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November 06, 2021 23:30

• Advocate complains about non-admission to arrested activist in Azerbaijan

  The advocate of Malik Rzaev, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), accused of drug dealing, claims that he cannot visit his client. Rzaev's relatives disagree with the charges and believe that the real reason for his arrest is his criticism of Azerbaijani authorities.

November 06, 2021 14:56

• Elene Khoshtariya refuses to end her hunger strike

  Elene Khoshtariya, the leader of the oppositional "Droa" Party, has been on a hunger strike for the third day; she is holding it in the building of the parliament. She has stated her intention to pass over to harsher measures, if her demand to transfer the third president of Georgia from prison to a civil clinic is not fulfilled.

November 06, 2021 14:54

• Trial of Goris Mayor held at the background of his supporters' rally

  The court has granted the defence's petition and allowed visits of his relatives to Arush Arushanyan, the Mayor of the city of Goris. His supporters held an action at the courthouse demanding his release.

November 06, 2021 14:53

• Georgian judges distance off official criticism of Western diplomats

  Thirteen judges have refused to support the harsh response of the judicial conference to the US and EU diplomats regarding the election of new members of the Georgia's Supreme Council of Justice. Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili has called on Washington to support the struggle for the courts' independence with personal sanctions.

November 05, 2021 23:59

• Saakashvili’s associates announce an indefinite rally near prison

  After visiting the third president of Georgia in prison, an advocate has reported that Mikhail Saakashvili is not able to stand on his feet and think coherently on the 36th day of his hunger strike. The leader of the “United National Movement” Party has announced an indefinite protest action in front of the prison in Rustavi.

November 05, 2021 23:57

• A nephew of Kadyrov thanks him for winning boxing tournament in Grozny

  At the “Time of Legends-7” tournament, not only a son of the leader of Chechnya, but also his nephew Magomed Delimkhanov became a winner. The boxer said that he owed the victory to his “dear uncle.”

November 05, 2021 23:56

• Blogger Tumso criticizes oppositionist Yashin speaking about Kadyrov

  Opposition MP Ilya Yashin, who posted a video criticizing Ramzan Kadyrov, shifted the focus, while talking about the border conflict between Chechnya and Ingushetia and the proposals to legalize polygamy in Chechnya and the fighting efficiency of the “Kadyrov’s army,” blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov notes.

November 05, 2021 21:59

• Azerbaijani parliament decides to release over 3000 prisoners

  Azerbaijani MPs have voted for the amnesty act, timed to coincide with the Victory Day in the Karabakh war in 2020. The parliament’s resolution does not solve the problem of political prisoners, human rights defenders note.

November 05, 2021 21:55

• Azerbaijani border guard dies during exercises

  Tural Akram oglu Akhmedov, an extended service sergeant, was fatally wounded by a grenade fragment during a field exercise held in Western Azerbaijan.

November 05, 2021 21:54

• Social network commentators dispute on genre of fights in "Akhmat" Club

  The videos of the fights at the boxing tournament in Grozny have sparked a resonance in the social network. Some commentators have suggested that they saw a circus performance; other – that it was a staged performance. Users have ridiculed Eli Kadyrov's fight; experts also drew attention to the dubious outcome of the fight of Abdulkerim Edilov against Richard Larti.

November 05, 2021 21:49

• Monks detained in Georgian village after conflict with law enforcers

  In the Georgian village of Salkhino, five persons were taken to the police after refusing to leave the monastery and rendering resistance to law enforcers. Other excommunicated monks stated that they would not leave the monastery territory either, despite the demands of the Patriarch's secretary.

November 05, 2021 19:49

• Saakashvili's health condition deteriorates seriously

  Mikheil (Mikhail) Saakashvili, a former President of Georgia, has problems with communication and memory on the 35th day of his hunger strike. He refused to cooperate with a doctors' council convened by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), demanding to be examined by an independent council.

November 05, 2021 19:47

• Video confirms pre-agreed nature of Kadyrov's son's fight

  Eli Kadyrov's rival has surrendered the fight by going on the defensive and avoiding attacks, social media users assert after watching a record of Kadyrov's son's fight at the tournament in Grozny. At the tournament, the coach of Kadyrov's sons also won by knockout.

November 05, 2021 14:22

• Law enforcer punished for detaining activist Diana Dibirova in Makhachkala

  The policeman who on January 23 brought the student, Diana Dibirova, to the police station from the square in Makhachkala has been brought to disciplinary responsibility.

November 04, 2021 23:56

• ECtHR obliges Azerbaijan’s authorities to pay compensation to relatives of two Armenian POWs

  The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded the compensations in the amounts of 40,000 euros to the family of Mamikon Khodjoyan and the family of Karen Petrosyan, residents of the Tavush Region of Armenia, who were captured and tortured in Azerbaijan in 2014.

November 04, 2021 23:51

• Advocates argue with penitentiary service about Saakashvili’s health state

  The results of the recent medical tests which Mikhail Saakashvili underwent refute the assertions of the penitentiary service which claims the stable health state of the hunger-strike, and the vital signs of the former Georgian president have reached a critical level, his advocate report.

November 04, 2021 23:46

• In Sukhumi, opponents of Minister of Internal Affairs gather despite authorities’ ban

  More than 1000 people gathered in the capital of Abkhazia to protest against the reinstatement of Dmitry Dbar as Minister of Internal Affairs. The protesters ignored the refusal of the Sukhumi Mayoralty to approve the rally.

November 04, 2021 23:38

• PFPA activist arrested for 25 days

  A court arrested Ramiz Djafarov, an activist of the Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan, for 25 days on the charge of failure to obey legal requests of the police. Party colleagues of the activist consider the charge against him politically motivated.

November 04, 2021 23:33

• Relatives of missing soldiers achieve meeting with Pashinyan

  Yerevan protesters from among relatives of the dead and missing Armenian soldiers have achieved a meeting with the Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan. They said that at the meeting appointed for October 6, they would demand to reveal the exact number of prisoners of war (POWs), and a report on the progress of the investigation.

November 04, 2021 21:45

• Liquidation of the Armenian SIS puts an end to torture cases

  The National Security Service (NSS) of Armenia will fail to endure efficient investigation of torture cases, Ara Karagezyan, a lawyer, has suggested. For proper inquiry into these cases, a separate agency is needed, Nina Karapetyants, a human rights defender, believes.