A native of Ingushetia, Abdul-Malik Albagachiev, who is being held in colony No. 10 of Astrakhan, suffers from epilepsy and headaches. Before his arrest, he was an absolutely healthy person, according to his mother.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has pardoned Nika Gvaramia, director general of the opposition Mtavari Arkhi TV channel. Last year, the Tbilisi City Court sentenced an associate of ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili to 3.5 years in prison.

In the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don, the prosecutor asked for 19 years in prison for the Dagestan journalist. For the same period they want to put two other defendants - Kemal Tambiev and Abubakar Rizvanov.

On June 22, 2001, at dawn, a resident of the village of Gekhi, Urus-Martan district, Ruslan Khuseinovich Shakhtamirov, born in 1975, was killed from automatic weapons. Residents of the settlement testify that the crime was committed by the Russian military.

The Council of the European Union approved the 11th package of sanctions against Russia, the main goal of which is to strengthen previously imposed restrictions and combat sanctions circumvention.
 

On June 22, debates began in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don in the trial of Dagestani journalist Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, accused of financing terrorism. The prosecutor requested 19 years of strict regime for him. He demands that the same terms be set for programmer Kemal Tambiyev and the head of the Ansar charitable foundation, Abubakar Rizvanov, who are involved in the case together with Gadzhiev.

The leader of the movement "Muslim unity" Tale Bagirzade, who is serving a sentence in the penitentiary institution No. 12 of Azerbaijan, announced the violation of the rights of prisoners and poor conditions of detention.

Ulker Gashimova, an activist from Derbent, is being held in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Makhachkala. Previously, she was arrested in Moscow.

The Southern Military Court in Rostov upheld the decision of the Grozny garrison court, which did not satisfy the claim of a contract soldier from Chechnya Ahyad Kalishev to reinstate him in the service.

The proposed amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses in Azerbaijan could result in fines for political parties that do not report changes to their membership registers.