
Circassian activist from Adygea sentenced to 11 years on terrorism charges
The Council of United Circassia is considered to be a terrorist organisation by Russia.

The Council of United Circassia is considered to be a terrorist organisation by Russia.

They submitted appeals to the Supreme Court, claiming that their detention was unfounded.

Those arrested were charged with taking part in an unauthorised demonstration.

Circassians in the Caucasus and the diaspora commemorated their genocide at the hands of the Russian Empire on 21 May.

OC Media’s Yousef Bardouka and Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko discuss Ukraine’s recognition of the Circassian Genocide.

Ukraine is the second country to recognise the Circassian Genocide after Georgia.

Russian police have interrogated and confiscated the phones of the parents of a Circassian independence activist in Karachay–Cherkessia after raiding their home. On 19 July, Kase Kik who is currently based in the US, stated that the police in Karachay–Cherkessia conducted a search of his parents’ residence, confiscating their phones in a move he called ‘illegal and unauthorised’. Kik said the search was carried out by the FSB and the local Interior Ministry’s Centre for Combating Extremis