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20:10, 2 August 2013

Yerevan hosts rally in support of convicted ANC activists

An action in support of the four oppositional activists of the Armenian National Congress (ANC), convicted of disorderly conduct and resistance to the police, was held today in Yerevan. The participants demanded a fair consideration of their cases by the Court of Appeal (CoA).

17:55, 2 August 2013

Russia's SC softens sentence to two defendants on charges of mass rioting in Sagra

The Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has reduced the sentence to two defendants on charges of riots in the village of Sagra, Sverdlovsk Region, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. Artyom Rabadanov and Shota Katamadze were released in the courtroom.

Bacho Akhalaya at the hearing of the case at Tbilisi City Court on July 27, 2013. Photo: Salome Chkheidze, http://www.humanrights.ge/

07:54, 2 August 2013

Lawyer: prosecution has no chances at Georgia's CoA on Bacho Akhalaya's case

The Prosecutor's Office will fail to win the case at the Court of Appeal (CoA), if disputes the verdict of acquittal, passed in the case of Bacho Akhalaya, the former Minister of Interior and the former Minister of Defence of Georgia, said his advocate Malkhaz Velidjanashvili.

03:42, 2 August 2013

Investigators refuse to open criminal case on the death of the convict for blowing up "Neva-Express" Train

The Investigating Division for Yekaterinburg of the ICRF has dismissed the application of relatives of Tarkhan Kartoev who asked to open a criminal case on the fact of his violent death during his stay in quarantine of Colony No. 2 in Yekaterinburg, said the lawyer Tatiana Okushko.

01:10, 2 August 2013

Woman from Ingushetia states persecution of her sons by police in North Ossetia

Law enforcers of North Ossetia have detained the 23-year-old resident of Ingushetia Igor Podgorny in order to put pressure on earlier detained his elder brother Arthur, said their mother Valentina Podgornaya.

22:34, 1 August 2013

In Georgia, suspect of pawnshop robbery released on bail

Tsotne Mamulashvili, a painter and a former expert of the NATO Information Centre, involved in the case of the pawnshop robbery in Tbilisi, has been released by the court on bail of 15,000 laris (about 9000 US dollars) for his health reasons. This was reported by the lawyer David Dadiani.

21:47, 1 August 2013

Home arrest of journalist Yarst in Sochi extended by court ruling

Today, a Sochi court chaired by Judge Nikolai Vaschenko has considered a motion lodged by investigator Karina Matveeva who asked to extend journalist Yarst's home arrest by a month. The motion was granted, but the journalist's defence intends to appeal against the ruling.

21:18, 1 August 2013

Yerevan: at trial of Nersisyan ecologists confirm use of electric shock

At a court session, ecologists Mariam Sukhudyan and Gevorg Safaryan have spoken in support of their colleague Egiya Nersisyan, accused of defamation and libel in respect of the Canadian company "Dino Gold Mining".

Policemen put obstacles in the way of the participants of sit-in strike trying to set up a tent at the spot of the protest action. Yerevan, July 31, 2013. Photo: © PanARMENIAN Photo/Hrant Khachatryan

19:50, 1 August 2013

Yerevan police releases detained activist Kiviryan

Argishti Kiviryan, an activist of the movement against increase of public transport fares, who was detained today in Yerevan, is back at large, after drawing up a protocol on non-fulfilment of a policeman's demand.

17:55, 1 August 2013

Russian SC completes judicial investigation into case on riots in Sagra

Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has completed the investigation into the case on riots in the village of Sagra, during which a native of Azerbaijan was killed. During the court session, all motions filed by participants of the trial were dismissed with motivation that the court of first instance had examined in details all the necessary materials.

Valya Vanishvili near barbed wire which separated her house from the rest ones. Village Didi Khurvaleti of Gori District, Georgia, July, 2013. Photo by Edita Badasyan for the "Caucasian Knot"

17:29, 1 August 2013

Fences on Georgian-South-Ossetian border hamper soil tillage and deprive housing, local residents assert

Members of the programme "Georgian-Russian Dialogue for Peace and Cooperation" have visited village on the border of Georgia with South Ossetia. Villagers said that the border line built by the authorities of South Ossetia and Russian border guards had split their houses, forcing them to quit them, and deprived them of their land plots.

17:25, 1 August 2013

In South Ossetia, five Russian tourists detained

A group of five Russian tourists was detained on the territory of South Ossetia. This was reported by Sergey Kolbin, Chief of the South Ossetian Border Guard Service. According to his information, at present, four out of the five detained tourists have been already fined and deported to Russia.

The defendants of the murder case of journalist Anna Politkovskaya Lom-Ali Gaytukaev, Rustam Makhmudov and Sergey Khadjikurbanov before the session. Moscow, June 4, 2013. Screenshot of the footage by the press-cutting service of the Moscow City Court, http://www.mos-gorsud.ru/sud/

16:14, 1 August 2013

DNA samples from place of Anna Politkovskaya's murder do not belong to defendants, forensic experts conclude

According to the experts' conclusion, the DNA samples, found on the pistol and on the place of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, do not match the DNA samples of the defendants. Today, the conclusions of the conducted examination were announced today at the trial at the Moscow City Court by Prosecutor Boris Loktionov.

Police makes an inspection of the marketplace in the south-west of Moscow after the incident in the Matveevsky Marketplace. July 30, 2013. Photo: press group of Department of Internal Affairs of Southwestern Administrative District, http://petrovka38.ru/

11:11, 1 August 2013

Advocate of Khalimat Rasulova, detained in Moscow, hopes to mitigate the charges presented to her

Musa Pliev, a lawyer from the Moscow Bar, the defender of Khalimat Rasulova, a native of Dagestan, who was detained on suspicion of attempting a policeman's life, states that the allegation against his client was incorrectly qualified.

Patimat and Sabina Abakarova. Photo http://nac.gov.ru/

09:12, 1 August 2013

Dagestani investigators fail to establish association of Patimat and Sabina Abakarova with militants

In the opinion of Gasan Aigunov, the chairman of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) in the Republic of Dagestan, the case Patimat and Sabina Abakarova, in whose house in Makhachkala, as claimed power agents, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) were found, will soon fall apart.

06:34, 1 August 2013

Rostik Khugaev: families occupying new building in Tskhinvali to be evicted

In Tskhinvali, the ten-apartment building, occupied in this March by people in need of improvement of their living conditions, is the object under construction, and tenants have unlawfully occupied the apartments and will be evicted. This was announced at a meeting by Rostik Khugaev, Prime Minister of South Ossetia.

Akif Beybutov shows the photo of his client at press conference. Makhachkala, July 31, 2013. Photo by Natalya Kraynova for the "Caucasian Knot"

02:43, 1 August 2013

In Dagestan, violations of citizens' rights for defence become systematic

Community of advocates of Dagestan claims that citizens' rights for defence are systematically violated in the republic. The investigating and law enforcement bodies prevent advocates' visit to persons under investigation, the investigating practice more often includes torture, and, in fact, the procedural equality of parties, declared in the law, is not respected.

23:41, 31 July 2013

In Georgia, Court refuses to release Mikhail Kadiev and Rizvan Omarov on bail

Today, the Tbilisi City Court refused to release on bail Mikhail Kadiev and Rizvan Omarov, who were charged of the illegal acquisition and possession of weapons and explosive substances. This was reported by Gela Nikoleishvili, the advocate of the defendants.

22:09, 31 July 2013

Georgia's MIA to destroy part of secret surveillance archive before August 15

Within the coming two weeks, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia will destroy a part of the archive of materials recording citizens' privacy, accumulated as a result of illegal secret surveillance and tapping telephone conversations.

The detained in connection with the incident at the "Matveevsky" Marketplace, July, 2013. Photo http://petrovka38.ru/

19:28, 31 July 2013

Police release most salesmen detained at "Matveevsky" Marketplace

Almost all salesmen, who were detained during the special operation carried out at the "Matveevsky" Marketplace in Moscow, were released from the police station. This was reported by Andrei Remennik, Director of the "Matveevsky" Marketplace.

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