The Spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Abu Zeid discussed the recent withdrawal of the Egyptian delegation from the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... session, as Libya’s Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush began her speech.
Abu Zeid, told Middle East News Agency, "This topic was discussed in the consultative meeting of Arab Foreign Ministers before the start of the official session."
The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told al-Arabiya / al-Hadath that the withdrawal came after the Libyan Foreign Minister assumed the Presidency.
Cairo also called on international parties to recognize the government approved by the Libyan Parliament, in reference to the government of Fathi Bashagha.
The Egyptian MoFA affirmed its reservations about holding any consultations with al-Mangoush, "due to the end of her government’s mandate." It demanded a "political solution to the Libyan crisis, an end to the mobilisation of gangs, and the protection of civilians."
The 158th ordinary session was held at the vaporous Arab League General Secretariat headquarters in Cairo, under the chairmanship of Libya which succeeded Leb ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers... .
Notably, Libya is mired in a constitutional and political stalemate. This has resulted in increasing festivities, a dire economic situation, and demonstrations across the country by frustrated citizens, a senior UN official said.
Tensions have been rising for months as two Prime Ministers vie for power; raising fears of renewed conflict two years after a landmark truce. Recent festivities took place in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , killing 32, and wounding 158.
On 10 February, the Speaker of the Libyan Parliament, Ageela Saleh announced the unanimous appointment of Bashagha as the new Prime Minister. He is due to replace incumbent PM, Abdel-Hamid Dbaiba. But Dbaiba warned that the appointment of a new interim government could lead to war and chaos in the country. He renewed his pledge to only hand power over to an elected government.
Egypt reported that it has "confidence in the ability of the new Libyan government to expel all mercenaries and foreign forces out of the country, preserve Libya’s unity and illusory sovereignty, and pave the way for elections."
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The casualties of the US-backed Saudi-led aggression coalition on Yemen, exceeded 13,384 dead and wounded, Entesaf Organization for Women and Child Rights announced on Thursday.
The organization indicated in a statistic that the number of women and children killed during the 2,700 days of the aggression reached 6,289, including 2,433 women, 3,856 children. While the number of wounded women and children reached 7,095, including 2,858 women, 4,237 children.
According to the statistics, 6,000 civilians who have been disabled as a result of armed hostilities since the start of the aggression, pointing out that the actual number is much greater.
It noted that 4,000 children and women were victims of the remnants of the aggression, including between 100 and 105 child victims, since the UN-brokered truce took effect on the second of last April.
The statistics indicated that at least 2 million and 400,000 children are still out of school out of an estimated 10 million and 600,000 children, aged 6 to 17 years. It pointed out that 1.4 million children are working in Yemen, deprived of their most basic rights.
Concerning the health and nutritional situation in the country, Entesaf Organization indicated that more than 2,300,000 children under the age of five have been registered suffering from malnutrition. Moreover, 632,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition that threatens their lives during the current year.
It indicated that more than 1.5 million pregnant and lactating mothers suffer from malnutrition, including 650,495 women with moderate malnutrition.
It stressed that public and private hospitals throughout the republic are threatened with closure during the next few days due to the siege and the detention of oil ships.
Entesaf Organization called on the free people of the world to take effective and positive action to stop the aggression and protect civilians, and to form an independent international committee to investigate all crimes committed against the Yemeni people.
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I'm guessing Yemen kills double that of itself on it's own when there isn't a war to fight.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Russia considered untenable the arguments of the cassation complaints about the falsification of the criminal case and the torture of the residents of the Agulsky district, convicted in the case of the activities of a terrorist community and an illegal armed group. The cassation instance refused to cancel the verdict, slightly reducing the terms of imprisonment of Rakhmatulla Magomedov and Gadad Ramazanov.
As the "Caucasian Knot" reported, on May 31, 2021, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don appointed Ramazan Tagriverdiyev, Ramazan Kurbanov, Rakhmatul Magomedov and Gadad Ramazanov, residents of the Agulsky district of Dagestan, accused of involvement in to the activities of the terrorist community and illegal armed groups. The Military Court of Appeal upheld their sentences. The court did not take into account the statements of the defendants in the case that their confessions at the beginning of the investigation were obtained under pressure, lawyers said, announcing the appeal of the verdict.
According to investigators, in May 2015, in the village of Tpig, Agulsky district, Magomedov and Ramazanov united in a group to engage in terrorist activities and created an illegal armed formation, which Tagriverdiyev and Kurbanov joined in June 2016.
According to the prosecution, the group was involved in extorting a million rubles from one of the local residents, setting fire to grocery stores with alcohol in the center of the village of Tpig, and stealing property.
The members of the group also prepared assassination attempts on the lives of law enforcement officers and the head of the administration of the Agulsky district, but this was prevented by their detention, the investigators considered. The charge was brought under ten articles of the Criminal Code of Russia. The defendants pleaded not guilty.
The terms of Rakhmatulla Magomedov and Gadad Ramazanov, residents of the Agulsky district of Dagestan, convicted on charges of creating a terrorist community and a number of other crimes, were reduced during the consideration of the case in the Supreme Court of Russia, Kavkaz.Realii reported today.
As follows from the ruling of the Supreme Court, Kurbanov's lawyer Fomina, in her cassation appeal, indicated that the court, when passing the verdict, "did not fully" take into account his age, the situation in the republic, which "for a long time was subjected to propaganda attack by international terrorist organizations," as well as a difficult financial situation, the presence of a dependent minor child and a non-working spouse.
The court of first instance also, according to the defense, did not take into account the evidence presented by the defense, which, in particular, "confirm Kurbanov's testimony about his abduction by law enforcement officers and the use of unlawful methods of investigation against him," the document says.
The lawyer of Magomedov and Ramazanov, Israfil Gadadov, also stated in court that the court's verdict was based on inadmissible and unreliable evidence obtained as a result of falsification of the materials of the criminal case, which follows from the video recording of the interrogations of his clients.
The defense requested that the verdict be annulled and the appeal ruling canceled, and the criminal proceedings against Magomedov and Ramzanov terminated. Kurbanov asked the court to exclude from the verdict the episode connected with the preparation of an organized group for extortion. However, the court called "the arguments of the cassation appeals untenable," including the falsification of the criminal case and evidence.
As a result, the Supreme Court of Russia slightly reduced the terms of those convicted, changing the sentence of the Southern District Military Court: Magomedov's sentence was reduced by six months, and Ramazanov's - by a year. Kurbanov's sentence remained unchanged, according to the document.
The cassation appeal was received by the court on August 1, the Supreme Court ruled on August 31, follows from the case file on the court website.
The confessions given by the defendants at the beginning of the investigation were obtained "in violation of the norms of the current legislation and falsified," lawyer Tagir Saadulaev, who represented Kurbanov's interests in the court of first instance, told the "Caucasian Knot" earlier. At the request of the defense, the court sent a statement about the use of torture against all the defendants.
"However, the authorities that carried out the check simply copied the procedural documents available in the case and, having not considered the report of the crime on the merits, refused to initiate a criminal case . The court saw all these circumstances, it was investigated during the judicial investigation, but in the end it still delivered a guilty verdict," he noted.
During the preliminary investigation and in court, Aliyev and other defendants claimed pressure and torture, but according to the results of the checks, no one was held accountable, Gadadov said earlier. "Investigators from the SUSK in Dagestan came to the pre-trial detention center, they interviewed the accused, who told about the use of torture with electric current. But in the end, the investigation ruled to refuse to initiate a case," he said.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Khazvakh Cherkhigov to 12 years in prison for participating in the 1995 attack by Shamil Basayev's group on Budyonnovsk. Cherkhigov pleaded not guilty.
The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Khazvakh Cherkhigov in the case of the attack on Budyonnovsk in 1995. "It has been established that Cherkhigov participated in a stable armed gang led by Basayev, in the capture and holding of persons as hostages, in terrorism, in premeditated murder under aggravated circumstances, and also escaped while serving his sentence," the press release said today. service of the Southern District Military Court.
For a number of years, Cherkhigov lived in Moscow under an assumed name, and under this name he was convicted several times for various crimes. On November 20, 2018, Cherkhigov was detained by law enforcement agencies on suspicion of participating in an attack as part of Basayev's gang on organizations and residents of Budyonnovsk. The court sentenced him to 12 years in prison in a strict regime colony, according to a statement on the court's website.
Khazvakh Cherkhigov, 44, a native of Chechnya, pleaded not guilty to most of the incriminated acts, saying that he was not a member of Basayev's group and did not commit crimes as part of it. At the same time, he agreed with the accusation of escaping from the colony, Kommersant reported today.
The "Caucasian Knot" does not yet have any comments from Khazvakh Cherkhigov and his official representatives regarding the court's verdict .
On June 14, 1995, a detachment of Chechen fighters led by Shamil Basayev invaded the territory of the Stavropol Territory and captured the central hospital of Budennovsk. As a result of the attack , 129 people were killed and 317 others were injured. The militants released the remaining hostages in exchange for a promise from the Russian authorities to end hostilities in Chechnya.
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on November 30, 2021, the military court of appeal upheld the sentence of Aslan Daudov, a resident of Chechnya, sentenced to 12 years for participating in hostage-taking, terrorism and premeditated murder during the attack of Shamil Basayev's detachment on Budyonnovsk in 1995.
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[KavkazUzel] Prosecution witnesses Aida Khaita and Sultan Omarov stated in court in the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev that the testimony they had given during the investigation was untrue.
The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that colleagues of the journalist of the "Chernovik" newspaper Abdulmumin Hajiyev consider the criminal case against him to be persecution. They regularly hold actions in his support. Hajiyev himself insists on innocence.
The indictment alleges that Abdulmumin Hajiyev, with his articles in the Chernovik newspaper, "spread among the population the idea of the need to separate the republics of the" North Caucasus "and establish the norms of Sharia rule in this territory", that he tried to "influence the minds of people in order to involve them in activities of a terrorist organization. In July, the Southern District Military Court kept Hajiyev in custody until October 28.
Chernovik journalist Abdulmumin Hajiyev, as well as the head of the Ansar charity fund Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiyev, have been charged with financing terrorism. Investigators believe that they collected 68 million rubles and 200 thousand dollars for the terrorists under the pretext of building mosques and helping poor Muslims.
The investigation connects the defendants with a Dagestan preacher and founder of the Mukhadzhirun Islamic Foundation, known as Abu Umar Sasitlinsky (Israil Akhmednabiev), who has been put on the wanted list in a terrorism case.
Mukhadshirun apparently means ‘Living Heart’, for what that’s worth. Apparently the foundation and Mr. Akhmednabiev have been connected to fundraising for ISIS...
Hajiyev maintains his innocence, while his colleagues consider the persecution of the journalist to be pressure on him.
On September 8, the Southern District Military Court continued hearing on the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov. Two witnesses were interrogated at the meeting, the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent reported.
Prosecution witness Aida Khaita was interrogated via videoconference. She said that she did not know any of the accused.
Abubakar Rizvanov asked the witness if she knew Israil Akhmednabiev, to which she also replied in the negative.
Haita refused to answer questions from the prosecution. After that, the state prosecutor filed a motion to read out Haita's written testimony, which she gave to the investigator during the preliminary investigation. The court, conferring on the spot, granted the motion of the prosecution.
The affidavit of the witness says that in 2013 she married one of the active fighters of a terrorist organization operating in Syria, and subsequently decided to move there to her husband. While in Syria, her husband began to beat her, demanding to commit a terrorist act by self-detonation. In 2014, Haita decided to flee the camp of the supporters of the terrorist organization, but was unable to escape, according to the testimony.
The witness heard from the wives of the militants living in the camp that the products from which the food was prepared were provided by the structures of Abu Umar Sasitlinsky, namely the Mukhajirun Charitable Foundation, Khaita said. The witness nevertheless managed to escape from Syria, she ended up in Turkey, from where she was deported to Russia in 2019, follows from her written testimony.
After reading out the testimony, the court asked the witness if she confirmed her written testimony, to which the witness replied in the negative.
When asked by Rizvanov if Haita had ever heard of the Mukhajirun Foundation, she answered in the negative.
The witness Sultan Omarov was also interrogated at the meeting at the request of the state prosecution . When asked by the prosecutor whether Omarov knew Akhmednabiev, he answered in the negative.
Omarov also said that he only knows about Hajiyev that he was detained from media reports, and he read the Chernovik newspaper while in prison.
The prosecutor filed a motion to read out the written testimony of witness Omarov, referring to the fact that there are contradictions in his oral and written testimony. The judge granted the prosecutor's request and read out Omarov's affidavit. According to Omarov's affidavit, Abu Umar Sasitlinsky's lectures caused him to become a supporter of radical Salafism at the age of 19. Subsequently, Omarov wanted to join one of the terrorist organizations fighting in Syria against Bashar al-Assad, the witness said.
He said in his testimony that he was detained at the Makhachkala airport while trying to fly to Egypt, from where he planned to get to Syria. When asked by the prosecutor whether Omarov confirms his written testimony, the witness answered in the negative.
Omarov only confirmed that his detention took place at the Makhachkala airport.
The refusal of witnesses to answer questions during the trial does not affect the trial in any way, since the court will pay attention and, if necessary, read out the testimony that the witness gave during the investigation, Gadzhiev's lawyer Arsen Shabanov believes .
The defense is awaiting the results of the expertise on Hajiyev's articles, he told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent, without naming the estimated time frame for its completion.
At a court hearing on June 18, the Southern District Military Court granted the petition of Gadzhiev's defense to conduct a comprehensive examination of the journalist's articles, but did not agree with the defense's demand that Moscow experts conduct the examination.
WITNESS CITED FOR INACCURACIES IN AFFIDAVIT
Witness Shamil Kadyrov was interrogated at a meeting in the Rostov District Military Court on August 25 . He said that he did not know any of the accused, and he knew nothing about this criminal case.
On June 26, 2019, the North Caucasian (now Southern) military court found Shamil Kadyrov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of aiding in the financing of terrorism and sentenced him to eight years in prison. According to the prosecution, he transferred more than 800,000 rubles to members of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia by a court. He did not admit guilt. In November 2019, the Supreme Court of Russia upheld the sentence against Shamil Kadyrov.
The state prosecutor asked Kadyrov if he knew Ravshan Aliyev, to which he replied that Aliyev was his sister's husband. The witness said that Ravshan Aliyev married his sister at the end of 2008, they lived in Azerbaijan. He explained that until 2013, the sister's husband came to Dagestan to work, and in 2013 he came to Dagestan, spent no more than a month in Makhachkala, and then left for Moscow.
Kadyrov said that at the end of 2014 Ravshan Aliyev returned from Moscow to Dagestan and began working in the republic. According to the witness, he heard about Abu Umar Sasitlinsky and saw him on TV.
He also said that in 2016, while in Turkey, he heard bad reviews from Ravshan Aliyev about Israil Akhmednabiev.
The state prosecutor requested that the interrogation of Kadyrov be made public, citing the fact that the testimony given by Kadyrov earlier and in the courtroom differed significantly. The defense of the defendants opposed the reading of the testimony. Rizvanov noted that the testimony, which the prosecution requests to be read out, was given by Kadyrov in another criminal case on February 2, 2019, before the initiation of a criminal case against Gadzhiev, Tambiev and the defendant himself. However, the court ruled to satisfy the prosecutor's request and to read out the testimony given by Kadyrov earlier to the investigator.
After the testimony was read out, the judge asked Kadyrov whether he confirmed the testimony. Kadyrov said that he did not confirm the testimony, as "many things are wrong" in them, but noted that the names given in the document are correct.
Kadyrov pointed out that he was never interested in the events that take place in the world, as indicated in the testimony, since "there were enough of his own problems." The witness statement incorrectly lists the year he worked at the construction site.
Abubakar Rizvanov asked, referring to Kadyrov's written testimony, how he understood that Ravshan Aliyev was related to terrorist and illegal armed groups. The witness explained that Aliyev had trade relations with certain people in Turkey, he bought and sold clothes. Aliyev himself said that they were supporters of a terrorist organization, but at the same time, my brother's husband had only trade relations with them, Kadyrov said.
Recall that colleagues of Abdulmumin Hajiyev regularly hold single pickets in the center of Makhachkala in support of him, at which they also demand to stop the persecution of journalists and release political prisoners. On September 5, as on August 29, pickets were held by Chernovik's deputy editor-in-chief Magomed Magomedov and Novoye Delo's journalist Idris Yusupov. Residents and guests of Makhachkala showed interest in the pickets, his colleagues said. The police took written explanations from the picketers, but did not interfere with the protests.
The case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev has similarities with the attempted criminal prosecution of Moscow journalist Ivan Golunov, participants in an online discussion held on the "Caucasian Knot" on June 27, 2019, said. More details about the Gadzhiev case can be found in the material " Golunov number two": the main thing about the case of Abdulmumin Gadzhiev ".
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...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
[KavkazUzel] The Supreme Court of Russia considered untenable the arguments of the cassation complaints about the falsification of the criminal case and the torture of the residents of the Agulsky district, convicted in the case of the activities of a terrorist community and an illegal armed group. The cassation instance refused to cancel the verdict, slightly reducing the terms of imprisonment of Rakhmatulla Magomedov and Gadad Ramazanov.
