A prosecution witness, former employee of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Crimea (SAMC) Ruslan Bairov, was questioned in the Southern District Military Court. He said that he was not aware of the involvement of the Islamic party Hizb ut-Tahrir in terrorist acts and violence. He also did not know why the organization was included in the list of terrorist organizations in Russia.

On June 3, the European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) held an extraordinary meeting to examine the situation in Tbilisi. The European Parliament's rapporteur on Georgia, Rasa Juknevičienė, stressed that she does not have time to make additions to the report on the country's democratic backsliding – the government acts so quickly.

The Minister of National Policy and Information of Chechnya, Akhmed Dudayev, stated that blogger Areg Shchepikhin was not kidnapped, but detained in Moscow by law enforcement officers from the Chechen Republic. He "publicly and repeatedly called for ethnic cleansing and Nazism, insulted religion and God, and also expressed clearly extremist views," Dudayev said.

About ten people held a rally in Brussels in support of 41-year-old native of Ingushetia Ruslan Meyriev. He has been in custody in the country since 2024, and Russia is demanding his extradition.

Raids on conscripts continue in Makhachkala. The police are catching young people on the street, forcibly throwing them into a car and taking them to the military registration and enlistment office. This was reported by the human rights project "Go to the Forest", which helps to avoid being drafted into the war.

The Human Rights Commissioner of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic Boris Zumakulov received a complaint from six local residents. They reported that in mid-May, SIM cards and phones were planted on their relatives during searches, and the criminal case on organizing the activities of a terrorist organization was fabricated.

Kamal Tambiyev, a native of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, was transferred to the prison in Verkhneuralsk (Chelyabinsk Region), and Abubakar Rizvanov from Dagestan was transferred to the prison in Minusinsk (Krasnoyarsk Region). Both are political prisoners and were convicted in the case of financing terrorism.

In Stavropol, one guy received a year, and three received one and a half years in a penal colony on charges of desecrating symbols of Russia's military glory (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code).

June 6, Friday, will be a day off in honor of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha. The corresponding announcements have been made in Dagestan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Karachay-Cherkessia, and Kabardino-Balkaria. The republics have also identified the main sites for sacrifices.

The European Parliament's Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI) will hold an extraordinary meeting today to consider the issue of Georgia. The agenda includes a report on the visit of the body's representatives to the country on 26-28 May.