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August 09, 2017 22:01

• Advocate states Mukhtarly’s health deterioration

  The journalist Afghan Mukhtarly suffers from diabetes, and at the background thereof now complains of heart and stomach pains. Doctors observe his much faster heartbeat; however, he receives no proper medical care at the Baku SIZO (pre-trial prison), said his advocate Nemat Kerimli.

August 09, 2017 20:59

• Nurmagomedov's relatives treat court’s refusal to stop prosecuting him as cynical

  A court in Moscow has dismissed the complaint about criminal prosecution of Shamil Nurmagomedov, suspected of sponsoring the terrorist organization “Islamic State” (IS), banned in Russia. Nurmagomedov said that he sent money to his brother in Syria. His family called the court's decision unreasonable and cynical.

August 09, 2017 20:36

• Georgian citizen detained on Abkhaz border

  A resident of the pre-border Georgian village of Paluri was detained on the Inguri River, the Georgian State Security Service (SSS) reports.

August 09, 2017 19:37

• Azerbaijani resident rejects accusation of involvement in Syrian militant units

  At trial, Rovshan Gadirov has stated that he delivered humanitarian aid to the Arab countries and did not take part in combat actions.

August 09, 2017 18:53

• Man sentenced in "Nardaran case" complains about torture in prison

  Advocate Yalchin Imanov has appealed a complaint to the Prosecutor's Office and the Azerbaijani Ombudsman' administration about torture at the Gobustan prison of Abbas Guseinov, the deputy head of the movement "Muslim Unity".

August 09, 2017 17:51

• KBR completes its quota for Hajj

  A quota of 390 people allocated for the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) for the pilgrimage to holy places in Saudi Arabia has been completed. This was reported by an official from the Spiritual Administration of Muslims (SAM) for the KBR.

August 09, 2017 16:31

• Deputy Minister for North-Caucasian Affairs Andrei Reznikov dies

  Today, Andrei Reznikov, Deputy Minister for North-Caucasian Affairs and Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Open Joint-Stock Company (OJSC) "Resorts of Northern Caucasus" has died after a long illness. He was 48 years old.

August 09, 2017 15:27

• Dagestan joins request to ban film "Matilda"

  Anatoly Karibov, First Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan, has asked to exclude the republic from the rental certificate for screening the film "Matilda". The Russian Ministry of Culture has stated that to make exceptions for certain regions is not in its competence and suggested that the authorities of Chechnya and Dagestan will decide for themselves whether to ban the film or not.

August 09, 2017 14:49

• Monitoring in Karabakh conflict zone carried out without incidents

  Today, the OSCE mission has carried out a monitoring at the contact line of the troops, and no violations of the ceasefire have been revealed. This was reported by Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh.

August 09, 2017 13:32

• Sochi women sentenced for high treason and pardoned return home

  Rights defenders helped Annik Kesyan and Marina Djandjgava to raise the money to buy air tickets. Today, the women have returned to Sochi.

August 09, 2017 10:49

• Relatives report about adaptation of a child returned from Iraq to Chechnya

  A four-year-old boy, taken by his father from Chechnya and returned two years later, gets used to the new situation.

August 09, 2017 07:58

• Chechen pilgrims to start for Hajj on August 18

  On August 18, the first group of pilgrims from Chechnya, who this year makes a pilgrimage to Mecca, will travel to Saudi Arabia. In 2017, the republic has been allocated a quota for 2600 pilgrims.

August 09, 2017 03:12

• Russian Ministry of Culture agrees to ban film "Matilda" in Chechnya

  Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has demanded to ban the screening in the republic of the film "Matilda" directed by Alexei Uchitel. The Russian Ministry of Culture has stated that "Chechnya has a right for that."

August 09, 2017 02:36

• Prisoner suffering from "crystal man" disease to be returned to Kalmyk penal colony

  The medical officers' commission has come to the conclusion that a rare genetic disease of Yevgeny Shevkoplyas sentenced for fraud does not prevent his serving of punishment at a penal colony in Kalmykia. According to his advocate, the medical officers' conclusion will be challenged at court.

August 09, 2017 02:14

• Residents of Georgia and South Ossetia remember events of "five-day war"

  About 200 Georgian citizens held an action at the border with South Ossetia and paid tribute to the memory of the people who fell victim to the "five-day war." According to Georgian residents, who left South Ossetia, the war of 2008 divided families for many years.

August 08, 2017 22:57

• Putin promises 6 billion roubles to Abkhazia for Sochi security

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to support Raul Khajimba in the context of the latest events in Abkhazia and to prevent the appearance of a "black hole" near Sochi, political analysts told the "Caucasian Knot". Until 2019, Mr Putin promised to invest 6 billion roubles in Abkhazia.

August 08, 2017 19:32

• Fundraising for pardoned Sochi women announced

  Annik Kesyan and Marina Djandjgava, pardoned by Russian President, have no money to buy tickets and go home from Moscow, said their advocate Ivan Pavlov. He asked people to raise money to help the women, who had been sentenced for treason.

August 08, 2017 18:45

• Brother of killed Gimry villager arrested for three days

  Gazimagomed Kamilbegov, whose detention was treated by his relatives as unreasonable, is serving his arrest at a temporary detention facility (IVS) in the Untsukul District. According to the relatives of the man, his sister is still kept at the police station.

August 08, 2017 17:04

• Mikhail Saakashvili refuses Lithuanian citizenship

  Former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili has refused to accept the citizenship of Lithuania and intends to return Ukrainian citizenship.

August 08, 2017 16:24

• Journalists and rights defenders treat new Dagestani FSIN boss with cautious optimism

  Nikolai Sangadjigoryaev, the new chief for the Dagestani Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN), transferred from Transbaikalia, has work experience in Dagestan, and that fact creates prerequisites for preserving and improving the interaction between the FSIN Department for Dagestan and rights defenders.