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January 28, 2025 21:47

• Dagestani native Magomed Magomedov achieves public outcry around his case on torture at police

  Magomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who complained about torture at a police station, has been visited in a temporary detention facility (IVS) in Moscow by officials from the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF) and the prosecutor’s office. Human rights defenders have also visited the defendant in the IVS.

January 28, 2025 21:11

• Makhachkala resident complains about falsification of terrorism case

  Devlet Ismailov, a resident of Makhachkala, has claimed that the law enforcement bodies fabricated a case against him for creating a terrorist organization and that a court arrested him without any grounds.

January 27, 2025 22:00

• AI points to worsening human rights situation in Azerbaijan

  The human rights organization Amnesty International (AI) has noted the intensification of repressions against journalists and activists in Azerbaijan and called on the international community to condemn human rights violations.

January 27, 2025 21:59

• Rights activists point to worsening political freedoms in Azerbaijan

  In 2024, the human rights situation in Azerbaijan worsened in all the parameters of political freedoms; repressions against journalists and activists intensified, and custody conditions in detention places grew poorer.

January 27, 2025 21:56

• Native of Dagestan blames law enforcers of torture

  Magomed Magomedov, a native of Dagestan, who lives in Moscow, has claimed that he was tortured after being detained on suspicion of upgrading weapons.

January 25, 2025 23:49

• Relatives claim fabrication of criminal case against Chechen resident

  Khamidulla Yapov, a resident of Chechnya, has served two sentences for his links with Chechen militants in 1999-2000; but after his terms were over, he was charged with new accusations.

January 25, 2025 22:42

• After working with Zaira Pirova, the SK SOS Crisis Group* has to change shelter

  During the stay at the shelter of Zaira Pirova, who later left for Georgia and from there returned to Dagestan to her relatives, unknown people tried to enter the shelter for violence victims. The SK SOS Crisis Group* changed the address of the shelter; since human rights defenders found it useless to turn to the police.

January 25, 2025 16:46

• “Abzas Media” editor-in-chief complains about pressure in SIZO

  Sevindj Vagifgyzy, the editor-in-chief of the “Abzas Media”, who was arrested in Baku, claimed that she again faced physical violence and discrimination from warders.

January 24, 2025 23:32

• Alley of memory for perished journalists opened in Makhachkala

  The journalists’ community of Dagestan has long sought to open a monument in Makhachkala to pay tribute to media workers who perished while performing their professional duties.

January 24, 2025 22:56

• Musaeva’s health state worsened in SIZO

  Zarema Musaeva, who is being kept at a SIZO (pre-trial prison) in Grozny, has experienced worsening knee pain.

January 24, 2025 21:52

• European journalists speak out in support of Mziya Amaglobeli

  European organizations of journalists have issued an appeal to the authorities of Georgia calling them on to stop persecuting Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Netgazeti” and “Batumelebi”online publications, and to investigate the brutal treatment to which she had been subjected.

January 24, 2025 21:47

• Defendants in Makhachkala riot case complain of beatings

  Magomedgadji Chirgilaev and Yasin Gadjiev, figurants in the case of the riots at Makhachkala Airport, have reported that they had been beaten up to force them to incriminate themselves.

January 24, 2025 21:31

• Tbilisi marchers demand to release detainees

  Students and teachers from two higher schools have marched through the streets of Tbilisi demanding the release of those detained during protests.

January 23, 2025 23:50

• Lawyers assess blogger Alibekov’s chances for CER

  Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger from the city of Novorossiysk, can hope for conditional early relief (CER), if he has no violations and the suffered policeman agrees to this, lawyers have indicated in their comments on the reduction of Askhabali’s punishment.

January 23, 2025 22:46

• Rights defenders assess new wave of fight against car window tinting in Chechnya

  The new stage of counteracting car window tinting in Chechnya entails additional risks for drivers, but residents of the republic mainly tint their cars when they use then outside the republic’s borders.

January 23, 2025 22:45

• Rights activists call on PACE to get Baku to release political prisoners

  International human rights organizations have called on the members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to confirm the suspension of Azerbaijan's powers and establish criteria for restoring them, including the release of political prisoners and enforcement of the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

January 23, 2025 22:16

• Protests against Georgian authorities’ policies and Amaglobeli’s arrest continue in Tbilisi

  On the 56th day of protests against the suspension of European integration, protesters blocked traffic near the Georgian Parliament. A rally in support of Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the "Batumelebi" and "Netgazeti" outlets, was held near the Georgia’s legislative body (Parliament).

January 23, 2025 21:17

• Wife of mobilized soldier Abramov worries about absence of communication with him

  Numerous requests to demobilize Alexei Abramov, a Krasnodar resident, for his health reasons remain unanswered. He is in the special military operation (SMO) zone and has not been in touch for a month, his wife has informed.

January 22, 2025 23:59

• Blogger Alibekov's case on discrediting Russian Army stopped

  A court in Novorossiysk has dismissed the case against Askhabali Alibekov, a blogger, initiated on a repeated discrediting of the Russian Army due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. This was reported by the “OVD-Info”* human rights project, citing Alibekov's advocate.

January 22, 2025 23:56

• Tbilisi protesters demand release of political prisoners

  In Tbilisi, representatives of the New Theatre, whose actor Andro Chichinadze was arrested within a case of organizing violence during protests, have demanded to release all the "regime inmates”; they have also announced protest actions in country regions.