Chairman of the Georgian Parliament Shalva Papuashvili commented on the civil march “Our voice to the European Union”, held on December 9 in Tbilisi as a sign of support for the country’s accession to the EU. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili took part in the action. The protesters unfurled the largest EU flag in the world.

On the night of December 9, in the village of Valerik, employees of Russian security forces kidnapped four people. All of them subsequently disappeared without a trace: Ali Abazovich Vadilov, born in 1974, Magomed Khozh-Akhmedovich Edilov, born in 1979, Akhamdi Ismailovich Isaev, born in 1981, and Rizvan Solt-Akhmedovich Suleymanov, born in 1976.

If a peace agreement with Armenia is not signed, it will be bad for the entire South Caucasus, which must be protected from any risks. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stated this in an interview with Euronews TV channel.

Six college students in France have been convicted of involvement in the 2020 murder of history teacher Samuel Paty by ethnic Chechen Abdullah Anzorov.

Participants in the last meeting of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe stated that the Russian authorities are not fulfilling their obligations under the decisions of the ECHR. Despite its expulsion from the Council of Europe in March 2022 after the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation is still obliged to pay compensation in cases for which complaints were previously filed.

In the center of the village of Katyr-Yurt, at the entrance to the village council, the military, who drove up in two ZAZ cars, seized a local resident named Bokov (name unknown). During his arrest, a pistol was confiscated from Bokov.

Germany welcomes the bold step taken by Azerbaijan and Armenia, which creates confidence on the path to a just and lasting peace between the two countries. German Ambassador to Azerbaijan Ralf Horlemann wrote about this on his Twitter account.

As part of World Human Rights Day, delegations of the European Union, the British, Swiss and US embassies in Azerbaijan recalled the persecution of oppositionists and journalists in this country.

The European Court ordered the Russian authorities to pay compensation to the relatives of the disappeared Chechen resident Movsar Umarov. The ECHR found violations of several articles of the Human Rights Convention against the victim: forced abduction, illegal detention, ill-treatment of his brother, improper investigation and psychological suffering of loved ones. Team Against Torture reports this.

Crimean Tatar, Master of Islamic Sciences Vadim Bektemirov, sentenced to 11 years, was beaten by employees of IK-6 of St. Petersburg. They also took away his Koran and medicine. This was reported by his wife Lemara Bektemirova.