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In order to defend their own principles, the UN must study the custody conditions of Armenian prisoners of war (POWs) kept in Baku and assess their trial, activists in Yerevan have stated.

At trial on an administrative case, Mziya Amaglobeli, the founder of the “Batumelebi” and “Netgazeti” online publications, denied any guilt in insulting police inspectors.

The inquiry into the violence against Magomed Magomedov raises questions from the public in Dagestan, while advocates are preparing to fight the investigators’ refusal to open a case against the law enforcers involved, despite the traumas fixed on his body by the examination.

The supporters of Georgia’s European integration, accused of involvement in violence at protest actions held in Tbilisi, are not charged with the actions described by the suffered law enforcers. The aim of the trial is to intimidate the civil society so that people are afraid to take part in protests, human rights defenders believe.

At a protest action held in front of the Swiss Embassy in Yerevan, refugees have expressed their hope that the Switzerland’s mediation can help Nagorno-Karabakh people return to their homeland.

The journalists arrested in the case against the “Abzas Media” online publication resumed participation in the trial after a three-week break, since their demands regarding the conditions of transportation and detention in court were met.

The court has sentenced Ilya Yuzhakov, a resident of the city of Tuapse, to three years of forced labour, finding him guilty of distributing fakes about the Russian Army. After the detention, law enforcers had forced Yuzhakov to record a video with “repentance".

The European Court of Human Rights has found that the rights of Faig Amirov, the former financial director of the “Azadlig” opposition newspaper, and Aytadj Tapdyg, a “Meydan TV” journalist, have been violated. The European Court has obliged the authorities of Azerbaijan to pay the journalists 14,500 euros in compensation.

Investigators refused to institute a criminal case against law enforcers for the torture of Dagestani native Magomed Magomedov.

The law enforcement bodies considered that a resident of Nalchik was distributing on a social networking service the calls for extremist activities in connection with the special military operation (SMO).

A Moscow court has found journalist Nadezhda Kevorkova guilty of justifying terrorism and sentenced her to a fine of 600,000 roubles.

A court in Gelendjik has found blogger Vadim Kharchenko* guilty of repeated discrediting the Russian Army, slander, insulting believers’ feelings, and calls for extremism, and sentenced him to seven years in penal colony. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of the Krasnodar Territory in its Telegram channel.

Tofig Yagublu was convicted of criticizing corruption and human rights violations in Azerbaijan and should be released, like other arrested opposition figures and journalists, representatives of the European Union (EU) and the Amnesty International (AI) have stated.

The criminal case initiated against Dmitry Mladov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Novorossiysk, violates the right to the freedom of religion, human rights defenders have stated, demanding his release from custody.

Human rights organizations have commented on the possibility of mitigating the five-year prison term passed by the Nalchik Garrison Military Court for the Karaushi brothers, who were accused of evading their military service.

Four suspected militants were killed in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus during the week from March 3 to March 9, 2025. These are the results of the calculations run by the "Caucasian Knot" based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

Relatives of Chechen natives accused in the case on shooting in front of the “Wildberries” Company’s office in Moscow, as a result of which two natives of Ingushetia were killed, have claimed that those arrested are not guilty.

Authorities have only now acknowledged the blocking of the Telegram in Dagestan and Chechnya, although there has been no access to the messenger in these republics and in Ingushetia for several months, local residents have noted.

The twin brothers had signed a contract on the same day and served in the same detachment of the same military unit; they failed to show up for service from vacation without good reason during the mobilization period and were sentenced to five years in a penal colony each.

The court ruling to recognize a rights violation of Vitaly Silaev, a prisoner from Dagestan, at the Norilsk penal colony, has gone beyond the common judicial practice and instils hope that colony staff will take Muslim prisoners’ rights more seriously, human rights defenders believe.