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January 31, 2020 14:15

• Umarov accuses Chechen residents of ingratitude after photo collage with Kadyrov

  In Chechnya, the authorities build hospitals, mosques, and roads, while residents who ask Ramzan Kadyrov for help disseminate caricatures to the leader of Chechnya in response, Djambulat Umarov, Chechen Minister for National Policy, expressed his indignation.

January 31, 2020 13:56

• Nagorno-Karabakh schoolchildren stop protest action against small HPPs

  In Karvachar, senior schoolchildren stopped their protest action against the construction of small hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) and announced their intention to create monitoring groups on the environmental safety of HPPs in Nagorno-Karabakh.

January 31, 2020 11:11

• Arrested Chechen woman complains about law enforcers' pressure in SIZO

  Special agents are forcing Lilia Saidova, accused of financing militants because of transferring money to her brother in Turkey, to give confession and slander a stranger, her father and an advocate assert.

January 31, 2020 10:50

• Advocate of CC head of Armenia threaten to sue Pashinyan for defamation

  Nikol Pashinyan, the Armenian Premier, has posted on the Facebook a video report of the Republic's Public TV with the details of the criminal case against Grair Tovmasyan. The defence of Tovmasyan has announced its intention to sue the Public TV Channel and the Prime Minister demanding to restore the violated rights of the judge.

January 31, 2020 10:37

• PACE calls on Azerbaijan to solve the problem of political prisoners

  The problem of political prisoners in Azerbaijan has not been solved, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has stated in its resolution, calling on the country's authorities to review the cases of convicted activists and journalists.

January 31, 2020 08:34

• The health condition of Ogtai Gyulyalyev has essentially improved

  Turkish doctors have positively assessed the dynamics of the state of health of the Azerbaijani rights defender, Ogtai Gyulyalyev, despite the fact that he is still in coma, said Mekhman Aliev, Director of the "Turan" News Agency.

January 31, 2020 08:25

• ECtHR obliges Azerbaijan to pay 60,000 euros to Saribekyan family

  The decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) obliges Azerbaijani authorities, apart from compensating the harm, to resume the investigation, said the advocate, Ara Gazaryan, who represented at the ECtHR the parents of Manvel Saribekyan, who perished in an Azerbaijani jail.

January 30, 2020 21:42

• Activists demand to punish speaker of Khakassia Parliament for his words about Kalmyks' deportation

  Residents of Kalmykia have asked the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) to check the statements of Vladimir Shtygashev, the Speaker of the Parliament of Khakassia, about the Stalin deportation of Kalmyks. Batu Khasikov, the head of Kalmykia, has criticized Shtygashev for justifying repressions, but the authors of appeals have found the reaction of republic's authorities too mild.

January 30, 2020 21:27

• Soldier dies in NKR

  Vagram Avagyan, a soldier, has died from a gunshot wound received under not yet сlarified circumstances, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) has informed today.

January 30, 2020 19:43

• ICRF reports illegal use of prisoners' labour in North Ossetia

  A deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) for North Ossetia recruited prisoners to work for private companies, the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) reports today.

January 30, 2020 19:29

• Picketers in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev claim suppression of press freedom

  In Moscow, protestors claim that the criminal prosecution of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a correspondent of the "Chernovik" (Draft), is a part of the campaign to pressure independent Dagestani editions. The protestors explained holding pickets in the capital of Russia by the fact that the Abdulmumin Gadjiev's case did not receive due attention outside the republic.

January 30, 2020 14:45

• Resident of Karachay-Cherkessia claims ill-treatment of children in kindergarten

  A kindergarten teacher beat children, claimed a resident of the village of Imeni Kosta Khetagurova, who handed over an audio record to the law enforcement bodies.

January 30, 2020 14:35

• Harassment of student after dance shows vulnerable situation of women in Caucasus

  In Vladikavkaz, a female student was subjected to harassment after dancing in public, and the girl needs support, members of a feminist movement declare.

January 30, 2020 11:16

• At action in Kananyan's support, NKR schoolchildren oppose minor HPPs

  High school pupils from the Karvachar school have staged an action in support of Alexander Kananyan, an activist, who demands to stop building minor hydropower plants (HPPs) in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR). Kananyan himself has stated that despite the deterioration of his health, he will continue his hunger strike until the authorities fulfil his demands.

January 30, 2020 10:59

• Kadyrov promises to rename Gikalo into Djamleil-Yurt

  The head of Chechnya has visited the dwelling settlement of Gikalo and promised locals to rename it in honour of the head of the village administration, Djamleil Elikhanov, who was killed by militants. The settlement has launched building a new mosque, which will be named after Abdul-Kadyr, Ramzan Kadyrov's great-grandfather.

January 30, 2020 08:30

• Rights defenders treat MIA's refusal to issue foreign passport to Kerimli as unjustified

  The refusal of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) to issue a foreign passport to Ali Kerimli, the leader of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), which means an actual ban on his travels abroad, has political motives, as in the cases with other critics of the authorities, rights defenders are sure.

January 30, 2020 08:19

• Action in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev held in Moscow

  Activists held a series of solo pickets outside the building of the Permanent Mission of Dagestan in Moscow, demanding the release of the Dagestan journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev.

January 29, 2020 22:18

• Rights defenders point to sudden termination of Machalikashvili's case

  The Georgian Prosecutor's Office has closed the Temirlan Machalikashvili's murder case right at the moment, when investigators indicated inconsistencies in law enforcers' testimonies, the Human Rights Monitoring Centre has noted.

January 29, 2020 22:02

• Kadyrov declares authors of reports about detentions in Chechnya to be enemies

  Ramzan Kadyrov has ordered law enforcers to find and punish those residents of Chechnya who spread information about kidnappings and detentions in the republic. His order to search for "gossipers" in the around-the-clock regime was issued after publications about the detention of 25 residents of Chechnya for a photo collage with the head of the republic.

January 29, 2020 18:16

• Police identify authors of video with apology of Vladikavkaz student

  In North Ossetia, officers from the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) held a preventive conversation with three young people who recorded a video of the female student's apology for a dance. The verification of their actions is underway, the police report. A mother of the student thanked the law enforcement bodies for protection.