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September 24, 2019 22:06

• ECtHR obliges Russia to pay 920,000 euros to families of disappeared Chechen residents

  Today, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has pronounced the decision in the case of "Baisultanova et al. vs. Russia" and obliged the Russian authorities to pay compensation to family members of the ten disappeared residents of Chechnya.

September 24, 2019 21:52

• Tkibuli miners demand to pay wage arrears

  Today, in Tkibuli, 15 miners of the Mindeli mine and the same number of miners of the Dzidziguri mine have refused to leave the mines until the wage arrears are paid, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reports with reference to the report of the Georgian "Mtavari" TV Company.

September 24, 2019 21:40

• Natives of Chechnya and Dagestan complain of abuses in penal colony

  Murad Shuaibov, sentenced on the charge of murdering a Dagestani journalist, reported on the practice of beating of prisoners in a penal colony. Anzor Gubashev, sentenced for the murder of Boris Nemtsov, complained about being abused for professing of Islam. Magomed Magomedov, a former member of the Dagestani parliament, complained about extortion of money in the penitentiary institution where he was serving his sentence.

September 24, 2019 17:47

• Law enforcers disrupt picket of Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva's sisters

  Law enforcers did not bring any charges against two elderly sisters of arrested Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva after they had been detained during a protest action, reported advocate Bilan Dzugaev. One of the sisters went on a picket in a square with the demand to release Zarifa Sautieva.

September 24, 2019 17:36

• Lawyers treat charges against Ingush activists as a precedent

  Investigators explain clashes between Ingush activists and law enforcers in Magas with "political hostility" and used a case-law charge of "organization of violence," advocates note. A new form of persecution of activists can be used in cases on riots in other regions, the lawyers suggest.

September 24, 2019 14:37

• In Tbilisi, protesters criticise list of candidates for judges of Supreme Court

  On September 23, at a protest action in Tbilisi, independent lawyers spoke out against consideration at the parliament of a list of candidates for the positions of judges of the Supreme Court (SC). The selection of candidates was carried out on a clan (family) basis, the protestors say.

September 24, 2019 14:27

• Incident at "Chermen" checkpoint provokes criticism of checkpoints in Northern Caucasus

  A bus driver from Ingushetia was fined and released after a conflict with law enforcers at the "Chermen" checkpoint, the Ingush Ministry for National Affairs reported. Checkpoints at the border between the republics of Northern Caucasus complicate international relations, believes human rights defender Magomed Mutsolgov.

September 24, 2019 11:24

• Penitentiary Service reacts sceptically to statement about pressure on Kerimli

  The statement about pressure on the advocate, Nemat Kerimli, in the colony, where his client journalist, Afghan Mukhtarly, is kept, caused doubts, the Azerbaijani Penitentiary Service has reported. The Kerimli's arguments were not confirmed preliminarily, the Bar Association has stated. The advocate himself treats the reaction to his appeal as biased.

September 24, 2019 11:11

• Akhsan Nuruzade placed into dungeon

  Akhsan Nuruzade, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" movement, was placed into dungeon (punishment cell) after talking to inmates on the Ganja case in the colony. The colony staff is trying to limit contacts of political prisoners, said Ogtai Gyulyalyev, a rights defender.

September 24, 2019 08:42

• Kochesoko demands to punish law enforcers who detained him

  Martin Kochesoko, the head of the Circassian public organization "Khabze", has demanded to criminally prosecute the law enforcers who detained him on charges of drug dealing. The activist claims that the drugs were planted on him, while his defence insists on the political background of his case.

September 24, 2019 08:33

• Makhi Idrisov placed under house arrest

  Makhi Idrisov, who boasted in a social network of his friendship with Ramzan Kadyrov, was placed under house arrest for a month within the case of illegal arms dealing.

September 24, 2019 08:25

• Mukhtarly placed into dungeon after announcing hunger strike

  Afghan Mukhtarly, a journalist convicted in Azerbaijan, who went on a hunger strike in protest against pressure on his advocate, was placed into a dungeon (punishment cell), his wife has informed.

September 23, 2019 21:54

• PACE Rapporteur calls on to revise attitude to refugees from Chechnya

  After his one-day visit to Grozny, Frank Schwabe, the Rapporteur of the PACE on human rights in Northern Caucasus, has admitted that the realities demonstrated to him by Chechen authorities contradicted the reports of human rights defenders on human rights violations in the republic, but promised to draw up an objective report for the Council of Europe.

September 23, 2019 21:39

• Resident of North Ossetia sentenced to 10 years in prison for preparing terror act

  The North-Caucasian Military Court has found Timur Albakov guilty of preparing a terror act and an attempt to join the "Islamic State" (IS, formerly, the ISIL), a terrorist organization, banned in Russia by the court, and sentenced him to 10 years in colony.

September 23, 2019 18:21

• Azerbaijani journalist claims being detained during protest rally

  Law enforcers did not let Tapdyg Farkhadoglu, a correspondent of the Voice of America (VOA), to cover a protest rally in Baku, and after his detention, he was advised against shooting any more "against statehood," the journalist himself reported. His colleagues treated the incident as pressure on freedom of speech.

September 23, 2019 18:02

• Vladimir Putin orders to allocate money for army of Abkhazia

  The President of Russia instructed the Minister of Defence to sign an agreement proposed by the Russian government with Abkhazia on financing the costs of modernizing the armed forces of the republic.

September 23, 2019 17:58

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of September 16-22, 2019

  CTO in Kabardino-Balkaria; hunger strike of Afghan war veterans in Makhachkala; renaming of the Sunzha District of Chechnya, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of September 16-22, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

September 23, 2019 17:52

• Azerbaijani MoD releases its version of soldier's death in conflict zone

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan called the version about an attack on the border with Nagorno-Karabakh a lie and reported that deceased soldier Ramin Abdulrakhmanov got lost on the border territory.

September 23, 2019 15:02

• On September 16-22, 2019, two persons fell victim to armed conflict in Northern Caucasus

  During the week of September 16-22, 2019, two persons fell victim to the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No wounded were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

September 23, 2019 14:46

• Umarov's phrase about Kadyrov's non-alternative election causes misunderstanding in Chechnya

  The election of the leader of Chechnya, won three years ago by Ramzan Kadyrov, could not be called an "election with alternative candidates," announced Djambulat Umarov, Minister of National Policy of Chechnya, on September 18. Residents of the Chechen Republic drew attention to the ambiguity of the statement voiced by the Minister.