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11:15, 8 May 2017
In Chechnya, the law enforcement agencies do not have any information on the facts of harassment of members of communities of sexual minorities in the territory of the republic. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by an official of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) for Chechnya. Meanwhile, local residents have confirmed the information about cases of pressure on gays in the republic.
09:00, 8 May 2017
May Day actions in the southern regions of Russia and Transcaucasia; new personnel decisions with regard to chiefs of law enforcement and investigating agencies in the south of Russia; fights of football fans in Kuban, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of May 1-7, 2017, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".
11:22, 7 May 2017
Since the beginning of 2017, in the territory of Chechnya, law enforcers detained 48 local residents who were going to leave for Syria to join militants of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" (IS), banned in Russia by the court's decision. This was reported by law enforcers.
08:52, 6 May 2017
Minister Ulan Evloev has appealed to the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia with a request to respond to the statements voiced by Sergey Plotnikov, the director of the media holding "News Pool", who called the deportation of the Ingush and Chechen peoples during the war a "soft punishment."
07:15, 6 May 2017
The Chechen MPs have offered their State Duma colleagues to prescribe in the law an opportunity to replace the autopsy of dead bodies by the so-called "virtual autopsy", which is more appropriate to the Islamic tradition and can be carried out with the help of high-tech equipment.
04:31, 6 May 2017
In Grozny, at the trial in the case against Rizvan Ibragimov, the publicist has claimed that he was kidnapped by law enforcers in April 2016, and after that, he was tortured with electric current. Rizvan Ibragimov called the following meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov a "public humiliation."
21:33, 5 May 2017
The decision of the Supreme Court (SC) to liquidate the Russian Administrative Centre of Jehovah's Witnesses, can be perceived by power agents and local authorities to persecute believers, said lawyers of the religious organization interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot". However, according to their stories, so far, there are no grounds to talk about any large-scale repressions.
21:04, 5 May 2017
Ramzan Kadyrov has promised to help in checking the reports on oppressions of homosexuals in Chechnya, noting that "there had never been any gays among Chechens." He was opposed by a gay, who had left Chechnya and stated regular raids on the LGBT community in Chechnya.
18:35, 5 May 2017
The advocate Nadezhda Ermolaeva has sent a cassation appeal against the verdict to Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, to the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia. She insists that the SC should remove the violations committed by Chechen courts and return the case to the first-instance court.
18:25, 4 May 2017
Andrei Sabinin, an advocate, has filed a complaint against the investigator, who is dealing with the attack on journalists and rights defenders, committed on the Chechen-Ingush border in March 2016. According to Andrei, until now, he had no chance to study the case materials.
15:36, 4 May 2017
A month after the publication by the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" of an article about a "prison" for gays, the chief of the Argun police showed journalists of the "Life" the building, which was discussed in the article. At present, the building looks abandoned. Meanwhile, not all of its territory was shown in photographs and videos.
23:57, 3 May 2017
The practice of public humiliation of residents of Chechnya for criticizing Kadyrov will cease after the Kremlin's interference, but now, the federal centre ignores the problem. This was stated by Mikhail Roschin and Alexei Malashenko, experts on the Caucasus. Valery Borschov, a rights defender, believes that the situation will change only after the change of power in the republic.
21:18, 3 May 2017
A collective letter with a request to influence the situation with the persecution of gays in Chechnya was sent to Sergey Lavrov, the Russia's Foreign Minister, by his colleagues from Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, France and Germany.
18:26, 2 May 2017
During the talks in Sochi, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the Russian President to secure the observance of the rights of sexual and religious minorities.
11:05, 2 May 2017
In the village of Benoy of the Nozhai-Yurt District, workers have begun building a school of Hafizes (Koran reciters by heart), intended for 100 pupils. Some residents of Chechnya doubt that the republic needs six Hafiz schools.