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August 18, 2020 22:12

• Chechen investigators recommended finding causes of Madina Umaeva's death

  The Chief Investigating Department for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) recommended to review the refusal to institute a case on the death of Madina Umaeva, a resident of Gudermes, but did not question the unbiased approach of Chechen investigators.

August 18, 2020 21:59

• Two suspects killed by law enforcers near Galashki village, sources report

  Today, while searching for militants in the Sunzha District of Ingushetia, law enforcers have killed two persons who offered armed resistance to them, sources report.

August 18, 2020 19:13

• Activists on protest against mine explosions block road to Yerevan

  After explosions at the "Sotk", the largest gold mine in Armenia, dust clouds pollute the water in the surrounding villages, local residents complain. Today, the locals have blocked the Yerevan-Vardenis road. The protestors demand to close the mine.

August 18, 2020 19:04

• Social network users see no logic in fines for long wedding party processions in Chechnya

  On August 17, in Chechnya, the local traffic police (known as GIBDD) announced that wedding party processions should consist of a maximum of four cars in the republic and that violators of the new requirement would face administrative fines. Instagram users and local residents have questioned the relevancy of the new requirement.

August 18, 2020 18:42

• Opposition calls on US and EU to impose sanctions against Azerbaijan's authorities

  In Azerbaijan, according to the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF), torture is used against prisoners. The NCDF called on the US and the European Union (EU) to impose sanctions against the Azerbaijan's authorities for inhuman treatment of the arrestees.

August 18, 2020 15:26

• Natives of Chechnya returned from Moscow recruited to take part in football match

  The young people, declared offenders and returned from Moscow to Chechnya, took part in a friendly football match organized by the Chechen Ministry of Sports. The footballers received gifts and cash bonuses, officials have informed.

August 18, 2020 15:11

• Attack on law enforcers in Galashki is this year's sixth incident in Ingushetia

  The shelling of law enforcers in the village of Galashki, Sunzha District, was preceded by five similar incidents in Ingushetia since the start of the year.

August 18, 2020 11:21

• Head of South-Ossetian MIA comes under fire in his service car

  In Tskhinvali, a service car of Igor Naniev, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of South Ossetia, was shelled; no one was injured. Law enforcers are looking for the attackers.

August 18, 2020 11:05

• Vainakh Diaspora in Europe urges Egyptian authorities to release arrested Ingushes

  Four students from Ingushetia have been imprisoned in Cairo for two years without sentences or well-justified accusation, members of the Vainakh Diaspora in Europe have stated.

August 18, 2020 10:51

• Azerbaijanis' inflow in Kullar camp increases

  The number of Azerbaijanis waiting to be sent home in the border camp in Dagestan has exceeded 1100. The number of those crossing the Russian-Azerbaijani border every week should be doubled, said one of the camp residents.

August 18, 2020 08:31

• Azerbaijani oppositionist goes on hunger strike in SIZO

  Ismail Gasanov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), is on a hunger strike since August 16 at a Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison) in protest against his criminal prosecution and violation of his right to communicate by phone with his family.

August 18, 2020 08:19

• Group of law enforcers shelled in Ingushetia

  Law enforcers found a hideout in the forest near the village of Galashki and were shelled, sources in Ingush law enforcement sources have reported.

August 17, 2020 22:52

• Human rights defenders criticize Kurchaloi law enforcers for preventive conversations

  A specific feature of police preventive conversations in Chechnya is the desire to humiliate offenders. This opinion was voiced by human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina after law enforcers had reprimanded residents of the Kurchaloi District. Lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov note that the law enforcement bodies may make public videos of such conversations only with the offenders' consent.

August 17, 2020 22:36

• Activists treat prosecution of Mekhti Ibragimov as revenge on his father

  The defence of Mekhti Ibragimov, who has been on a hunger strike in custody for the eighth day already, has filed a motion to transfer the detainee under house arrest. Activists treat the prosecution of Mekhti Ibragimov as revenge for the opposition activities of his father Mamed Ibragim.

August 17, 2020 22:24

• Martin Kochesoko refuses to plead guilty in court

  Today, in Kabardino-Balkaria, the court has started the consideration of the case against Circassian activist Martin Kochesoko. In contradiction to his confession signed after the detention, the activist has pleaded not guilty.

August 17, 2020 18:17

• Azerbaijan reports about shelling attacks on two border villages

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the villages on the border with Armenia and in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled 31 times over 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reported.

August 17, 2020 18:00

• Astrakhan residents support protests of Khabarovsk and Belarus

  Residents of Astrakhan held solo pickets and a gathering in support of Belarusian citizens on protest against the presidential election outcome, as well as residents of Khabarovsk who stood up for arrested Governor Sergey Furgal.

August 17, 2020 14:53

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of August 10-16, 2020

  Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; fifth attack on law enforcers in Ingushetia since early 2020; actions in support of protesters in Belarus, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 10-16, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

August 17, 2020 14:03

• French minister reacts to mass arrest of natives of Chechnya

  In the French city of Saint-Dizier, law enforcers detained 16 natives from Chechnya; three of them were accused of organizing a criminal community and preparing armed revenge for their fellow countryman. The head of the French Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has proposed to tighten the rules for considering asylum requests received from natives of Chechnya.

August 17, 2020 13:45

• Names of teenagers detained in Dagestan revealed

  The five young men, who, according to law enforcers, had been planning attacks on policemen, were detained in Khasavyurt. Their names are Alan F., Ismail U., Isak A., Gasanpasha M. and Mukhammad S. According to one of the detainees, the grouping's goal was "to establish Sharia laws in this land."