The International Association for the Defense of Human Rights issued a statement regarding the increased pressure on independent journalists and activists in Azerbaijan, including the increase in their arrests. We are talking about Ulvi Hasanli, Sevinj Vagifgyzy and Magomed Kekalov.

After the appeal of the “Team Against Torture”, the Supreme Court of Chechnya sent a complaint to the lower court against the investigator’s refusal to initiate a criminal case for torture against the former actor of the Grozny Russian Drama Theater Timur Debishev.

Over four days, the prisoner, a native of Ingushetia, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, had four epileptic seizures. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation and lawyer Irina Biryukova.

Journalist of the Dagestan publication “Novoye Delo” Idris Yusupov has been recognized as a foreign agent. The Ministry of Justice justified the inclusion of the activist in this list by his participation in the creation of materials for foreign agents and the dissemination of false information about the authorities of the Russian Federation.

ЕСПЧ обязал власти РФ выплатить компенсацию в 12,5 тыс. евро дагестанскому адвокату Магомеду Магомедову. Его признали жертвой избиения со стороны силовиков в Махачкале.

In Dagestan, 126 people suspected of participating in riots at Makhachkala airport on October 29 are being held in pre-trial detention center No. 1. This was announced by the Deputy Chairman of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) for the protection of human rights in places of forced detention in Dagestan Shamil Khadulaev.

The military court in Vlasikha upheld the sentence against the publisher of Muslim literature, the head of the largest Islamic book publishing house in Russia “Umma” Aslambek Ezhaev. In February he was sentenced to 17 years in prison.

On December 11, the Shali City Court of Chechnya will consider a petition for parole against Zarema Musaeva. This was announced by Team Against Torture lawyer Alexander Savin.

A court in Pyatigorsk, based on data from the military command, ruled that contract soldier from the Karachay-Cherkess Republic Arsen Shinov was injured in Ukraine due to a careless fall. As a result, he was denied recognition of a combat wound and compensation in the amount of 3 million rubles.

The United States expressed concern about the arrests of a number of journalists in Azerbaijan. We are talking about Ulvi Hasanli, Sevinj Vagifgyzy and activist Magomed Kekalov.