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October 30, 2019 18:32

• Video of apologies to Azerbaijanis caught attention of Russian police

  Law enforcers started to check for extremism the movement "Vo Blago Obschego Naroda" (For the Good of the Common People, also known as V.B.O.N.) after video records had been posted on the Internet in which people were beaten and forced to apologize for their negative statements addressed to Azerbaijanis.

October 30, 2019 18:27

• Chechnya: authorities' plans to restrict wedding corteges trigger locals' scepticism

  It's senseless to limit the number of cars in wedding corteges, since most accidents involving them do without grave consequences, Grozny residents believe. In their opinion, it's just enough to send a patrol car to accompany a wedding motorcade.

October 30, 2019 17:17

• Karabakh: two years after "four-day war"

  Two years have passed since the events of the "four-day war," which ended in April 2016 with the conclusion of a truce agreement between the parties to the conflict: Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia, on the one hand, and Azerbaijan, on the other hand. The formal truce did not stop the confrontation.

October 30, 2019 14:50

• Campaigners against torture in Azerbaijan condemn authorities' passiveness

  Organizers of the campaign "End to torture!" have condemned the authorities' inaction on the issue of ill-treatment of detained oppositionists and activists and stated their intent to attract the international community to the solution thereof. They have presented their action plan within the ten-day-long public campaign.

October 30, 2019 11:30

• Georgian transgender complains to ECtHR about refusal to change gender in documents

  A transgender man, Nikolo Gviniashvili has complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) about Georgian authorities' refusal to change his gender record in documents. To change the data on the gender in documents, they demand from Georgian transgender people to confirm the fact of changing the gender, human rights defenders report.

October 30, 2019 11:28

• Blogger's opponent refutes information about execution of Islam Kadyrov's relative

  Chingiz Akhmadov, an employee of the Chechen television, has shown a man in the video, who, according to the blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, had been killed. The man was named as a relative of Islam Kadyrov, whose name was mentioned in connection with the attempt on the head of Chechnya.

October 30, 2019 07:37

• Organizers of "AniDag" anime festival note decrease of aggression towards its participants

  The organizer of the event, Saida Tuchalova, has pointed out just single aggression acts towards the participants of the "AniDag" anime festival, which was disrupted because of threats in 2018. Spectators of the festival have noted its importance for self-realization of Dagestani youth.

October 30, 2019 07:11

• Father of shepherds killed in Dagestan demands to fire policeman

  At his solo picket in Makhachkala, Murtazali Gasanguseinov, the father of the assassinated shepherd brothers, has demanded to dismiss the policeman, Ibragim Aliev, who had reported about the killing of two militants.

October 29, 2019 23:50

• Oppositionist detained on eve of rally in Baku

  An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was detained in front of the courthouse before the consideration of an appeal filed against the arrest of rally participant Abdullah Makhmudov. The PFPA associates the detention of its activist with the preparation of a new rally.

October 29, 2019 23:22

• ICRF to verify legitimacy of pensions for wives of killed militant from Dagestan

  In Dagestan, two wives of a militant killed in Syria got pensions for the loss of primary income earner for more than three years. They are suspected of forging documents, a source reports.

October 29, 2019 19:50

• Silence of authorities provokes disputes about fate of Ramzan Kadyrov's nephew

  A scandal around video records with the brutal actions of Islam Kadyrov did not get a resonance in the public institutions, noted residents of Chechnya and users of social networks. They fear that the verification of the video records made public will not lead to the criminal proceedings against the former mayor of Grozny.

October 29, 2019 19:37

• In Tbilisi, court refuses to recognize 16 protesters as victims

  In Tbilisi, the court refused to grant the victim status to the activists who suffered during the dispersal of a rally in front of the parliament building. The authorities do not want the protesters to gain access to the case file, the Georgian Young Lawyers' Association (GYLA) states.

October 29, 2019 16:51

• Director of film about Chechen choreographer refuses to show it in Russia

  The film "Daimokhk" about Chechen choreographer Ramzan Akhmadov will not be shown during the screenings of the Artdocfest festival in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, since "that will be safer for its heroes," film director Masha Novikova says.

October 29, 2019 16:46

• Report on videos with Islam Kadyrov confirms Tumso Abdurakhmanov's version

  Video records showing the brutal actions of the former mayor of Grozny confirm the statement of Tumso Abdurakhmanov about his conflict with Islam Kadyrov, YouTube users note.

October 29, 2019 16:26

• Azerbaijani oppositionist denies disorderly conduct charges

  Seimour Khazi, the deputy chairman of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), claims the charges of disorderly conduct and of failure to obey to the police brought against him are false. He associates his arrest with his participation in the preparation of an opposition rally.

October 29, 2019 11:22

• James Longman's confession of no help to Chechen gays

  The footage about the visit of the ABC's filming crew and the confession of the journalist, James Longman, to homosexuality has led to the appearance of a large number of homophobic comments in the popular Chechen publics. However, some users have called for tolerance. The story of persecutions of LGBT people in Chechnya has not been forgotten, said Igor Kochetkov, the head of the Russian LGBT Network.

October 29, 2019 11:13

• Azerbaijani activists launch campaign against torture

  The Committee against Repressions and Torture has announced the start of a 10-day-long public campaign in Azerbaijan under the slogan "End to torture!"

October 29, 2019 08:41

• CaT announces action in support of activist Aslan Iritov

  A series of solo pickets in support of Aslan Iritov, the head of the organization "Volny Aul" (Free Village), will be held on October 31. The action is timed to the second anniversary of the clashes with law enforcers in the yard of Iritovs' house.

October 29, 2019 08:38

• Grandson of Saudi Sheikh declared his contempt for Kadyrov

  Salikh Ibn Baz, a descendant of the former Mufti of Saudi Arabia, has accused the head of Chechnya of lying about Wahhabis and oppressions of Muslims. The religious advisor to Ramzan Kadyrov has invited him to Chechnya, but Ibn Baz expressed his contempt for Kadyrov.

October 29, 2019 08:35

• Video of Islam Kadyrov's vacation posted on Internet after scandal

  Islam Kadyrov, a former Mayor of Grozny, publicly exposed for his cruelty, demonstrates the absence of problems in his life, as it follows from the videos posted in social networks.