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August 22, 2022 17:32

• Activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev detained in Azerbaijan

  The detention of activist Bakhtiyar Gadjiev might be related to his critical posts on social media against the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) of Azerbaijan, the “Line of Defence” NGO suggested.

August 22, 2022 16:38

• Georgian NGOs demand to admit ISFED to work on electoral reforms

  Four non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have suspended their participation in all the working groups created on the initiative of the "Georgian Dream" Party.

August 22, 2022 16:34

• After Armenians set their houses on fire, Azeri fire-fighters arrived in Lachin

  After at least two villagers in the Lachin Corridor have burned down their houses before evacuation, Azerbaijani fire-fighters, escorted by Russian peacemakers, arrived in the town of Lachin (Berdzor).

August 22, 2022 16:12

• Chechen woman detained on suspicion of practicing witchcraft

  Chechen Instagram* publics have posted a video in which a woman in a hijab rings the doorbell of an apartment, and then pours something under it. Commentators have suggested that she is engaged in witchcraft.

August 22, 2022 14:02

• Participant in Chechen war publicly apologizes for Russian anthem with LGBT flag

  Sergey Nechaev, a participant in the military campaign in Chechnya, recorded a video apologizing for performing the Russian anthem with an LGBT flag in a gay club.

August 22, 2022 13:58

• Rustavi protesters demand authorities' reaction to prisoners' hunger strike

  At the Rustavi Prison, inmates are on hunger strike in protest against denial of medical care and ban on relatives' visits. This was stated by their relatives at the protest action, demanding to improve the inmates' custody conditions.

August 22, 2022 13:50

• Relatives report arrest of critic of Azerbaijani authorities

  Magsud Aliev, who had criticized Azerbaijani authorities in social networks, was accused of disobeying a policeman and arrested.

August 21, 2022 22:38

• Over 90% of Berdzor and Akhavno residents evacuated

  All the residents have left the Nerkin Sus community; several families still stay in Berdzor and Akhavno, the head of the Kashatag District has informed. Local residents complain that they were given little time to find new housing and move everything they had acquired over more than 20 years.

August 21, 2022 22:23

• Kadyrov announces creation of new police regiment in Chechnya

  In Chechnya, a police regiment of more than 2000 servicemen is being recruited in order to guard oil and gas facilities; 600 people have already expressed their desire to serve in the new unit, Ramzan Kadyrov has informed.

August 21, 2022 22:10

• Mass nature of domestic violence in Caucasus is hidden by fear of publicity

  Cases of domestic violence, such as the story of Patimat Idrisova, a native of Dagestan, are far from being unique for the Caucasus, but not everyone is ready to talk about it, let alone decide to run away from home.

August 21, 2022 11:12

• Social network users support Ingush woman in her complaint about hospital

  A resident of Ingushetia, whose father was at a local hospital, has complained about the absence of medicines and criticized the staff. Instagram* users have supported her.

August 21, 2022 11:04

• Azerbaijan: policeman demands to arrest opposition activist

  A policeman has sued Gyulnara Ragimova, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), demanding to arrest her for placing his photo on the Facebook*. Human rights defenders treat the lawsuit as unjustified.

August 20, 2022 14:39

• Lawyers treat criminal case against Ingush policemen as biased

  The Ingush policemen accused of disobeying the order to disperse protesters in Magas in March 2019, did their job professionally, but they face punishment for doing so, Magomed Mutsolgov, a human rights defender, has noted.

August 20, 2022 14:31

• Rights defenders treat life threat to Dagestani woman who left Russia as real

  Relatives repeatedly beat up Patimat Idrisova, a native of Dagestan, and threatened her with murder; therefore, her escape became a chance to save her life, the SK SOS* crisis group has informed.

August 20, 2022 12:59

• Karabakh: all Akhavno villagers decide to leave their houses

  All the residents of the village of Akhavno have decided to quit the community; two of them burned down their houses, the head of the village has informed.

August 20, 2022 12:57

• Dagestan: Askhabov's application about torture at rehab delivered to investigators

  Investigators have forwarded the application of Magomed Askhabov's about forced detention and torture at the rehabilitation centre (rehab) in Khasavyurt to Dagestan.

August 20, 2022 12:54

• Kadyrov refuses to declare blood feud to Zelensky

  The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, has threatened to avenge every "brother" killed in Ukraine, but decided not to declare blood feud against Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, because he "only follows the orders of the West."

August 19, 2022 23:14

• Case on torture of a convicted Chechen native resumed after verdict of ECtHR

  The Presidium of the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia pronounced a decision to resume proceedings in a case of Umar Chapanov, a resident of Chechnya, sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment.

August 19, 2022 23:11

• Comedian Lolaeva from North Ossetia fined for discrediting Russian Armed Forces

  In Vladikavkaz, a court recognized records of stand-up comedian Ariana Lolaeva posted on the Internet as discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and fined the comedian 50,000 roubles.

August 19, 2022 23:07

• Authorities confirm information about 600 natives of Southern Russia perished in Ukraine

  Since the beginning of the special military operation in Ukraine, at least 600 residents of Southern Russia have been officially confirmed perished, including 378 natives of Northern Caucasus and 174 residents of the Southern Federal District (SFD).