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18:15, 4 October 2014
Agents of the regional FSB department have detained Ramil Rizvanov, the head of the Neftekumsk Inter-District Division of the Investigating Department for the Stavropol Territory of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF). He is suspected of taking an especially large bribe.
13:35, 4 October 2014
Today, the advocates of the rights defender Leyla Yunus have issued a joint statement asking Azerbaijani authorities to change her freedom restraint measure to home arrest, or to place her into the prison hospital.
03:20, 4 October 2014
In Yerevan, advocates spoke at the trial in the case against participants of the "Millions Mask March". The defenders argued for the innocence of the activists in the incriminated articles of the Penal Code and requested the court to acquit the defendants.
01:46, 4 October 2014
The administration of the Baku SIZO No. 1 (pre-trial prison) has accused rights defender Leyla Yunus of arranging too high volume on the TV set and given an admonition to her. The arrested rights defender reports on one more provocation and complains about continuing pressure from her cellmate.
22:53, 3 October 2014
Today, the Tbilisi City Court has sentenced two activists of the NGO "Free Zone" Parnavaz Chkadua, detained after the attack on the office of the NGO, and David Gogokhiya, detained in the place, where journalist Zaza Davitaya was beaten up, to administrative fines of four and six thousand laris, respectively.
22:05, 3 October 2014
Today, residents of the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, where a large-scale special operation is underway, said that power agents forbid them to leave houses; and the settlement was a lack of food.
21:24, 3 October 2014
Djabrail Nabiev, a resident of Khasavyurt, was kidnapped by a group of unidentified persons. According to eyewitnesses, the kidnappers were armed and masked.
18:13, 3 October 2014
Today, Kurban Kurbanov, the Head of the Administration of the Derbent District of Dagestan, who is suspected of abuse of power, was placed under home arrest for two months. Thus, the Sovietskiy District Court of Makhachkala has satisfied the defence's motion to apply a more lenient freedom restriction measure to Kurbanov, said Aslan Shirinov, his advocate.
14:06, 3 October 2014
Sergey Khlivnoy, a resident of Murmansk, who was freed from slavery in Dagestan, has safely reached Moscow and left it for home together with his brother. He has filed a complaint to the police about what had happened to him in Dagestan. The man said that in Dagestan, he was kept in chains and often subjected to beatings.
12:33, 3 October 2014
On October 7, journalist will mark the 8th anniversary from the date of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. To pay tribute to her memory, the international human rights organization "Amnesty International" (AI) has announced an international campaign, and the "Caucasian Knot" has already joined it.
06:17, 3 October 2014
Two natives of Ingushetia detained after the riots in Moscow near the mosque in Bolshaya Tatarskaya Street are suspected of using violence against law enforcers. The court has arrested them for two months. Other 33 people were subjected to administrative arrest.
23:25, 2 October 2014
Three militants were killed in a special operation conducted in the settlement of Vremenny, Untsukul District of Dagestan, said a source from law enforcement bodies.
19:45, 2 October 2014
Today, the Russia's Supreme Court (SC) has upheld the decision of the State Duma to deprive the leader of Volgograd Communists Nikolai Parshin of his parliamentary immunity in connection with the criminal case of fraud initiated against him.
17:13, 2 October 2014
Kurban Kurbanov, the head of the Derbent District, was detained on October 1 for 48 hours, and is now kept in the temporary detention facility (known as IVS), the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent was informed at the district administration. The experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe that in this case law enforcers have acted in concert with the head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov and the Russian federal government.
08:26, 2 October 2014
Rustam Kerimov, a resident of Grozny, accused of involvement in the hostilities in the territory of Syria, has been sentenced to three years of imprisonment in a common-security penal colony with a restraint of liberty for one year. The decision was pronounced by the Zavodskoy District Court of Grozny, the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya reports.