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February 24, 2019 10:50

• Azerbaijani oppositionist Magerram Rzaev arrested for 15 days

  The decision of the court to arrest Magerram Rzaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), became known to his relatives only a day after his arrest. The PFPA believes that Rzaev is prosecuted for political reasons.

February 24, 2019 10:48

• LGBT activist in Stavropol complains of receiving new threats

  Artyom Shitukhin, an LGBT activist, has stated that he began receiving threats after his personal data got into the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA).

February 23, 2019 22:47

• Germany to allocate 10 million euros to Georgia for forced migrants

  Germany will finance the construction of kindergartens and 236 houses for families of forced migrants from Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

February 23, 2019 22:46

• Kadyrov allows mourning events on deportation anniversary

  On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of Chechens' and Ingushes' deportation, mosques are holding morning rites; and a mourning meeting is scheduled in Grozny. Local residents did not expect the lift of ban on mourning events.

February 23, 2019 22:45

• Head of Ingushetia was booed at memorial to repression victims (+video)

  At official events on the occasion of the Fatherland Defender's Day and the 75th anniversary of Ingushes' deportation, activists expressed their protest against combining the holiday and the mourning. The speech of Yunus-Bek Evkurov, the head of Ingushetia, was accompanied by whistles and shouts.

February 23, 2019 19:21

• Widow of North-Ossetian resident who died at police station tells about his detention

  On February 22, Zemfira Tskaeva told the court that after her husband's detention, law enforcers told no details about him; and she learned about his death from her acquaintance-morgue employee. Her advocate intends to request the materials of Tskaev's case and to clarify the alleged falsifications.

February 23, 2019 11:50

• RWB demands to cancel Mustafa Gadjibeili's verdict

  The international organization in defence of journalists, "Reporters Without Borders" (RWB) has condemned the verdict rendered in Azerbaijan to Mustafa Gadjibeili, the editor-in-chief of the website "Bastainfo.com". The RWB has called on the international community to impose sanctions on those responsible for such severe measures.

February 23, 2019 11:28

• Relatives of Dagestani blogger Mirzekhanov link his arrest with law enforcers' persecutions

  The arrest of Alibek Mirzekhanov in Moscow is a continuation of his persecutions by law enforcers in Dagestan, from where he fled after kidnapping and torture in 2013, Alibek's brother Mansur believes. According to Alibek's advocate, Mirzekhanov is imputed the involvement in the "Islamic State" (IS), a terrorist organization banned in Russia by the court.

February 23, 2019 10:27

• Chechen minister and blogger argue on reasons of Chechen War

  Djambulat Umarov, the Chechen Minister for National Policy, who has called the blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov to an online discussion, could not answer the blogger's question about Akhmat Kadyrov and his calls for jihad. Social networks users regard that Abdurakhmanov was more convincing in the discussion.

February 23, 2019 08:57

• Four persons detained at Salafi mosque in Makhachkala

  Law enforcers have taken away four believers after the prayer in the mosque in Omarov Street in Makhachkala, a similar raid was conducted at the mosque in the dwelling settlement of Semender, eyewitnesses have reported.

February 23, 2019 08:54

• Anniversary of Vainakhs' deportation reminds of motives for mourning abolition in Chechnya

  The refusal of the Chechen authorities to mark the deportation anniversary has to do with the softening of Russian authorities' attitude to Stalinism and an attempt to stifle the protest moods of residents of Chechnya, who, together with those of Ingushetia, remember the deportation, regardless of the policies of local authorities, Caucasus historians have noted.

February 23, 2019 08:52

• Session of Abkhaz Parliament outrages anti-corruption protesters

  The Parliament of Abkhazia has failed to find time to consider the bill on liability for illegal enrichment, because it was placed into the end of the agenda, activists have stated.

February 23, 2019 00:15

• Investigation of oppositionist Alexei Navalny leads to demands to punish Caucasian clans

  The investigation conducted by the oppositionist Alexei Navalny about the influential clans in Karachay-Cherkessia has triggered a sharp reaction of social network users, who called on the authorities to clear out the situation.

February 22, 2019 23:59

• "Muslim Unity" activist complains about torture to the court

  At the trial, Bakhtiyar Bagirov, an activist of the "Muslim Unity" Movement, has complained about being tortured after detention. The court has ignored his statement.

February 22, 2019 23:55

• Ingush activist arrested for trying to hold action in memory of deportation

  A court in Nazran has arrested Urus Kurskiev, an activist, for three days for an attempt to hold an unsanctioned march of the deported nations of the Caucasus.

February 22, 2019 18:56

• Mother of Chechen native asks to save her son from torture at SIZO

  Apti Akiev, a native of Chechnya, who is kept at the SIZO (pre-trial prison) in the Omsk Region, is being tortured. Law enforcers are trying to force him to confess to being one of the organizers of riots in the colony, his mother Maret Akieva has stated.

February 22, 2019 18:49

• Activist detained in Ingushetia after rally announcement

  Urus Kurskiev, an Ingush activist, who had called for a march of the sons of the deported nations of the Caucasus to be held today, was brought to the Centre for Countering Extremism (CCE or "E" Centre) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Ingushetia.

February 22, 2019 16:55

• Azerbaijan claims machine gun fire in conflict zone

  The positions of the Azerbaijani Army in the Karabakh conflict zone were shelled for 22 times a day, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reported.

February 22, 2019 16:43

• Georgian court arrests activist Zviad Kuprava

  The Prosecutor's Office has persuaded the court to change the release on bail for custody of Zviad Kuprava, a participant in the protest actions against the sentence in the case of the murder of teenagers in Tbilisi.

February 22, 2019 12:24

• Native of Armenia tells about threat to his security after brawl in "Neolit" Cafe

  Garnik Vardanyan, who was declared by Fuad Abbasov, the head of the Centre for Information Initiatives, as a possible instigator of the mass brawl in Moscow, said he has to hide for security reasons. He treats himself as a victim of a provocation.