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Child marriage continues unabated in Georgia’s Azerbaijani communities

16 March 2017 by Radio Marneuli

In the Azeri community, a red ribbon on the door means that someone in this house was recently married. (Lala Aliyeva/ Chai-Khana)


Child marriages are com­mon­place in Georgia’s Azer­bai­jani com­mu­ni­ties. Despite tough new laws pro­hibit­ing the practice, young girls continue to have their right to education denied to them and their futures decided between their families and potential suitors.
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Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: children, children's rights, early marriage, forced marriages, georgia, marneuli

Pankisi Elder: the Georgian government needs to choose a side

18 February 2017 by Sulkhan Bordzikashvili

Zaur Gumashvili

Zaur Gumashvili, chairman of the board of Pankisi’s Council of Elders, discussed with OC Media the fading role of Elders in the valley, the rise of the Salafi movement, the sub­se­quent cultural decline, and an action plan how to stop it.

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Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: council of elders, georgia, islam, pankisi, radicalism, salafism, sufism

Kadyrov criticises religious sect for sticking knives into their heads

13 February 2017 by Kazbek Chanturiya

Aslanbek Zubayrayev with Ramzan Kadyrov (Grozny TV)

After a video emerged of a ritual where wor­shipers had knives stuck into their heads, Chechen Head Ramzan Kadyrov publicly condemned Chechen followers of Iraqi Sheikh Mohammad al Kasnazani.
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Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: chechnya, Dzhokhar Dudayev, islam, islamic radicals, kadyrov, sect

Muslims in Batumi are becoming impatient for second mosque

2 February 2017 by Sulkhan Bordzikashvili

Muslims of Orta Mosque pray outside the mosque in Batumi (Mari Nikuradze/ OC Media)

Muslims in Batumi are in desperate need of more space to practice their religion. However, suspicion, oppo­si­tion, and Turko­pho­bia from local politi­cians and Christian Orthodox activists is leaving them out in the cold. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: batumi, discrimination, georgia, islam, mosque, muslims, religion

Imam of Pankisi: There is no ‘radicalisation’ here

25 January 2017 by Sulkhan Bordzikashvili

Bekkhan Pareulidze, Imam of Pankisi

Salafi imam of Pankisi, Bekkhan Pareulidze, sat down with OC Media for an exclusive interview, in which he discussed the region’s religious divisions, the outflow of young Kists to Syria, and the role civil society has to play in the valley. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: georgia, imam, interview, islam, kists, muslims, pankisi, religion, salafi, sufi

Community centre set ablaze in Pankisi — religiously motivated or a provocation?

16 January 2017 by Sulkhan Bordzikashvili

Someone inten­tion­al­ly set the community centre in Pankisi valley on fire two weeks ago. The official inves­ti­ga­tion is still in progress, while the parties, involved or asso­ci­at­ed with the incident, blame it on each other. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Minorities, Top Tagged With: council of elders, kists, krdf, muslims, pankisi, salafi

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