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July 03, 2021 12:56

• Former Azerbaijani Prosecutor General, Eldar Gasanov, placed into military hospital

  Eldar Gasanov, a former Public Prosecutor General of Azerbaijan, has been transferred to hospital after the repeated decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) to provide him with the necessary high-quality medical care. The ECtHR’s decision was fulfilled with a delay; and this has aggravated Gasanov's health condition, his defence asserts.

July 03, 2021 12:52

• Chechen authorities expand practice of coercion to vaccination

  Residents of Chechnya are forced to get vaccinated against coronavirus by threats to evacuate one’s car, refusal to provide medical care or issue some documents, sources told the “Caucasian Knot”. People who have already been vaccinated are involved in promoting vaccination.

July 02, 2021 23:30

• Idea of a film about a female sex worker provokes disputes in North Ossetia

  An idea of director Zaur Dzgoev to make a film about a female sex worker in North Ossetia to draw attention to the problem of violence against women and the violation of their rights provoked angry responses on social media. The Ossetian society needs artistic statements on the topic, when authors correctly understand the problem, analysts say.

July 02, 2021 23:23

• Owner of Anapa hotel explains her conflict with guests by homophobia

  In Anapa, young women left a hotel after its owner raised a stink in response to their complaints about a dirty room. The woman explained her act by the behaviour of the guests, whom she suspected of non-traditional sexual orientation.

July 02, 2021 23:04

• Girl leaves Russia after death threats from her family in Dagestan

  A girl who came to Dagestan from Sweden to visit her relatives was forcibly kept at home, and her family members were forcing her to agree to marry a man unknown to her, human rights defenders report. The girl left Russia after her relatives threatened her with murder.

July 02, 2021 22:58

• Peacekeepers report mine clearance of agricultural fields in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Russian soldiers have started clearing agricultural fields in the Martuni District from unexploded ordnance, including at the request of local residents, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) reports.

July 02, 2021 16:42

• Court reduces journalist Afghan Sadygov’s prison term

  The Azerbaijani Supreme Court (SC) has partially satisfied the complaint lodged by journalist Afghan Sadygov by reducing his prison term from six to four years. The journalist's wife called this decision a "death sentence" to her husband.

July 02, 2021 16:29

• Number of LGBT opponents detained in Tbilisi rises to 20

  After clashes with law enforcers at the rally against the "LGBT Week" in Tbilisi, already 20 people have been detained; they are accused of insubordination to the police and hooliganism, the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

July 02, 2021 13:56

• Alleged militant killed in the Astrakhan Region

  During a special operation conducted in the village of the Astrakhan Region, a supporter of the "Islamic State" (IS)* was killed; and his accomplice was detained in Moscow, the Russian FSB has reported. Both of them had been preparing terror acts in public places, law enforcers have reported.

July 02, 2021 13:53

• Twelve LGBT opponents detained at rally in Tbilisi

  Law enforcers have detained participants of the action against the "LGBT Week" in Tbilisi for disobeying policemen’ demands and hooliganism. During the disorders, one policeman suffered.

July 02, 2021 13:47

• Family of pregnant Makhachkala woman worries about her health in SIZO

  A pregnant woman from Makhachkala, deported from Egypt with her husband and children, has been kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) for seven months on charges of financing militants. It is difficult for a woman to be in custody on the eve of childbirth; and she has not seen her four children since the moment of arrest, her relatives assert.

July 02, 2021 13:37

• Video with child and grenade launcher shows inaction of laws in Chechnya

  One of Ramzan Kadyrov's close associate has posted a video in which a child from the family of a high-ranking Chechen military shoots from a grenade launcher, shouting "Akhmat is power!" Meanwhile, the Russian President has increased the minimum age for buying weapons up to 21 years.

July 02, 2021 03:32

• Video about child abuse in a boarding school provokes public outcry in Ingushetia

  In Ingushetia, inmates of a boarding school for mentally retarded children are being regularly beaten, former employees of the boarding school report after a video of child abuse has been made public. The boarding school administration called the posted video an attempt to discredit the collective.

July 02, 2021 03:25

• Political analysts call Kadyrov’s statement during Putin’s direct line ambitious

  Political analysts suggest that the Ramzan Kadyrov’s decision to write a post during the Vladimir Putin’s direct line about the Chechen authorities’ ability to serve as an example for the federal authorities in terms of accessibility to the population was an attempt to inflate his own dignity and get even more preferences from Vladimir Putin.

July 01, 2021 19:52

• Six Azerbaijani residents detained while trying to get to Kelbadjar District

  Cases against six persons detained in Azerbaijan for attempting to enter the territory of the Kelbadjar District in spite of warnings about mine danger have been sent to court.

July 01, 2021 19:49

• Migrants from Chechnya claim facing obstacles in obtaining housing in Ingushetia

  Forced migrants complain that officials explain refusals to provide housing to people, who had moved to Ingushetia during the war in Chechnya, by the lack of forced migrant status and compensations paid many years ago, which were not enough to buy housing.

July 01, 2021 19:42

• Court leaves Dagestani journalist Gadjiev under arrest for other three months

  In Rostov-on-Don, the military court extended until October 28 the term of arrest for Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft), and two other defendants accused of financing terrorism.

July 01, 2021 16:48

• State New Jersey recognized Nagorno-Karabakh independence

  The Senate deputies of the American state of New Jersey have recognized the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and condemned Azerbaijan's actions against civilians during the last autumn aggravation of the Karabakh conflict. Some Facebook users, including those of Armenian origin, expressed their approval of this decision.

July 01, 2021 16:42

• Prosecutor's Office supports rights defenders in torture case of Krasnodar resident

  The Prosecutor's Office has found unjustified the investigators' refusal to initiate a case on the beating Evgeny Lastin, a detained resident of Krasnodar. Investigators had seven times rejected Lastin's claims to initiate a case; now, all these decisions have been cancelled, the head of the Committee against Torture (CaT) has informed.

July 01, 2021 11:45

• Azerbaijan updates data on casualties during autumn war

  The remains of two more Azerbaijani militaries, who had been listed as missing since the fall of 2020, have been found in the Karabakh conflict zone and buried. Eight military servicemen are still on the list of missing persons, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has informed.