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An alley of memory for perished journalists. Makhachkala, January 22, 2025. Photo: RIA "Dagestan" https://riadagestan.ru/
23:32, 24 January 2025
Alley of memory for perished journalists opened in Makhachkala
The journalists’ community of Dagestan has long sought to open a monument in Makhachkala to pay tribute to media workers who perished while performing their professional duties.
Zarema Musaeva. Photo: https://www.topnews.ru/news_id_739397.html
22:56, 24 January 2025
Musaeva’s health state worsened in SIZO
Zarema Musaeva, who is being kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Grozny, has experienced worsening knee pain.
A protest action in support of Mziya Amaglobeli. Tbilisi, January 22, 2025. Photo: screenshot of a video https://t.me/Tbilisi_life
21:52, 24 January 2025
European journalists speak out in support of Mziya Amaglobeli
European organizations of journalists have issued an appeal to the authorities of Georgia calling them on to stop persecuting Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Netgazeti” and “Batumelebi”online publications, and to investigate the brutal treatment to which she had been subjected.
The riots at Makhachkala Airport. October 2023. Photo: xakac.info
21:47, 24 January 2025
Defendants in Makhachkala riot case complain of beatings
Magomedgadji Chirgilaev and Yasin Gadjiev, figurants in the case of the riots at Makhachkala Airport, have reported that they had been beaten up to force them to incriminate themselves.
A march in Tbilisi. January 25, 2025. Photo: Tabula https://t.me/Tbilisi_life/36401
21:31, 24 January 2025
Tbilisi marchers demand to release detainees
Students and teachers from two higher schools have marched through the streets of Tbilisi demanding the release of those detained during protests.
Askhabali Alibekov. Photo: Telegram channel @novorosstoday
23:50, 23 January 2025
Lawyers assess blogger Alibekov’s chances for CER
Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from the city of Novorossiysk, can hope for conditional early relief (CER), if he has no violations and the suffered policeman agrees to this, lawyers have indicated in their comments on the reduction of Askhabali’s punishment.
Car window tinting. Photo: Grozny Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru/news/society/148458/
22:46, 23 January 2025
Rights defenders assess new wave of fight against car window tinting in Chechnya
The new stage of counteracting car window tinting in Chechnya entails additional risks for drivers, but residents of the republic mainly tint their cars when they use then outside the republic’s borders.
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Photo: Adrian Grycuk. https://ru.wikipedia.org/
22:45, 23 January 2025
Rights activists call on PACE to get Baku to release political prisoners
International human rights organizations have called on the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan's powers and establish criteria for restoring them, including the release of political prisoners and enforcement of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
Protesters near the Georgian Parliament. Screenshot of a photo posted by Publika on January 22, 2025, https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1353914396008107&set=pcb.1353914472674766 the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia
22:16, 23 January 2025
Protests against Georgian authorities’ policies and Amaglobeli’s arrest continue in Tbilisi
On the 56th day of protests against the suspension of European integration, protesters blocked traffic near the Georgian Parliament. A rally in support of Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the "Batumelebi" and "Netgazeti" outlets, was held near the Georgia’s legislative body (Parliament).
Alexei Abramov. Photo courtesy of Kseniya Abramova
21:17, 23 January 2025
Wife of mobilized soldier Abramov worries about absence of communication with him
Numerous requests to demobilize Alexei Abramov, a Krasnodar resident, for his health reasons remain unanswered. He is in the special military operation (SMO) zone and has not been in touch for a month, his wife has informed.
Askhabali Alibekov. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9_9ELTpvmQ posted on February 4, 2024
23:59, 22 January 2025
Blogger Alibekov's case on discrediting Russian Army stopped
A court in Novorossiysk has dismissed the case against Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger, initiated on a repeated discrediting of the Russian Army due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. This was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project, citing Alibekov's advocate.
A protest action at the New Theatre in Tbilisi. Screnshot of a photo by Lorena Beria posted on the Tbilisi Life Telegram channel on January 23, 2025 https://t.me/Tbilisi_life/36325
23:56, 22 January 2025
Tbilisi protesters demand release of political prisoners
In Tbilisi, representatives of the New Theatre, whose actor Andro Chichinadze was arrested within a case of organizing violence during protests, have demanded to release all the "regime inmates”; they have also announced protest actions in country regions.
Journalists trying to keep shooting. Photo by the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent
23:09, 22 January 2025
“Reporters Without Borders”: repression against journalists in Azerbaijan increases
Ahead of the trial in a case against journalists of the “Abzas Media” online publication, the “Reporters Without Borders” human rights organization called on to release employees of independent media outlets arrested in Azerbaijan.
Movsar Umarov. Screenshot of a video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVqepeX_DEw
21:56, 22 January 2025
Human rights defenders treat court’s decision in missing Chechen Umarov’s case as unlawful
In Grozny, a court has dismissed a complaint about the investigator’s refusal to present for examination the materials of a criminal case on disappearance of Movsar Umarov. The investigators are not interested in investigating cases that could prove the law enforcers’ involvement in the disappearances of people, human rights defenders suggest.
Askhabali Alibekov. Screenshot of a video posted on the YouTube channel "Wild Paratrooper" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgXra9fVrsI
20:45, 22 January 2025
Verdict to blogger Askhabali Alibekov mitigated
The court has educed the freedom deprivation term of Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from Novorossiysk, convicted within the case of attacking a policeman, by four months.
23:56, 21 January 2025
Chechen advocate lIdalov demands to punish judge for unjust verdict
Timur Idalov, an advocate from Chechnya, has been released from forced labour, since the order to enforce his sentence was revoked. The statute of limitations for the case has already expired. Idalov asked the Supreme Court (SC) to hold the judge who had sentenced him accountable.
Gubad Ibadoglu. Screenshot of a video posted on the Pressklub TV YouTube channel on August 1, 2023, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-9COSMqz-w&t=36s
23:17, 21 January 2025
Defence of scientist Gubad Ibadoglu claims violation of his rights by police
Gubad Ibadoglu, an opposition politician, scientist and economist, has to regularly report to the police station in the city of Sumgait under the conditions of police supervision, although he lives in Baku, and regular trips negatively affect his health.
A march on the Alley of Martyrs. Baku, January 20, 2025. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"
22:53, 21 January 2025
Baku townspeople commemorate “Black January” victims
On the 35th anniversary of Soviet troops’ invasion into the city, Baku residents came to the memorial on the Alley of Martyrs to commemorate the casualties.
An activist holds a poster with the photo of Mziya Amaglobeli. Tbilisi, January 20, 2025. Photo: Publika https://t.me/Tbilisi_life
21:59, 21 January 2025
Georgian activists demand Amaglobeli's release
The NGO “Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association” has demanded to stop the criminal prosecution of Mziya Amaglobeli and to fire the Batumi police boss who had detained the journalist.
Larisa Baragunova. Screenshot of a video by the "Caucasian Knot" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO_xvn3ggCY
21:57, 21 January 2025
Convicted pensioner Baragunova complains about her rights violation at SIZO
Larisa Baragunova, a pensioner from the city of Tyrnyauz, convicted for attacking law enforcers, has complained that the administration of the SIZO (pre-trial prison) bans her from call home, and her cellmates put pressure on her.
News
Participants in the conflict in the Luhansk basin. July 2025. Video screenshot: Maksym Divnich's Telegram channel. Divnich reported on the verdict for Alikhan Bersayev

A memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house. Photo: Civil Initiative Party The memorial plaque on Anna Politkovskaya's house has been destroyed for the eighth time in three weeks.

20 Chechens have been returned to Russia as part of a prisoner exchange.

LEGAL TEXTS
The illustration was created by the Caucasian Knot using AI The peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as other documents signed at the meeting with Trump on August 8, 2025

The “Caucasian Knot" publishes the agreement on the establishment of peace and interstate relations between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which was initialed by Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on August 8, 2025, through the mediation of US President Donald Trump. The meeting of Trump, Aliyev and Pashinyan took place on August 8 in Washington. Following the meeting, Pashinyan and Aliyev also signed a joint declaration. In addition to the agreements between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Trump signed a number of separate memoranda with Aliyev and Pashinyan....

Personalities
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili. Photo courtesy of press service of HRC 'Memorial', http://memohrc.org/ Zelimkhan Khangoshvili

A participant of the second Chechen military campaign, one of the field commanders close to Shamil Basaev and Aslan Maskhadov. Shot dead in Berlin in 2019.

Magomed Daudov. Photo: screenshot of the video http://video.agaclip.com/w=atDtPvLYH9o Magomed Daudov

Magomed "Lord" Daudov is a former Chechen militant who was awarded the title of "Hero of Russia", the chairman of the Chechen parliament under Ramzan Kadyrov.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov. Screenshot from video posted by Abu-Saddam Shishani [LIVE] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIR3s7AB0Uw Tumso Abdurakhmanov

Tumso Abdurakhmanov is a blogger from Chechnya. After a conflict with Ramzan Kadyrov's relative, he left the republic and went first to Georgia, and then to Poland, where he is trying to get political asylum.