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.

Azerbaijan sent Ukraine another batch of humanitarian aid, which includes 551 thousand meters of electrical cables and 6 complete transformer substations. A convoy of 20 trucks was sent from Sumgayit.

The head of Kabardino-Balkaria, Kazbek Kokov, said that a special flight of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will deliver over 20 tons of humanitarian aid collected by residents of the republic to Egypt for the population of the Gaza Strip. The head of the region thanked everyone who participated in the collection of humanitarian aid and its delivery.

At noon after Friday prayers, Abubakar Ismailovich Saluev, born in 1962, who lived in the village of New Noybera at the address: Svobody St., 14, decided to go fishing. He was accompanied by his 10-year-old son Idris and son-in-law Adam Ibragimov.

The head of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, has appointed early presidential elections for February 7, 2024. They were supposed to take place in 2025. The reason for the date change is not specified.

The criminal case against the former head of the State Traffic Inspectorate of the Stavropol Territory, Alexei Safonov, was sent to the Fifth Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction. Safonov is accused of creating a criminal community and receiving bribes on a large scale by an organized group.

The Gudermes City Court brought local resident Naib Manaev to administrative responsibility for distributing the songs of the Chechen bard Timur Mutsuraev. He made publicly available the composition “12 Thousand Mujahideen,” which the court had previously considered extremist material.

A criminal case of torture, rape and extortion in the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov Region was submitted to the Saratov Regional Court from the Main Investigative Directorate of Russia for consideration. Among the injured prisoners are people from Chechnya, Dagestan, Georgia, and Azerbaijan.