Nagorno-Karabakh after the truce: A two-year war

March 18, 2019 23:30

• Residents of Chechnya complain about search of disappeared people by authorities

  The authorities are too slowly looking for the remains of Chechen residents who disappeared in 1995-2010, state their relatives. They have proposed to create a special group for exhumations.

March 18, 2019 23:28

• Armenian political analysts: Nagorno-Karabakh to return to negotiating table

  The return of Nagorno-Karabakh to the negotiating table proceeds from the interests of the peaceful settlement of the conflict, and Azerbaijan will have to agree to participate in the talks, state Armenian political analysts.

March 18, 2019 23:26

• Azerbaijani website's editor subjected to conditional sentence

  In Baku, the court sentenced Anar Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the website "Criminalaz", to 5.5 years of conditional imprisonment. The journalist and his defence insisted on acquittal.

March 18, 2019 23:24

• Court refuses to recognize former Armenian President Robert Kocharyan as victim in wiretapping case

  The Armenian Court of Appeal dismissed the claim of Robert Kocharyan, the second President of Armenia, to recognize him as a victim in a criminal case on wiretapping of phone conversations between the heads of the two law enforcement bodies. The defence announced appeals to the cassation instance and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

March 18, 2019 23:17

• Head of Chechen "Memorial" Oyub Titiev sentenced to four years of imprisonment

  The testimonies of the defence witnesses positively characterize Oyub Titiev, the head of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Chechnya, but do not acquit him in possession of drugs, the court has decided. The human rights defender has been sentenced to four years of imprisonment.