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Crimea, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan ‘least free places in Europe’
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Crimea, South Ossetia, Azerbaijan ‘least free places in Europe’

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Crimea, South Ossetia, and Azerbaijan have been ranked the least free places in Europe, in the latest edition of American rights group Freedom House’s Freedom in the World report. The report measures the degree of civil liberties and political rights across the world. Countries and territories were ranked on a scale from 0 to 100, with 0 being least free and 100 most free. In the Caucasus, Georgia, Armenia, Abkhazia, and Nagorno-Karabakh were all rated ‘partly free’ scoring 64, 45, 41,

Man sentenced to 20 years in South Ossetia for ‘terrorism’
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Man sentenced to 20 years in South Ossetia for ‘terrorism’

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On 5 February, a court in South Ossetia sentenced Giorgi Giunashvili to 20 years in prison on charges of terrorism and sabotage. Giunashvili was arrested in July 2016. According to South Ossetia’s de facto authorities, Giunashvili was a part of a ‘Security Group’, controlled by the Georgian special services. He is accused of being responsible for a grenade explosion in 2007 in the village of Khelchua, located in South Ossetia; for an attack on South Ossetia’s military in 2008; and for parti

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