The international media protection organization Reporters Without Borders again criticized the Azerbaijani authorities for repression against media representatives. We are talking about the arrest of Toplum TV employees on charges of currency smuggling.

A serious challenge for the Georgian penitentiary system remains the overcrowding of prisons, which is associated with the emergence of informal governance within them and violence among prisoners in relations with each other. This was stated by the country's public defender Levan Ioseliani.

In a maximum security colony in the city of Salavat in the Republic of Bashkortostan, political prisoner Ruslan Zeitullaev was released from a punishment cell. He spent 40 days in a punishment cell.

Police officers searched the house of journalist Idris Yusupov in Makhachkala. A mobile phone and two laptops were confiscated from him. On October 30, 2023, FSB officers already conducted a search and took away similar items, which were returned only on March 18, the Memorial Human Rights Center reported.

A court in Baku denied the defense of Tofig Yagublu, a member of the National Council of Democratic Forces (NCDF) and the Musavat party, to replace the preventive measure in the form of detention with house arrest. He has been in pre-trial detention for more than three and a half months, and during all this time no investigation has been carried out.

In Makhachkala, problems arose with cleaning and garbage disposal. This happened after the police detained many migrants from the Central Asian republics. As a result, employees of the city hall came out to clean up.

66-year-old Crimean Tatar Zekirya Muratov, a former music teacher, was transferred from the Balashov prison in the Saratov region to maximum security colony No. 5 in Nizhny Novgorod. He is a disabled person of the 3rd group.

The Sovetsky District Court of Kazan extended the detention of journalist and editor of the Tatar-Bashkir service of Radio Liberty Alsu Kurmasheva until June 5. She is accused of failing to provide documents to the Ministry of Justice to include her in the register of “foreign agents.”

A native of Chechnya, Askhab Uspanov, died in the Moscow police department after being detained on suspicion of complicity in the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall. This was reported by the Agency with reference to the mother of the deceased.

The “Team Against Torture” appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) with a request to find the Russian authorities responsible for the murder of Chechen Salman Tepsurkaev and the ineffective investigation into his death.