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Mikhail Saakashvili. Photo: https://vestikavkaza.ru/news/v-gruzii-vnov-otlozili-sud-na-saakasvili.html

19:02, 29 August 2022

Georgian Ministry For Public Health allows foreign doctors visiting Saakashvili

Today, one of the foreign doctors admitted by the Georgian Ministry for Public Health to examine former President Mikhail Saakashvili has arrived at a Tbilisi clinic. He and his colleagues should examine whether the former Georgian President is seriously ill and whether his illness prevents him from serving his sentence, a politician’s advocate reports.

Solo picket in support of Gadjiev. Screenshot: https://t.me/chernovik/36113

18:49, 29 August 2022

Gadjiev’s colleagues hold pickets in Makhachkala

In Makhachkala, two solo pickets were held by journalists Magomed Magomedov and Idris Yusupov with the demand to stop the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev and to release political prisoners.

Parents of the military servicemen who perished in the autumn war of 2020 hold a protest action at the General Prosecutor’s Office, July 2022. Image made from video posted by Baku TV at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v-aTFwQ7Ac&t=1s

13:26, 29 August 2022

Relatives of perished Armenian soldiers call on to arrest Pashinyan

Parents of the Armenian soldiers who perished in the 2020 Karabakh war have announced a protest action demanding to arrest Nikol Pashinyan, the Premier, inviting political forces and activists to join them.

Prevention of a terrorist act in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. Photo courtesy of the press service of the NAC: http://nac.gov.ru/terrorizmu-net/fsb/fsb-rossii-predotvratila-terakt-v-karachaevo-cherkesskoy.html

13:12, 29 August 2022

NCFD republics are among top five in number of terrorist crimes

In January-July, 2022, Dagestan registered the largest number of terrorist crimes among Russian regions – it follows from the data of the Russia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO). The top five of the rating also includes Ingushetia, Chechnya and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Flowers and candles at a portrait of Inal Djabiev. Screenshot: https://www.instagram.com/p/CKlMRR1rjtq/

12:38, 29 August 2022

Two years after Djabiev's death, court fails to find perpetrators

The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has failed yet with the demand voiced out by the court on August 1 to eliminate violations in the case of the death of Inal Djabiev, Sergey Bitiev, the Acting Public Prosecutor of South Ossetia has informed. Those guilty of Djabiev's death remain unpunished for two years, Telegram users have pointed out.

Visitors who were condemned by a resident of Dagestan. Image made from video posted at the Telegram channel Dagestanskiye Izvestiya; https://t.me/dagizvestiya/9804

12:21, 29 August 2022

Video with public condemnation of tourists in Dagestan angers Internet users

The author of the video with remarks to tourists visiting Dagestan about their appearance behaved aggressively and was sparking the conflict despite the tourists' apologies, Telegram users have noted in the comments to the video.

Military police officers in the Lachin corridor. Photo courtesy of the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan, https://mod.gov.az/az/news/lacin-seheri-zabux-ve-sus-kendlerinde-herbi-polisin-xidmeti-fealiyyeti-teskil-edilib-video-41692.html

12:07, 29 August 2022

Azerbaijani military police posts set up in Lachin Corridor

At the dwelling settlements located in the Lachin Corridor that came under the control of Baku, military police posts began operating, the Azeri Ministry of Defence (MoD) has announced.

Chechen athletes at a meeting with representatives of the authorities. Image made from video posted by the Telegram channel of the Minister for National Policy of Chechnya Akhmed Dudayev https://t.me/akhmeddudaev/814

11:54, 29 August 2022

Officials oblige Chechen athletes to coordinate their behaviour with authorities

Chechen athletes should agree their behaviour when outside the republic with authorities, local officials have announced, explaining this by the concern for the image of the Chechen people.

Tourists in Chechnya. Screenshot of the video https://www.instagram.com/p/ChulLhkDegP/

12:02, 28 August 2022

Social network users dispute on the right to shame tourists in Chechnya

The remarks of passers-by to tourists about their appearance in Chechnya are quite appropriate, users of the Chechen public wrote after a video of men walking down the street in shorts. Hotels and the Ministry of Tourism should control tourists' behaviour, others have objected.

Chechen law enforcers. Screenshot of the video published on Instagram** of the Grozny TV Channel https://www.instagram.com/p/ChrFDGIDtay

11:59, 28 August 2022

Threats to deprive social care used as recruiting method in Chechnya

Officials will take Ramzan Kadyrov's words about depriving the families of those who refused to go to serve in law enforcement bodies as a guide to action; such methods of pressure indicate a shortage of people who want to get enrolled in new structures, Svetlana Gannushkina and Ruslan Kutaev, human rights defenders, have pointed out.

Ramazan Dugiev. Screenshot of the post https://t.me/fortangaorg/11948

11:57, 28 August 2022

Ingush sign interpreter Dugiev convicted conditionally within Magas rally case

Ramazan Dugiev, an Ingush sign language interpreter, has been sentenced to 1.5 years of conditional imprisonment for alleged using violence against law enforcers during 2019 protests in Magas.

Philip T. Reeker. Photo by the press service of the U.S. Department of State, http://macedonia.usembassy.gov/bio.html

23:58, 27 August 2022

Yerevan political analysts treat Reeker's appointment as sign of US activation in the region

The appointment of Philip T. Reeker as senior adviser on negotiations in the Caucasus has shown that the USA treats the OSCE Minsk Group as a relevant format for the settlement of the Karabakh conflict, Armenian political analysts believe.

Handcuffs. Photo by Yelena Sineok, Yuga.ru

23:54, 27 August 2022

NGO claims practice of politically motivated arrests in Azerbaijan

Politically motivated arrests are widespread in Azerbaijan; they are applied voluntarily in violation of national laws and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), the NGO "Institute for Democratic Initiatives" (IDI) has stated.

The Rustavi Prison. Photo: newsgeorgia.ge

16:30, 27 August 2022

Rustavi inmates put forward condition for ending hunger strike

The hunger strike will not stop until the leadership of the Rustavi Prison is replaced, the prisoners, who continue the action because of absence of medical care and ban on relatives' visits.

16:26, 27 August 2022

Policeman suspected of attacking human rights defender Kalyapin

A police major is suspected of attacking Igor Kalyapin, the founder of the "Committee against Torture"*; the policeman has been fired, the Human Rights Council (HRC) has informed.

Zarema Musaeva. Photo: https://www.hrw.org/ru/news/2022/01/24/380999

15:33, 27 August 2022

Rights activists recognize Zarema Musaeva as political prisoner

The human rights project "Support for Political Prisoners" has announced Zarema Musaeva to be a political prisoner; the woman is being tried in Chechnya under the articles of an assault on a law enforcer and a fraud.

15:27, 27 August 2022

Three Saakashvili supporters released on bail

A court in Tbilisi has released on bail three oppositionists detained during a rally in support of ex-President of Georgia Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili. One of them said he was not going to pay the bail.

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

15:18, 27 August 2022

Kadyrov links protraction of special operation with Putin

Ramzan Kadyrov has called on the President of Russia to let Chechen fighters to complete the special military operation in Ukraine. According to him version, the Chechen units are ready to "go to Europe."

Anar Aliev. Photo: https://www.facebook.com/Azad.Soz.Az/photos/a.774593485897132/5502827223073711/

23:52, 26 August 2022

Spouse of an Azerbaijani activist calls her ban on leaving country an act of blackmail

The defence challenged the ban on leaving the country imposed on Anara Alieva, a spouse of an arrested activist. According to the woman, by banning her departure, investigators want to get evidence against her husband.

Law enforcers. Photo: https://chernovik.net/news/delo-vmesto-peregovorov

19:35, 26 August 2022

Forensic expert from Buynaksk claims being subjected to pressure by law enforcers

The security forces began to put pressure on forensic expert Gadji Magomedov, who did not agree to turn a blind eye to the signs of beatings on a body of a detainee and included them in his report.

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