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23:16, 14 July 2024
The Muslims' Coordination Centre of Northern Caucasus (MCCNC) has asked the Russian President not to pass a bill banning religious clothing. The Muftis of Northern Caucasus have stated that this ban violates believers' rights. Commentators in social networks have supported the Muftis' appeal, noting that this initiative has already split the society.
21:53, 13 July 2024
The authorities of Switzerland have again refused to grant political asylum to Ali Bataev, a native of Chechnya, Chechen historian and journalist Mairbek Vachagaev* reported in his “Mairbek/Chechen/France” Telegram channel. A Swiss court, contrary to statements voiced by human rights defenders, found that deportation to his homeland was safe for Ali Bataev.
21:52, 12 July 2024
Statements voiced by Alexander Bastrykin regarding the migration policy and the religious overtones of the terror acts in Dagestan caused astonishment among Muslims, political analyst Ali Magamadov notes. A dispute between Ramzan Kadyrov and Alexander Bastrykin highlighted the claims of the leader of Chechnya to be the defender of all Muslims, a former teacher from Grozny believes.
21:45, 12 July 2024
The Moscow City Court (MCC) has upheld the decision by which human rights activist Oleg Orlov was sentenced to 2.5 years of freedom deprivation.
23:05, 11 July 2024
Elena Tardasova-Yun, an activist from Novosibirsk, became the second woman in Russia, who held a solo picket with the demand to investigate the disappearance of Seda Suleimanova in Chechnya. The situation with domestic violence in Northern Caucasus requires a separate law to protect women, Elena Tardasova-Yun has noted during her picket.
18:50, 10 July 2024
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has recognized the detention at a picket in defence of Oyub Titiev as a violation of the rights of the human rights defender Svetlana Gannushkina*. The Court has obliged Russian authorities to pay her compensation of EUR 4000.
23:54, 9 July 2024
Wearing niqabs is a custom and not an obligation of Muslim women, the Muftiate of Kabardino-Balkaria has stated after the idea of banning niqabs was supported by Spiritual Administrations of Muslims (SAMs or Muftiates) of Dagestan and Karachay-Cherkessia.
18:09, 9 July 2024
Explosion in Volgograd, drone attacks, persecution of pacifists and activists in Southern Russia, about niqabs and hijabs, and official data on the natives of Southern Russia who perished in Ukraine, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of July 1-7, 2024, prepared by the “Caucasian Knot”.
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17:55, 9 July 2024
Military correspondent Vladimir Romanov has voiced public apologies after he called members of the “Akhmat” Chechen special forces “TikTokers” and said that their units stayed behind the units in which conscript soldiers serve. Social media users considered the apologies inappropriate and suggested that Vladimir Romanov recorded his video with apologies under pressure.
19:55, 8 July 2024
The niqab problem is far-fetched for Russia, but the ban thereof introduced in Dagestan and the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR) will be followed by attacks on hijabs and other attributes of Islam, the Islamic scholars interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" are sure.
19:38, 8 July 2024
There is no need to introduce a dress code for the pop performers who come to give concerts in the republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD), since the performers are sensitive to local traditions, tour organizers have commented on the officials' idea.
23:48, 5 July 2024
The publication of threats voiced by Adam Kadyrov against blogger Khasan Khalitov does not reduce the risks for the critic of the Chechen authorities living abroad, but confirms the involvement of the Chechen authorities in the kidnapping of his relatives, a political analyst and a human rights defender state.
23:12, 5 July 2024
The topic of banning niqabs in the republics of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) is not discussed in the Kremlin, the presidential press secretary has stated. The issues of religious clothing fall within the competence of the clergy, the Russian State Duma MPs have indicated.
17:08, 5 July 2024
Gays in Dagestan were in danger even before law enforcers held provocations and raids on them; and after the arrest of the gay blogger Matvei Volodin, threats have grown manifold. However, as noted by rights defenders, law enforcers have no real grounds to open cases against gays under the article on extremism.
20:52, 4 July 2024
Wearing niqabs and burqas in modern conditions causes practical harm to Muslims and threatens discord in interreligious and interethnic relations, announces the Coordination Centre for Muslims of Northern Caucasus.