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11:37, 8 November 2021
Three residents of Russia and one citizen of Azerbaijan have been arrested within the resonant conflict that occurred in the "Novye Vatutinki" neighbourhood in Moscow, which was re-qualified into an attempted murder.
11:04, 8 November 2021
Gigla Tumanishvili, a correspondent for the "Mtavari Arkhi" TV Channel, has started his hunger strike demanding to transfer Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, the third president of Georgia, to a multidisciplinary civilian clinic.
12:46, 7 November 2021
The special services must find the provocateurs, who had mistakenly treated the participants in the resonant attack on the man with a child as natives of Northern Caucasus, Ramzan Kadyrov has stated. Sultan Khamzaev, a State Duma MP from Dagestan, has suggested introducing a ban on the revealing in media the nationality of suspects and convicts.
12:42, 7 November 2021
The reason for the non-admission of the advocate to Malik Rzaev, a member of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) may be his torture, his advocate and activists have suggested.
12:37, 7 November 2021
A Baku court has dismissed a complaint about torture lodged by Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA). His defence intends to appeal against the dismissal.
23:30, 6 November 2021
The advocate of Malik Rzaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), accused of drug dealing, claims that he cannot visit his client. Rzaev's relatives disagree with the charges and believe that the real reason for his arrest is his criticism of Azerbaijani authorities.
14:54, 6 November 2021
The court has granted the defence's petition and allowed visits of his relatives to Arush Arushanyan, the Mayor of the city of Goris. His supporters held an action at the courthouse demanding his release.
21:59, 5 November 2021
Azerbaijani MPs have voted for the amnesty act, timed to coincide with the Victory Day in the Karabakh war in 2020. The parliament’s resolution does not solve the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders note.
19:49, 5 November 2021
Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former President of Georgia, has problems with communication and memory on the 35th day of his hunger strike. He refused to cooperate with a doctors' council convened by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), demanding to be examined by an independent council.
21:45, 4 November 2021
The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia will fail to endure efficient investigation of torture cases, Ara Karagezyan, a lawyer, has suggested. For proper inquiry into these cases, a separate agency is needed, Nina Karapetyants, a human rights defender, believes.
11:41, 4 November 2021
The advocate of Agil Gumbatov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), has demanded to remove the judge, since Agil's relatives, journalists and human rights defenders were again not allowed to the court session. However, the court has rejected the adcvocate's motion. Gumbatov refused from his initial testimonies, claiming that he gave them under torture.
23:57, 3 November 2021
The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) did not grant a complaint against the arrest of Mutallim Orudjev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan. The activist denied the charge of drug trafficking and claimed that he had signed a confession under torture.
23:51, 3 November 2021
Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov, convicted in a case on organizing mass riots in Rostov-on-Don, were released from penal colonies due to the expiration of their sentences.
23:35, 3 November 2021
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Russian authorities to pay Vladimir Ivanov, the head of the Gelendjik Human Rights Centre, convicted for 13 years in prison, a total of 7500 euros as a compensation for illegal wiretapping by FSB agents and beating up after arrest.
23:55, 2 November 2021
The story of Adam Gisaev, a native of Chechnya, who claimed torture in a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Irkutsk, which provoked a complaint by the “Roskomnadzor” (the Russian Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology, and Mass Media), is true, and such reports have been received from other convicts from prisons in the Irkutsk Region, human rights defenders note.