In a village in the Simferopol region, security forces detained 20-year-old Crimean Tatar Lutfiye Velieva after a search.
Lawyer Edem Semedlyaev said that the day before, employees of Center “E” carried out an inspection at the Veliyevs’ house.

As part of the autumn session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), a meeting was held dedicated to political prisoners of Azerbaijan. The hearings were organized by the Azerbaijan Institute for Freedom and Safety of Reporters in cooperation with a number of assembly members.

Political prisoner Tofik Abdulgaziev, sentenced to 12 years in prison, has lost 15 kg since July of this year. This was reported by his wife and son who visited him. The man is serving time in the Verkhneuralsk prison in the Chelyabinsk region.

On the night of October 11, the village of Duba-Yurt was shelled from artillery guns. Six local residents, including children, were injured to varying degrees of severity. Three residential buildings were destroyed, and about ten more received various damages.

After persistent requests from relatives and human rights activists, Azerbaijani social activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev, who has been in a pre-trial detention center for almost a year, stopped his hunger strike on the tenth day.

A student from Ukraine, Ilya Gibeskul, has been held in a pre-trial detention center in Kaliningrad for over five months. He is accused of calling for terrorism for nine reposts on VKontakte, including the publication of a photo of the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev. The person involved claims that he did not make these reposts.

The Moscow City Court recognized the verdict against former Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan Mukhtar Medzhidov as legal. At the end of 2022, a high-ranking official was sentenced to five years in prison in the case of the theft of 108 million rubles from the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Residents of Chechnya leaving due to their reluctance to participate in the war with Ukraine end up transiting in Croatia. Local authorities process asylum applications without their knowledge, resulting in other countries refusing to accept Chechens.

There are no legal grounds for the deployment of the Russian peacekeeping contingent on the territory of Armenia. He can leave Karabakh both through Azerbaijan and through our country, noted Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan.

According to a court decision, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Dagestan must pay 20 thousand rubles to lawyer Marat Ismailov. The police illegally detained him because he approached a picket participant on the street.