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08:28, 16 August 2022
Elnur Shakhverdiev, a member of the Astara district branch of the oppositional Republican Alternative (ReAl) Party, has been arrested on charges of drug use. The activist's relatives and a party representative have doubted the credibility of charges, suggesting that Shakhverdiev was persecuted for criticizing authorities.
08:18, 16 August 2022
During the week from August 8 to August 14, 2022, there were no reports about any casualties or wounded persons during the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. These are the results of the monitoring run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own sources and information from open sources.
19:39, 15 August 2022
Persecution of pacifists in the southern regions of Russia; explosion in a shopping centre in Yerevan; events in Georgia and South Ossetia on the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the start of the “Five-Day War”; complaints about torture from convicts after an attack on prison warders in Kalmykia; completion of the construction of a road along the new route of the Lachin corridor, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of August 8-14, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
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19:36, 15 August 2022
When explaining the refusal to institute a criminal case, the police said that a warder and prisoners of an Azerbaijani penal colony did not confirm the information that journalist Polad Aslanov was beaten by a cellmate.
13:32, 15 August 2022
Aslan Naptugov, a resident of Cherkessk, and 10 other natives of the Karachay-Cherkessian Repuvlic (KChR) were accused of extremism because of their social activities, an advocate has suggested.
10:35, 14 August 2022
The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan has declared illegal the extension of the arrest of Eduard Ataev, the former coordinator of Navalny's office* in Makhachkala, but he was left in custody. The court has received a criminal case against the activist; and the article on drug dealing was added to the charge of possessing explosives.
16:42, 13 August 2022
The charges against Djafar Mirzoev, an activist, detained in Azerbaijan within a drug case after his return from Germany on readmission, is based only on the words of the policemen who had detained him, Nemat Kerimli, an advocate, asserts.
16:24, 13 August 2022
The case of residents of Ingushetia, two of whom are accused of plotting terror acts in Sunzha, and two of aiding terrorists, has been brought to court.
08:42, 13 August 2022
Magomed Atimagomedov has stated that he had planned to escape, as the employees of the Kalmyk colony threatened him with charges under a terrorist article, but he was not involved in the murder of the warden, and signed his testimonies under pressure. This was reported by Azu Alieva, his advocate.
08:29, 13 August 2022
Daud Kuramagomedov was severely beaten up and is in a depressed psychological state; however, medical care was rendered to him only 10 minutes before the visit of his advocate, Snezhana Muntyan has informed.
00:02, 13 August 2022
The President of South Ossetia dismissed Vladimir Pukhaev, the country’s Minister of Defence, in connection with the beating of Azamat Djigkaev, a resident of Tskhinvali, by special forces fighters, states a decree posted on the website of the leader of the republic.
23:51, 12 August 2022
Agil Gumbatov, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, declared a hunger strike. Today, his spouse has held a protest action in front of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) in Baku with the demand to reconsider the case of her husband and release him.
19:04, 12 August 2022
The Special Investigation Service should verify information about threats received by Soso Gogashvili, the former deputy chief of the State Security Service, from a top-ranking law enforcer, Georgian Ombudsperson Nino Lomdjariya states.
18:34, 12 August 2022
After his deportation from Germany, oppositionist Pyunkhan Kerimli, sentenced in Azerbaijan to six years of imprisonment, filed an appeal against the verdict in a case on drug possession, a father of the activist has reported.
13:35, 12 August 2022
Soso Gogashvili, a former deputy head of the Georgian State Security Service (SSS), who is in custody on charges of illegal possession of weapons, abuse of power and violation of the secrecy of personal data, has received threats demanding to give the necessary testimonies, his advocates have informed.