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March 31, 2020 23:10

• Opposition claims violations at elections in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Oppositionists reported that they had registered a lot of violations in the course of the elections held in Nagorno-Karabakh. The number of the detected violations includes voters taking photos of ballots and not allowing opposition-minded contract soldiers to vote.

March 31, 2020 22:06

• Ramzan Kadyrov comments on beatings of quarantine violators as "just rumours"

  Police patrols monitoring the quarantine regime in Chechnya do not violate the law. This was announced by Ramzan Kadyrov after photos and videos of law enforcers armed with plastic pipes had appeared on the Internet.

March 31, 2020 19:01

• Azerbaijani residents mark Genocide Day being under quarantine

  Today, Azerbaijan marks the Genocide Day in connection with the events of March 1918 without mass events because of the spread of the coronavirus infection.

March 31, 2020 18:45

• Chechen residents criticize authorities for inconsistent quarantine measures

  A statement voiced by the Chechen Minister for Public Health concerning no obligations to wear medical masks contradicts the law enforcers' requirements, local residents say. Despite the imposed quarantine regime, Ramzan Kadyrov considered outdoor recreation acceptable and called a bonfire a cure to prevent coronavirus infection.

March 31, 2020 18:21

• Azerbaijani opposition activist placed to psychiatric hospital

  Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has been sent for compulsory treatment after criticizing the authorities of Azerbaijan on social networks. This was claimed by a spouse of Agil Gumbatov and his political associates.

March 31, 2020 14:22

• Rights defenders count 140 political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  The human rights Union "For Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan" has included 140 persons into the updated list of political prisoners, including five journalists, seven political activists and 54 believers.

March 31, 2020 14:06

• Georgian MoJ convinces jail staff to live at work because of pandemic

  To prevent the spread of coronavirus, 780 employees of the Georgian penitentiary system have agreed to live in jail premises until April 21, the head of the country's Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has informed.

March 31, 2020 13:45

• Rights defenders criticize bill on shadowing residents of Armenia

  By majority of votes, the Armenian MPs have adopted, in the first reading, the bill allowing to follow, during the state of emergency caused by the epidemic, the citizens' travels through special applications on mobile phones, as well as to analyze the calls made by them. Human rights defenders have treated the bill as inefficient and able to negatively affect the authorities' image.

March 31, 2020 11:14

• Measures against coronavirus spread show toughness of Chechen authorities

  The authorities of Chechnya are reacting to the situation with the coronavirus spread in their common way, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" said in their comments on the harsh measures introduced in the republic.

March 31, 2020 10:58

• Child wounded in shelling on Armenian-Azerbaijani border

  As a result of a shelling attack from the Azerbaijani side, two Armenian soldiers and a child from the village of Voskevan were wounded, the Armenian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported. The wounded persons were taken to Yerevan; the health condition of the wounded child is assessed as grave.

March 31, 2020 10:45

• On March 23-29, three men killed in armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of March 23-29, 2020, three men were killed during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus; there was no information about the wounded ones. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

March 31, 2020 08:45

• Umarov explains appearance of law enforcers with pipes in Chechnya by masquerade

  Residents of Chechnya warn their acquaintances about raids on quarantine violators who may face beating up with plastic pipes. Djambulat Umarov, a Chechen Minister has called the video with law enforcers armed with pipes a "joke."

March 31, 2020 08:31

• Armenian observers refuse going to NKR elections

  The "Eyewitness" mission has refused to monitor the elections in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) because of the coronavirus and urged to postpone them. Journalists from at least 13 Armenian media also decided not to go to cover the voting.

March 30, 2020 23:09

• Georgia imposes general quarantine and nighttime curfew

  Starting from March 31, Georgia imposes a general quarantine and a curfew. Two new cases of the coronavirus infection have been confirmed in Georgia, and the total number of coronavirus-infected people reached 100.

March 30, 2020 22:50

• Protests in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev to be held online

  Friends and colleagues of Abdulmumin Gadjiev retract the idea to hold solo pickets because of the coronavirus quarantine. The activists called on people to support the Dagestani journalist by writing posts in social networks and instant messengers.

March 30, 2020 18:05

• Chechen law enforcers publicly reproach quarantine violators

  For the refusal of self-isolation, the Chechen law enforcement bodies threaten dozens of quarantine violators with detention or car seizure. Local residents note that by placing dozens of violators together, law enforcers themselves violated the quarantine regime.

March 30, 2020 17:51

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of March 23-29, 2020

  Spread of the coronavirus infection in the Caucasus; special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria; protest actions with the demand to postpone elections in Nagorno-Karabakh, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 23-29, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

March 30, 2020 17:45

• Journalist Elchin Mamed detained in Azerbaijan

  Elchin Mamed, the head of the NGO "Legal Enlightenment of Sumgait Youth" and the editor-in-chief of the "Yukselish Namine" (For Revival) website, is accused of theft. He claims that he was detained under a false complaint filed by a woman from Sumgait.

March 30, 2020 13:44

• TV story with repentance of fortuneteller's son triggers indignation in Chechnya

  On air of the republic's TV channel, an elderly woman from Gudermes, has repented of providing occult services, and her adult son – of not keep track of her mother. Residents of Chechnya found the son's public repentance excessive.

March 30, 2020 13:23

• Health condition of Stepanakert hunger-strikers gets worse

  Vardan Arzumanyan and Mais Bakhdadyan, Karabakh War veterans and supporters of the opposition, continue their hunger strike. Their health condition has aggravated, and they had to call an ambulance, but refuse to stop their protest action.