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May 25, 2018 12:35

• Resident of Georgia detained on South-Ossetian border

  Giorgi Kepashvili, a resident of the Gori District, was detained by the South Ossetian side on a charge of illegally crossing the border, the Georgian Service of State Security (SSS) reports.

May 25, 2018 06:30

• US-based family donates bicycles to children of Nagorno-Karabakh soldiers killed in war

  Members of the Gevrigyan Armenian family based in the United States have donated 56 sports bicycles to children of soldiers and officers killed during the April war in 2016. According to the donators, this is their first donation action in Nagorno-Karabakh.

May 25, 2018 05:02

• Real estate investors finish hunger strike because of health deterioration

  Real estate (housing) investors of the housing-and-building complex "Index" on hunger strike felt bad and an ambulance was called for them. Medical officers offered to hospitalize four women on hunger strike. The hunger-strikers refused to go to the hospital, but listened to the medical officers' advice and stopped participating in the protest action.

May 25, 2018 04:29

• Yerevan court refuses to prolong Salman Sever's arrest

  In Yerevan, the court refused to extend the arrest of Bogdan Kalyussky, also known as blogger Salman Sever. On May 30, he will be released, reported rights defender Arthur Sakunts, the head of the Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly.

May 25, 2018 03:31

• Classmates of young men killed in Grozny report pressure from law enforcers

  Law enforcers questioned students and teachers of the Grozny Medical College, where the young people killed in an attack on the Saint Michael the Archangel Church studied. The questioning was accompanied by threats, the students reported.

May 25, 2018 01:05

• Law enforcers report liquidation of extremist grouping in Karachay-Cherkessia

  Eleven persons detained in Karachay-Cherkessia were adherents of the organization "At-Takfir Val-Hijra"*, a law enforcement source announced on May 24.

May 24, 2018 21:42

• Demerchyan's case closed under amnesty

  Today, the court in Adler has closed the case of Mardiros Demerchyan, who was accused of stealing some cable from the construction site, and of a false denunciation against policemen; however, the court did not rehabilitate him, Yuri Marikovsky, his advocate, has stated.

May 24, 2018 19:22

• Prisoners' pardoning in Azerbaijan disappoints rights defenders

  Today, Ilham Aliev, President of Azerbaijan, has signed a decree to pardon 634 convicts; however, it touched only 12 persons from the list of political prisoners; many of them were near their release time without pardoning, rights defenders assert.

May 24, 2018 18:52

• Political analysts do not rule out dispersal of protests in Yerevan

  The Armenian authorities can use force in case if supporters of the unit "Sasna Tsrer" do not stop acts of disobedience, political analysts and rights defenders assert.

May 24, 2018 17:14

• Activists of "Putin's Detachments" complain of pressure from authorities

  In Krasnodar, five activists from the "Social Justice" Foundation and the movement "Putin's Detachments" are spending their fourth day on hunger strike in protest against frequent checks of the movement and the local authorities' attempts to close the Foundation. The hunger-strikers believe the local authorities underestimate the importance of support for the President by the "Putin's Detachments".

May 24, 2018 15:42

• In Ingushetia, a teenager in a car hits two schoolgirls on roadside

  In Malgobek, two girls were hospitalized after they had been hit by a BMW car, driven by a 15-year-old teenager, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) reports.

May 24, 2018 14:11

• Investigators fail to find confirmation that drug was planted on Titiev

  The statement of the Chechen rights defender Oyub Titiev that the marijuana had been planted on him was checked; however, it was confirmed only by his words, the investigator has stated today at the court session.

May 24, 2018 13:30

• Georgia pardons 143 prisoners

  Today, Giorgi Margvelashvili, the Georgia's President, has signed a decree to pardon 143 prisoners. 84 pardoned inmates will be released today; and 59 others will have their terms reduced.

May 24, 2018 10:16

• MIA denies data on poor living conditions for policemen in Volgograd

  The information about poor conditions for deployment of policemen seconded on the eve of the FIFA World Cup to Volgograd is not true, reports the Department for the Volgograd Region of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) after checking a message posted in social networks.

May 24, 2018 08:50

• Authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria to introduce mountain ski police

  The authorities of Kabardino-Balkaria are working on a project to create a ski patrol to ensure order at resorts in skiing areas, reports Murat Shogentsukov, Minister for Resorts and Tourism of the region.

May 24, 2018 03:13

• Armenia: Salman Sever receives refuge seeker's certificate

  Bogdan Kalyusskiy, also known as Salman Sever, has received a certificate of the status of refuge seeker, Arthur Sakunts, a rights defender and the head of the Vanadzor Office of the Helsinki Civil Assembly, told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent on May 22.

May 24, 2018 00:52

• Relatives of Russian citizen arrested in Baku report he is tortured

  Salekh Rustamov, a citizen of Russia, was arrested in Azerbaijan on charges of illegal drug dealing. His relatives report that he is tortured and asked the Russian Embassy to clear out the situation.

May 23, 2018 23:14

• Israeli Parliament to discuss recognition of Armenian Genocide

  The Israeli Knesset (Parliament) has accepted for consideration a bill on the recognition of the massacres of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire as genocide.

May 23, 2018 18:34

• Ammunition planted to a resident of Dagestan, his relatives report

  During a detention in Makhachkala, Yunus Abdurakhmanov, a resident of Dagestan, was planted a grenade and rounds, his relatives claim. According to the relatives and friends, Yunus Abdurakhmanov's friend defamed him under torture.

May 23, 2018 17:46

• Armenian policeman accused of detaining journalist for no reason

  On April 20, Arsen Arzumanyan, the head of the Kotayk City Police, hampered the work of journalist Tirair Muradyan, who covered the action of Nikol Pashinyan's supporters, investigators have stated today.