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October 18, 2020 11:33

• Elchin Mamed sentenced to four years in jail

  The Sumgait City Court has sentenced Elchin Mamed, a journalist and a human rights defender to four years of imprisonment. He has denied the charges of illegal weapon possession and a theft, and has linked his prosecution with his human rights activities.

October 18, 2020 11:11

• Analysts dispute on possible consequences for Chechens of teacher's murder in France

  The French society is shocked by the teacher's murder, of which a Chechen is suspected; and this may lead to a deteriorated attitude towards immigrants from Chechnya, the political analysts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

October 18, 2020 10:56

• Armenia and Azerbaijan agree on new truce

  The parties to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict have announced a ceasefire since midnight on October 18.

October 17, 2020 16:36

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports three wounded persons during shelling of Stepanakert

  Three Stepanakert residents have been hospitalized with wounds after the night shelling of the city, the Emergency Service of Nagorno-Karabakh (NK) has reported. Residential buildings and hotels were destroyed.

October 17, 2020 16:04

• Four persons detained for teacher's murder in France

  The French police have detained four relatives of the Moscow-born Chechen within the murder case of a teacher in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, a source has informed.

October 17, 2020 15:18

• Count of victims of strike on Ganja reaches 65

  The number of the civilians killed in the missile attacks on Ganja has increased to 13; those wounded are 52 persons, the Azerbaijani Ministry for Emergencies (MfE) has stated.

October 17, 2020 13:34

• Death toll after missile attack on Ganja reaches 12

  The number of casualties of missile strikes on Ganja has reached 12; and more than 40 civilians have been wounded, the Azerbaijani General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has reported.

October 17, 2020 13:23

• Yunus Vidzizhev assassinated in Ingushetia

  In the course of special actions undertaken in the city of Nazran, Ingush law enforcers killed a man. According to preliminary data, Yunus Vidzizhev, an active participant in mass protests in Ingushetia in 2019, was shot dead.

October 17, 2020 13:12

• ECtHR demands to ensure safety of Armenian prisoners of war

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has obliged Azerbaijani authorities to ensure the right to life and health of the Armenian prisoners of war, Areg Sargsyan and Narek Amirdjanyan.

October 17, 2020 12:59

• Chechen beheads school teacher in France over Charlie Hebdo caricatures

  A Moscow native of Chechen origin was shot dead after he beheaded a school teacher in Conflans-Saint-Honorine, France, the police have reported. The assassinated teacher had shown caricatures of Prophet Muhammad from the Charlie Hebdo magazine to his pupils.

October 17, 2020 08:30

• Travel restrictions imposed in Nagorno-Karabakh

  Due to the introduced martial law, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh have prohibited their citizens from leaving the unrecognized republic and moving around it without documents.

October 17, 2020 08:18

• Azerbaijan claims capture of three Karabakh villages

  The Azerbaijani Army has taken control over three villages of the Khodjavend District, President Ilham Aliev has stated. The total number of such dwelling settlements has reached 53.

October 16, 2020 22:12

• Information about Salman Tepsurkaev gives hope to his wife

  According to an interview released by the "Nasiliyu.net" centre, a wife of Salman Tepsurkaev receives reports stating that her husband is alive and hopes for his release due to the publicity of information about the kidnapping.

October 16, 2020 21:59

• In Yerevan, activists request UN to force Azerbaijan to ceasefire

  Participants of a protest action held in front of the UN office in Yerevan criticized the international organization for being passive concerning the settlement of the Karabakh conflict. The UN ignores the use of prohibited weapons and military support for Azerbaijan from Turkey, protesters claim.

October 16, 2020 21:40

• Civilian fell victim to a shelling attack on Karabakh villages

  Today, the number of civilians in Nagorno-Karabakh killed in shelling attacks since the beginning of the fighting in the Karabakh conflict zone has reached 34. Many women with children and elderly people had left Stepanakert because of the threat of shelling attacks, city residents reported.

October 16, 2020 18:56

• Azerbaijan accuses Armenia of missile attack on Nakhichevan

  A missile launched by the armed forces of Armenia exploded in the territory of the Ordubad District in the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic, no casualties or injuries occurred, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today. The Ministry of Defence of Armenia refuted the information about the shelling attack on Nakhichevan.

October 16, 2020 18:44

• Defence: case on IS* militant grouping in Chechnya fabricated

  After detention, three residents of the Naursky District were subjected to torture and forced to confess to creating an armed grouping and swearing allegiance to a leader of the terrorist organization "Islamic State"*, a defender claimed.

October 16, 2020 18:32

• Nagorno-Karabakh reports about shelling attack on six villages

  The Azerbaijani troops shelled villages in the Martuni, Hadrut, and Kashatag District, and the information about victims and damage is being specified, the authorities of Nagorno-Karabakh report.

October 16, 2020 14:45

• Milan recognizes Nagorno-Karabakh's independence

  On October 15, the deputies of the Milan City Assembly recognized the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh and condemned Azerbaijan's actions in the Karabakh conflict zone.

October 16, 2020 14:10

• Yagublu points to protocol distortions in his case

  The protocols of the court sessions on the Tofig Yagublu's fail to mention the defence's questions to witnesses, its petitions to challenge the court and much more, while some facts are presented with a completely different sense, the oppositionist himself has stated.