A demonstration in support of Palestine took place in the city of Marneuli in southern Georgia. About 100 participants held Palestinian flags and recited prayers. As the akhund (head of the Muslim clergy) of the Marneuli Red Mosque Gadzhi Gadzhiev noted, people gathered in order to “raise their voices against the Zionist Israeli regime” and against the torture of the “oppressed Palestinian population.”

The Israeli authorities assessed the level of danger for their citizens’ stay in the North Caucasus and the South of the Russian Federation as maximum (fourth) and urged them not to visit these regions.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, gave advice to local security forces on how to deal with the instigators of unrest. “If we have even one person going to unsanctioned riots, detain and imprison him. Or fire three warning shots in the air and after that, if the person does not comply with the law, fire the fourth shot in the forehead. They won't come out anymore. This is my order,” Kadyrov told the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Guard at a meeting in the government of the republic.

Today it is impossible to imagine Azerbaijan without repressive measures, harassment, violence and intimidation aimed at suppressing freedom of speech against social and political activists. This was reported by human rights activist and co-founder of the Defense Line organization Rufat Safarov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting in the Kremlin that the unrest at Makhachkala airport was “inspired through social networks from Ukraine through Western intelligence services.”

At about 4 o'clock in the morning in the village of Goyty, Khasan Sultanovich Khadzhiev, born in 1969, was kidnapped from his home (Lenin St., 39a). The military personnel who carried out this operation were wearing masks.

After a search and interrogation, journalist Idris Yusupov was released and no charges were brought. However, mobile phones, laptops, and flash drives, including those belonging to his family members, were confiscated from him.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced Salikh Osmanov, a 40-year-old resident of the village of Tyrnyauz, to 9 years in a maximum security colony.

The Presidium of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Russian Federation condemned anti-Semitic incidents in Dagestan. Muslim leaders emphasize that attempts to turn political conflicts into an interreligious war must not be allowed.

In Cherkessk, security forces drew up protocols under the rally article (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) for 34 participants in the protest against the arrival of refugees from Israel to Karachay-Cherkessia.