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Georgian courts under fire after Bassiani triple stabbing suspect released on bail

17 January 2018 by OC Media

(Bassiani)

Georgia’s judiciary has come under fire from NGOs and officials after a 27-year-old man charged with stabbing three people, including a police officer, was released on bail. The incident happened on 13 January in Tbilisi outside the Bassiani nightclub. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: bassiani, crime, criminal, georgia, police, tbilisi

Arrests follow fatal school stabbing in Tbilisi

4 December 2017 by OC Media

A gathering at the Public School #51 in sol­i­dar­i­ty with the victims (Luka Pertaia /OC Media)

Two 16-year-old boys have been stabbed to death in a school brawl in Tbilisi. The Prosecutor’s Office has charged two teenagers with ‘pre­med­i­tat­ed murder of an underage person’, and three others for failing to report the crime. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, education, georgia, murder, police, school, tbilisi

Mystery fire in Daghestan mountain village: claims of torture and fabrication

25 November 2017 by Maryam Magomedova

Four men from a small mountain village in southern Russia were detained in November suspected of setting fire to the local gov­ern­ment building. With holes in the official story and torture apparent, relatives of the men say the charges are the work of a new police chief in town, trying to make a name for himself. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: crime, daghestan, detention, fire, human rights, police, torture

Man jailed for ‘transgender hate crime’ in Tbilisi

10 November 2017 by OC Media

(Facebook)

Tbilisi City Court has sentenced a man to six months in prison for attacking a trans­gen­der woman, ruling it a hate crime. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: city court, court, crime, georgia, queer rights, transgender

Abkhazia’s tourism catastrophe — ‘who would want to come here?’

11 October 2017 by Stella Adleyba

A beach in Sukhum (Dominik K. Cagara/ Archive)

Many in Abkhazia have lamented the failure of this year’s tourist season, con­nect­ing it directly to rising levels of crime. The usual problems were com­pound­ed by high profile attacks on tourists and an explosion at an ammu­ni­tion depot which left two tourists dead.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Labour, Top Tagged With: abkhazia, crime, guesthouse, hotel, safety, tourism

Russian tours to Abkhazia ‘cancelled’ amid safety concerns

4 August 2017 by OC Media

Adver­tise­ment for tours around Abkhazia (Dominik K. Cagara/Archive)

A number of travel agencies operating in Abkhazia have claimed that Russian citizens are can­celling tours there, Russian state-owned news agency RIA Novosti has reported. This follows an explosion at a military warehouse near Gudauta on 2 August which killed two Russian tourists.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, crime, safety, tourism

‘More than 20’ arrested in Abkhazia for murder of Russian tourist

14 July 2017 by OC Media

Andrey Kabanov (apsnylife.ru)

On 13 July police arrested a number of people in the village of Pri­morskoye suspected of the murder of a Russian tourist in Abkhazia, Caucasian Knot reports. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: abkhazia, crime, murder, russia, tourism, tourist

Chechnya and Ingushetia ‘safest regions’ of Russia

1 June 2017 by OC Media

Chechen police (twitter.com/MVDCHR)

Five North Caucasian republics have made it to an official list of the safest regions of the Russian Fed­er­a­tion. Chechnya, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, North Ossetia, and Daghestan all made it to the list, which is based on official crime sta­tis­tics. The data was collected by the Federal State Sta­tis­tics Service using data from regional min­istries of internal affairs for the first quarter of 2017.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: chechnya, crime, ingushetia, safety, security, tradition

Daghestani official arrested for taking bribe

21 March 2017 by OC Media

(www.urist-land.ru)

Basir Isabekov, head of the Depart­ment of Land Man­age­ment in Daghestan’s Mag­a­ramkent District, was arrested on 18 March while receiving a ₽1 million ($17,400) bribe. A criminal case has been launched against him. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Stories Tagged With: bribery, corruption, crime, daghestan, police

Former Bishop of Borjomi accused of attempted sex with minor

29 January 2017 by Samkhretis Karibche

Bishop Seraphime

The Former Bishop of Borjomi, Serapime Jojua, has been accused of attempt­ing to have sex with a 15-year-old girl. The story has split the Church, but the Patri­ar­chate and gov­ern­ment have remained mute. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society, Top Tagged With: abuse, borjomi, church, clergy, crime, georgia, molestation, patriarchate, priest, sex crime, sexual abuse

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