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Family demand parliamentary commission one year after teen killed in Georgia’s Pankisi

26 December 2018 by OC Media

The family of Temirlan Macha­likashvili and their sup­port­ers gathered on 26 December demanding a par­lia­men­tary inves­ti­ga­to­ry com­mis­sion be set up. (Dato Parulava/OC Media)

The Family of Temirlan Macha­likashvili, who was shot dead by Georgian security forces last December, have held a silent rally in front of Tbilisi’s par­lia­ment building demanding par­lia­ment look into the teenager’s death. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: EMC, georgia, human rights, Isani siege, machalikashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, protest, special operation, temirlan machalikashvili, terrorism

Chechnya: a dangerous silence

5 November 2018 by Ivan Ignatyev

A sign in Grozny reading ‘Let the justice triumph’ (Dominik K. Cagara /OC Media)

Many families in Chechnya tell of young male relatives who have either dis­ap­peared without trace or are being held in detention, sug­gest­ing such cases are not rare.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: chechnya, disappearance, disappeared, human rights, memorial, ramzan kadyrov, russia, terrorism

Daghestani man appeals to ECHR over ‘police torture’

2 November 2018 by OC Media

Abutalib Shakhruyev (OC Media)

A man from the Russian Republic of Daghestan has appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) over torture he says he was subjected to at Daghestan’s Centre for Coun­ter­ing Extremism. Abutalib Shakhruyev was sentenced to 11 years in prison in March for ‘aiding and financing members of illegal armed for­ma­tions’. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: dagestan, daghestan, echr, european court of human rights, terrorism, torture

Daghestani teens ‘found in forest and accused of preparing terrorist attack’

24 October 2018 by OC Media

Buynaksk (Russiantowns.livejournal.com)

Police in the Russian Republic of Daghestan have detained four teenagers on weapons charges near the town of Buynaksk. Parents of the detainees say the author­i­ties intend to frame the boys for a fab­ri­cat­ed terror plot. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Buynaksk, daghestan, russia, terrorism, terrorist attack

Fourteen men convicted in ‘secret terror trial’ in Chechnya

20 September 2018 by OC Media

Relatives of the sentenced men watching armoured vehicles leave the building of the Supreme Court of Chechnya in Grozny on 12 September (/YouTube)

On 12 September, a court in the Russian Republic of Chechnya convicted 14 men of ‘par­tic­i­pa­tion in an illegal armed formation’ and ‘illegal purchase and pos­ses­sion of weapons’. The trial was held in secret, with relatives claiming they were promised the men would receive lighter sentences if they did not contact rights groups or the media.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: chechnya, court, detention, extremism, grozny, kurchaloy, shali, terrorism, tsotsi-yurt

The disappeared men in Daghestan’s ‘fake war on terror’

18 September 2018 by Saida Vagabova

Screen­shot from a video from a coun­tert­er­ror­ism operation in Botlikh, Daghestan, in March 2018 (Inves­tiga­tive Committee of the Russian Fed­er­a­tion /YouTube)

For several years, young Dagh­es­tani men have been dis­ap­pear­ing, reported missing by their families only later to be declared ‘destroyed in coun­tert­er­ror­ism oper­a­tions’. Evidence from the families of many of these men as well as local rights groups and experts, suggest they may have been kidnapped by the author­i­ties, and that faking the war on terror is just another face of Daghestan’s raging cor­rup­tion.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Conflict, Top Tagged With: abduction, counterterrorism operation, CTO, dagestan, daghestan, disappearance, disappeared, extremism, isis, islamic state, north caucasus, russia, terrorism

‘Five dead’ in coordinated attacks on police in Chechnya

21 August 2018 by OC Media

The aftermath of the attack in Shali (Euronews /YouTube)

One police officer was killed and three more injured in Chechnya on Monday in a coor­di­nat­ed knife, bomb, and car attack, according to official reports. Four of the five attackers, one of who was 11 years old, were killed during the attacks, and a fifth wounded.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: attack, bomb, chechnya, grozny, islamic state, police, ramzan kadyrov, shali, terrorism

Seven officials sentenced in Ingush anti-extremism centre torture case

31 July 2018 by OC Media

Timur Khamkhoyev the North Caucasian Military Court in Nalchik (Screen­shot /Caucasian Knot)

On Friday, former employees of Ingushetia’s Centre for Coun­ter­ing Extremism were sentenced by a court in Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria. Neither the pros­e­cu­tion nor the defence was satisfied with the verdict, although many activists main­tained that sen­tenc­ing was ‘a huge achieve­ment for human right defenders in the North Caucasus’.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: centre e, court, extremism, federal security service, fsb, ingushetia, police, terrorism, torture

MPs grill investigators over Khorava Street murders

25 June 2018 by OC Media

Otar Kakhidze, Sergi Kapanadze and Elene Khoshtaria (Mzia Saganelidze - RFE/RL)

Inves­ti­ga­tors from the Khorava Street murder case faced ques­tion­ing from MPs on Monday, into alleged failures by the inves­ti­ga­tion. A par­lia­men­tary com­mis­sion was set up in the wake of large street protests in Tbilisi, which followed the partial acquittal of the suspects in the case and alle­ga­tions the inves­ti­ga­tion was mis­han­dled. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: children, children's rights, crime, Davit Saralidze, education, georgia, Irakli Shotadze, khorava street murder, Levan Dadunashvili, Malkhaz Machalikashvili, murder, pankisi, police, protest, Saralidze, school, SSG, state security service, tbilisi, temirlan machalikashvili, terrorism, Zaza Saralidze

‘Terrorism’ investigation launched into father of slain Pankisi teen

14 June 2018 by OC Media

Malkhaz Macha­likashvili (Mari Nikuradze/OC Media)

Georgia’s State Security Service (SSG) has launched an inves­ti­ga­tion into Malkhaz Macha­likashvili, the father of Temirlan Macha­likashvili, a 19-year-old boy killed by security forces in Pankisi in December, after he said he ‘and several hundred others’ had planned to blow them­selves up at the SSG offices but changed their minds. Macha­likashvili later explained his speech was merely an emotional speech, insisting he would do no harm to Georgian people.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: Malkhaz Machalikashvili, pankisi, protest, SSG, state security service, temirlan machalikashvili, terrorism

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