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12:42, 9 April 2014
Fariz Namazly, the advocate of Mamed Azizov, an activist of the civil movement "Nida", kept in prison in Azerbaijan, has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) asking to investigate his client's torture. The lawyer believes that Article 3 (prohibition of torture) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) was violated in respect of Azizov.
12:21, 9 April 2014
The militants, who in November 2013 attempted on the life of madrassa teacher Arslanali Shakhbulatov, known for his criticism of Wahhabism, have been identified, said a law enforcement source. They were killed during a special operation in January.
11:45, 9 April 2014
Russian authorities should immediately release Ruslan Kutaev, a resident of Chechnya and the President of the "Assembly of Caucasian Nations", who was detained on February 20 by republic's power agents, and ensure the effective investigation of his report about torture at the police, the international Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports.
01:51, 9 April 2014
The Moscow City Court holds hearings in the case of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an observer of the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta". During the presentation of defence evidence, the advocates of the defendants twice demanded to disqualify the judge.
20:51, 8 April 2014
Russian special services were waiting for a convenient moment to announce the death of Doku Umarov, say Geidar Djemal, the Chairman of the Islamic Committee of Russia, the FSB retired Colonel Gennady Gudkov and Alexei Malashenko, a member of the Scientific Council of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.
14:21, 8 April 2014
A shootout, during which three policemen were wounded, occurred in the territory of the Derbent District of Dagestan, the Republic's Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported. According to the source, one of suspected militants was also wounded.
13:18, 8 April 2014
A supposed killer of Magomeddibir Murtazaliev, the manager of the Makhachkala branch of the OJSC "Rosselkhozbank" was detained and identified as a casualty's colleague, the investigative bodies report.
11:31, 8 April 2014
On Tuesday, April 8, the North Caucasus District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don started sentencing five men accused of organizing the terror acts in the central marketplace of Vladikavkaz. The state prosecution demands imprisonment from 16 years to life term.
09:26, 8 April 2014
In the evening on April 7, in the village of Semender, in the outskirt of Makhachkala, a grenade went up in the balcony of the house of the Dagestani Deputy Minister of Land Reclamation. The explosion hit nobody, said a law enforcement source.
03:38, 8 April 2014
The medics of the Untsukul district hospital in Dagestan report that the health condition of the beaten wife and pregnant daughter of Khadizhalal Ziyavudinov remains stable. Policemen suspect that they were attacked by three militants' aides, a source from the Untsukul ROVD (District Interior Division) told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
23:16, 7 April 2014
The defendant Khatiz Djantemirov was beaten up in SIZO (pre-trial prison) of Cherkessk, says his advocate Vyacheslav Merzakulov. The defendant has sent his complaints to the prosecutor's office, the head of SIZO No. 1 of Cherkessk, and the head of the UFSIN (Department of the Russian Penitentiary Service) for the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR).
16:19, 7 April 2014
The Ust-Djegutin District Court of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) has sentenced two OVD (Interior Division) employees, accused of abuse of power with violence, said a source from the Supreme Court of the Republic.
12:01, 7 April 2014
The woodland near the village of Yandi, Achkhoy-Martan District of Chechnya, was shelled after on April 3 an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) was blown up in the area, according to local residents. Chechen militants have claimed responsibility for the blast, but investigators believe that the mine that exploded under the vehicle could be planted long ago.
09:00, 7 April 2014
Resignation of Sergey Bozhenov, Governor of Volgograd Region; conviction in Krasnodar of Mikhail Savva, Director of Grant Programmes of SRRC; verdict of Armenia's CC about the unconstitutionality of the mandatory component of the new pension system; adoption in KBR of elections of republic's head by members of parliament; regular change of the head of capital of Dagestan; over a hundred patients with food poisoning in Stavropol Territory, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of March 31-April 6, 2014, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
01:15, 7 April 2014
During the week from March 31 to April 6, 2014, the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus affected at least 18 people; of them, seven people were killed and 11 others wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.