Human rights

July 19, 2019 22:33

• Baku Mayoralty refuses to sanction opposition's march-rally

  The Baku authorities have failed to sanction an action of the oppositional Popular Movement of Azerbaijan (PMA), scheduled for July 20; the movement calls for speeding up the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. The organizers have treated the refusal to sanction the demonstration as a violation of the freedom of assembly.

July 19, 2019 22:22

• Okruashvili challenges Khalvashi's rights for "Rustavi-2"

  The shares of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company were just formally documented for Kibar Khalvashi, while they were actually bought out by the oppositionist Irakli Okruashvili, the latter's advocates have asserted. They demanded to arrest the assets of the "Rustavi-2" for the period of litigation with Khalvashi.

July 19, 2019 11:22

• Residents of Chechnya condemn Chechen girl for contacting crisis centre

  Social network users have blamed the girl from a Chechen family, who escaped to a crisis centre, for trespassing traditions, and criticized her behaviour during the interview with the "Grozny" TV Company.

July 19, 2019 08:23

• Arrested Ingush activist beaten up in Nalchik SIZO

  In the Nalchik SIZO (pre-trial prison), law enforcers have beaten up Bagaudin Myakiev, the arrested member of the Ingush Council of Teips, his advocate, Fatima Urusova, has informed.

July 18, 2019 23:19

• New "Rustavi-2" owner fires Gvaramiya from the post of director general

  Kibar Khalvashi has appointed his advocate Paata Saliya the general director of the "Rustavi-2". Nika Gvaramiya refused to leave the post of the head of the TV Company, stating that his contract is valid until the end of 2020.

July 18, 2019 23:01

• Story of Chechen woman taken out of Moscow emphasizes problem of forced marriages

  A report shown in the evening on July 17 by the "Grozny" TV Company, in which a girl taken out of Moscow denied the information about her coercion to marriage, has caused distrust among residents of Chechnya. A marriage against will is not uncommon in Northern Caucasus, the rights defenders interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 18, 2019 22:37

• Residents of Georgia come out to action in support of "Rustavi-2"

  In case of a change in the owner of the "Rustavi-2" TV Company, residents of Georgia are at risk of losing access to objective information on the situation in the country, participants of the action held at the building of the TV Company have voiced out their concerns today.

July 18, 2019 19:06

• ECtHR agrees to return "Rustavi-2" to Kibar Khalvashi

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized as legitimate the decision of the Supreme Court (SC) of Georgia to transfer the assets of the "Rustavi-2" TV Channel to Kibar Khalvashi, the former owner of the TV Company. The businessman himself promised not to interfere in the editorial policy of the TV Channel, but threatened to dismiss Nika Gvaramiya from the position of general director.

July 18, 2019 14:39

• Opposition treats disruption of picket in Baku as a violation of freedom of assembly

  Law enforcers had no reasons to disrupt an unsanctioned picket organized by activists of the "Musavat" Party in front of the Iranian Embassy, since no permission of the Baku authorities is required to hold protest actions, state members of the "Musavat" Party.

July 18, 2019 11:20

• In Tbilisi, performance participants demand resignation of Interior Minister

  On July 17, in Tbilisi, in front of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), activists held a protest performance entitled "Shoot at Me" with the demand for the resignation of Georgian Interior Minister Giorgi Gakhariya, the "First Channel" reports on its website.

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