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January 16, 2020 21:39

• Soldier seriously wounded in Karabakh conflict zone

  Armenian contract soldier Arthur Mezhlumyan was wounded at a combat post and was hospitalized in sever condition.

January 16, 2020 21:27

• Rezvan Ozdoev pleads not guilty to assaulting law enforcer

  At a court hearing in Zheleznovodsk, Ingush activist Rezvan Ozdoev pleaded not guilty to assaulting a fighter of the National Guard of Russia during a rally in March 2019. The defence demanded to question a victim whose name was not disclosed.

January 16, 2020 18:21

• Chechen policemen force law breakers to sweep streets

  Law enforcers forced residents of the Kurchaloi District, punished for driving in a state of alcoholic intoxication, to clean the mosque territory. One of the chiefs of the Kurchaloi ROVD (District Interior Division) called such violators "terrorists" and promised to seize their cars.

January 16, 2020 17:56

• OSCE mission registers no shelling attacks in Karabakh conflict zone

  OSCE mission members reported on the calm situation in the Karabakh conflict zone amid a statement about machine gun attacks claimed by Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani side has failed to fulfil the obligation to conduct monitoring, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Nagorno-Karabakh reports.

January 16, 2020 14:49

• Chechen Internet users discuss Ramzan Kadyrov's disease

  Instagram users argued about the reasons for the Ramzan Kadyrov's decision to appoint a successor amid the absence of the timely official explanations.

January 16, 2020 14:35

• In Baku, police stop protest rally held by parents of defendants in "Ganja case"

  On January 15, in the capital of Azerbaijan, a protest rally was held in front of the Supreme Court (SC) building. In the course of the rally, relatives of the defendants in the "Ganja case" demanded the release of the arrested persons and blocked a road. The police pushed the protesters back.

January 16, 2020 11:11

• Two Ingush residents detained under Eldjarkiev’s murder case

  Under the murder case of Ibragim Eldjarkiev, the head of the Ingush “E Centre”, law enforcers detained two residents of the republic, sources have reported.

January 16, 2020 10:59

• British rights defenders urge Azerbaijan to lift ban on Ismayilova’s travels abroad

  Azerbaijani authorities must lift the ban on foreign travels of investigative journalist, Khadija Ismayilova, who has been awarded several international rewards. Three British human rights organizations made such an appeal on January 15.

January 16, 2020 10:46

• Rights defenders tell details of searches that Chechens faced in Germany

  In Germany, law enforcers blew up the door to the apartment where migrants from Chechnya live, and didn’t allow a mother to be with her small kids during the search, although there were no claims to the detainees, human rights defenders have reported.

January 16, 2020 08:40

• Complaint about torture of convicted Kurchaloi residents sent to ECtHR

  The Human Rights Centre (HRC) “Memorial” has filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in the interests of fourteen Chechen residents convicted to long sentences for terrorism. Rights defenders assert that law enforcers had forced the convicts to confess by torture and threats.

January 16, 2020 08:30

• Manvel Grigoryan released from arrest

  The court took into account the findings of the medical board on the state of health of Manvel Grigoryan, a former MP, and set him free under recognizance not to leave.

January 16, 2020 08:22

• Muslim Khuchiev appointed interim head of Chechnya

  Ramzan Kadyrov has appointed Muslim Khuchiev, the chairman of the Chechen Government, to be the acting head of the republic for the period of his disability.

January 15, 2020 21:27

• Chechen residents note deepening of practice to apologize to law enforcers

  Recent public apologies prove the desire of the law enforcement bodies to stop even the most general criticism, residents of Chechnya told the "Caucasian Knot".

January 15, 2020 21:04

• Court fines initiator of failed rally in Elista

  The Elista City Court imposed a fine of 5000 roubles on activist Semyon Ateev, who sought holding a rally against Dmitry Trapeznikov. The rally was not sanctioned by the authorities and did not take place, but Semyon Ateev should have notified the authorities concerning changing his mind about holding the event, the court decided. The activist says he intends to appeal against the court's decision.

January 15, 2020 18:36

• Instagram users argue about detention of Chechen natives in Germany

  Natives of Chechnya could not prepare a terror act in the country which granted asylum to them, and the German law enforcement authorities did not provide any objective reasons for their detention, note commentators on Instagram. Germany is a rule-of-law state, and fabrication of criminal cases by the law enforcement authorities is excluded there, other social network users argue.

January 15, 2020 18:22

• Azerbaijan registers sniper attacks on front line

  The positions of the Azerbaijani troops in the Karabakh conflict zone and on the border with Armenia were shelled 21 times within 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports today.

January 15, 2020 14:09

• Human rights defenders criticize evidence in Moris Machalikashvili's case

  Testimonies of witnesses and a video from a protest action in Tbilisi do not confirm that Moris Machalikashvili attacked law enforcers, Georgian human rights defenders report.

January 15, 2020 13:44

• PACE rapporteur condemns refusal to let opposition take part in elections in Azerbaijan

  The fact that Ilgar Mamedov and several other former political prisoners were not allowed to take part in the parliamentary elections proves the "increasingly undemocratic nature" of the regime and "creates a legal and political crisis of unprecedented gravity" in the implementation by Azerbaijan of the judgments pronounced by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), says Sunna Thorhildur Ævarsdottir, rapporteur on reported cases of political prisoners in Azerbaijan at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

January 15, 2020 11:41

• Dagestani native arrested in case on Amina Okueva's murder

  In Kiev, the court arrested for two months Igor Redkin, a native of Kaspiysk, who was suspected of killing Amina Okueva.

January 15, 2020 11:31

• Azerbaijani oppositionists claim unequal conditions for campaigning

  In Azerbaijan, the overpriced cost of campaigning on radio and TV Channels does not allow opposition parties and independent candidates to participate in the parliamentary campaign along with the ruling party, activists claim.