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15:51, 4 May 2020
Attack of the coronavirus infection on Caucasus; trials against participants of a protest rally in Vladikavkaz; condemnation by human rights defenders of the Azerbaijani authorities for abuse of the situation with the coronavirus infection; Revival Day of Karachay People amid the pandemic; death of Stavropol administration chief Andrei Djatdoev, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of April 27-May 3, 2020, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
- Abkhazia
- Adygea
- Armenia
- Astrakhan Region
- Azerbaijan
- Chechnya
- Dagestan
- Georgia
- Ingushetia
- Kabardino-Balkaria
- Kalmykia
- Karachay-Cherkessia
- Krasnodar Territory
- Nagorno-Karabakh
- North Ossetia-Alania
- North-Caucasian Federal District
- Rostov Region
- South Caucasus
- South Federal District
- Stavropol Region
- Volgograd Region
- Coronavirus in Caucasus
- Crime
- Human rights
- Politics
- Society
12:14, 3 May 2020
Saadat Djakhangir, a member of the Presidium of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) and an employee of the "Azadlyg" newspaper, has told about an eight-hour-long interrogation after a search of her apartment. Her fellow party members fear a new provocation against their leader Ali Kerimli.
17:34, 2 May 2020
Chechen women have complained to Ramzan Kadyrov about the arrest of their sons, Magomed and Akhmed Khaikharoev, who have been in custody for five months. Instagram users spoke in support of mothers.
08:17, 2 May 2020
Andrei Murga, a former deputy chairman of the government of the Stavropol Territory, who had been on the international wanted list, has been detained in Spain; the issue of his extradition to Russia is being decided, sources have informed.
22:14, 1 May 2020
Today, in North Ossetia, courts have fined two more participants of a protest action in Vladikavkaz, and the total number of court's decisions on fines and arrests of activists reached 64, the joint press service of the courts reports.
11:58, 1 May 2020
Arsen Besolov, a Telegram chat administrator, convoyed from Moscow to Vladikavkaz, is restricted in his right to defence, said his advocate. A chat administrator is not responsible for the content of participants' comments, said Galina Arapova, Director of the Media Rights Protection Centre.
08:36, 1 May 2020
The Supreme Court (SC) of North Ossetia has rejected the complaints against the administrative arrest of Batraz Gagiev, Kazbek Kasaev and Khetag Vataev, who participated in a spontaneous rally in Vladikavkaz. Batraz Gagiev remains in hospital, where he was taken from the detention centre at activists' insistence.
08:22, 1 May 2020
The court failed to establish whether Vadim Cheldiev, the initiator of protests in North Ossetia, had anything to do with publishing false information about coronavirus, his defence said in an appeal.
22:43, 30 April 2020
An advocate of Dagestani blogger Alibek Mirzekhanov, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, announced the intention to challenge the decision of the court.
13:17, 30 April 2020
Law enforcers have tortured Niyameddin Akhmedov, an arrested activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), aiming to force him to testify against Ali Kerimli, his party comrade, the PFPA has stated. The country's police did not confirm this version.
11:14, 30 April 2020
In Moscow, law enforcers have detained Arsen Besolov, an administrator of a Telegram chat. The chat was for communication among the supporters of Vadim Cheldiev, the initiator of an unauthorized rally against self-isolation held in Vladikavkaz.
08:23, 30 April 2020
The Azerbaijani Court of Appeal has rejected the complaint about the administrative arrest of Natig Isbatov, a reporter of the website "7gun.az". His defence treats the refusal as unjustified and subject to appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).
22:33, 29 April 2020
An advocate of activist Batraz Gagiev filed an appeal against a court's decision on the activist's arrest. According to the advocate, the court did not take into account the fact that the defendant took care of his minor children.
22:04, 29 April 2020
The Second Western District Military Court found Dagestani blogger Alibek Mirzekhanov guilty of participating in activities of a terrorist organization.
21:32, 28 April 2020
Rauf Arashukov, a former senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, his father Raul Arashukov, and former heads of the Centre for Combating Extremism (CCE, also known as Centre "E") and the Investigating Department for Karachay-Cherkessia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) became involved as defendants in a common criminal case, the defence reported.