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July 15, 2019 10:46

• Chechen girl forcibly taken away from Moscow, activist reports

  Relatives took a Chechen girl living in Moscow back to Chechnya against her will, and they force her to marry, reports an activist from the "Kitezh" centre.

July 15, 2019 10:34

• Ingush journalist tortured, his advocate claims

  Law enforcers tortured with electric current Rashid Maisigov, a detained Ingush journalist, his advocate Magomed Aushev claimed.

July 14, 2019 10:12

• Social network users discuss evacuation of 33 children from Iraq

  The Russian authorities took away from a Baghdad prison 33 children, whose mothers were sentenced or suspected of involvement in the ranks of militants. Social network users argue about whether those children should be transported to Russia. Residents of Chechnya, where nine of the children were brought, blamed Ramzan Kadyrov for self-PR actions.

July 14, 2019 10:08

• Ingush residents disappointed with detention of local activist

  Activist Zarifa Sautieva has become the first woman detained after rallies in Ingushetia, and that is a blatant fact for the Caucasus, users of social networks emphasize. Local residents noted that they were hoping in vain for an end to the persecution of activists after the change of power in the republic.

July 14, 2019 10:04

• Hunger strike in front of Georgian parliament building stopped

  The last two participants of the hunger strike with the demand for the resignation of the Georgian Interior Minister stopped their protest action due to the recommendation of the medical officers.

July 13, 2019 23:42

• Azerbaijan's appeal to OSCE Minsk Group provokes response of Nagorno-Karabakh

  The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) for Azerbaijan called on the OSCE Minsk Group to put pressure on Yerevan and Stepanakert to release Shakhbaz Guliev and Dilkham Askerov, sentenced in Nagorno-Karabakh. The men were sentenced for kidnapping and killing a teenager, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

July 13, 2019 23:40

• Court leaves Ingush activist Malsag Uzhakhov in custody

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria refused to grant an appeal filed against the arrest of Malsag Uzhakhov, the chairman of the Ingush Council of Teips (family clans), who was accused of calling for riots and attacks on law enforcers.

July 13, 2019 23:38

• Nagorno-Karabakh claims 90 shelling attacks from Azerbaijan over a week

  In the period from July 7 to 13, the Azerbaijani armed forces more than 90 times violated the ceasefire regime on the contact line and made about 800 shots, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Nagorno-Karabakh reported.

July 13, 2019 10:16

• Law enforcers detain two residents of Dagestan

  In the Khasavyurt District, law enforcers have detained two men for keeping firearms.

July 13, 2019 10:13

• Journalist Rashid Maisigov detained in Ingushetia

  Law enforcers have detained an oppositional journalist, Rashid Maisigov, and took him away to some unknown place.

July 13, 2019 10:06

• CoE's Human Rights Commissioner states threat to freedom of expression in Azerbaijan

  Azerbaijan should ease the pressure on the freedom of speech, improve the situation of lawyers and continue working towards solving the problems of forced migrants. This was stated by Dunya Miyatovich, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), on the outcomes of her visit to Azerbaijan.

July 13, 2019 10:02

• Chechen parliament approves renaming of Kadyrov's native village

  At their last sitting before the summer vacations, Chechen MPs have approved the renaming, which took place this May, of the native village of Ramzan Kadyrov into Akhmat-Yurt.

July 13, 2019 09:56

• Orientalists tell about Kunta-haji's role in preserving Islam in the Caucasus

  The mass events in honour of Kunta-haji Kishiev's birthday were organized in Chechnya through the use of administrative resources, residents of the republic report. The ideas of Kunta-haji had helped residents of the Caucasus not to abandon their faith during the years of repressions and atheistic propaganda, Islamic scholars have pointed out.

July 12, 2019 23:27

• Activist tells about late enforcement of ECtHR's decision by Azerbaijan

  Azer Gasymly, an oppositionist, has achieved, in a Baku court, a cancellation of his ban on leaving Azerbaijan. The ban was in force for more than six months after the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) declared it illegal, Mr Gasymly has noted.

July 12, 2019 23:20

• Armenian GPO reports death of 29 soldiers in six months

  In January-June 2019, during their military service, 11 servicemen of the Armenia Armed Forces and the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) perished; 18 other deaths were not related to the performance of service duties, the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Armenia has informed.

July 12, 2019 19:13

• Case of eight Dagestanis killed in Chechnya brought to court

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Chechnya began to consider the case of eight Dagestani residents, who, according to the law enforcement bodies, were plotting a terror act and were killed in a shootout. Relatives of the killed suspects demanded to unite the cases on the shootout in Chechnya and on kidnappings in Dagestan.

July 12, 2019 19:09

• Incident with Ingush minor exposes problem of conservatism of society in Caucasus

  A mother of a seven-year-old girl, beaten by an aunt in Ingushetia, said that she was not allowed to see her daughter. The tradition of leaving children in a father's family often leads to isolation of a child from society, lawyers report. In the regions of Northern Caucasus, the traditions do not always take into account the interests of a child, the newspaper "Novaya Gazeta" reports.

July 12, 2019 19:04

• EU and Georgia enter into agreements for 46.6 million euros

  On July 11, at the conference held in Batumi, the European Union (EU) agreed to allocate 46.6 million euros to Georgia for programmes to strengthen the security and improve the efficiency of the country's economic management.

July 12, 2019 17:01

• In Abkhazia, Georgian citizen detained for illegal border crossing

  Beglar Tsilosani, a citizen of Georgia, was placed to a SIZO (pre-trial prison) on suspicion of illegally crossing the border. His daughter who was with him was handed over to her mother, the State Security Service of Abkhazia reported.

July 12, 2019 16:56

• Court refuses to transfer Ingush activist under house arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Kabardino-Balkaria dismissed a complaint filed against the extension of the arrest of activist Zubeir Khamkhoev, involved as a suspect in the case on the March rally in Magas.