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June 03, 2020 23:53

• Chechen law enforcer succeeds in bringing case on torture to consideration at ECtHR

  Law enforcers from Chechnya who beat their colleague 10 years ago were not punished because of an ineffective investigation, claimed former field investigator Alikhan Akhmedov. The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliged the Russian authorities to answer questions in the case on torture of Alikhan Akhmedov until November 19.

June 03, 2020 23:51

• Residents of Chechnya criticize restrictions on walking

  It is an absurd requirement to force a person to wear a mask while walking in the fresh air, and two hours per day are not enough for walks, residents of Chechnya write on Instagram.

June 03, 2020 17:51

• Chechen woman accused of links with Syrian militants

  Law enforcers have put a female resident of Chechnya, accused of links with militants in Syria, on the wanted list. She left Chechnya after her husband, who had fought for militants, and then disappeared with her children, her relatives assert.

June 03, 2020 17:47

• Chechen Speaker threatens to put violators to forced quarantine

  Magomed Daudov, Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, has announced the need for a medical mask regime and threatened violators and their family members with fines and a two-week-long forced quarantine. Residents of Chechnya have criticized such harsh measures.

June 03, 2020 17:43

• Northern Caucasus is supplier of political prisoners

  Russia witnesses a growth of the number of political prisoners, including from the regions of Northern Caucasus, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has noted in its report. Among those recognized as political prisoners are the Chechen human rights defender, Oyub Titiev, the journalist of the "Caucasian Knot", Zhalaudi Geriev, and the Dagestani journalist, Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

June 03, 2020 11:32

• 120 Azerbaijani citizens back in homeland from Dagestan

  More than 600 Azerbaijani citizens are still on the border with Dagestan after 120 of their countrymen were taken home, said Elnur Guseinov, the vice president of the Union of Russian Azerbaijanis. People are building self-made housing and suffer from heat and unsanitary conditions, Asim Tagiev, a resident of the campground, has informed.

June 03, 2020 11:29

• Three female activists detained after picket in defence of Azerbaijani students

  Gyulnara Mekhtieva, the coordinator of the Azerbaijani feminist movement, has held a solo picket in support of the students, who had been sanctioned the day before after their action at the building of the Ministry of Education in Baku. She and two other female activists were detained.

June 03, 2020 11:24

• Dagestani and Ingush believers think that mosque reopening was premature

  The proposal of the Russian Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) found no support among the Muslims of Dagestan and Ingushetia interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". They believe that clergymen should not hope for the observance of security measures by believers visiting mosques. The Imams of Makhachkala mosques prefer to wait for epidemiologists' conclusions.

June 03, 2020 11:14

• Dagestani resident convicted for financing IS

  The Southern District Military Court has sentenced Ali Aliomarov, a resident of Dagestan, to three years in prison within a case of promoting terrorist activities.

June 02, 2020 23:56

• In Armenia, law enforcers arrest three persons suspected of kidnapping a local resident

  In a case against residents of the town of Kajaran, whose detention provoked a protest action, three out of five defendants were arrested. The defence requested the court to release Babken Ambartsumyan on bail, because he took care of his family members, including his sick child. However, the court dismissed the motion filed by the defence.

June 02, 2020 23:52

• Ingush activist Rezvan Ozdoev set free on day of his conviction

  In the Stavropol Territory, the court found Rezvan Ozdoev, a participant of a rally in Magas, guilty of attacking a law enforcer. The defendant was sentenced to imprisonment in a penal colony, but was set free, because he had spent a year in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

June 02, 2020 20:22

• Ramzan Kadyrov's phrase about mass support of quarantine astonishes social network users

  In Chechnya, 98% of residents support the authorities' measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus infection, Ramzan Kadyrov announces. While commenting on Instagram on his statement, local residents argue that people lost their incomes because of the quarantine regime, and the system of permits is excessively strict.

June 02, 2020 20:18

• Forced apologies contradict traditions of Dagestan

  While commenting on a video, in which a resident of Dagestan apologized for his harsh remarks addressed to policemen, retired law enforcers have noted that the practice of public apologies will not take root in Dagestan. Local traditions accept only the sincere recognition of one's mistakes, the leader of the Dagestani law enforcers' trade union emphasizes.

June 02, 2020 20:13

• Partial lifting of ban on collective prayers surprises residents of Chechnya

  The ban on collective Friday namazes (prayers) imposed because of coronavirus is now cancelled in large mosques, the Muftiate of Chechnya has declared. The selective mosque reopening looks illogical, Instagram users and locals have stressed.

June 02, 2020 20:09

• Residents of Chechnya draw attention to authorities' ignoring mask regime

  All the participants of the meeting of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, with hospital chief physicians, a report about which was shown by the "Grozny" TV Channel, were without medical masks. The mandatory mask regime is ignored by officials and doctors themselves, residents of the republic were indignant.

June 02, 2020 17:16

• Grozny residents tell about situation in the city after quarantine weakening

  After Ramzan Kadyrov signed a decree on the second stage of easing quarantine, there are more people in streets of Grozny. However, the mask regime is still in force; and some passers-by were detained by law enforcers, the townspeople have informed.

June 02, 2020 17:14

• Media report billions worth donations to Kadyrov Foundation

  In 2019, the Chechen Akhmat Kadyrov Foundation raised a record amount of 6 billion roubles as donations – 2.7 times more than in 2018, the "MBKh Media" has reported.

June 02, 2020 17:12

• Students' action in Baku ends with fines and arrests

  Six Azerbaijani students, who held an action in Baku, demanding to cancel summer exams and liberate students from paying for the second semester due to the coronavirus epidemic, have been fined for violating the quarantine regime. One of them was arrested for 15 days for disobeying the police.

June 02, 2020 11:30

• Rights defenders doubt links of Ingush casualties with militants

  The law enforcers' version about the armed resistance of those killed in Sunzha and about their involvement in the underground is causing doubts, since law enforcers have failed to provide any evidence of these allegations, human rights defenders assert.

June 02, 2020 11:27

• KBR not to open mosques amid growing numbers of COVID-19 infections

  The coronavirus morbidity in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) does not allow restarting collective prayers in the republic's mosques, Alim Sizhazhev, Deputy Mufti of the KBR, has announced. Believers have met the decision of the Muftiate with understanding, but they anticipate the mosque reopening.