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June 21, 2019 23:36

• Ingush residents hold collective prayer in support of activists

  In Magas, policemen who were patrolling the namaz prayer area joined the collective prayer.

June 21, 2019 23:22

• CE Commissioner reacts to journalists' injuries in Tbilisi

  Dunja Mijatović, Council of Europe (CE) Commissioner for Human Rights, urged the Georgian authorities to investigate the clashes in which Beslan Kmuzov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, and other journalists were injured.

June 21, 2019 18:56

• Georgian authorities announce resignation of Parliament Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze

  Today, Kakha Kaladze, one of the leaders of the "Georgian Dream-Democratic Movement" ruling party, has announced that Irakli Kobakhidze, Speaker of the Georgian parliament, decided to resign. According to Kakha Kaladze, the Irakli Kobakhidze's decision is related to the principles of the party.

June 21, 2019 18:26

• Oyub Titiev: I never stopped and will continue being engaged in human rights activities

  After his release from a penal settlement colony, Oyub Titiev has reported that he will not be working for the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial" office in Chechnya. However, he has promised that he will continue his human rights activities.

June 21, 2019 18:15

• In Tbilisi, 240 people hospitalized after dispersal of protest action

  This morning, a protest rally in front of the parliament building in the capital of Georgia has ended with detentions of protesters. According to the Georgian Ministry for Public Health, 240 people were hospitalized.

June 21, 2019 13:53

• Oyub Titiev released in Argun (+video)

  Today, Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial", has left his penal colony in Argun, where he had been imprisoned on charges of drug possession.

June 21, 2019 13:33

• Dagestani editors-in-chief explain their support to Gadjiev by distrust in law enforcers

  The refusal of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Dagestan to sanction a rally in support of Abdulmumin Gadjiev, one of the editors of the "Chernovik" (Draft) weekly, will be appealed against, said the initiator of the action. The journalists' solidarity with Gadjiev is caused by the decreased confidence in the actions of law enforcement bodies, Dagestani editors-in chief believe.

June 21, 2019 11:15

• Derbent women hold action in support of their detained sons

  In the city of Derbent, Elena Barzukaeva and Zeinab Kurbanova have held solo pickets with a demand to release their sons, detained within the case of weapon possession.

June 21, 2019 11:01

• Chechen Diasporas side Kadyrov in conflict with Dagestan

  The Chechnya's conflicts with neighbouring regions on border issues have consolidated Chechens both in the republic and abroad; however, Ramzan Kadyrov's and his entourage's scandalous statements spoil relations among nations, the experts interviewed by the "Caucasian Knot" believe.

June 21, 2019 10:49

• Over 60 people suffered at Tbilisi riots

  As a result of the dispersal of the protest action at the parliament building in Tbilisi, 30 protesters and 39 policemen were hospitalized with various traumas. Law enforcers detained activists, who resisted the police.

June 21, 2019 10:39

• "Caucasian Knot" correspondent wounded at protest action in Tbilisi

  Beslan Kmuzov, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, who was present at the protest action held at the parliament building in Tbilisi, was hospitalized with a wound in his head.

June 21, 2019 01:06

• Advocate reports new Malsag Uzhakhov's criminal case

  Malsag Uzhakhov, the head of the Council of Teips of the Ingush people, who was arrested within the case of the rally in Magas, is accused of creating an organization that violates citizens' identities and rights.

June 21, 2019 00:55

• Tbilisi protesters demand resignation of MIA and SSS heads

  The protest action began in Tbilisi on June 20, after at a sitting of the Parliamentary Assembly, held in the building of the Georgian Parliament, Sergey Gavrilov, a Russian State Duma MP, sat into the chair of the Speaker. This displeased some of the Georgian MPs; and they announced the start of the Speaker's impeachment procedure.

June 20, 2019 21:24

• Georgian opposition demands Speaker's resignation amid scandal

  The sitting of the Russian MP in the chair of the Speaker of the Georgian Parliament during the International Parliamentary Orthodox Assembly has provoked an oppositionists' protest. They announced the start of the Speaker's impeachment procedure.

June 20, 2019 21:15

• Opponent of LGBT "March of Dignity" detained in Tbilisi

  Guram Palavandishvili, an activist, who participated in creating a legion against holding the "March of Dignity" in Tbilisi, was arrested today for resisting the police, the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) has informed.

June 20, 2019 20:23

• Relatives of Ingush activists complain to President Putin about their persecution

  Women from Ingushetia recorded a video appeal to Vladimir Putin. In their appeal, they complain that their relatives are being unreasonably persecuted after a rally in Magas. In its turn, the Council of Teips (family clans) called on residents of the republic to meet every week for collective prayer in support of the arrested activists.

June 20, 2019 20:11

• Azerbaijan claims 20 shelling attacks in conflict zone

  Positions of the Azerbaijani army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled from large-calibre machine guns, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for Azerbaijan reports today.

June 20, 2019 15:02

• Infographics. Statistics of victims in Northern Caucasus in April 2019 under the data of the Caucasian Knot

June 20, 2019 14:43

• Native of Dagestan detained in Moscow has contacted his relatives

  On June 19, Ali Aliomarov, a native of Dagestan, whose disappearance worried his relatives, told his wife that law enforcers detained him in Moscow and planned to transport him to the Stavropol Territory. The man explained that the large amount of money found at him came from the sale of his car and was not raised to finance terrorists.

June 20, 2019 14:33

• Pogorov's father calls on President Putin to intervene in situation with Ingush activists

  In his video appeal to the President of Russia, Sarazhudin Pogorov, a 93-year-old father of Akhmed Pogorov, the co-Chair of the World Congress of the Ingush People, stood up for the arrested activists and requested the President to investigate the situation in Ingushetia.