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16:14, 4 May 2022
Elchin Mamed, an Azerbaijani human rights defender and a journalist has refused to eat while demanding his release from jail. Mr Mamed, who is suffering from serious illnesses, has decided to go on a hunger strike because he has despaired of gaining freedom, human rights defenders have noted.
16:07, 4 May 2022
In Tbilisi, protesters demand a meeting with the US ambassador aiming to tell him about the state of health of Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, and ask for help in setting Saakashvili free. His health condition has worsened, an oppositional MP has informed.
18:12, 3 May 2022
There were no grounds to extend the house arrest for the blogger, Insa Lander, from the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), Dmitry Zakhvatov, an advocate, has stated. Insa's friends have opened a fundraiser to pay for her rented housing.
12:34, 3 May 2022
Said-Mukhammad Djumaev, a native of Chechnya, sentenced to five years for using violence against law enforcers, has been transferred to Correctional Colony No. 2 in the city of Pokrov, Vladimir Region, where Alexei Navalny* is serving his sentence.
16:25, 2 May 2022
Arrival of refugees in Southern Russia; death in Ukraine of military personnel from southern regions of Russia, and persecution of pacifists; protests demanding the resignation of the Armenian government and the preservation of the independent status of Nagorno-Karabakh; awarding Adam Delimkhanov the title of Hero of Russia; FSB’s report about prevention of terror attacks in the Stavropol Territory and in Karachay-Cherkessia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 25-May 1, 2022, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
- Armenia
- Chechnya
- Dagestan
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- Krasnodar Territory
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- North Caucasus
- North-Caucasian Federal District
- Rostov Region
- Russia
- South Caucasus
- South Federal District
- Stavropol Region
- Volgograd Region
- Conflicts
- Crime
- Echo of Ukrainian events in Caucasus
- Human rights
- Karabakh: a Good War Or a Bad Peace
- Politics
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- Terror acts in Moscow and Caucasus
- Сaucasus held at gunpoint by caliphate
12:02, 1 May 2022
On April 30, the parents of the military servicemen who perished during the autumn war of 2020 held a march in Yerevan demanding to initiate a criminal case against the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, and to arrest him.
11:16, 1 May 2022
The Baku Human Rights Club has appealed to Ilham Aliev, the President of Azerbaijan, and Samir Nuriev, the Chairman of the Commission on Pardons and the Head of the President's Administration, in connection with the expected prisoners' pardoning timed to the country's Independence Day – May 28.
18:40, 30 April 2022
The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) has upheld the verdict in a libel case handed down earlier to Ali Aliev, the leader of the oppositional "Citizens and Development" Party, and left him in custody. His defence intends to appeal to the Azerbaijani Supreme Court (SC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
17:36, 30 April 2022
At the court session on the case of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, Magdi Kamalov, the founder of the "Chernovik" (Draft) portal, has stated that the interview with the preacher, who was put on the wanted list on charges of terrorism, was made by Gadjiev on his instruction.
11:21, 30 April 2022
Prison doctors are regularly examining Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia; he is provided with good nutrition and medicines, the country's Special Penitentiary Service has stated.
11:08, 30 April 2022
The Supreme Court (SC) of Kalmykia has upheld the arrest of Altan Ochirov, an employee of the Elista Mayoralty, charged with spreading fakes about the Russian Army. Ochirov's advocate treats this decision as unjustified.
21:41, 29 April 2022
The defence of former FSB officer Ramazan Nazhduev persuaded a court to question a Dagestani policeman who claimed that Ramazan Nazhduev had been put on the police preventive registration, human rights defenders report today.
14:31, 29 April 2022
According to the Russian FSB (Federal Security Bureau), in the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), a supporter of the "Islamic State" (IS)* has been detained who was planning a terror act on a facility of power and law enforcement bodies.
22:18, 28 April 2022
A court in Baku did not take into account a Samir Ashurov’s complaint about pressure from the police and refused to mitigate the pre-trial restriction measure for the period of investigation, an advocate of Samir Ashurov reported. The activist stopped his hunger strike because of deteriorating health state.
18:17, 28 April 2022
The authorities of Azerbaijan are obliged to pay 4000 euros to oppositionist Bakhruz Gasanov, who was unreasonably arrested in 2012, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rules out. Bakhruz Gasanov himself calls the ECtHR’s decision fair.