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May 09, 2020 17:14

• Statements of Chechen Speaker show difference of Adats and laws

  The demand of Magomed Daudov, Speaker of Chechen Parliament, to prosecute men for violating the quarantine by their relatives is against the laws, but is fully consistent with Adats (customary law of certain Muslim nations), analysts believe.

May 09, 2020 11:22

• Rights defenders claim religious discrimination in Georgia

  Georgian authorities are supporting the Georgian Orthodox Church in financial, legal and social spheres, while the attitude of the state towards other religions is discriminatory, the Institute of Tolerance and Diversity has stated.

May 09, 2020 11:20

• Four persons detained at protest action in Batumi

  About 100 people came to the Adjara Government House in Batumi on Friday, May 8, demanding the release of two detained men. There were clashes of protesters with policemen; and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported on the detention of four persons.

May 09, 2020 11:18

• Coronavirus death toll in Southern Caucasus increases due to Armenia and Georgia

  In Southern Caucasus, including the unrecognized republics, the number of coronavirus deaths has reached 82. Over the past 24 hours, one person died in Armenia and Georgia each.

May 08, 2020 23:59

• Situation with COVID-19 in Dagestan remains most alarming in Russia, Ministry for Public Health reports

  After an appeal of Dagestani doctors to the Russian President, the Russian Minister for Public Health has stated that the spread of the coronavirus infection in Dagestan and the provision of medical care for infected patients in the republic cause more fears than the situation in other regions.

May 08, 2020 23:57

• Armenian and Karabakh politicians bail out former president Robert Kocharyan

  Four former prime ministers of Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh requested the release of Robert Kocharyan from a SIZO (pre-trial prison) because of the threat of the coronavirus infection.

May 08, 2020 18:28

• Social network users criticize detentions of quarantine violators in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, public officers reprimanded almost two dozen men detained without permits and masks, reports a video posted on Instagram. Social network users claim it is a problem in Chechnya to get a permit to leave home.

May 08, 2020 18:16

• Parents with many children in Chechnya complain about deficit of information on benefits

  Chechnya is collecting applications for benefits that are planned to be paid to parents of preschool children since June, the republic's Ministry of Labour has stated. However, recipients of payments to families with many children complain that they learned about the due benefits not from officials, but from acquaintances.

May 08, 2020 18:06

• Ramid Nagiev, PFPA activist, arrested

  Ramid Nagiev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), was arrested for 30 days. The party associates his arrest with Nagiev's political activities.

May 08, 2020 11:59

• KBR benefactors raise money to help those in need

  The "Kavkaz-Nur" Foundation has arranged a fundraising campaign in social networks in order to buy food for the families in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), who found themselves without money due to the epidemic. Volunteers have faced a large number of requests for help; out of 663 such requests, they managed to satisfy 200 so far. Other businessmen are also rendering large-scale help to local residents.

May 08, 2020 11:53

• Azerbaijani authorities report payment of assistance to veterans

  Participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers have received lump-sum cash benefits for the Victory Day, the Azerbaijani government has announced. Because of the quarantine regime, we'll have to celebrate the Victory Day at home, local residents have regretted.

May 08, 2020 11:47

• Azerbaijani authorities threaten to toughening quarantine measures

  During the past 24 hours, Azerbaijan revealed 77 cases of coronavirus infection; and the total number of infected persons has reached 2204. For the third day in a row, the increase in the number of infected exceeds that of recovered persons; authorities attribute it to non-observance of the quarantine and did not exclude the tightening of restrictive measures.

May 08, 2020 11:43

• "Novaya Gazeta" allowed returning part of article on coronavirus in Chechnya back to website

  The "Roskomnadzor" has specified to which sections of the article by Elena Milashina in the "Novaya Gazeta" newspaper on the situation with the coronavirus in Chechnya access should be restricted, thus, giving the right to open most of the material for readers.

May 08, 2020 11:38

• Journalists treat renaming of Tskhinvali into Stalinir as populism

  Residents of South Ossetia are not using the name "Stalinir" to denote Tskhinvali; and the decree on the temporary renaming of the city is populist and designed for Stalin's supporters, journalists and a political analyst assert.

May 07, 2020 23:57

• Court extends arrest of North-Ossetian native accused of financing terrorism

  A court has extended until June 12 the arrest of Giorgi Guev, a native of North Ossetia, who was accused of financing terrorism.

May 07, 2020 23:55

• Chechen speaker: men to be punished for quarantine violation by their female relatives

  Chechen women take advantage of the fact that local law enforcers do not detain them for violation of the quarantine regime, and now men from their families will be responsible for their quarantine violations, states Magomed Daudov, the speaker of the Chechen parliament.

May 07, 2020 23:54

• ECtHR finds violation of journalist Khadija Ismayilova's rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) granted a complaint filed by journalist Khadija Ismayilova against the Azerbaijani authorities. The ECtHR obliged Azerbaijan to pay the journalist 6000 euros of compensation.

May 07, 2020 16:40

• Dagestan doctor calls for protecting colleagues from COVID-19

  Authorities should provide the doctors who treat coronavirus patients with protective garments, Salim Khalitov, a former head of the radiation diagnostics ward at the orthopaedic and trauma centre, has declared at a protest action in Makhachkala.

May 07, 2020 16:35

• Azerbaijani journalist complains of beating

  Zaur Ganbarov, a correspondent of the Azerbaijani news website, has stated that he was beaten up by two people, including an employee of the social protection fund.

May 07, 2020 09:32

• Rights defenders rebuke authorities for conniving female circumcision in Ingushetia

  Some communities in Ingushetia are practicing the prohibited practice of female genital mutilation, while the authorities are not serious enough about this problem, human rights defenders have stated. The mutilating women's surgeries are inadmissible, residents of the republic believe.