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

September 20, 2020 11:35

• Georgian prisoners' mothers decide to resume hunger strike demanding amnesty

  On September 19, a march was held in Tbilisi demanding a mass amnesty before the parliamentary elections. It was attended by the women who had held a hunger strike in front of the parliament building. After the march, they announced that they would resume their protest action on September 20.

September 20, 2020 11:11

• Tepsurkaev's wife sees no investigators' interest in searching for her husband

  An investigator has questioned Elizaveta, Salman Tepsurkaev's wife, on her application about his kidnapping, but in the final protocol, he omitted many details from her story, said the woman herself. The most likely result of the check of her application will be a refusal to initiate a case, Dmitry Piskunov, a lawyer from the "Committee against Torture" (CaT), is sure.

September 20, 2020 10:57

• Chechen Diaspora treats Aslamkhanov's arrest as blessing

  Murad Aslamkhanov, a resident of Austria, faces a prison term for carrying weapons, but his detention is backed by the desire of Austrian law enforcers to ensure the blogger's safety after his video appeal to the head of Chechnya, Aslamkhanov's sister and the Chechen blogger from Finland, Musa Lomaev, believe.

September 19, 2020 17:43

• Advocate states non-admission to Azerbaijani activist Gakhramanly

  A court in Baku has dismissed the defence's petition to transfer Fuad Gakhramanly, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), to house arrest. Fakhraddin Mekhtiev, the advocate on agreement, has stated that he was not allowed to visit Gakhramanly and sent a complaint to the Public Prosecutor General.

September 19, 2020 17:10

• Azerbaijan reports 36 shelling attacks from Armenian side

  Armenian military servicemen have violated the ceasefire for 36 times by using large-calibre machine guns and sniper rifles, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported today.