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February 23, 2019 08:52

• Session of Abkhaz Parliament outrages anti-corruption protesters

  The Parliament of Abkhazia has failed to find time to consider the bill on liability for illegal enrichment, because it was placed into the end of the agenda, activists have stated.

February 23, 2019 00:15

• Investigation of oppositionist Alexei Navalny leads to demands to punish Caucasian clans

  The investigation conducted by the oppositionist Alexei Navalny about the influential clans in Karachay-Cherkessia has triggered a sharp reaction of social network users, who called on the authorities to clear out the situation.

February 22, 2019 23:59

• "Muslim Unity" activist complains about torture to the court

  At the trial, Bakhtiyar Bagirov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, has complained about being tortured after detention. The court has ignored his statement.

February 22, 2019 23:55

• Ingush activist arrested for trying to hold action in memory of deportation

  A court in Nazran has arrested Urus Kurskiev, an activist, for three days for an attempt to hold an unsanctioned march of the deported nations of the Caucasus.

February 22, 2019 18:56

• Mother of Chechen native asks to save her son from torture at SIZO

  Apti Akiev, a native of Chechnya, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Omsk Region, is being tortured. Law enforcers are trying to force him to confess to being one of the organizers of riots in the colony, his mother Maret Akieva has stated.

February 22, 2019 18:49

• Activist detained in Ingushetia after rally announcement

  Urus Kurskiev, an Ingush activist, who had called for a march of the sons of the deported nations of the Caucasus to be held today, was brought to the Centre for Countering Extremism (CCE or "E" Centre) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

February 22, 2019 16:55

• Azerbaijan claims machine gun fire in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 22 times a day, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

February 22, 2019 16:43

• Georgian court arrests activist Zviad Kuprava

  The Prosecutor's Office has persuaded the court to change the release on bail for custody of Zviad Kuprava, a participant in the protest actions against the sentence in the case of the murder of teenagers in Tbilisi.

February 22, 2019 12:24

• Native of Armenia tells about threat to his security after brawl in "Neolit" Cafe

  Garnik Vardanyan, who was declared by Fuad Abbasov, the head of the Centre for Information Initiatives, as a possible instigator of the mass brawl in Moscow, said he has to hide for security reasons. He treats himself as a victim of a provocation.

February 22, 2019 12:23

• Parents of missing Ingush students meet them in Egypt

  The parents of three students from Ingushetia, who had disappeared in Egypt, managed to meet them in Cairo, the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Evkurov, has reported. Four of the five missing students are imprisoned there; the fate of the fifth one is still unknown.

February 22, 2019 12:21

• Visit of Co-Chairs of Minsk Group to Yerevan and Baku reminds of attempts to return NKR to negotiating table

  The Co-Chairs of the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) Minsk Group have met heads of Armenia and Azerbaijan. However, Stepanakert was not included in their visit programme to Southern Caucasus. Armenia's initiatives to return the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) to the negotiating table have received no developed. Armenian political analysts exclude the military way of settling the conflict.

February 22, 2019 08:28

• KBR resident accuses law enforcers of torture

  In the Tersky District of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), a man was beaten up and strangled in an attempt to knock out testimony from him, investigators have reported.

February 22, 2019 08:24

• Man, who has served his term for attempt on Kadyrov, arrested in Moscow

  Lors Khamiev, a native of Chechnya, has been arrested in Moscow on suspicion of killing an Azerbaijani taxi driver. Khamiev has served his eight-year-long prison term for plotting an assassination attempt on Ramzan Kadyrov. Sources have linked the driver's murder with the mass brawl in the "Neolit" Café.

February 22, 2019 08:20

• Armenian opposition accuses Pashinyan of devaluing Karabakh movement

  The absence of traces of scotch tape on the package with drug, found, according to prosecution, on Oyub Titiev, indicates unreliable case materials, the advocates have stated. They failed to persuade the court to study the history of telephone calls made by the GIBDD (traffic police) inspector, who detained Titiev.

February 22, 2019 08:16

• Defence presents signs of falsification of Oyub Titiev's case

  The absence of traces of scotch tape on the package with drug, found, according to prosecution, on Oyub Titiev, indicates unreliable case materials, the advocates have stated. They failed to persuade the court to study the history of telephone calls made by the GIBDD (traffic police) inspector, who detained Titiev.

February 21, 2019 23:12

• ECtHR obliges Azerbaijani authorities to pay 24,000 euros to Novruzali Mamedov's relatives

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized the violation of the rights of Novruzali Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Tolyshi Sado", who died in an Azerbaijani prison, and obliged the authorities to pay his widow compensation in the amount of 2000 euros.

February 21, 2019 23:08

• Azerbaijani Ambassador aggravates dispute about instigators of mass fight in Moscow

  After the Ambassador of Azerbaijan stated that a mass fight of Chechens and Azerbaijanis in Moscow had been provoked by the third party, Facebook users wrote their versions about the ethnicity of the "third forces."

February 21, 2019 23:03

• Armenian authorities agree to review five cases on soldiers' deaths

  The Investigating Committee of Armenia concluded an agreement with human rights organizations to review under public control the cases on the deaths of six soldiers, whose relatives were dissatisfied with the results of the investigation.

February 21, 2019 22:59

• Azerbaijani journalist Mustafa Gadjibeili subjected to suspended sentence

  In Baku, the court sentenced Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the website "Bastainfo.com", to 5.5 years of suspended sentence with a two-year probation period. The journalist does not agree with the verdict and intends to continue his professional activities.

February 21, 2019 22:56

• Azerbaijani rights defenders add 127 names to list of political prisoners

  A working group of Azerbaijani rights defenders, NGO activists, and lawyers made public an updated list of political prisoners which included 127 names. Cases of other 54 prisoners are being monitored.