July 31, 2014 22:50

• Defence of Leyla Yunus insists on her release from custody

  In the opinion of law enforcement bodies of Azerbaijan, Leyla Yunus, the Director of the Institute for Peace and Democracy (IPD), accused of treason, should be kept in custody, since she had tried to leave the country, evaded the investigation and may influence the witnesses.

July 31, 2014 04:39

• Defence plans to challenge MCC's verdict on "Hizb ut-Tahrir" case

  The advocates are preparing a complaint against the verdict passed by the Moscow City Court (MCC) in the case of the members of the of the Moscow branch of the organization "Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami", banned in Russia, who were sentenced to imprisonment for 7-11 years.

July 31, 2014 03:39

• Victims' testimonies in "Million Mask March" case confirm defendants' innocence, says the defence

  In Yerevan, at the trial of the participants of the "Million Mask March", the court questioned six policemen, who figure in the case as victims. All the six have asserted that prior to the march held on November 5, 2013, they were not familiar with the defendants.

July 31, 2014 02:40

• Dagestani SC postpones session on Zarema Bagavutdinova's case

  The Supreme Court (SC) of Dagestan will continue, on August 4, its consideration of the appeal complaint against the verdict passed by the Buynaksk City Court against Zarema Bagavutdinova, an activist of the Dagestani Regional Public Organization (DRPO) "Pravozaschita" (Advocacy).

July 30, 2014 19:08

• Azerbaijan GPO bans rights activist Rasul Djafarov to go abroad and arrests his bank accounts

  The General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) of Azerbaijan has ruled to prohibit Rasul Djafarov, a well-known civil society activist and coordinator of the campaign "Art for Democracy", from leaving the country. His bank accounts were arrested.

July 30, 2014 13:13

• In Azerbaijan, prosecutors detain IPD Director Leyla Yunus

  On Wednesday morning, human rights activist Leyla Yunus was detained near her house in Baku. She was delivered to the Investigating Department for Grave Crimes of the General Prosecutor's Office.

July 29, 2014 14:20

• Investigators uphold initiation of criminal case against "Stop Electrozink" activist in Vladikavkaz

  The actions of a police investigator, who opened a criminal case against Anatoly Kolkhidov, an activists of the environmental movement "Stop Electrozink", has no violations – the absence of falsifications in Kolkhidov's case was confirmed by the courts, state the investigatory bodies of North Ossetia.

July 29, 2014 19:03

• Batyr Pukhaev is on the 14th day of his hunger strike in Tskhinvali IVS

  The South-Ossetian businessman Batyr Pukhaev, who went on a hunger strike on July 16 at the temporary detention facility (known as IVS) of Tskhinvali, is still rejecting nutrition and hospitalization, said the head of the IVS Otar Margiev.

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