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July 04, 2019 14:14

• "Georgian Dream" Party holds opposition responsible for riots in Tbilisi

  The dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi, during which dozens of protestors and journalists were injured, was a response to the calls for assaulting the parliament building, stated Kakha Kaladze, Secretary General of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party. Activist Giorgi Mshveniradze treats the Kakha Kaladze's statement as an attempt of the authorities to relieve themselves of all responsibility for the victims.

July 04, 2019 14:13

• EU condemns ban on flights from Russia to Georgia

  The decision of the Russian authorities to ban flights to and from Georgia is an unreasonable measure that will "adversely affect" citizens of both countries, the European Union declares.

July 04, 2019 14:07

• CE reports new stage in fight against family violence in Armenia

  On July 3, Armenia started to introduce measures under the Istanbul Convention to combat family violence. The programme includes retraining of lawyers, police officers, and social workers, reports the Council of Europe (CE) Office in Yerevan.

July 04, 2019 11:07

• Termination of adaptation programmes increases threat of militants' stepping up in Northern Caucasus

  So far, the growth in the number of armed incidents in Kabardino-Balkaria does not mean a real militants' activation, but the conditions for the operation of the armed underground have not disappeared, but the work on militants' adaptation has been curtailed, analysts assert.

July 04, 2019 11:03

• Russian court refuses applying Assad's amnesty to Chechen native

  The Syrian President, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, has announced a general amnesty, but a Perm court refused to change the verdict and release a native of Chechnya, convicted for participating in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants, from his colony.

July 04, 2019 10:56

• Rights defenders treat "borderization" as major factor of anti-Russian protests in Georgia

  The erection of fortifications on the demarcation lines with South Ossetia and Abkhazia is painfully perceived by the Georgian society and supports anti-Russian sentiments in it, as can be seen from the recent protests in Tbilisi, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated.

July 04, 2019 10:49

• Analysts treat mass detentions after attacks in Chechnya as lawlessness

  The practice of mass detentions of acquaintances of a suspected militant is not unique for Chechnya and Northern Caucasus; this is a common method of Russian law enforcers, said Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

July 03, 2019 23:46

• Court reduces Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev's arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reduced the arrest of the Ingush elder, Ahmed Barakhoev, from three to two months.

July 03, 2019 23:43

• Case of eight Dagestanis killed in Chechnya sent to court

  The Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya has sent the case of eight residents of Dagestan, who, according to law enforcers, had prepared a terror act and were killed in a shootout, to the Supreme Court of Chechnya. The casualties' relatives insist on the trial to be held Dagestan, Andrei Sabinin, a lawyer of the "Agora" International Human Rights Group, has stated.

July 03, 2019 23:25

• Court leaves Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev in custody

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan refused to transfer Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the newspaper "Chernovik" (Draft), to house arrest. The defence believes that the detention of Abdulmumin Gadjiev is not justified.

July 03, 2019 23:20

• Ramzan Kadyrov requests to remove attacked police checkpoint in Chechnya

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claims that the police checkpoint, where policemen were attacked, is of "no strategic" significance. The police checkpoint is located in the forest at a great distance from villages and towns, local residents report.

July 03, 2019 20:50

• Chechen law enforcers: man killed in attack on policemen was a drug addict

  Zelimkhan Musaev, who was killed while attacking a police checkpoint in Chechnya, was a drug addict, married to a woman whose relatives were militants who had left for Syria, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reported.

July 03, 2019 20:45

• Azerbaijani oppositionist complains about police threats

  Today, activist Sakhib Rustamli has been taken to a police station and warned for criticizing the authorities on social networks and issues of the online opposition TV channel. This has been reported by the activist himself. Members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) treat the detention of Sakhib Rustamli as a part of the campaign to persecute oppositionists.

July 03, 2019 17:48

• Azerbaijani journalist Fuad Abbasov refuses to return to Russia

  Azerbaijani journalist Fuad Abbasov does not intend to return to Russia, even if the 50-year ban on entry into the country is lifted. He promised to protect the rights of Azerbaijanis in Russia through his online "Misra-TV" channel.

July 03, 2019 17:44

• HRC "Memorial" reports examining Ingush oppositionists' cases

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" continues to examine cases of the activists arrested after the March rallies in Magas. The list of Ingush political prisoners will include the names of other oppositionists, if prosecutors do not have convincing evidence against them.

July 03, 2019 17:39

• AI draws Russia's attention to violations of rights of Georgian border villagers

  Restrictions on the crossing of the borders of Georgia with Abkhazia and South Ossetia violate the rights of residents of border villages who cannot run their farms and risk being detained for crossing the border, declares the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

July 03, 2019 10:46

• Ingush Imams urge Chaika to assess legitimacy of searching Muftiate

  The Imams of Ingushetia have asked the Russia's Public Prosecutor General, Yuri Chaika, to check the lawfulness of the searches conducted at the republic's Muftiate and in the house of Mufti Isa Khamkhoev, and of many-hour-long interrogations of religious figures.

July 03, 2019 10:39

• Tbilisi protesters complain about ignoring hunger-strikers

  Outside the parliament building in Tbilisi, three persons continue their protest hunger strike demanding resignation of the head of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), but no one cares about them, protesters have stated. Meanwhile, the spokeswoman of the "Georgian Dream" Party said that there are no complaints about Minister Giorgi Gakhariya's actions during the dispersal of protesters' rally.

July 03, 2019 10:36

• Analysts call energy factor decisive in Azerbaijan-Europe relations

  The political importance of Azerbaijan for Europe after the commissioning of the TANAP pipeline will grow, Azerbaijani economists believe, whose opinions regarding the profitability of gas transmission projects have divided. The West, because of its energy interests, sacrifices human rights in Azerbaijan, right defenders believe.

July 03, 2019 10:29

• Former law enforcers don't believe in IS' role in attacking policeman in Chechnya

  The "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation by the court, has claimed responsibility for the attack on the police post in the Achkhoi-Martan District of Chechnya for the sake of self-promotion; and the incident itself was hardly a terror act, retired law enforcers believe.