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The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has found Russian authorities guilty in the case of kidnapping Aslanbek Saidakhmadov, a resident of Grozny, by law enforcers and ordered them to pay his mother compensation in the amount of 60,000 euros.

A Makhachkala court has sent for a new consideration the case against the activist, Diana Dibirova, who in April was detained before the action in support of Alexei Navalny and fined for petty hooliganism.

The member-countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have supported the Georgia's right to join the Alliance. The preconditions for this are national reforms and the enforcement of NATO's standards and principles.

At a medical institution, several serious illnesses were diagnosed in Elchin Gasanzade, an Azerbaijani journalist, who is serving his sentence.

In the spring of 2019, the police prevented a clash of law enforcers with protesters in Ingushetia, which would inevitably lead to bloodshed, Svetlana Gannushkina, a human rights defender, and Magomed Shamilov, the chairman of the Dagestan police trade union, have noted.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg gave 10 days to Russian authorities to answer the questions on the case of Khalimat Taramova, a Chechen girl, who, according to human rights defenders, was forcibly taken to Chechnya from the Makhachkala shelter for victims of domestic violence. The publicity helped to avoid a tragedy, but now the girl's fate is in her relatives' hands, human rights defenders believe.

The court has found the participants in the unsanctioned march on July 15, 2020, in Baku, including four members of the presidium of the oppositional Popular Front Party of Azerbaijan (PFPA), guilty of violating the public order, using force against policemen and causing minor bodily harm.

In their comments under a video report released by the “Grozny” TV Channel, social media users noted that Khalimat Taramova behaved unnaturally during the video and could hardly answer the questions sincerely. Internet users doubt the young woman’s statement about the observance of her rights in Chechnya.

The Georgian Catholicos-Patriarch holds the position of the director of the orphan boarding school in Ninotsminda after human rights defenders had criticized Bishop Spiridon Abuladze. The orphan boarding school still accommodates 23 children, and the institution will not close for at least another year, the Georgia’s Patriarchate announces.

In Makhachkala, activists held solo pickets with the demand to release Abdulmumin Gadjiev, an observer of the weekly newspaper “Chernovik” (Rough Draft). The Dagestani journalist’s arrest lasts for two years already.

During the week of June 7-13, 2021, at least one person was injured in the armed conflict in Northern Caucasus. No killed were reported. These are the results of the calculations run by the “Caucasian Knot” based on its own materials and information from other open sources.

During the autumn war in Nagorno-Karabakh, 2904 people were killed from the Azerbaijani side, and 10 soldiers are listed as missing in action, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) of Azerbaijan reports.

Human rights defenders were involved in Khalimat Taramova's abduction, while Chechen law enforcers acted within the framework of the law, said Akhmed Dudaev, Minister for Nationalities' Matters of Chechnya. He reiterated the thesis of the Chechen and Russian authorities that there are no members of sexual minorities in the region.

The court has found Viken Euldjekzhiyan guilty of terrorism, mercenarism and illegal border crossing. He refused to plead guilty, claiming that he had led a peaceful life in Armenia and was captured on the Lachin highway.

The minefield maps that Yerevan has handed over to Baku in exchange for 15 militaries make an essential, but only small part of the information about minefields, Nikol Pashinyan, the Acting Prime Minister of Armenia, has stated.

Three video clips have been posted on the Instagram of the "Marem" project, which allegedly show the man who took testimony from Khalimat Taramova shortly before her detention and extradition to Chechnya. It was he who had informed Chechen law enforcers about the girl's whereabouts at the Makhachkala shelter, social network users have suggested.

At the rally held in front of the Georgian Parliament, NGO activists demanded to let the Ombudsperson into the boarding school in Ninotsminda and to remove all the pupils from there. In his turn, the Church spokesman has stated that the Patriarchy is not going to close the boarding school.

An uncle of a witness in the case of child abuse at the boarding school named after Saint Nino in Ninotsminda has been accused of threatening his nephew, the Georgia's General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) has informed.

The total number of remains of Armenian militaries found in the Karabakh conflict zone has reached 1576.

Today, fifteen military servicemen held by Azerbaijan were handed over to Armenia in exchange for the maps of 97,000 anti-tank and anti-personnel mines placed in the Agdam District, the press service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has informed.