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September 26, 2020 11:30

• Signature collection launched for investigation of threat to Dagestani journalist Anokhina

  The "Nash Gorod" (Our City) movement began collecting signatures to the appeal addressed to the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) with a demand to open a case on threats to kill received by Svetlana Anokhina and punish the Dagestani law enforcers for inaction after Svetlana's complaint.

September 25, 2020 23:55

• Observers see human rights violations in Azerbaijani authorities' fight against COVID-19

  The authorities of Azerbaijan exceeded their powers when they restricted the rights and freedoms of citizens during the coronavirus pandemic, the Centre for Election Monitoring and Democracy Education (CEMDE) concluded. In the country, at least 95,000 people were brought to administrative responsibility for violation of the quarantine.

September 25, 2020 23:53

• In Dagestan, visitors to "Tangim" mosque report about enhanced police raids on Fridays

  In Makhachkala, about 50 law enforcers were on duty in front of the "Tangim" mosque after the Friday prayer. The Dagestani Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) explained holding the raid by security reasons.

September 25, 2020 23:44

• In Yerevan, protestors suspend hunger strike after meeting with Prime Minister's aide

  In Armenia, an aide to the Prime Minister promised hunger-strikers to solve the problem of resuming air communication with Russia. The protesters agreed to suspend their hunger strike.

September 25, 2020 23:37

• Azerbaijani authorities admit to violations of Meydan TV employees' rights

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) withdrew from consideration complaints filed by writer and a publicist Rasim Garadja, and reporter Tural Asadli due to the fact that the Azerbaijani authorities had already restored their rights and promised to pay each of the complainants 5000 euros in compensation.

September 25, 2020 23:28

• Chechen residents criticize conviction of Lizan Isakova's son

  Lizan Isakova and her son Khazbulat were sentenced to the same punishment in a case on fraud with the status of a disabled person, although the woman's son played a secondary role in obtaining unjustified assistance from the authorities, residents of Chechnya note.

September 25, 2020 18:02

• Case against Anastasia Shevchenko based on application of Associate Professor of Rostov University

  At the trial of Anastasia Shevchenko's case, Alexander Basan, an Associate Professor of the Southern Federal University, said that he had lodged an application against her to the Prosecutor's Office after a public debates in Taganrog with her participation. At the same time, Basan admitted that he had not heard calls for the overthrow of the ruling power at those debates.

September 25, 2020 17:59

• Azerbaijan counts 61 shelling attacks committed by Armenia

  Eight border villages, where positions of the Azerbaijani Army are stationed, came under fire from Armenian militaries, the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

September 25, 2020 10:04

• Rights defenders demand revising attack case on journalist Avetisyan

  The court has acquitted the head of the construction company, accused of attacking Narine Avetisyan, the editor-in-chief of the Armenian "Lori" TV Channel; his subordinate was found guilty but released from punishment. The court's verdict should be cancelled; an impartial investigation of the case is necessary, journalists and human rights defenders assert.

September 25, 2020 10:02

• Appeal to Chechen blogger Lomaev continues trend of pressing dissidents via their relatives

  The ex-wife of the Chechen blogger, Musa Lomaev, living in Finland, has recorded an insulting video appeal to him not on her own initiative, thus continuing the practice of public insults as a method of influencing dissidents via their relatives living in Chechnya, analysts believe.

September 25, 2020 09:59

• Dagestan: Krasnoarmeiskoye residents fined for disobeying law enforcers

  After a protest action held by residents of the dwelling settlement Krasnoarmeiskoye located in a suburb of Makhachkala, 23 residents were brought to justice; many of them were fined, said one of the detainees. Another Krasnoarmeiskoye resident was detained the next day after the action; he prevented the special equipment from destroying the fence around his land plot.

September 25, 2020 09:50

• Azerbaijani journalist fined after covering protest action

  On Thursday (September 24), Anar Abdulla, a journalist, was detained over a conflict with a local resident while filming a solo picket in Baku. The police fined the journalist for petty hooliganism. Abdulla asserts that he was attacked by a provocateur.

September 24, 2020 23:40

• Key stage of Caucasus-2020 exercise takes place amid conflict between invited countries

  On Thursday, participants of the Caucasus-2020 military exercise practiced destruction of manoeuvre enemy' military vehicles and strongholds at a training ground in the Volgograd Region. Analysts suggest that Azerbaijan and India would be able to take part in the Caucasus-2020 military exercise in case if Armenia, China, and Pakistan had not responded to the Russia's invitation.

September 24, 2020 23:32

• Chechen woman sentenced to four years of imprisonment after help from authorities

  A court found a woman from Grozny and her son, who had obtained better housing conditions from the authorities of Chechnya, guilty of fraud and sentenced each of them to four years of imprisonment in a penal colony.

September 24, 2020 20:04

• Social network users criticize Chechen law enforcers for reprimanding detainees

  After a post on Instagram about a preventive conversation held by policemen in the Urus-Martan District with detainees and their parents, Instagram users noted that reprimanding conversations with persons detained on suspicion of drinking alcoholic beverages should be treated as inappropriate.

September 24, 2020 18:21

• Former wife claims blogger Musa Lomaev has no right to criticize Chechen authorities

  Blogger Musa Lomaev, who left for Finland after subjected to torture, does not care about his relatives who live in Chechnya and has no moral right to criticize the republic's authorities, his former wife says in a video appeal. It is unacceptable for a woman to criticize her former husband, Instagram users emphasize.

September 24, 2020 15:59

• Makhmudov's case is example of mutual cover-up of Azerbaijani authorities

  Eldar Makhmudov, a former head of the Ministry of National Security (MNS) of Azerbaijan, whose son turned out to be the hero of the publication by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), has lost political influence in the country, but his family retained business assets, journalists have noted.

September 24, 2020 15:57

• Yerevan hunger-strikers explain their aspiration to Russia

  In Yerevan, the hunger-strikers have stated that they want to leave for Russia because they cannot find a decent job in their homeland and want reuniting with their families. Some saw a political motive behind the closure of the Russian-Armenian border.

September 24, 2020 10:55

• Chechen blogger, Musa Lomaev, treats compensation of 50,000 euros for torture as negligible

  The Chechen blogger, Musa Lomaev, who was awarded compensation of 50,500 euros by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), treats this amount as insignificant. His aim of applying to the ECtHR was to restore justice, he has added.

September 24, 2020 10:49

• Defence treats psychological pressure as reason for prisoners' protest in Tbilisi

  An advocate of one of the prisoners, who cut their own hands, has demanded from the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Georgia to investigate the incident, claiming that it was provoked by the psychological pressure on the prisoners. Earlier, they complained about the custody conditions in this prison, Gela Nikolaishvili, a rights defender, has stated.