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September 14, 2018 09:42

• Interpol announces search for Tatunashvili's torturers

  The South-Ossetian law enforcers David Gurtsiev and Alik Taboev, accused of involvement in the death of the detained Georgian citizen Archil Tatunashvili, have been announced wanted under the red circular of the Interpol. In case of their capture, Georgia will seek extradition of them to Georgia, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has stated.

September 14, 2018 08:23

• Tumso Abdurakhmanov names 14 convicted Kurchaloi residents

  Eight surnames from the list of blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov exactly coincide with the names of those detained 1.5 years ago in the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya.

September 14, 2018 08:14

• Orlov fined for picket in support of Titiev

  The court has fined Oleg Orlov, the Chairman of the Board of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", by 10,000 roubles for an action in Moscow with a demand to release Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the HRC "Memorial".

September 13, 2018 21:47

• Activist tells about law enforcers' reaction to picket in Khazbiev's defence

  In Moscow, at the buildings of the Federation Council (FC) and the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO), a resident of Dagestan has held a solo picket in support of the Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev.

September 13, 2018 21:37

• Relatives of convicts for terrorism accuse Chechen authorities of breaking their promises (+video)

  Family members of 14 residents of the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya believed in the promises of law enforcers and gave no publicity to the case in hope of lenient sentences, convicts' relatives told the "Caucasian Knot".

September 13, 2018 17:27

• KChR: law enforcer announced wanted under torture case

  A high-ranking employee of one of the divisions of the "E" Centre for the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) was put on the wanted list after an application lodged by a resident of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) about torture, the Republic's Investigating Committee has reported today.

September 13, 2018 17:17

• Inquiry into officials' wiretapping gives rise to scepticism in Armenia

  The record of a telephone conversation of the Director of the National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia with the head of the Special Investigating Service (SIS) posted on the YouTube contains elements of abuse of authority, investigators have suggested. The case opened under this article can be easily closed, the lawyer Ara Kazaryan believes.

September 13, 2018 14:43

• Rights defenders report extradition of Ingushetia native from Ukraine

  On September 12, Timur Tumgoev, a native of Ingushetia, suspected of links with Syrian militants, was extradited to Russia at the request of the Russian FSB, sources from the Kharkov Human Rights Group (KhHRG) have stated.

September 13, 2018 14:34

• Azerbaijan reports shelling of three villages in the conflict zone

  Over the last 24 hours, positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 87 times, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated today.

September 13, 2018 14:23

• Election totals in Kalmyk settlement of Primanych cancelled after stuffing video

  The Election Committee of the Iki-Burul District of Kalmykia has cancelled the election outcomes results at the polling station, where Aisa Khulaeva, a student, filmed ballot-stuffing. The exact whereabouts of Khulaeva is still unknown, but there are reasons to believe that she communicates with people on her own choice, the republic's branch of the "Spravedlivaya Rossiya" (Fair Russia) Party has stated.

September 13, 2018 10:47

• Residents of Chechnya report severe sentences to 14 young people for terrorism

  Young residents of the Kurchaloi District of Chechnya have been sentenced to long prison terms on charges of terrorist crimes; their relatives did not see the convicts for 18 months after detention, residents of the republic told the "Caucasian Knot".

September 13, 2018 10:36

• Kadyrov explains Nurmagomedov's aggression on Timati by "weight cutting"

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has commented on the conflict between Timati and Khabib Nurmagomedov. According to Kadyrov, Nurmagomedov is nervous, as he is "cutting his body weight."

September 13, 2018 08:23

• 360 advocates demand to investigate the attack on Benyash

  More than 360 lawyers from different regions of Russia have signed a petition demanding to investigate the beating of Krasnodar lawyer Mikhail Benyash. Vladimir Kolokoltsev, the Minister of Internal Affairs, has promised to clear out the Benyash's case, said Yuri Pilipenko, the head of the Russian Federal Bar Association (FBA).

September 13, 2018 08:16

• SC approves Ruslan Rakhaev's conviction

  Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has announced its decision on the appeal complaint lodged by Ruslan Rakhaev, the deputy head of the Department for Cherkessk of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), who was found guilty of beating up a detainee to death. The SC has reduced Rakhaev's prison term by three months. His defence has announced its intention to file a cassation against the verdict.

September 12, 2018 21:06

• More than 60 Georgian citizens deported from Germany

  Today, 65 Georgian citizens have been expelled from Germany. Of them, 59 applied for asylum in Saxony, but were refused.

September 12, 2018 21:00

• Advocate finds out reasons for Zaur Dadaev's transfer to another penal colony

  Zaur Dadaev will serve his sentence in more severe detention conditions because of the violation of the regime in 2016, reported advocate Rosa Magomedova. She associates the transfer of the man sentenced in the case on the Boris Nemtsov's murder with law enforcers' attempt to get new testimony.

September 12, 2018 18:17

• Father of schoolboy killed in Georgia resumes his hunger strike

  Today, Zaza Saralidze, hospitalized from the place of his hunger strike, has returned to the building of the Georgian parliament, demanding resignation of the government.

September 12, 2018 17:52

• Head of Armenian village reports shelling by Azerbaijan

  The pre-border village of Baganis of the Tavush District of Armenia was shelled several times by Azerbaijan; no one was injured, Narek Saakyan, the head of the village community, has stated today. Ceasefire violations in the conflict zone are "permanent in nature," the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has stated.

September 12, 2018 17:41

• AI announces Kuban lawyer Benyash prisoner of conscience

  The human rights Amnesty International (AI) has demanded to release the lawyer Mikhail Benyash from administrative arrest. Benyash himself has explained that he came to the protest rally in Krasnodar on September 9 as a defender of the detainees.

September 12, 2018 15:13

• Pickets against pension reform held in Volgograd without detentions

  On September 11, in Volgograd, three activists held their alternative solo pickets against the pension reform.