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20:47, 28 June 2021
In its appeal to Ilham Aliev, the President of Azerbaijan should secure the release of sentenced journalist and human rights defender Elchin Mamed, the human rights organization “Canadian Journalists for Free Expression” stated. The Elchin Mamed’s examination at a prison hospital was not deep, a mother of the imprisoned journalist complained.
14:58, 28 June 2021
Unexpected results of the parliamentary elections in Armenia; tightening of anti-COVID measures in Southern Russia; easing of restrictions on coronavirus in Georgia and Azerbaijan; decision of the ECtHR in a case on the deaths of residents of the Chechen village of Borozdinovskaya; Ramzan Kadyrov’s nomination to the post of the leader of Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of June 21-27, 2021, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
12:08, 27 June 2021
A criminal case has been initiated on threats to a foreign journalist put forward by Azerbaijani militaries, said Gor Abraamyan, an adviser to the head of the Armenian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO).
11:25, 27 June 2021
The head of the Makhachkala ROVD (District Interior Division) has appealed the court ruling that acquitted journalist Svetlana Anokhina and the "Marem" volunteers after they were detained in the shelter for victims of domestic violence.
11:11, 27 June 2021
Amid the increased violations of political prisoners' rights in Azerbaijan, a group of deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) came up with an initiative to appoint a PACE's rapporteur on torture in this country; it follows from a joint statement of the initiative group of PACE deputies.
17:39, 26 June 2021
Azerbaijani authorities plan to increase the amounts of state duties for court proceedings and empower judges to fine the parties in trials for lodging "unjustified petitions." The new amendments to the legislation infringe on the defence institute and will become a heavy burden for the population, activists and advocates believe.
08:35, 26 June 2021
More than 500 medical workers have signed a letter demanding to change the freedom restraint measure of Professor Armen Charchyan, the director of the "Izmirlyan" Medical Centre, who is accused of pressing voters before the early parliamentary elections in Armenia. Charchyan himself treats his criminal case as political persecution, said his advocate.
22:48, 25 June 2021
Friends of a man detained for an administrative offense came to a police station in the Georgian village of Ureki. They insulted and attacked policemen. The offenders face up to seven years of imprisonment for attacking law enforcers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Georgia reports today.
18:04, 25 June 2021
In the European countries, the police break into houses of Chechen refugees at night, take them away to some unknown destination, deprive them of medical aid, and ignore court decisions. Thus, the police actions echo the methods used by the Russian special services in Northern Caucasus, human rights defenders claim.
17:43, 25 June 2021
In a village of Western Georgia, two residents were detained in a case on a rape of a minor. Villagers set on fire the house of the suspects, despite attempts by the police to prevent the arson.
23:47, 24 June 2021
Dagestani law enforcers forced a not-guilty person to confess to selling drugs and demanded a million roubles from him, investigators suggest. A criminal case has been sent to court.
18:45, 24 June 2021
Today, the Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has cancelled the decision of a lower instance court that upheld the investigators’ refusal to institute a criminal case on a complaint about torture filed by Grozny theatre actor Timur Debishev. The transfer of the case for reconsideration does not allow appealing to a court of cassation outside the republic and to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), notes a lawyer of the “Committee against Torture” (CaT).
18:32, 24 June 2021
The Azerbaijan’s authorities did not recognize the problem with political prisoners, described in the PACE resolution in January 2020, and the problem remains unresolved, the PACE declares in its new report.
16:19, 24 June 2021
On June 23, in the village of Ergneti, oppositionists, activists and relatives of Zaza Gakheladze, who was convicted in South Ossetia for crossing the border, held a protest action demanding from Georgian authorities to take efficient actions to release him.
11:04, 24 June 2021
The conditional prison terms awarded to 12 members of the last group that took part in the rally in support of the army, held in July 2020 in Baku, have to do with the systematic persecution of the opposition, the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) has stated.