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August 24, 2022 22:31

• A rally demanding registration of “Azerbaijan Democracy and Welfare” Party held in Baku

  Members of the “Azerbaijan Democracy and Prosperity” Party have held a picket in front of the building of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) of Azerbaijan because of its third refusal to register the opposition organization. The protestors believe the grounds for refusal in registration are untenable.

August 24, 2022 22:28

• Complaint of Chechen villagers to Kadyrov reminds of practice of public apologies

  Residents of the village of Gikalo asked the leader of Chechnya to help connect to the gas pipeline and electricity networks. According to the villagers, their appeals to local officials do not bring any results. Instagram* users suggested that the appeal to Ramzan Kadyrov could be followed by an apology from the villagers.

August 24, 2022 15:37

• Rights defenders achieve recognition of red tape in Aram Gambaryan's torture case

  In his answer to the complaint lodged by the "Team against Torture"*, the head of the Krasnodar Territorial Branch of the Investigating Committee of the Russian Federation (ICRF), has admitted that the preliminary inquiry into the torture case of Aram Gambaryan was suspended unreasonably.

August 24, 2022 15:27

• Associates of Chechen Tepsurkaev report details of his death

  Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, was killed in September 2020 and buried in an unmarked grave because his relatives were told to "bury him like a dog," a Chechen Telegram channel asserts.

August 24, 2022 15:23

• Woman from Stavropol Territory accused of discrediting militaries

  A court in the Stavropol Territory has received the case against Svetlana Zaitseva, a local resident, accused of discrediting the Russian Army.

August 24, 2022 14:34

• Activist from Volzhsky achieves better conditions at SIZO

  Vyacheslav Koshelev, an activist, has held a three-day dry hunger strike, demanding better custody conditions at the SIZO (pre-trial prison), where he is awaiting a decision on his appeal.

August 24, 2022 14:28

• Rights defenders compare timing of disclosure murders of Dugina and Politkovskaya

  Amid the FSB's report on the rapid disclosure of the murder of Darya Dugina, human rights defenders have recalled the still unsolved murders of Anna Politkovskaya, Natalia Estemirova and Boris Nemtsov.

August 24, 2022 00:41

• Lawyer of “Team Against Torture”* reports about death of Salman Tepsurkaev

  Salman Tepsurkaev, a native of Chechnya, could not be helped, and it is known for sure about his death, Olga Sadovskaya, a lawyer of the “Team Against Torture”*, says.

August 24, 2022 00:32

• Russian analysts explain accelerated transfer of villages of Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan

  The 2020 agreement on Nagorno-Karabakh does not define the territorial affiliation of the Lachin Corridor and its borders, which allowed each side to interpret the agreements in its own way.

August 23, 2022 22:52

• Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev renounces Azerbaijani citizenship

  Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev sent an appeal to the President of Azerbaijan to renounce the citizenship of the country. The activist has explained his decision by receiving threats from the local law enforcement bodies.

August 23, 2022 22:49

• Advocate Gerasimov calls on Kadyrov to intervene in conflict with natives of Chechnya

  An investigation has been launched into a criminal case on causing minor bodily harm against natives of Chechnya who beat Pavel Gerasimov.

August 23, 2022 22:41

• Social network users complain about electricity problems in Chechnya

  The electricity voltage in central Grozny is very weak, a social media user has complained. Commentators supported him, noting that this problem is observed throughout the republic.

August 23, 2022 22:32

• "Conde Nast" PH drops lawsuit against Aishat Kadyrova's Fashion House

  The Moscow Arbitration Court has stopped proceedings on the claim of the "Conde Nast" Publishing House (PH), which demanded from the "Firdaws" Fashion House to return 814,000 roubles of debt and to pay 893,000 roubles as penalty.

August 23, 2022 18:24

• Ingushetia: villagers suffer from absence of water

  Since May this year, water has been supplied to the village of Inarki, Malgobek District of Ingushetia, with outages; and since July, due to the heat, there has been no water at all, a local resident has stated.

August 23, 2022 17:46

• Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev states receiving law enforcers' threats

  Bakhtiyar Gadjiev, an activist, was released after almost four hours of detention. According to his story, law enforcers forced him to remove his critical posts from social networks about the head of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Internal Affairs and threatened him with arrest for new posts about the minister.

August 23, 2022 14:43

• Rights defenders argue about aim of bringing Azeri fire-fighters into villages near Lachin Corridor

  As stated by Rasul Djafarov, a Baku-based human rights defender, the area of the Lachin Corridor was occupied not by militaries, but civil defence members, who perform protection functions.

August 23, 2022 14:33

• Social network users urge to punish advocate after conflict with natives of Chechnya

  Pavel Gerasimov, an advocate, should be punished for the traumas inflicted on the child, social media users have stated in their comments on his conflict with Chechen natives in Moscow. They have suggested that an advocate's apologies will follow shortly after the incident.

August 23, 2022 14:24

• Armenian activists demand not to transfer villages in Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan

  Today, a group of activists have held a rally in Yerevan demanding not to transfer three settlements in the Lachin Corridor to Azerbaijan.

August 22, 2022 23:47

• Colleagues of Dagestani journalist Gadjiev hold pickets demanding his release

  Today, in Makhachkala, activists have held pickets demanding the release of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadjiev and other political prisoners.

August 22, 2022 17:39

• Two Azerbaijani soldiers blown up by mines in Lachin District

  Military men were injured as a result of a mine explosion in the Lachin District.