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НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН И РАСПРОСТРАНЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ ООО “МЕМО”, ЛИБО КАСАЕТСЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА ООО “МЕМО”.

June 15, 2017 12:29

  • Chechen villagers report young people's detentions

    In the village of Novogrozny, power agents are looking for the author of a video depicting the demolition by the authorities of residential houses, and detained over 10 persons, local residents report. In their turn, Chechen law enforcers said they had no information about detentions.

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  • Afghan Mukhtarly's detention. Photo by Aziz Karimov for "Caucasian Knot" Investigators forbid reporters to talk about interrogation in Mukhtarly's case

    The journalist Sevinj Vagifgyzy, questioned within the criminal case opened against her colleague Afghan Mukhtarly, was forced to sign a non-disclosure obligation, her advocate reports. Members of the oppositional "Musavat" Party have also been summoned for questioning. The party leader has treated the Mukhtarly's case as politically motivated.

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  • June 14, near the building of the court: activist Irina Barkhatova, fined 20,000 roubles for participation in the rally; activist Alexei Bychkov, sentenced to five days in jail; activist Vitaly Buchenkov sentenced to five days in jail. Photo by Svetlana Kravchenko In Sochi, two Alexei Navalny's supporters arrested for 5 days

    The Central District Court of Sochi has sentenced Alexei Bychkov and Vitaly Buchenkov to administrative arrest for participation in an anticorruption rally. It took ten minutes from the Court to pronounce the decision to arrest both activists, and no people were allowed to attend the court hearing.

June 14, 2017 20:40

  • Reuters: two gays from Chechnya report about detentions and torture

    Two young people from Chechnya have reported about torture and beatings to which they were subjected in the republic because of their homosexual orientation. One of them reported that he was tortured with electric current, and the second man managed to escape from the house, where his relatives planned to kill him.

June 14, 2017 19:37

  • Lom-Ali Gaitukaev. Photo http://www.1news.az Gaitukaev's funeral in Chechnya attended by about a thousand

    Lom-Ali Gaitukaev, who was convicted for the murder of Anna Politkovskaya and died in a Vologda colony, was buried into the cemetery of Achkhoy-Martan village, his relatives have reported. In Achkhoy-Martan, they do not believe that Gaitukaev was the organizer of Politkovskaya's murder, said a local woman.

June 14, 2017 18:54

  • Fikret Faramazoglu. Photo: http://haqqin.az/news/74306 Azerbaijani journalist Fikret Faramazoglu sentenced to seven years in prison

    In Baku, the court has found journalist Fikret Faramazoglu guilty of extortion. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment with the prohibition to be engaged in journalistic activities for two years after his release. He himself claimed being tortured after his arrest. His defence intends to appeal against the verdict.

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  • At the site of an armed attack on a checkpoint of the road-and-patrols service (known as DPS) in Ingushetia. May 12, 2017. Photo nac.gov.ru Whereabouts of men wounded in shootout in Ingushetia remains unknown

    Officials from the Investigating Department for Ingushetia of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) have stated that they are not aware of an investigation into an assassination attempt on two relatives of suspected militant Magomed Bekbuzarov. The condition and whereabouts of the wounded men are also unknown.

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Relatives of Chechen young men shocked by secret verdict

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