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Zaira Pirova. Screenshot of a video posted on the Telegram channel of the “SK SOS Crisis Group” (included into the register of foreign agents) on January 6, 2025 https://t.me/sksosorg/1292

22:37, 7 January 2025

Runaway girl from Dagestan asks her relatives not to look for her in Georgia

Zaira Pirova, a resident of Dagestan, left for Georgia because of being forced to marriage and pressure in the family. However, her relatives are trying to find her. The girl claimed that she was in danger in the family.

Girls wearing hijabs. Picture made in Photoshop by the "Caucasian Knot"

21:10, 7 January 2025

Chechen Ombudsperson demands to punish law enforcers for detaining girl in hijab

Chechen Ombudsperson Mansur Soltaev considered the detention of a 16-year-old girl in a hijab in Amursk a violation and demanded from the authorities to punish those responsible.

Law enforcers detain protesters in Tbilisi, December 2024. Photo: Interpressnews https://www.interpressnews.ge/ru/article/165626-po-informatsii-mvd-na-aktsii-protesta-pered-zdaniem-parlamenta-zaderzhano-6-chelovek

23:48, 6 January 2025

Students demand to release actors detained at protests in Tbilisi

In Tbilisi, protesters intentionally went out into the streets wearing masks, thereby violating the recently introduced ban. Students from two universities have joined the demands to release actors Andro Chichinadze and Vepkhiya Kasradze, who are accused of participating in group violence.

A bird stained with fuel oil. Photo: the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region

23:16, 6 January 2025

Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 30, 2024-January 5, 2025

Tragedy of the Baku-Grozny flight, pollution in Anapa, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, protests in Georgia, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 30, 2024 -January 5, 2025, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.

23:10, 6 January 2025

Relatives of a Chechen resident complain about his unjustified criminal prosecution

Ramzan Minazaev, a former law enforcer, was sentenced to freedom deprivation for taking part in a gang in Stavropol in 2020-2022, although his defence has proofs and witnesses that he had not left Chechnya during this period.

22:15, 6 January 2025

SMO fighter from Stavropol denied psychological rehabilitation

Ivan Elpashev has complained of a severe mental state after participating in the special military operation (SMO) in Ukraine, and asked to be sent for psychological rehabilitation, but doctors, and then the court, refused him.

Ilham Aliev. Photo: https://president.az/ru/articles/view/42411

21:14, 6 January 2025

Aliev criticizes Russia for refusing to admit guilt in Embraer plane crash

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliev has criticized Russian authorities for refusing to admit guilt in the crash of the "Azerbaijan Airlines" (AZAL) plane, and demanded that those responsible for the crash be punished.

A protest action in Tbilisi. December 6, 2024. Photo by Aziz Karimov for the "Caucasian Knot"

19:31, 6 January 2025

Georgian authorities start deporting foreign protesters

According to court rulings, 25 foreign citizens who took part in protests last November and December will be deported from Georgia, the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

Rufat Safarov with his mother, Takhira Takhirgizi. Photo from Takhira Takhirgizi's page on Facebook (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia)

22:15, 5 January 2025

Mother of human rights defender Safarov banned from leaving Azerbaijan

The police have banned the mother of the arrested human rights defender, Rufat Safarov, from leaving Azerbaijan, thus preventing her from accompanying her seriously ill husband to Turkey for medical treatment.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Grozny Inform https://www.grozny-inform.ru/

23:56, 4 January 2025

Kadyrov’s statements damage relations between Russia and Uzbekistan

The authorities of Uzbekistan have perceived the statements voiced by Ramzan Kadyrov concerning Uzbekistani officials as interference in the country’s internal affairs, analysts from Uzbekistan note.

Ramazan Rabadanov (left) and Shamil Khadulaev. Screenshot of a photo posted on the Telegram channel of Shamil Khadulaev on January 3, 2025 https://t.me/KhadulaevShamil/9992

23:47, 4 January 2025

Dagestani activist Ramazan Rabadanov released from SIZO

In Makhachkala, a court changed the pre-trial restriction measure for activist Ramazan Rabadanov to house arrest. The above information was reported by Shamil Khadulaev, the chair of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Dagestan, on his Telegram channel.

22:40, 4 January 2025

In Nalchik, court sentences contract soldier to suspended imprisonment for absence from military unit

Contract soldier Ruslan Khasanov was sentenced by a military court in Nalchik to five years of suspended imprisonment for absence from his military unit. The court considered a suspended sentence possible given the Ruslan Khasanov’s intention to go to the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

Martin Ryan. Photo: https://oxu.az/ru/kriminal/v-bakinskom-sude-nachalsya-process-nad-obvinyaemym-v-shpionazhe-v-polzu-francii December 29, 2024

21:47, 4 January 2025

Rights defenders treat the case of Ryan and Mamedli as politicized

The information on the espionage case against Martin Ryan and treason against Azad Mamedli is completely closed, while in Azerbaijan such accusations are often politically motivated.

Anna Tsomartova. Screenshot of a photo posted on the Telegram channel "Anna Tsomartova" on May 28, 2024, https://t.me/ANNATSOMARTOVA22/670

21:16, 4 January 2025

State Duma MP addresses GPO head regarding case of missing athlete Tsomartova

A State Duma MP has sent an appeal to the head of the Russian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) with a demand to check the progress of the inquiry into the murder of Anna Tsomartova, who went missing in Kaspiysk in February 2024.

Participants of a protest action in Tbilisi. Screenshot of a photo by Anya Svanidze for Publika posted on January 2, 2025 https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1338376037561943&set=pcb.1338376117561935 (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia)

23:48, 3 January 2025

Supporters of European integration come to protest actions in Tbilisi and Batumi

Participants of a protest action against the suspension of Georgia’s European integration blocked traffic near the Georgian parliament. Supporters of European integration also held a protest action in Batumi.

23:18, 3 January 2025

Convicted relative of alleged militant achieves reconsideration of his case in Ingushetia

A Movsar Kottoev’s relative, sentenced to imprisonment for carrying a grenade, has succeeded in seeking the cancellation of the court’s decision.

Anar Mamedli. Screenshot of a video posted by Baku.Tv on February 5, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfUHAyFNzQE

22:09, 3 January 2025

Rights defenders call for release of Anar Mamedli, head of CEM&DS

Human rights defenders have called for the release of Anar Mamedli, the head of the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Studies (CEM&DS), treating the case against him as part of repressions against critics of Azerbaijani authorities.

Rashad Ramazanov. Photo: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/rashad-ramazanov-is-pens-empty-chair-at-the-international-festival-of-authors-652505883.html

18:37, 3 January 2025

Blogger Rashad Ramazanov complains about poor conditions in colony

Rashad Ramazanov, an Azerbaijani blogger, convicted in a drug case, has complained that the colony where he is being kept is overcrowded and unsanitary; and prisoners are under pressure.

Timur Idalov. Photo from Timur Idalov's page on Facebook (the activities of the Meta Company, owning Facebook, are banned in Russia)

23:16, 2 January 2025

Chechen advocate Timur Idalov requests clarification from court

Lawyer Timur Idalov, sentenced for threatening a public prosecutor, appealed to the judge of the Khimki City Court, pointing out the violation of the norms of criminal procedure law in the decisions on his case. Because of the above-mentioned violations, as Timur Idalov claims, he was unlawfully left in a SIZO (pre-trial prison).

A gavel. Photo: Fyodor Obmaykin / Yugopolis

22:34, 2 January 2025

Volgograd resident fined for discrediting Russian Armed Forces

A court fined Mikhail Bulatov, a resident of the Ilovlinsky District, finding him guilty of discrediting the Russian Armed Forces.

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