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February 19, 2015 10:04

• Dagestani advocate reports about his client's torture to ID of the ICRF

  Gusein Abdulkadyrov, a resident of Dagestan, who was arrested on suspicion of collaborating with the armed underground, was tortured by power agents, said his defender Rustam Yunusov.

February 19, 2015 03:00

• Okushko: Musaev's persecution may be used as precedent for victimizing other lawyers

  The criminal case against the lawyer Murad Musaev, suspected of bribing witnesses in the murder case of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, may become a dangerous precedent for the persecution of the lawyers across the country, said the lawyer Tatiana Okushko. The investigation of his case has been going on for two years.

February 18, 2015 23:58

• Police starts checking complaints of Dagestani hunger-strikers

  Today, policemen have accepted applications from the hunger strikers in the village of Shushiya, Novolak District of Dagestan about violations of their rights. Officials from the republic's government promised to help the protesters to solve their problems.

February 18, 2015 16:50

• In Moscow, 17 persons picket in support of ecologist Vitishko

  The picket, which was sanctioned by the authorities, in support of the convicted Krasnodar ecologist Evgeny Vitishko, held near the monument to Vladimir Vysotsky in Moscow, was attended by nine people, while eight other persons held solo pickets at the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Russia, said the organizers.

February 18, 2015 16:05

• Detained PAP activists released in Yerevan

  All the 19 activists detained on February 17 at the headquarters of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party (PAP) in Yerevan are back at large, said the press service of the Armenian Police.

February 18, 2015 15:37

• After Tsarukyan's meeting with Sargsyan, PAP refused to hold protest in Yerevan

  Gagik Tsarukyan, the leader of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party (PAP), who had called for a change of power in the country, has stated the need for peaceful settlement of disagreements. This statement was made after he met the Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan on February 17 in the latter's residence.

February 18, 2015 14:54

• Parpulov's custody covered by over 100 media publications

  Relatives of Pyotr Parpulov, 60, a resident of Sochi, accused of treason, hope to use the resonance in the media and society to get a chance to visit him – the head of the family, whom they had not seen for about a year. His daughter had asked the Russian President Vladimir Putin to save the life of her sick father.

February 18, 2015 14:43

• Court stops prosecuting lawyer Murad Musaev

  The criminal case against the lawyer Murad Musaev, who was accused of bribing witnesses in the murder case of the former Colonel Yuri Budanov, was stopped due to the lapse of time, said the press secretary of the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow.

February 18, 2015 14:40

• Azerbaijan: Leyla Yunus' arrest extended until July 28

  Today, the Nasimi District Court of Baku has considered the presentation of the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan asking to extend the arrest of the rights defender Leyla Yunus by five months, her advocate Elchin Gambarov told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.

February 18, 2015 11:50

• Volgograd parents with many children intend to go on hunger strike in governor's waiting room

  Members of four large families of Volgograd have announced their intention to start – on March 1 – a three-month-long hunger strike right in the reception office of the regional governor.

February 18, 2015 10:58

• Beaten advocate not to attend court sessions on terror act in the house of Sheikh of Chirkey

  The health status of the lawyer Murad Magomedov, who was beaten up in Makhachkala, does not allow him to continue representing the interests of the defendant Magomedali Amirkhanov at the trial on the terror act committed in the house of Sheikh Said Afandi al-Chirkawi. The court did not rule out the appointment of a state advocate for Amirkhanov.

February 18, 2015 09:24

• Court in Grozny restricts access to 85 "VKontakte" web pages

  The Leninsky District Court of Grozny has satisfied the lawsuit lodged by the Prosecutor's Office of Chechnya demanding to restrict access to 85 pages of the social network "VKontakte", because they posted extremist materials and caricatures on Prophet Muhammad.

February 18, 2015 01:14

• About 20 PAP members detained in Yerevan

  On February 17, in the central office of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party (PAP) in Yerevan, about twenty persons were detained, said the party. According to the police, the detentions followed the information about a brawl.

February 17, 2015 23:58

• Over five years, the "Caucasian Knot" fixed 5816 victims of armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  Over the past five years – from 2010 to early 2015 – the number of victims of the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus has declined considerably: from 1705 persons in 2010 down to 525 – in 2014. The sustainable downward trend in the count of killed and wounded in the regions of the North-Caucasian Federal District (NCFD) is illustrated in the infographics drafted by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own data and information from other open sources.

February 17, 2015 16:57

• Georgia's GPO demands from Ukraine to extradite Saakashvili

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia has sent a petition to Ukraine for the extradition of the former president Mikhail Saakashvili, who is now employed there as an adviser to the Ukrainian President. However, the Ukrainian party refuses to cooperate on the matter, said the GPO.

February 17, 2015 15:25

• Yerevan police detain activists of "Prosperous Armenia"

  Several activists of the "Prosperous Armenia" Party were detained in Yerevan on February 16. The party issued a statement accusing authorities of exerting pressure.

February 17, 2015 14:56

• Russian CC Court invalidates mechanism of prosecutors' checks of NGOs

  The existing mechanism for unscheduled checks of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) by the Prosecutor's Office is contrary to the Constitution of the Russian Federation and must be changed. This is the verdict of the Russian Constitutional Court (CC) passed on the complaint of human rights organizations, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" among them.

February 17, 2015 13:08

• Defence of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko asks for CER for him

  A petition for conditional early relief (CER) of the convicted ecologist from Krasnodar Evgeny Vitishko has been sent to the court. On February 18, the anniversary of Vitishko's convoying to the colony, rights defenders decided to demonstrate their solidarity with him.

February 17, 2015 09:46

• Relatives of South-Ossetians kept in Gldani ask OSCE to attract Georgian authorities' attention to their problems

  On February 16, Angelo Gnaedinger, the co-chairman of the Geneva discussions from the OSCE, met relatives of citizens of South Ossetia, who were for three weeks on the indefinite hunger strike at the Gldani prison in Georgia.

February 17, 2015 08:30

• In Ingushetia, gunmen attack house of Magomed Khazbiev

  Last night, in Nazran, the house of Magomed Khazbiev, an Ingush opposition activist, was attacked by unidentified gunmen. This was told to the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent by Leila, the wife of Magomed Khazbiev.