Georgia
DataFest Tbilisi cancels planned media participation after pro-government smear
Media booths from OC Media, Ifact, and Sinatle were pulled from the festival programme at the last minute.
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Daghestan
Daghestani editor-in-chief detained on charges of large-scale fraud
Magomed Magomedov was accused of defrauding state news agency RIA Daghestan.
Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan charges exiled critics with ‘coup calls’
The Swiss Federal Ministry of Justice recently rejected an Azerbaijani request to extradite blogger Manaf Jalilzada.
Azerbaijan
A generation under pressure — the future of activism in Azerbaijan
Despite the risks, a new generation of activists are continuing to raise their voices, from advocating for peace to protecting women’s rights.
Georgia’s EU U-turn
Opinion | How Georgian Dream is criminalising human rights
The regime’s goal is to place those who dare to expose the regime’s cases of human rights violations in a constant state of uncertainty.
Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Kabarda–Balkaria woman charged after criticising Chechen Akhmat commander Alaudinov
Local commentators have claimed Alaudinov is being subjected to a ‘highly suspicious avalanche of negativity from female bloggers’.
Azerbaijan
The final nail in the coffin for human rights lawyers in Azerbaijan?
New amendments to the law on advocacy threaten to remove any last vestiges of independence within Azerbaijan’s Bar Association.
