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August 23, 2014 02:51

• In North Ossetia, unidentified persons throw grenade to yard of policeman's house

  In North Ossetia, a grenade was thrown to the yard of the house belonging to the deputy chief of the village police station, stated a source from the law enforcement bodies.

August 23, 2014 02:00

• In Derbent, police detain dozens of mosque-goers, eyewitnesses report (+video)

  On August 22, after the end of Friday prayer at one of the mosques in Derbent, law enforcers detained 40-60 mosque-goers, eyewitnesses of the incident report. Two buses took the detainees to the Derbent GOVD (City Interior Division).

August 23, 2014 01:49

• Local journalists claim failure of first TV debates in Abkhazia

  During the first TV debates held in Abkhazia and attended by all presidential candidates, participants have failed to raise questions of interest for voters, believes Inal Khashig, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chegemskaya Pravda".

August 22, 2014 23:40

• Law enforcers kept and beat up Chechen woman for three days, rights defenders assert

  Malina (Amina) Sadakhanova, a resident of Grozny, who study Arabic and teaches religion in one of the Chechen medreses, had been forcibly kept by law enforcers during three days, sources in Chechnya report. According to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", the young woman has been severely beaten.

August 22, 2014 20:12

• Car of "Nuzhnaya Gazeta" editor shelled in Abkhazia

  On Friday, in Sukhumi, a car belonging to Izida Chaniya, an editor of the newspaper "Nuzhnaya Gazeta" (Needed Newspaper), has been shelled by unidentified persons, reported Raul Lolua, Acting Minister of Internal Affairs.

August 22, 2014 19:54

• OSCE calls on Azerbaijan to find attackers on rights defender Nasibov

  Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, has expressed her concern over the attacks on Ilgar Nasibov, a journalist and a human rights defender, in Nakhichevan. She called on the Azerbaijani authorities to conduct an immediate and thorough investigation into the incident.

August 22, 2014 18:31

• KChR: state of emergency in Novokuvinsk lifted

  On Friday, the state of emergency has been lifted in the aul (village) of Novokuvinsk of the Adyge-Khabl District of the Karachay-Cherkessian Republic (KChR), and gas supply has been restored, stated Mukhadin Darmilov, the head of the Department for Civil Defence and Emergencies of the district administration.

August 22, 2014 18:03

• NAC:two Khasavyurt casualties pre-identified

  The Russian National Antiterrorist Committee (NAC) has reported on preliminary identification of two suspected militants killed during the special operation in Khasavyurt.

August 22, 2014 17:39

• BCA dismisses all defence's motions at trial of CEMDT head

  The Baku Court of Appeal (BCA) chaired by Judge Aflatun Gasymov has held the preliminary court hearing on the complaint lodged by Anar Mamedli, the head of the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Training (CEMDT), and activists Bashir Suleimanly and Elnur Mamedov.

August 22, 2014 11:44

• In Grozny, law enforcers check passports

  On August 21, in parts of the Grozny city territory, Chechen law enforcers checked passport regime, stated local residents. The law enforcement bodies called the checks as "preventive actions" on the eve of large-scale celebrations.

August 22, 2014 05:54

• SC of Chechnya completes questioning defence witnesses in Timur Tangiev's case

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya has completed the questioning of defence witnesses in the case against Timur Tangiev. At the last moment, many witnesses refused to go to court to testify.

August 22, 2014 03:15

• Khadjimba's and Bzhaniya's election campaigns pass without obstacles, their offices report

  Raul Khadjimba and Aslan Bzhaniya, Abkhaz presidential candidates, use all possible information platforms for their election campaign. According to their election offices, the presidential candidates meet no obstacles during campaigning.

August 22, 2014 01:36

• Krasnodar Court schedules trial of ecologist Evgeny Vitishko for September 24

  The Krasnodar Regional Court has scheduled for September 24 the consideration of the cassation appeal filed by the Prosecutor's Office against the sentence of Evgeny Vitishko, a staff member of the "Ecological Watch for Northern Caucasus" (EcoWatch).

August 21, 2014 23:57

• Advocate of Dagestani resident accused of plotting terror act cannot get case materials from the court

  The Orichi District Court of the Kirov Region of Russia has begun studying the written evidence in the criminal case about an attempt of a terror act at the "Maradykovsky" chemical weapons factory, in which two natives of Dagestan are the figurants.

August 21, 2014 18:40

• Azerbaijani GPO questions IRFS accountant

  Tatiana Kryuchkina, an accountant of the Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety (IRFS), has been questioned as a witness in the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan in connection with the criminal case against a number of local and foreign NGOs.

August 21, 2014 18:12

• Ukrainian customs officers start clearing first trucks of Russian humanitarian convoy

  The first trucks with the Russian humanitarian aid to residents of Eastern Ukraine have entered the check line of the "Donetsk" checkpoint of the Millerovo customs, The Ukrainian customs officers have begun clearing the cargos, the Southern Customs Administration of the Russian Federation has informed.

August 21, 2014 17:46

• Azerbaijani rights defender Emil Mamedov pleads not guilty at trial

  In Azerbaijan, the court has started consideration on the merits of the criminal case against Emil Mamedov, the head of the NGO "Promoting Democracy". After the pronouncement of the indictment, the defendant has delivered speech, in which he denied the charges.

August 21, 2014 14:42

• Chechen residents could reject law enforcers' night questioning, experts assert

  On the day of opening of the ethnographic complex "Shira-Yurt", the large-scale questioning of Chechen residents by the policemen, who were searching for the mobile phone of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, can be legally justified in case if the law enforcers believed that the mobile phone could have been stolen, says advocate Igor Trunov.

August 21, 2014 13:31

• Armenian rights defenders launch international inquiry into Karen Petrosyan's death

  Larisa Alaverdyan, the head of the public organization "Against Legal Arbitrariness", and Marina Grigoryan, the organizer of the project "Ordinary Genocide", have started collecting written appeals to international organizations calling for an investigation into the cause of death of Armenian citizen Karen Petrosyan captured in Azerbaijan.

August 21, 2014 08:56

• NKR authorities state their readiness to grant asylum to Iraqi Yazidis

  The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) is ready to grant asylum to Iraqi Yazidis, said David Babayan, the press secretary of the office of the president of the NKR. Experts believe that the world powers should pay more attention to the problem of Yazidis in Iraq.