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January 08, 2019 10:53

• CoE's Commissioner and US Senator urge to drop charge against Mekhman Guseinov

  Dunya Miyatovic, the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe (CoE), has called on the Azerbaijani authorities to drop the new charge against Guseinov and provide him with the due medical care.

January 08, 2019 10:45

• Advocate of Chechen native demands to initiate torture case in colony

  Apti Akiev, a native of Chechnya, who is serving his prison term in the Omsk Region, was beaten up while being moved from a correctional facility. When Akiev was convoyed, they lost keys to the handcuffs, as a result, the handcuffs were drilled through, and Akiev received burns. However, an investigator saw no grounds for opening a criminal case.

January 08, 2019 08:35

• Baku police detain PFPA activists for five hours

  Six members of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA) were detained outside the Baku Court of Grave Crimes, when they came to the trial of their arrested comrades. They were released five hours after detention.

January 08, 2019 08:32

• Saratov activists demand to release of Oyub Titiev

  The participants of the "Strategy-6" picket in Saratov have held the first action in 2019 in support of Russian political prisoners, demanding to liberate Oyub Titiev, the head of the Grozny office of the Human Rights Centre (HRC) "Memorial".

January 07, 2019 22:10

• Thousands gathered for Christmas March in Tbilisi

  Residents of Tbilisi and Kutaisi took part in the traditional "Alilo" Christmas March; in the capital of Georgia, they were congratulated on the Christmas by President Salome Zurabishvili.

January 07, 2019 22:05

• Orthodox Baku residents tell about celebrating Christmas with families

  Christmas services were held in the Orthodox churches of Baku, Ganja and Khachmaz. Residents of Baku said that in their families the celebration of Christmas is a tribute to traditions.

January 07, 2019 17:27

• Week in the Caucasus: review of main events of December 31, 2018-January 6, 2019

  New Year celebrations and related tragic events; resonant murder in Ingushetia; return of Russian children from Iraq to their families; protest actions in support of Azerbaijani blogger Mekhman Guseinov; start of the "garbage reform" in the regions of Southern Russia, – see the review of these and other events in the Caucasus during the week of December 31, 2018-January 6, 2019, prepared by the "Caucasian Knot".

January 07, 2019 17:22

• Six activists detained at action in support of Mekhman Guseinov

  The Baku police have detained picketers in defence of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov, who had gone on a hunger strike in jail. However, the authorities report that he has himself stopped his protest.

January 07, 2019 17:20

• Azerbaijan claims shelling of five villages

  During the last 24 hours, the ceasefire regime in the conflict zone was violated for 28 times; the positions of the Azerbaijani militaries deployed in the villages of the Gazakh and Tovuz Districts came under fire, the country's Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated.

January 07, 2019 15:33

• Christmas services held in NKR's 89 churches

  The feast of the Epiphany, which unites Christmas and Baptism, was celebrated by the parishioners of the Armenian Apostolic Church. The festive divine services were held in 89 temples of the Artsakh Diocese.

January 07, 2019 15:28

• Christmas services passed in Chechnya under strengthened security measures

  This night, the Christmas holiday services were held in Chechnya under heightened security measures. In Grozny, the capital of the republic, there were also rescuers on duty near the Christian Orthodox churches.

January 07, 2019 15:21

• Son of Dagestani official accuses doctors of failure to help his father

  Gagarin Omarov, a deputy head of the Kizilyurt District administration and a former deputy of the Prosecutor of Khasavyurt, was taken to hospital, where he fell into a coma and died. His son, a resident of Khasavyurt, has complained in social networks about doctors' slowness and failure to render timely help to his father.

January 07, 2019 11:18

• Residents of Chechnya are scared by threats of deprivation of housing because of debts

  The residents of Grozny, who have debts on paying utility bills, received anonymous notifications about the upcoming seizure of their housing facilities for debt. However, lawyers have stated that such papers have no legal force and are intended to intimidate the debtors.

January 07, 2019 11:14

• From December 31, 2018, to January 6, 2019, two persons fell victim to armed conflict

  During the week of December 31, 2018, to January 6, 2019, in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus two persons suffered: one person was killed and one was wounded. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

January 06, 2019 11:14

• NKR blames Azerbaijan for 125 shelling attacks within a week

  During the period from December 30, 2018, to January 5, 2019, Azerbaijani soldiers fired 1000 shots at the positions of the Defence Army of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR), the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of the latter has stated.

January 06, 2019 11:03

• Kumyks condemn inscription replacement on monument to Turkish warriors in Dagestan

  On January 3, the inscription on the marble slab of the monument to the soldiers of the Caucasian Islamic Army erected in the Dagestan village of Agachaul was changed without authors' consent, members of seven Kumyk organizations have stated. They demanded to restore the original text.

January 06, 2019 10:54

• One of victims of Batumi hurricane dies

  A resident of Batumi hospitalized on January 4 after roof collapse because of a strong wind has died in hospital. Another victim was operated on; his life is out of danger.

January 06, 2019 10:43

• Children brought from Iraq handed over to relatives

  After examination at the Moscow Medical Centre, 30 children brought from the Middle East were handed over to their relatives, Anna Kuznetsova, the Russian Children's Ombudsperson, has informed today.

January 05, 2019 17:31

• Boy wounded in Derbent dies

  The three-year-old child, who received a gunshot wound on the New Year's Eve, has died today in a Derbent hospital.

January 05, 2019 17:17

• Three activists go on hunger strike in support of Mekhman Guseinov

  An activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), a member of the board of the "Musavat" Party and the head of the Centre for the Monitoring Political Prisoners have joined the hunger strike of the blogger Mekhman Guseinov, demanding to release him from custody.