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January 12, 2025 17:31

• Four Dagestani residents convicted in case on riots at Makhachkala airport

  Marat Rabadanov, Radjab Radjabov, Magomed Ramazanov, and Zaurbeg Khalikov were each sentenced to ten years of imprisonment. A court in Georgievsk found them participants of the riots at the “Uytash” airport in Makhachkala in October 2023.

January 11, 2025 23:58

• Zaira Pirova, who ran away from home, returns to her family in Dagestan

  Zaira Pirova has returned from Georgia to Dagestan and stays with her family now, human rights defenders report. They express their hope that the girl’s relatives will keep their promises to her.

January 11, 2025 23:55

• Rights defender Safarov links his arrest with US State Department's Award

  Rufat Safarov, an Azeri human rights defender, has stated that before his arrest, he faced demands to publicly refuse the US State Department's Award.

January 11, 2025 22:57

• Contract soldier complains about absence of treatment at hospital in Chechnya

  Ruslan Arazov, a wounded soldier, has stated that he was discharged from a hospital in Chechnya, although he received no proper treatment there. He has demanded to conduct a check and punish those guilty.

January 11, 2025 21:28

• Torture case of detainee by law enforcers in Malgobek reaches court

  The case opened against the policemen from the city of Malgobek, accused of torturing a detainee and receiving a bribe in the form of an apartment, has been transferred to the court.

January 11, 2025 20:59

• Human rights defenders: Zaira Pirova, who ran away from home, faces danger in Georgia

  Georgia has ceased to be a safe country for the women who run away from the North Caucasus due to a change in the country’s political course and the accessibility of the country for Russian citizens. It is still risky for Zaira Pirova to return to Dagestan.

January 11, 2025 20:53

• Social media users argue about Zaira Pirova’s escape to Georgia

  The family should accept the choice of Dagestani native Zaira Pirova and stop searching for her in Georgia, social media users note. Their opponents demanded that the girl should be returned to her family.

January 10, 2025 21:45

• Resident of Stavropol Territory convicted of repeated discrediting Russian Army

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has sentenced a local resident to nine months of probation, finding him guilty under a criminal article on repeated discrediting of Russian militaries.

January 10, 2025 21:44

• Azerbaijani activist Rail Abbasov sentenced to freedom deprivation

  A court in Baku has sentenced Rail Abbasov, an activist, to 6.5 years in jail, finding him guilty in a fraud case.

January 10, 2025 20:43

• Kadyrov demands to tighten fight against tinted car windows

  The head of Chechnya has called tinting of any car windows in Chechnya unacceptable and suggested that those who are afraid of raids "stay at home."

January 09, 2025 23:17

• Lawyers: court in Chechnya violates Musaeva’s right to defence

  A notification of an advocate an hour and a half before the start of the hearing at the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya, which left Zarema Musaeva in custody in the case on disorganization of the activities of the penal colony, violated the equality of the parties and the defendant’s right to defence.

January 09, 2025 22:56

• In Tbilisi, students of seven universities demand to hold new parliamentary elections

  In Tbilisi, students of seven higher education institutions hold protest actions with the demand to release the people arrested during protests against the suspension of Georgia’s European integration and to hold new parliamentary elections.

January 09, 2025 22:46

• Family of escaped Dagestani Zaira Pirova offers her to return home

  Zaira Pirova, a native of Dagestan, who fled to Georgia, has contacted her relatives, but was unable to convince them that she had left home voluntarily. She said that she missed her family. The girl's father gave her two days to think about it and promised that if she returned, she would be "treated specially."

January 09, 2025 21:14

• Near Georgian Parliament Participants protesters collect letters to detained comrades

  The collection of letters for those detained at protest actions was organized near the Georgian Parliament. Daily protests against the suspension of European integration have been held in Georgia for the 42nd day in a row.

January 08, 2025 23:34

• Rights defenders refute abduction version of Dagestani Zaira Pirova

  The father of Zaira Pirova, who fled from Dagestan to Georgia, claims that his daughter was abducted and is kept under a threat to execute her family. However, human rights defenders object stating that Zaira had left home voluntarily and left Russia because of her relatives' attempts to find her.

January 08, 2025 20:52

• In Tbilisi, protestors claim connection between Christmas and Georgia’s European future

  In Tbilisi, participants of the protest actions admitted that they came to Rustaveli Square on Christmas night to remind people of humanity and the need to continue the country’s European path.

January 08, 2025 20:19

• Krasnodar resident accused of spreading “fakes” about Russian Army

  Vladimir Yarotsky, a resident of Krasnodar, who was earlier fined for calls for terrorism, has been charged under a criminal article on spreading “fakes” about the Russian Army.

January 08, 2025 19:07

• Family of mobilized soldier from Rostov Region seeks compensation for his death

  Relatives of Igor Tatarov, a mobilized resident of the Rostov Region, appealed to the court with a claim to recognize that the man perished in the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine, since without such a recognition, the authorities do not assign compensation for his death.

January 07, 2025 23:58

• Analysts rule out revision of Baku-Moscow relations because of plane crash

  The toughening of Azerbaijan's of rhetoric towards Russia will not entail any fundamental changes in bilateral relations. At the same time, Moscow has no chances to put pressure on Azerbaijan and force it to abandon its demands in connection with the air crash; and Aliev is using the disaster to demonstrate the independence of his foreign policy.

January 07, 2025 23:16

• Mother of human rights defender Safarov manages to leave Azerbaijan

  The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan has lifted the ban on leaving the country from Takhira Takhirgyzy, the mother of Rufat Safarov, the arrested human rights defender.