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July 05, 2019 21:02

• In Georgia, hunger-striker hospitalized

  Activist Khatuna Beridze, who participated in the hunger strike in front of the Bidzina Ivanishvili's residence in Shekvetili with the demand for the resignation of the Georgian Interior Minister, was hospitalized.

July 05, 2019 20:57

• Court leaves Azerbaijani activist Fuad Akhmedli in prison

  The Court of Appeal dismissed a complaint filed by Fuad Akhmedli, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), about the refusal in conditional early relief (CER). Members of the PFPA treat the court's decision as a "political order."

July 05, 2019 15:59

• Seven-year-old girl cruelly beaten in Ingushetia

  A female relative of a seven-year-old girl, who was hospitalized with injuries in grave condition, is suspected of beating up the child, the Investigating Department (ID) for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) has reported.

July 05, 2019 15:57

• Resident of Dagestani Khasavyurt complains about beating by law enforcers

  Islam Saritov, a resident of Khasavyurt, has suggested that law enforcers had beaten him up out of revenge for his complaints about torture and fabrication of his criminal case. The second figurant in the case has stated that he was forced to slander himself and Saritov, the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" has reported.

July 05, 2019 10:22

• Rights defenders point to police's mistakes made at dispersing protesters in Tbilisi

  By their actions, protesters provoked policemen to start dispersing them, but law enforcers behaved excessively aggressively; and they unreasonably used special means, the Georgian Centre for Human Rights Education and Monitoring (CHREM) has stated.

July 05, 2019 08:56

• Dagestani authorities reject all applications for actions in support of journalist Gadjiev

  Under various pretexts, authorities have refused to sanction any of the seven applied actions in defence of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, a journalist of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly; however, attempts to hold a rally in Makhachkala will continue, protest organizers have stated.

July 05, 2019 08:53

• Georgian GPO qualifies Tbilisi protests as an attempt of coup d'etat

  The case of using violence at rallies in Tbilisi will be investigated under the article on an attempt to overthrow the power, the Georgian General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed. The Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has reported detention of four activists suspected of attacking policemen.

July 05, 2019 08:45

• Advocate reports threats received because he defends Azerbaijani journalist

  Elchin Sadygov, an Azerbaijani lawyer, who is defending the journalist, Polad Aslanov, accused of treason, says that that he has received threats. He treats them as pressure related to his professional activities, indicating the plight of advocacy and journalism in Azerbaijan, the NGO activists interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

July 04, 2019 23:56

• Makhachkala picketers demand to drop charges against Ashikovs and Abdurashidov

  Relatives of Ziyavudin Ashikov, the acting head of the Kaspiysk police, his brother Raip Ashikov and Omar Abdurashidov came out to pickets in the capital of Dagestan, stating that the men are illegally prosecuted for alleged financing terrorism.

July 04, 2019 23:48

• Orientalists treat threat of Islamic extremism in Azerbaijan as negligible

  The Azerbaijani militants, who have recorded their oath to the leader of the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court, are extremely small in number and have no influence on believers inside the country; while Azerbaijani authorities keep all religious groups under control, Orientalists believe.

July 04, 2019 20:51

• Body of policeman killed in Chechnya sent home

  The body of the policeman from Novokuznetsk, killed in an attack on a police checkpoint in Chechnya, will be buried tomorrow in his homeland, reports the Department for Kemerovo of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). Investigators are engaged in questioning relatives and friends of the attacker, the Chechen MIA reports.

July 04, 2019 19:50

• In Derbent, hunger-strikers need medical help

  In Derbent, the health states of both participants of the hunger strike have deteriorated sharply at night. However, the women refused to be hospitalized, reported a female relative of one of the hunger-strikers.

July 04, 2019 14:14

• "Georgian Dream" Party holds opposition responsible for riots in Tbilisi

  The dispersal of the protest action in Tbilisi, during which dozens of protestors and journalists were injured, was a response to the calls for assaulting the parliament building, stated Kakha Kaladze, Secretary General of the ruling "Georgian Dream" Party. Activist Giorgi Mshveniradze treats the Kakha Kaladze's statement as an attempt of the authorities to relieve themselves of all responsibility for the victims.

July 04, 2019 14:13

• EU condemns ban on flights from Russia to Georgia

  The decision of the Russian authorities to ban flights to and from Georgia is an unreasonable measure that will "adversely affect" citizens of both countries, the European Union declares.

July 04, 2019 14:07

• CE reports new stage in fight against family violence in Armenia

  On July 3, Armenia started to introduce measures under the Istanbul Convention to combat family violence. The programme includes retraining of lawyers, police officers, and social workers, reports the Council of Europe (CE) Office in Yerevan.

July 04, 2019 11:07

• Termination of adaptation programmes increases threat of militants' stepping up in Northern Caucasus

  So far, the growth in the number of armed incidents in Kabardino-Balkaria does not mean a real militants' activation, but the conditions for the operation of the armed underground have not disappeared, but the work on militants' adaptation has been curtailed, analysts assert.

July 04, 2019 11:03

• Russian court refuses applying Assad's amnesty to Chechen native

  The Syrian President, Bashar Hafez al-Assad, has announced a general amnesty, but a Perm court refused to change the verdict and release a native of Chechnya, convicted for participating in the Syrian conflict on the side of militants, from his colony.

July 04, 2019 10:56

• Rights defenders treat "borderization" as major factor of anti-Russian protests in Georgia

  The erection of fortifications on the demarcation lines with South Ossetia and Abkhazia is painfully perceived by the Georgian society and supports anti-Russian sentiments in it, as can be seen from the recent protests in Tbilisi, the Amnesty International (AI) has stated.

July 04, 2019 10:49

• Analysts treat mass detentions after attacks in Chechnya as lawlessness

  The practice of mass detentions of acquaintances of a suspected militant is not unique for Chechnya and Northern Caucasus; this is a common method of Russian law enforcers, said Ruslan Kutaev, the head of the Assembly of Caucasian Nations.

July 03, 2019 23:46

• Court reduces Ingush elder Akhmed Barakhoev's arrest

  The Supreme Court (SC) of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR) has reduced the arrest of the Ingush elder, Ahmed Barakhoev, from three to two months.