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09:00, 15 December 2014
Burned down houses of militants' relatives in Chechnya; condemnation by Russian rights defenders of principle of collective responsibility, and the subsequent incidents with them in Grozny; end of hunger strike in Dagestan demanding to restore Tarki District; Geneva discussions on safety in Southern Caucasus; attacks on oppositionactivists in Armenia; next humanitarian convoy from Russia to Donbas; special operations in Dagestan and Kabardino-Balkaria, during which nine suspected militants were killed, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 8-14, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
03:40, 15 December 2014
Djamal Makhmudov, a native of Dagestan, disappeared in Stavropol after a search of his house. He is a figurant in the case of recruitment and financing the militants travelling to Syria, his relatives were told at the Centre to Combat Extremism.
02:41, 15 December 2014
During the week from December 8 to December 14, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus brought harm to at least 15 people; of them, 14 people were lost, and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.
00:39, 14 December 2014
Mikhail Fedotov, the Chairman of the Human Rights Council (HRC) under the President of the Russian Federation, has got involved in the situation around the staff of the Joint Mobile Group (JMG) of the Committee against Torture (CaT), acting in the territory of Chechnya.
00:24, 14 December 2014
The accusation of the 25-year-old citizen of Georgia Beslan Tsintsalashvili, who will face trial for an alleged persuasion of two residents of Chechnya to terrorist activities in the "Islamic State" grouping, is "very flimsy" and untrue, said Luiza Killaeva, the defendant's advocate.
17:39, 13 December 2014
On Saturday, December 13, a rally against terrorism was held in the Chechen capital. The police said that 50,000 took part in the event.
16:51, 13 December 2014
Two natives of Northern Caucasus complain of unfair detention in Moscow while trying to buy currency
A man from North Ossetia and a woman from Kabardino-Balkaria, delivered on December 12 to the Basmanny ROVD (District Interior Division) of Moscow after they tried to buy foreign currency at one of local banks report restriction of their rights and interrogation without reason by agents of the FSB and the Centre to Combat Extremism of the Moscow GUVD (Chief Interior Department).
15:50, 13 December 2014
The Federal Court of Sochi has upheld the decision of the magistrate court in the case of Alexei Kolyasnikov, the leader of a religious group "Community of Christians", who was found guilty of holding an unsanctioned meeting in a cafe.
07:00, 13 December 2014
On December 12, the court session on the criminal case against Abdulaziz Abdurakhmanov, a resident of the village of Chirkei, Buynaksk District of Dagestan, accused of premeditated murder of his cousin, two witnesses were interrogated. The district policeman gave a negative characteristic on the defendant.
19:34, 12 December 2014
The arrested Azerbaijani rights defender Rasul Djafarov has been charged with a forgery and a large-scale embezzlement. He rejects all the new charges and treats them as politically motivated.
19:11, 12 December 2014
In the course of a special operation conducted in the village of Gurbuki, Karabudakhkent District of Dagestan, the leader of one of militant groupings was killed, said the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).
18:57, 12 December 2014
The statement of the Chechen leadership about the collective responsibility of militants and the subsequent burning down of relatives' houses are contradictory to Russian law and can recruit new militants in the republic and abroad. This was stated by rights defenders during a press conference on the topic "Collective punishment as a method of dealing with armed underground in Chechnya".
18:28, 12 December 2014
The defence of the arrested Azerbaijani rights defender Leyla Yunus states an aggravation of her custody conditions and continued health problems; however, bosses of the Penitentiary Service refute these facts.
17:16, 12 December 2014
In Armenia, a forensic examination found a brain concussion in the oppositional MP Aram Manukyan; the parliamentarian himself told reporters.
11:10, 12 December 2014
Five militants have been killed today during a special operation in the village of Gurbuki, Karabudakhkent district of Dagestan, said the Russia's National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC).