wait for departure to homeland near Kullar

  Most Azerbaijani citizens awaiting departure to their homeland near the Dagestani village of Kullar live outside the official tent camp. On weekends and Monday, the maximum number of people is coming to Kullar, said Afig Allakhverdiev, the spokesman of the Azerbaijani national organization.

September 22, 2020 11:31

• Advocate claims investigators' violations in Yagublu's case

  On Monday (September 21), the court conducted an inquiry into the case of Azerbaijani oppositionist, Tofig Yagublu, with numerous procedural violations, said his advocate intending to petition to stop the criminal case. After 17 days of hunger strike, Yagublu's health is gradually recovering, his daughter has informed.

September 21, 2020 23:09

• Nine activists urge to close case against Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev

  In Makhachkala, participants in a series of solo pickets demanded to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev. The activists filed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office with a request to punish the official from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Dagestan, who had banned a mass rally in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

September 21, 2020 22:58

• Ingush activist Isropil Nalgiev released after conviction

  A court found Isropil Nalgiev, a participant of a rally in Magas, guilty of attacking a law enforcer, but recognized the term of punishment as served during the arrest.

September 21, 2020 22:52

• Chechen law enforcers refuse to investigate "expulsion of genies" from Aminat Lorsanova

  Investigators forwarded to the Chechen police an Aminat Lorsanova's complaint about violence by relatives and compulsory treatment. However, the police refused to institute a criminal case, the "Russian LGBT Network" reported.

September 21, 2020 22:47

• Azerbaijani MoD reports about shot-down Armenian drone

  In the area of Shamkir, air defence units of Azerbaijan have destroyed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Armenian armed forces.

September 21, 2020 17:33

• On September 14-20, no victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus were recorded

  During the week of September 14-20, 2020, there was no information about any victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from open sources.

September 21, 2020 17:29

• Social network users refuse to recognize Adygs' Day as holiday

  Most events on the Adygs' (Circassians') Day were held in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) in the online mode due to coronavirus. The expediency of the holiday has caused a discussion on the Instagram.

September 21, 2020 17:24

• Azerbaijani soldier dies near Armenian border

  Elshan Mamedov, a military serviceman, has perished as a result of a provocation on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

September 21, 2020 15:41

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 14-20, 2020

  Coronavirus infection spread statistics in the Caucasus; campaign to condemn Akhmed Zakaev in Chechnya; close of the Noble Partner 2020 military exercises in Georgia; conviction of Ingush journalist Rashid Maisigov, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 14-20, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".