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02:15, 23 January 2016

Two suspects of smuggling weapons detained in North Ossetia

North Ossetian law enforcers have detained two citizens, who tried to carry in the trunk of their car a Kalashnikov submachine gun, and 88 7.62-mm calibre rounds. Criminal cases have been opened on illegal acquisition and storage, as well as smuggling the firearms.

Yke Kyuregyan. Photo: Facebook.com/pap.tagavor

01:26, 23 January 2016

Activist Yke Kyuregyan stops his hunger strike

In the evening of January 22, Armenian activist Yke Kyuregyan, sentenced to nine years of imprisonment for the shooting in front of the court building, has stopped his hunger strike after he was placed to a separate cell.

00:45, 23 January 2016

Prosecutor demands not to soften verdicts in case of attack on Nalchik

At the trial, considering the appeals against the sentences in the criminal case on the attack on Nalchik, 14 convicts have delivered their final speeches. All of them have asked the court to commute their sentences or to acquit them. The public prosecutors have opposed the mitigation of the punishment.

00:31, 23 January 2016

Sochi: two persons wounded in explosion of gas cylinder in residential building

In Sochi, two persons have been injured as a result of the explosion of a gas cylinder in a two-storey residential building. The other tenants of the house were evacuated. In total, the house accommodated 129 people.

Participants of the rally "Our Strength is in Unity", Grozny, January 22, 2016. Photo by Nikolai Petrov for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

20:33, 22 January 2016

Rally participants find official statistics overstated

The police prevented the pro-government action held in Grozny from dispersing, eyewitnesses assert. The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov has denied that the authorities applied coercion to the participants of the rally, which brought together, according to official data, 57% of the republic's population.

Pyotr Parpulov. Photo: personal account of Pyotr Parpulov in social network ‘Odnoklassniki’.

15:42, 22 January 2016

Court sentences Parpulov to 12 years in colony

Today, the Krasnodar Territorial Court found Pyotr Parpulov, a Sochi pensioner, guilty of high treason. His defence announced its intention to appeal against the verdict.

Defendants Yke Arutyunyan, Vardan Vardanyan and Shagen Arutyunyan (from left to right). Photo by Armine Martirosyan for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

15:41, 22 January 2016

Vardan Vardanyan, figurant of "Million Mask March", goes on hunger strike

Vardanyan refused to eat and joined the hunger strike of activist Yke Kyuregyan.

14:55, 22 January 2016

Ismayilova's advocate states violation of her rights in colony

On January 21, Fariz Namazly, an advocate of Khadija Ismayilova, visited his client in the women's colony No. 4 in the territory of Azerbaijan. However, the prison officials did not allow him to carry in the documents related to communication on three Ismayilova's complaints to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

Participants of the rally "Our Strength is in Unity" in support of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo by Nikolai Petrov for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

13:45, 22 January 2016

More than 57% of Chechen population attend rally in Grozny, MIA reports

Today, Grozny has held the rally "Our Strength is in Unity" in support of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA), the rally was attended by more than 800,000 people. In total, according to the latest statistics, Chechnya is home for about 1.4 million people.

Valery Permyakov in the courtroom. Photo: © Sputnik/ Асатур Есаянц, http://www.sputnikarmenia.ru/armenia/20160118/1669962.html

13:29, 22 January 2016

Permyakov pleads guilty of killing Avetisyan family members

Today, Armenia has started the next court hearing in the criminal case against Valery Permyakov, accused of killing seven members of the Avetisyan family.

13:00, 22 January 2016

In Rostov-on-Don, Court pronounces sentence on charge of attempt to join IS

The North-Caucasian Military Court has sentenced Visit Tazbaev, a Russian citizen, detained in Sochi, to two years of imprisonment for his intention to join militants of the "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia.

Rasul Kudaev. Photo: http://golosislama.com/news.php?id=26147

12:59, 22 January 2016

Rights defender states violation of Kudaev's rights at first-instance court

On January 21, the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) continued the appeal consideration of the case on the attack on Nalchik. The next session is scheduled for January 25. The defendant Rasul Kudaev, sentenced to life imprisonment, has an alibi, but his rights were violated by the first-instance court, said the rights defender Oleg Orlov.

12:34, 22 January 2016

Nagorno-Karabakh NGOs criticize PACE's draft resolutions

The reports prepared by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) concerning two resolutions on Nagorno-Karabakh are of pro-Azerbaijani nature and are biased. This opinion has been expressed in the appeal of NGOs of Nagorno-Karabakh to the European MPs.

Anatoly Pakhomov. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

04:35, 22 January 2016

Sochi Mayor urges city residents not to go to protest rally

In Sochi, at the gathering of city residents Mayor of Sochi Anatoly Pakhomov has urged the city residents not to go to a rally organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) and sanctioned by the authorities. The rally was devoted to the protection of the rights of pensioners.

22:54, 21 January 2016

AI: Russian authorities must respond to Kadyrov's statements

The Russian federal authorities "must respond to a series of barely veiled threats against several prominent rights defenders, media figures and politicians, pronounced by the political leadership of the Chechen Republic." "Such threats should be taken seriously," says a statement posted on the website of the human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI).

21:57, 21 January 2016

Amateur boxers hold protest workout in front of Krasnodar Mayoralty

Today, members of the "League of Krasnodar Amateur Boxers" have held a training session in front of the Mayoralty. The athletes said they would workout in the street, since they lost their gym.

Gevorg Safaryan. Photo by Armine Martirosya for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

15:51, 21 January 2016

Yerevan: 20 persons march in support of Safaryan and Kyuregyan

Today, the participants of the action in support of Gevorg Safaryan and Yke Kyuregyan, who are on hunger strike in Nubarashen Prison, have appealed to the diplomatic corps asking to pay attention to the problem of political prisoners in Armenia.

Nils Muiznieks. Photo by Parvana Bairamova for the ‘Caucasian Knot’.

14:16, 21 January 2016

CE Commissioner joins Ismayilova's defence

Nils Muiznieks, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CE), has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in connection with the complaint of the Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova against her illegal arrest, says the statement of the Commissioner's office, received today by the "Caucasian Knot".

14:01, 21 January 2016

SC upholds verdict in BORN's case

The court has dismissed the appeals filed against the sentences to Maxim Baklagin, Vyacheslav Isaev, and Mikhail Volkov, who were sentenced in the criminal case against the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (known in Russia as BORN).

Prisoner of the penal colony No. 1 of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, Republic of Kalmykia, February 2012. Photo: http://ufsin-kalmykia.livejournal.com

13:29, 21 January 2016

In Kalmykia, warders of penal colony accused of beating prisoners

Yesterday, on January 20, the investigating bodies of Kalmykia reported that a criminal case was instituted against officials from the penal colony No. 1 of the Department for the Republic of Kalmykia of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN).

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