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Detained opposition activists ‘tortured’ in Azerbaijan

by OC Media

•2 min read

Two members of the opposition Popular Front Party who were detained on quarantine violation charges have reportedly been tortured while in detention. The party stated on Sunday that Niyameddin Ahmadov, the bodyguard of party leader Ali Karimli, was taken from his cell to an unknown location on 28 April where he was tortured for 12 hours. Ahmadov was detained on 16 April and given 30 days of administrative detention on charges of quarantine violation and disobeying police. According to th

Parliament of Georgia. Photo: Mariam Nikuradze/OC Media

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Amnesty International questions Caucasus governments’ response to pandemic

by OC Media

•4 min read

Amnesty International has criticised governments across the Caucasus for the impact on human rights of their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. The international human rights group published a report on Wednesday assessing the impact of measures taken in eastern Europe and central Asia. They criticised increased digital surveillance in Armenia, alleged discriminatory appliance of restrictive measures to different religious groups in Georgia, and beatings in Chechnya In Azerbaijan, the gr

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Mass hunger strikes in Azerbaijan against ‘political prosecutions’

by Gulnur Kazimova

•7 min read

At least 20 people both in prison and on the outside are now on hunger strike in Azerbaijan in protest against political prosecutions in the country, local activists say. Nine people being held in Azerbaijani prisons joined announced they had joined the strike on 14 January, informing their families in a joint letter sent from prison. They have been joined outside prison by opposition politicians, activists, and journalists, including investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova. The hun

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Amnesty worker ‘kidnapped’ in Ingushetia

by OC Media

•3 min read

A human rights activist from Amnesty International was kidnapped by security forces while reporting on protests in the Russian Republic of Ingushetia, the group has reported. In a press-release on Monday, Amnesty said that Oleg Kozlovsky was kidnapped on 6 October in the Ingush capital Magas. [Read on OC Media: Protests in Ingushetia ‘on pause’] According to Kozlovsky, his kidnappers introduced themselves as employees of Ingushetia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs working to counter ‘e

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Georgian authorities ‘investigating’ media giant Palitra

by OC Media

•4 min read

The Georgian Prosecutor’s Office has ordered media holding group Palitra Media to hand over all documents related to their legal, accounting, financial, and economic activities over the last four years. Palitra Media announced that investigators visited their Colorpack printing house on Monday with a court order demanding the files, including correspondences, from 2014 to September 2018. Palitra Media is one of the largest media holdings in Georgia, owning over a dozen print, online, radio,

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Amnesty International report details the state of human rights in the Caucasus

by OC Media

•4 min read

An annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, published by rights group Amnesty International on 22 February delivers comprehensive analysis of the state of human rights around the world in 2016, covering 159 countries, including those from the Caucasus. Armenia According to the report, 2016 was marked by economic and political volatility, and growing security concerns linked to the outbreak of a large-scale military confrontation in April in Nagorno-Karabakh, the de facto repu