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March 25, 2019 11:01

• Relatives report traces of beatings on Tuntuev's body

  Ayub Tuntuev, a former security of the Chechen leader, who was found dead in a colony, has been buried into the clan cemetery. Relatives found bruises on his body, while examination established the absence of kidneys and a lung in Tuntuev's body.

March 25, 2019 10:48

• Pavel Grib demands due quality of medical examination

  The Ukrainian citizen Pavel Grib, convicted for incitement to a terror act in a Sochi school, demanded to undergo a medical examination in the presence of independent experts and the Ukrainian Ombudsperson, Leonid Petrashis, the head of the Public Oversight Commission (POC) of the Rostov Region, who has visited Grib at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), has announced.

March 25, 2019 10:09

• Grozny students state enforcement to march on Constitution Day

  In Grozny, about 4000 people took part in the march on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the Chechen Constitution, the city authorities have announced. However, the marchers themselves complained about their forced participation in the event.

March 25, 2019 09:56

• Rights defenders count 87 political prisoners in Azerbaijan

  After the pardoning, Azerbaijani jails still keep 87 political prisoners, the study of the Union "For the Freedom of Political Prisoners of Azerbaijan" asserts. Rights defenders have called on the authorities to release political prisoners and stop the practice of criminal prosecution of citizens on politically motivated charges.

March 24, 2019 10:37

• European diplomats criticize verdict to Pavel Grib

  Pavel Grib, convicted on charges of incitement to terror act, should be released, the external relations service of the European Union has stated. Jeremy Hunt, the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has pointed to the political background of the persecution of the Ukrainian citizen.

March 24, 2019 10:32

• Defence of Robert Kocharyan, ex-President of Armenia, files fifth lawsuit to ECtHR

  The appeal to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) concerns the fact that the complaint against the refusal to release Robert Kocharyan from December 2018 has not been accepted yet, the advocate, Ayk Alumyan, has stated. According to his story, this is the fifth complaint submitted to the ECtHR.

March 24, 2019 10:28

• Analysts point to threat of solo terror acts in Dagestan

  Despite the decrease of the terrorist threat, the likelihood of new attacks undertaken by single terrorists persists in Dagestan, journalists and political analysts have stated.

March 24, 2019 10:24

• Yerevan activists oppose paid car parks

  In a street of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, seven activists of the initiative "In Name of Justice" repainted red marking lines of a car park into purple in protesting against toll car parks in the city.

March 23, 2019 19:41

• Turkey extradites religious activist to Azerbaijan

  Anar Djabbarov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" Movement (MUM), detained in Turkey, was brought to Baku. Rights defenders associate the persecution of Djabbarov with the conflict in Nardaran.

March 23, 2019 19:34

• Opposition nominates Saakashvili's wife as Zugdidi Mayor

  Sandra Roelofs, the wife of the third Georgian president, will run for the Mayor of the city of Zugdidi at the interim election on May 19. Ms Roelofs has great chances to win, although the struggle at the Zugdidi election will be tough, political analysts believe.

March 23, 2019 12:34

• Social networks users treat judgement on Zarifa Sautieva's case as fair

  The court judgement to reinstate Zarifa Sautieva at work, after she was dismissed for taking part in protests against the agreement on Ingush-Chechen border, is fair, social network users believe. Zarifa, who associated her dismissal with political motives, plans to go to work on March 25.

March 23, 2019 12:29

• Canadian MPs set up friendship group with NKR

  Members of the Canadian Parliament have united into a friendship group with the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR) under the leadership of Rachel Harder, a member of the House of Commons of the Kingdom.

March 23, 2019 09:06

• On the eve of release, Geriev is punished by 15 days in dungeon

  Zhalaudi Geriev, a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, was placed for 15 days into the dungeon (punishment cell) of the colony, where he is serving his sentence. In this way, the bosses of the Chechen colony have punished Geriev for his refusal to go out of his cell due to health problems.

March 22, 2019 23:56

• Ingush activist Zarifa Sautieva achieves reinstatement

  The court reinstated Zarifa Sautieva, dismissed after participating in protests against the agreement on the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya. The activist's dismissal is of political nature, notes Timur Akiev, the head of the of Human Rights Centre "Memorial" office in Ingushetia.

March 22, 2019 23:51

• Officials to investigate injuries of Chechen prisoners in penal colony in Mordovia

  The Public Oversight Commission (POC) of Mordovia began an inspection in a penal colony where prisoners injured themselves in protest. Former prisoners from Chechnya reported about the problems in the penal colony, while the chiefs of the Federal Penitentiary Service (known as FSIN) Department called the action an attempt of blackmail.

March 22, 2019 22:07

• Blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov reports threats from refugee from Chechnya

  A native of Chechnya, who came to Germany in search of asylum, has offered help to the Speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov, who had announced blood feud to Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the blogger himself has stated.

March 22, 2019 22:04

• Chechen state servants complain about forced subbotnik

  Employees of state institutions of the Shelkovskoy District of Chechnya have stated that participation in the subbotnik was compulsory for them: people went out to clean the streets, fearing to lose their jobs.

March 22, 2019 21:56

• Russia's SC takes side of terminally ill prisoner from Dagestan

  A court in the Komi Republic that refused to release a fourth-degree cancer patient Magomedsaid Gazaliev, has incorrectly interpreted the norms of the law that govern the release of prisoners, the Supreme Court (SC) of the Russian Federation has stated.

March 22, 2019 19:56

• Two Georgian scientists demand to exclude them from Ukraine's sanctions list

  Two citizens of Georgia, Merab Khalvashi, Rector of the Batumi University, and Miranda Turmanidze, a scientific researcher at the Batumi Archaeological Museum, have been put on the sanctions list of Ukraine. They are outraged by the sanctions imposed on them.

March 22, 2019 19:53

• Followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji tell their version of Surkhakhi shootout

  There was no shootout among followers of Sheikh Batal-Khadji in the Ingush village of Surkhakhi, and reports of a split in the Batalkhaji Vird are truthless, members of the Vird assert.