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February 27, 2020 11:32

• Attempted assassination committed on Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov (+video)

  The well-known Chechen blogger, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, has been hospitalized after an attack by a man who penetrated into his apartment.

February 27, 2020 11:25

• In issue of Vainakhs' deportation, Kadyrov stops looking back at Russian authorities

  The legalization of the mourning for deportation victims is a consequence of the consolidation of Kadyrov's status quo, Caucasian experts have explained the cancellation of the many-year-long moratorium on commemoration actions in Chechnya.

February 27, 2020 11:19

• Azerbaijani court cuts journalist Mamedov's conditional imprisonment

  Anar Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the "Criminal.az" website, who had asked the Supreme Court (SC) of Azerbaijan to acquit him, has criticized the decision to re-qualify the charge against him and cut his conditional sentence by three months.

February 26, 2020 22:21

• Instagram users surprised by reconciliation of blood feud conflict in Chechnya

  Relatives of a murdered resident of the Nadterechny District are reconciled with two families who appealed to Ramzan Kadyrov. In Chechnya, relatives of murderers can escape persecution, but criminals themselves rarely escape revenge, experts note.

February 26, 2020 22:15

• Court finds Zaur Dadaev's transfer from penal colony to prison as lawful

  The court of appeal dismissed a complaint filed by Zaur Dadaev about the decision to toughen the terms of his punishment for the murder of Boris Nemtsov.

February 26, 2020 21:42

• Chechen TV Channel reports detainee's public repentance for theft

  On February 25, a detainee repented on the air of the "Grozny" TV Channel of stealing a mobile phone. Residents of Chechnya found his repentance forced.

February 26, 2020 21:37

• Relatives report return of kidnapped Chechen residents

  Four residents of the Urus-Martan District, kidnapped three weeks ago, returned home after a 10-day arrest in Grozny, their relatives reported.

February 26, 2020 17:09

• Makhi Idrisov's escape recalls his ties with authorities of Chechnya

  Eduard Urazaev, a political analyst, and Gadjimurad Sagitov, a journalist, have expressed different opinions on what Idrisov's ties with Ramzan Kadyrov were.

February 26, 2020 17:07

• Dagestan: Kurbanov brothers denied initiating torture case

  Investigators refused to institute a criminal case against the law enforcers, whom the brothers, Mukhtar and Ismail Kurbanov, have accused of torturing them in an attempt to knock out confessions to their participation in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants.

February 26, 2020 09:23

• Residents of Azerbaijan commemorate victims of massacre in Khojaly

  On the eve of the 28th anniversary of the Khojaly tragedy, during the assault of which over 600 people perished, mourning events were held in Azerbaijan and abroad.

February 26, 2020 09:19

• Visit of Kadyrov's daughter to Paris gives rise to scepticism among Chechen refugees

  Amid human rights violations in Chechnya, Aishat Kadyrova's participation in a fashion show in Paris looks strange, Chechen refugees believe. In the opinion of Sasha Kulaeva, a rights defender, and Galina Akerman, a publicist, this visit was devised as a sort of rehabilitation of what is happening in Chechnya.

February 26, 2020 08:59

• Court sentences Ingush activist Dugiev to 14 months in colony

  The court has sentenced Ibragim Dugiev to one year and two months of imprisonment for assaulting a policeman during a rally in Magas. On Tuesday, February 25, Mustafa Vysegurov, an activist, was set free from the SIZO (pre-trial prison).

February 26, 2020 08:57

• Social network users urge residents of Northern Caucasus to refuse from celebrating February 23

  In solidarity with all affected nations, residents of Northern Caucasus should refuse to celebrate the Russian state holiday on February 23, the date of the start of Vainakhs' deportation, the Instagram users believe.

February 26, 2020 08:50

• TI demands to stop pressing journalists in Adjara

  The staff of the Adjara TV are going to strike, an NGO "Transparency International (TI)-Georgia" has informed urging the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) investigate the alleged pressure on journalists.

February 25, 2020 22:38

• Mother of Dagestani man disappeared in Chechnya appeals to Ramzan Kadyrov

  In Derbent, a mother of Nillan Aliev held a picket with an appeal to Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Her son stopped contacting his relatives and friends after a trip to Grozny with his two acquaintances. Till present, the search for the disappeared men has not brought any results, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Dagestan reports.

February 25, 2020 22:36

• Trial in former Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan's case started amid protest action

  At a rally held in front of the courthouse, supporters of Serzh Sargsyan, the third President of Armenia, called him a victim of political persecution. The defence claimed the biased attitude of the public prosecutor and demanded his challenge.

February 25, 2020 22:30

• HRC "Memorial" recognizes Ingush activist Bagaudin Khatiev as political prisoner

  According to the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", Bagaudin Khautiev, the head of the Council of Ingush Youth Organizations, was called for political reasons an organizer of an extremist community and clashes with law enforcers. The human rights defenders demand to release the activist.

February 25, 2020 22:20

• In Tbilisi, man accused in case on schoolboys' murder sentenced to long-term imprisonment

  In Tbilisi, the court found Mikhail Kalandiya guilty of killing schoolchildren and sentenced him to 11 years and three months of imprisonment. The defence decided to appeal against the verdict.

February 25, 2020 17:41

• Ali Kerimli appeals against refusal to investigate torture after his detention in Baku

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has found no grounds for initiating a criminal case on the statement of Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about the torture he had suffered after being detained at a protest rally in Baku. Mr Kerimli has demanded to oblige the GPO to conduct an inquiry.

February 25, 2020 17:33

• Hunt for sorcerers in Chechnya results in repentances of detainees' children

  The apologies of the residents of Chechnya detained for providing occult services were complemented by the "Grozny" TV Channel with repentances of their sons, who confessed to failure to keep track of their parents. The involvement of young people in persecuting their relatives was treated as excessive by residents of Chechnya and Instagram users.