Human rights

September 15, 2019 11:43

• "Musavat" Party activist fined in Baku on drug case

  A Baku court has imposed an administrative fine on Ilgar Makhmud, an activist of the oppositional "Musavat" Party, accused of drug use; the activist himself denied the charge.

September 15, 2019 11:30

• Gukovo miners distrust promises to pay debts

  The bankruptcy manager has assured that in October, after the sale of underground courses, money will appear to pay off the wage debts to former workers of the "Kingcoal" Company, Tatiana Avachova, a member of the protest group, said at a picket in Gukovo. The picketers noted that this was not the first such promise.

September 14, 2019 18:33

• Rights defenders tell Pasquier about political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  After her two-day visit to Baku, Liliane Maury Pasquier, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called for an open dialogue and enhanced cooperation of the Council of Europe with Azerbaijan. The PACE's position can seriously affect the solution of the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders believe.

September 14, 2019 18:19

• Schoolchildren tell about forced subbotniks in Chechnya

  Schoolchildren and employees of budget-funded organizations were enlisted in large numbers to take part in the environmental subbotnik (community works), held yesterday in the Shali and Gudermes Districts of Chechnya.

September 14, 2019 18:08

• Krasnodar activists complain about bank account arrests after law enforcers' raids over Navalny's offices

  During searches in Krasnodar, law enforcers seized computers and telephones local activists have stated, adding that by a Moscow court judgement their bank accounts were blocked. Political analysts treat this law enforcers' reaction as a response to the "Smart Voting" system.

September 14, 2019 11:49

• Volunteers to help children-returnees from Syria to Dagestan

  The adaptation to peaceful life of the children returned to Dagestan is undertaken not only by state bodies, but also by volunteers, who help to bring the returnees' knowledge up to the level of their peers.

September 14, 2019 08:33

• Law enforcers check drivers' documents at "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala

  On September 13, several dozens of law enforcers were checking documents of the drivers who drove their cars in the vicinity of the "Tangim" mosque in Makhachkala, the journalist, Idris Yusupov, stated. Nobody was detained during the raid, the Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported in its turn.

September 14, 2019 08:22

• Defence reports need to hospitalize Uzhakhov

  Within a week, Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans) has suffered two heart attacks, and needs treatment at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) medical unit, his advocate has stated.

September 13, 2019 22:16

• Relative of Dagestani Amir Vagabov claims torture in court

  Magomedamin Vagabov, a resident of the Dagestani village of Gubden, accused of rendering assistance to militants, refused to plead guilty at trial on September 12. He explained that he had incriminated himself after torture with electric current.

September 13, 2019 18:39

• Imam Velitov freed from penal colony in Astrakhan

  Today, after leaving a penal colony in Astrakhan, Makhmud Velitov, the imam of a Moscow mosque, who had served his sentence on the charge of justifying terrorism, has said that he had gained "useful experience."

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