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10:57, 12 June 2013
Relatives of Shamil Abdulaev, a resident of Makhachkala, report that he was kidnapped on June 6 by armed men in masks. Along with him, and Abdulaev's friend and an occasional passerby were also kidnapped, said one of his relatives.
14:00, 11 June 2013
On Monday, the Binagadi District Court in Baku sentenced the well-known Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismailova to the alternative administrative penalty of 220 hours of public works, instead of the earlier appointed fine of 400 manats (about 510 US dollars).
13:13, 11 June 2013
On 9 June, in the city of Lenkoran, 200 km to the south of Baku, a group of leaders of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) was attacked. The car, in which they arrived in the city for a meeting of the local branch of the PPFA was damaged, the activists also suffered and the meeting was disrupted.
13:00, 11 June 2013
The Georgian has reported creation of a commission to monitor the destruction of the archive with secret recordings of citizens' private life. However, in the opinion of the Deputy Minister of Justice David Djandieri and NGO activists, in order to protect citizens from the uncontrolled collection of personal data is necessary to make a number of amendments to the national legislation.
12:36, 11 June 2013
The court of the city of Magas has ruled to put Iles Tatiev behind bars until August 6 inclusive. Iles Tatiev was detained on June 7 on suspicion of embezzling 20 million roubles from the "Rosselkhozbank".
11:34, 11 June 2013
The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan has reported that on June 9, in the Karakojsu River, in the Gergebil District of Dagestan, the body of a 43-year-old woman-resident of the village of Khadzhalmakhi, Levashin District, was found with a gunshot wound in her head.
19:10, 10 June 2013
Terror act in Afghanistan which took lives of six Georgian soldiers; infective episode in the kindergarten in Rostov-on-Don; recently adopted law establishing criminal penalties for defamation on the Internet and arrest of an opposition activist in Azerbaijan, - look these and other events in the Caucasus in the review of the week of June 3-9, 2013, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
23:32, 8 June 2013
As reported by a source from the GUVD (Chief Interior Department) of Moscow, a special operation held by law enforcers in the Muslim house of worship, located in Ugreshskaya Street in Moscow, resulted in detention of more than 300 believers.
13:32, 8 June 2013
Marik Dudaev, a resident of South Ossetia, convicted in Georgia in 2005, was released on June 7, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed by Lira Tskhovrebov, the chair of the Association of Women of South Ossetia for Freedom and Human Rights.
08:50, 8 June 2013
In Chechnya, the Prosecutor's Office is seeking to recognize the website named "Ministry of Truth of the Russian Federation" as extremist, in connection with the publication of the audio and video materials put by the Russian Ministry of Justice into the list of extremist materials.
03:10, 8 June 2013
On June 7, the Sumgait City Court held a preliminary hearing on the case of Dashgyn Melikov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), chaired by Judge Agil Abbasov. The defence moved a number of motions. However, since the prosecutor was not ready to express his attitude to the motions, the trial was postponed till June 11.
02:20, 8 June 2013
On June 7, the Investigating Department for Dagestan of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) presented to Ilmutdin Gamzaev, the head of the municipal formation "Kayakent District", an accusation under the "abuse of office" and "service forgery". Gamzaev's advocate claims that his client's actions contain no crime attributes.
00:08, 8 June 2013
On June 7, Buberd Maremov, the advocate of Islam Beshkurov, who was detained in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of the KBR against the ruling of the District Court of Baksan to arrest his client for two months.
23:12, 7 June 2013
The investigation of the criminal case opened against the journalist Nikolai Yarst, accused of illegal drug possession, is over and ready for approval by the public prosecutor and further sending to the court. The "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed about it by the defendant's lawyer Alexander Popkov.
19:32, 7 June 2013
The Krasnodar Regional Court has cancelled the decision on coercive measures of medical nature in regard to the ex-militiaman Ilya Galkin, accused of committing a series of explosions in Sochi in 2008-2009, and sent the defendant to a new forensic-psychiatric examination, said a source from the Territorial Prosecutor's Office.