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Police in Azerbaijan break up women’s day march
(Fargana Novruzova) Police in Baku dispersed a march for equality and against violence against women on 8 March, International Women’s Day. Over 50 women and men who had gathered in front of the city’s...
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Georgian riot police deploy rubber bullets and tear gas in Pankisi hydropower...
Riot police in Birkiani in Pankisi Valley (Sulkhan Bordzikashvili /Facebook) Riot police have deployed rubber bullets and tear gas against protesters in northeast Georgia’s Pankisi Valley after local...
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Editorial | Georgia’s show of force in Pankisi was reckless and irresponsible
(Illustration: Dato Parulava/ OC Media) A pitched battle between protesters and riot police in Georgia’s Pankisi Valley has undone years of work to build trust with a community that has been...
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Police ‘crack down’ on Circassian Flag Day celebration in Kabardino-Balkaria
Circassian Flag Day in Kabardino-Balkaria (habze.org) Circassian activists in the Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have claimed that police prevented drivers with Circassian flags from entering...
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High-ranking police officials arrested in Kabardino-Balkaria on corruption...
Police searching the home of one of the suspects. (pasmi.ru) Twelve high-ranking police officials in the Russian republic of Kabardino-Balkaria have been arrested on suspicion of participating in a...
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5 violations by police during the Tbilisi clash
Dozens of people were injured as police fired rubber bullets into the crowd. (Mari Nikuradze / OC Media) Hundreds were hospitalised after police and protesters clashed on 20–21 June, and questions...
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Azerbaijan’s new morality police
Police line up on Nizami street in central Baku march, 2011. Photograph: Getty images New police units are to be created in Baku with the aim of fighting ‘cases contradictory to public morality’,...
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Acquitted Daghestani police chief awarded compensation and public apology
Askhabali Zairbekov is released. Photo: Kommersant. On 26 November, a military court in Rostov-on-Don ruled that Askhabali Zairbekov receive compensation of ₽9.5 million ($150,000) and a public apology...
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Voice |‘My part in exposing this system’
Sashka Kalmakhelidze. Photo: Facebook. Following the suicide of 15-year-old Luka Siradze on 11 December, allegedly after he was threatened by police, several people have come forward with similar...
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Protest in Baku over arrest of activist who ‘defended rape victim’
Women marching in central Baku demanding Elzamin Salayev's release. Photo: Rufat Safarov/Facebook Around a dozen women gathered in central Baku on Friday calling for the release of opposition activist...
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